Although i hate seeing people lose jobs, surely cutting so many administration jobs in the NHS (i don't claim to know much on this) is a good thing if the money is being redistributed to worthier areas ?

Sometimes losing jobs is the greater good surely ?

Brown is the total issue - his hand has been over every financial decision made by the Labour party in the last 13 years .............. amd we now have a country that is busted.

actually, yes they do. all political parties think the electorate are stupid!


the tories currently say increasing NI is a bad thing, leading businesmen say the same thing, even the owner of a business who brown visited today for a photo-op was cagey when the subject was brought up (there's a link on the guardian website if you care), labour say the tories have got it wrong.

elections aren't won on positive actions, they're lost by the ones in power outstaying their welcome.

Sometimes losing jobs is the greater good???! Tell those who lose their jobs.

I love the Tories (and these wonderful business leaders) who criticise the NI increase as threatening jobs, but they are happy to throw so called bureaucrats on the scrapheap. Won't their unemployment also stop the recovery?

ok say you run a business with 10 people but are only bringing in enough to pay 6.

Do you

a) get rid of 4 people and save 6 peoples jobs
b) keep trading, eventually go under and lose 10 jobs

so yes, greater good

again, what does it matter, the issue was we were in a recession and the last ones out of it due to the tories/service industry, this article points out the rise of the service industry under the labour party.

Jobs in the private sector generate the money to provide public services - when the size of the public sector exceeds the amount the private sector can generate to service it what do you suggest then?

No idea what you mean. I thought the article was supposed to show the decimation of manufacturing industry under Labour.

They both feed off each other. Not all jobs in the private sector create wealth.

Care to provide an example apart from an organisation not for profit?



Thatcher did that - it's been a disaster.

Car repair garage?

Insurance broker?

So a garage does work at cost and the person who owns it doesn't pay themselves? Are you sure??

The Green Party for me

Last time I checked there was nearly 100 execs backing the tory policy on NI, from Sir Stuart Rose to Richard Branson

The party that gets my vote is the one that can convince my kids futures will be safe.