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Originally Posted by Fat_Cav

I'm definitely not a mate of Brown's as the Spaniel believes I am

Sorry. Horrible thing to be unjustly accused of.

Fragmenting one's business, and outsourcing key elements of it, inevitably result in lack of cohesion and control, and introduce unacceptable delays in decision making and delivery. The net result is that 'workarounds are introduced in what's left of the business, introducing parallel dysfuctionality, greater pressure on the core through having to pich up somebody else's job, and damaging morale accordingly.

In cases where lives literally hinge on successful delivery of output then far better, perhaps, to downsize the scope and scale of one's intent and ambitions, but retain all the necessary expertise in-house to deliver it.

Originally Posted by Counter-Bluffer-Ops

Fragmenting one's business, and outsourcing key elements of it, inevitably result in lack of cohesion and control, and introduce unacceptable delays in decision making and delivery. The net result is that 'workarounds are introduced in what's left of the business, introducing parallel dysfuctionality, greater pressure on the core through having to pich up somebody else's job, and damaging morale accordingly.

In cases where lives literally hinge on successful delivery of output then far better, perhaps, to downsize the scope and scale of one's intent and ambitions, but retain all the necessary expertise in-house to deliver it.

I get it now, sounds a bit like the way we have been doing business in Afg and Iraq for the last 10 years. Put together an adhoc Brigade, add on multiple layers of C&C, then change it all every six months.

The one thing that really baffles me is 'no money'. How can this be? we have an ever growing population, therefore more workers and more tax, they are down sizing all security forces, Armed and Civil, so, where is this country going to gets its 'border force' to stop immigrants, Armed, to defend its land and police, to square away all those little trouble makers who have nowhere to go becuase the Govt got rid of the 'good' jobs?

I am very perplexed!!!

Originally Posted by jarrod248

I've said it before and I'll say it again, most of the site wanted a Tory govt. this is what it means to have one.

Mate, I wonder if it was more a question of most of the site (and the electorate at large) wanting to see the back of Labour rather than any love of the Tories, there didn't seem to be any huge tidal wave of enthusiasm for them.

The counterpoint might be "well yes, but the Tories got more votes than any of the other non-labour options" but this might be tactics. None of the others stood a chance so was it a two horse, Hobson's choice, devil or the deep blue sea kind of situation.

Also perhaps with the current financial hole we are in, that whoever was first past the post would have gone ahead with this action anyway.

Originally Posted by Fat_Cav

Take away all his advisors and remove his allowances for a second home!

Sorry, did I mention forbidding Directorships, advisory and Non-exec jobs too?

I see where you are going with this, but I also see a problem. We often damn the political class because they have no experience of 'real life' (whatever that is). I'm not sure that forbidding them to have external activities is not too drastic an action. If it is possible to prevent nepotism etc than by all means (easier said than done), but blanket banning everything will further fuel the advent of a political class with absolutely zero knowledge of how things really work.

I personally would rather have an MP with some business acumen and credibility than a party apparatchik with nothing but brown nosing on the CV.

I equally detest the idea that directorships are handed out to MPs as payment for services rendered.

Square that circle and you have my vote.

Originally Posted by Pull_up_a_sandbag

The one thing that really baffles me is 'no money'. How can this be? we have an ever growing population, therefore more workers and more tax, they are down sizing all security forces, Armed and Civil, so, where is this country going to gets its 'border force' to stop immigrants, Armed, to defend its land and police, to square away all those little trouble makers who have nowhere to go becuase the Govt got rid of the 'good' jobs?

I am very perplexed!!!

It is a mystery to me why a 6% recession led to a 25% reduction in tax revenues.

Originally Posted by Pull_up_a_sandbag

The one thing that really baffles me is 'no money'. How can this be? we have an ever growing population, therefore more workers and more tax, they are down sizing all security forces, Armed and Civil, so, where is this country going to gets its 'border force' to stop immigrants, Armed, to defend its land and police, to square away all those little trouble makers who have nowhere to go becuase the Govt got rid of the 'good' jobs?

I am very perplexed!!!

It's really quite simples…

We have more people, but more of them don''t work or receive benefits in some form.

Now… if the people who ARE working and not getting handouts are not getting pay rises, (most of them), but benefits are still going up, (all of them), all went up by 5.4% last month, as you can clearly see, there is more money going out from people who less of it to start with to people who don't pay tax.

It's the economics of the madhouse, but it is Gordon Browns legacy.