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[Mark J]

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

I don’t apart from he’s mentioned it’s the office he commutes to daily and it’s within the public sector, other than that it’s top secret. I’d still as a tax payer rather he worked diligently than pissed about on here. After all the public sector does have a huge productivity issue. 
Same question Mark why would it matter to the nosey bugger how many days I do on the mill or what usage my pick up gets etc etc, put yourself out there you’ll get picked off Mark. 

 

😂😂😂****************s given 🤔0

You’re in good form today lad, I suspect my brain activity is a bit clearer than yours was at the weekend when you posted at 0230 🤔. 
I’ve said before having the same leftard ideology buys you a lot of slack on here. 

You jump to too many conclusions, that's why you're so easily manipulated. 

 

 

[Johnsond]

18 minutes ago, Mark J said:

You jump to too many conclusions, that's why you're so easily manipulated. 

 

 

😂😂Easily manipulated 🤔 Alcohol Mark !! 
Spare me the arrogance of the left tonight. 

The assumptions that are made around here by many 😂😂like I say a similar ideology buys you some serious slack. 
PS 

Those are not conclusions Mark, that’s from posts he’s put up. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Johnsond

[Steven P]

4 hours ago, AHPP said:

Roads. Probably tolls. Haulage firms would probably pay to have the slow lane to themselves. People in a hurry could pay to have the fast lane to themselves. Rory Sutherland has a few good ideas about it. My favourite fat man.

 

Unfunded/Disbanded state or not, we should scrap the standing army. All it does it rile brown people round the world and cost me a fortune to do so. And takes up ingenuity and materials that could be used for more useful things. As for national DEFENCE, we're a wet island that can't grow coffee. Who wants to invade us. And even if someone did, who has an army of 25 million men that they can ship here. 25 million being the number of 20-50 year old men in the UK at the moment. The British Army is currently about 100,000 men. The Chinese army 3 million. Just 10% of those 20-50 year old Englishmen is 2.5 million. If out of ten mates, you know one who can sleep in a ditch and shoot, we're fine.

I read an article (probably mises.org) a while ago that reckoned even air defence could be taken on by commercial property owners. SAMs on top of skyscrapers that would protect their valuable building but all the people in the area as a happy knock-on too.

 

Just playing devils advocate here...

 

SAMs on top of sky scrapers would only work if the owner of the sky scraper thought the workers in there were doing something irreplaceable and valuable, or if data (in the case of data centres) was worth the protection. I reckon if most saw something aiming at them they would just evacuate the building and make an insurance claim. You forget we are a nation of selfish people, target a neighbouring building, we wouldn't use our defences to protect them... if they didn't pay for any, tough!

 

Likewise a numbers of soldiers, 25 million 'potential' but... if an invasion was in Hastings (history does repeat itself), selfishness, but 2 1/5 millions Scotsmen arn't going to pay their own way to jump on a train using their own ammunition to save some Londoners (likewise for Cornishmen, Yorkshiremen, Lancastrians...).

 

Not going to start on law and order either.

 

So I get your point but somewhere for our society to run there does need some centralised organisation to coordinate and make it all work.

Edited 51 minutes ago by Steven P

[AHPP]

Tesco operates from Plymouth to Wick. Coachloads of football fans travel up and down the land every weekend.

Edited 46 minutes ago by AHPP

[Steven P]

Ahh, but it is them paying from their own pocket to defend "a load of Londoners" that the Glaswegians might not like so much.

[AHPP]

Nobody would force them to.