Farmer Saint

Charge £10 for a missed appointment maybe, but you can't charge for doctors appointments - people will die unnecessarily.

I'm waiting for the "he's trying to introduce Sharia law" crap that we get in London.

Don't you miss old school diversity? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNImII-NNFW/?igsh=MWE4c3F2N2xieXVpbQ==

Considering all the Turkish barbers are Kurds, it's not a surprise. Why this is not being properly looked into I don't know - I am guessing that they are hoping ID cards will sort this to make it easier to prove right to work.

Oh yeah, we've got loads of time, it's why it was important to get the manager changed as quickly as possible so we don't pass up the opportunity.

You want my genuine thoughts? Get the benefits bill through, cancel the triple lock, put the higher rate of tax up to 47%, 2% wealth tax over £10m (if workable), re-establish the NI cuts, postpone electric car mandate for a further 10 years, create a national care service for nursing homes to clear NHS beds, 5 years systems and process improvement analysis of the NHS, look at what we can do to get back into the single market. Country before party. By the way, respond if you want, but I couldn't give two shiny fucks on your opinion of the above as you've proven yourself too far out of your depth. You're going back on ignore because again you've lied to try to prove a point.

Just show me where I was supporting them first or are you lying, again?

Where have I supported them? Stupid, and a liar. Great combo.

I don't work for the government, so how the fuck have you come to that conclusion? Why would I know what they've looked into? You are, frankly, an idiot. Tapped out.

Yes. I never said I could explain it? You're having an argument with yourself.

Just read the post fuckwit.

Remind you of anyone?

Mate, I'm not the government, I don't work in any of the departments, I don't know the systems. I would not hazard a guess at what savings could be made, and why the Government hasn't done it yet, but I'd look at the massive investment figures it would take to do it. We all know about benefits, they wanted to cut it but weren't strong enough to qwell others within the party. That was a mistake. What I did do is make a shit load of money from my IT company which was based around process and efficiency savings that could be made when upgrading across SAP architectures. To do that you have to do full process management. We charged a £4bn turnover company £25m to do that, and it took 3 years. What do you think those figures would look like for these government departments? Anyway, I'm done with you, you've not answered the questions and you've embarrassed yourself more than enough today, and over the last 6 months. Laughable.

OMG - right, until you name some fucking immediate savings I'm tapping out as you're making this discussion a farce. You can't just say "savings" and "quango's". Fucking joke.

Ok, what immediate savings and longer term savings?

Because nobody has said there isn't wastage??? We go back to Whelk's comment earlier... "And please don’t say efficiencies like it is some magic bullet"

£40m's not a lot to rake in...they'll be disappointed with that. I have told you so many times why a lot of savings aren't being made. The analysis and investment that it takes to properly go though organisations to make them more efficient is fucking mind-blowing, and takes years. Years and years. Genuinely. I'm not saying you don't do it, but I think we'd need to start with a £40bn investment in IT and Process analysis, and 5 years to get the job done. We'd need to increase taxes to get that money btw.

By the way, I wouldn't put my neck out and say that savings can and should be made in certain areas without doing full process analysis and RCA. You'd be stupid to offer opinions on things like this without having a background in those areas. Otherwise you just look like your regurgitating what you've been told/read without thinking about it yourself, without the substance to be able to argue it. We've been through this with economics, tax and now Government efficiency savings. At some point you'll learn, but that doesn't seem to be yet.

What taxes have they increased so far, other than ERS NI? I'm not saying there are no savings to be made, never said anything like that, but you're the one saying that cuts need to be made and you can't substantiate that. Yet again, it's the lack of any substance. You specifically mentioned HS2 twice, and have yet to come up with what you would plan to save money on. Let's stick with that and get into what and how you want to save money.

Ah, but that sits under Capex, and not Opex, so they have clearly saved money...😆

So if you're not getting rid of it all together, what are you changing about it? I'm not sure at this stage there is much you can do to save money on it.

What about the business benefits from HS2? Waiting for updates benefits from 2019, but that seems a very business centric investment that surely you would want to keep? In relation to the rest, what changes do you want to make?

What quangos and governmental bodies would you get rid of specifically?

You meant to say "spending cuts". Amazing, as you consistently got it wrong. I wonder how Matt Cooper, mountaineer extroadinaire thinks 2p on income tax with affect his business and income. I also can't wait to hear from the Doctor when he realises the tax trap from £100-125k put in 16 years ago, and not reversed by the Tories. And the hassle of being VAT tax registered, give me a break.

Not tax cuts, cuts in public spending (benefits for example). They're saying these tax rises are a good thing, and the markets like them.