We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Arfa Daily" saying something like:
In the free and easy credit atmosphere of the 00's I really can't see that a Tory government would have curtailed the property bubble, the ruthless greed and the endless speculation.
Really, do you?
Nulabour were a shower of intrusive and controlling wankers when it came to ordinary life for the man in the street, but fiscally they were just as incompetent as anyone else. It is indeed a pity that they didn't have the moral fibre to rein things in a bit - the simple expedients of hanging on to some regulation in the markets and pegging mortgages at
3.5 times earnings would have went some way to ameliorating the world-wide downturn as it affected the UK. You want to see a basketcase waiting to happen, just look across the Irish Sea and behold another Iceland, only run by even more incompetent nincompoops than the UK who, unbelievably, are still in power. They're all shaking their heads in disbelief and dodging the bullets, saying they never saw it coming. Retards. Time for a new broom.