Things appear to have got rather worse under this lot. How long will they blame it all on a previous administration? Would you like to set a deadline? Their deadlines for reduction of debt etc seem to change by the day.
There are no magic bullets/wands. We are so f****d up it will take decades to fix or a war. Once again the labour party has buggered up the economy, this time more thoroughly than ever.
Spending like lunatics on stupid things when money should have been spent on (for instance ) new power stations/sources.
Borrowing FFS in the "good times" and frittering the money away.
The last government volunteered to turn them off early (or at least, earlier than the EU required, to show how super green it was).
Sunday Express claims we came very close to power cuts on 16th January, and it was avoided only by bringing online some oil-fired plant which is in the process of being closed down.
That wasn't true: there was adequate reserves when they fired that one up. I suspect it was done to make sure it still worked.
How long do you think it takes to change the economy?
Blair and brown had the good bit of the previous government running for several years after they took office before they wrecked it. Its always easier to wreck it than fix it too.
I expect it will take a couple of terms before the current government gets it on track, just about when the stupid elect another labour government to wreck it again.
It looks unlikely they will get a couple of terms to put it right. Labour will be in to wreck it in 2015, and in desperation will join the Euro, and then it will be the end of Britain as an independent nation for 40 years minimum by which time it will simply be an offshore concentration camp for all the detritus of Europe, Africa and Asia to be sent to.
We had many years of a booming economy and rising living standards under the previous government. Which people like you conveniently forget.
This lot seem more concerned over building high speed rail links and so on. Obviously since the main benefits of this will be their pals in construction (and business - the only ones willing to pay the higher fares) Power stations obviously ain't so sexy.
The blame for this current mess can be laid squarely at the Thatcher years
- near total deregulation of the financial sector. The they 'can do no wrong' mentality. Which was bound to come home to roost.
You aren't allowed to say that. It's racist.
Bill
How long do you think it does?
Right - I'm surprised you even admit this.
Absolutely nothing to do with the financial sector then - the deregulation of such was by the Thatcher administration?
Giving tax cuts to the very wealthy is going to help fix it? What planet are you on?
Their whole policy seems to be putting off any serious remedial actions until after the next election. Doesn't take a genius to work out why.
All funded by debt, so it was illusory.
Enough. *plonk*
The truth often hurts.
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She did away with the *Exchange Control* dept. at the BoE which means you can take more than £50 when you go on holiday and also send any amount to your relatives in East Europe etc.
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That may be so, but your deranged ravings are anything but "truth". Thatcher's been gone 20 years. Get over it. Grow up.
Now I have to tweak my killfile so I don't see your droolings quoted by someone else.
That's the short termist action of all gov'ts who get re-elected (not) at short intervals.
We either need a second chamber with teeth elected for life, or the main chamber elected on a rolling basis, so they think ahead past the next election.
Or else the Chinese system, which has worked for 5 millenia.
Nevertheless it was de-regulation of the financial institutions - and all that went with this - which was a major contributor of this world wide mess.
Do you really think others care just who is in your killfile? Like it is some honour for you to read their posts?
Yup.
That took some reading. Why would you want to elect teeth for life... oh. the chamber has teeth :)
Errmmmm... you _have_ heard of the Cultural Revolution? And apparently the Qing-Ming transition took something like 50 years...
Andy
I agree. In terms of education it leads to kids being crammed together in the least efficient environment for learning.
When I was at school, we used an American teaching system called "SRA" (our sons headmaster groaned when I mentioned this, and said their expression was "Sodding Reading Again") which came in packs for the class
- getting increasingly harder. Myself and another lad managed to finish the years set in a couple of months. Had to spend the rest of the year reading quietly at the back.
Really, we should have been able to progress *up* a bit - we could probably have got to do O levels age 14. By the same token, some kids who do badly at 16 for GCSEs might do better if they had more teaching and tried at 17 - or even 18.
The school system suits teachers, parents and politicians. Not the pupils :(
Not so sure about that ... quite a few people I know have said they won't vote for any of the big 3. In the past they would have voted LibDem, but that's not being mentioned.
Still 2 more years yet :(
And of course UK institutions which would previously have stuck to domestic home loans seeking to invest elsewhere where the returns were better. Without realising the risks. It doesn't take a genius to know that the higher the return, the higher the risk.
There are quite a few councils who learnt that lesson when the Icelandic banks went broke.
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