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Using common goods to finance tax cuts is a conservative party policy and it has been mentioned in their manifestos, although not in bald terms. They could the
by keithpeter 7y ago
Using common goods to finance tax cuts is a conservative party policy and it has been mentioned in their manifestos, although not in bald terms.
They could therefore argue for a mandate for the policy.
- EliRivers 7y agoWith tongue-in-cheek apologies to Thatcher, the problem with capitalism in the UK is that you eventually run out of public assets to sell off :)
- keithpeter 7y agoEducation and the health service (think buildings and land as assets for the latter) are the two remaining ones apart from something like the road system. I'm sure they will try these soon.
- EliRivers 7y agoDidn't they already have a shot at education? That whole Academies mess. Although the master plan to make every school an "academy" [0] was shot down days after it was announced. [0] This is a weird, UK government definition of the word. Don't think Plato.