‘The other EU countries spending all of this money are getting a much larger portion of it from industry than Corbyn can ever hope to achieve. They are also much more likely to be spending it efficiently with more of it going to the coal face of services. In the U.K. Corbyn‘s spending is going to hit ordinary working people very hard, and I don‘t think they will get value for money.
Just one tiny example. I know for a fact that a police force spent £1.4 million / year on interpreters a few years ago. Multiply that by all police forces, health care organisations & government departments.
Go to France and try for the same service. Earlier this year, I attended a consultation with a friend at a hospital in Pau. My friend speaks French very well, but the consultant was using technical language to describe her condition. She asked if he could use some English to help her understand. In perfect English, he said no, because if he did, he would need to speak German to the German, Italian to the Italian........ She tells me this is the case everywhere you go, even the police. I witnessed another example from the police, so I know that to be true.
So efficiency and no expenditure on peripheral services seems to be the order of the day in France. I bet there isn’t an equality unit, a social inclusion unit or a women’s integrated network group funded in the French health system.
This is why we will always spend huge sums and achieve nothing in return.
Perhaps we have inefficiencies other countries dont? I dont believe that.
Yes, we can quote individual examples to back either scenario up. My daughter has just competed in World Extrication Recue. (In France) She won her section. (She, s a world champion paramedic for standard trauma, I, m not sure either but there you go)
The interesting point is that UK service was held up as bastion of good practice and efficiency. Especially ironic when you consider how service has been treated by Tories.(Grenfell wasnt helped by closure of so many stations) Personnel have had retirement ages raised and their reward for the difficult job? Poor pay, abused by public and scapegoats for Government to deflect fact flammable matetials fastened on buildings to save money for some rich organisation.
And BTW 30% of GDP is 30% of GDP, immaterial of its source. France snd UK have very similar GDPs. (Agreed France is more industry bssed, ours more services, and who is to blame for that)
Our entire infrastucture is strained to breaking. Roads, Rail, Health, Education and Welfare need vast investment. Investment not cost.
Its a complete travesty when we accept it as normal people sleeping in cardboard boxes in our town centres, even more so when folk claim we cant afford to change things. We need our second homes and foreign holidays?
I have been lucky. Always been in work, and ran two moderately succesful businesses but I do see it as
a duty to pay a fair amount back for the less fortunsae. I, m not sure we do that under our Tories at moment.
System is set up to keep the rich rich and the siper rich as something for us to aspire to. System is inherently unfair. Corbyn might address that. BJ wont.
