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Originally Posted by Mancie
Why do we have to suffer these cuts?.. Britain is still the 6th wealtheist nation in the world..and only 2nd behind Germany in Europe... the media have talked us into a doom and gloom future for their own intrests.. Sky..ITV most of the newspapers and even the BBC are managed by the top 2% richest in the world.. they have a very real reason to talk not only this country but all of the western economies into grabbing money from the rest of us.
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Pre-election, Labour also faced up to the fact they too would have to impose severe cuts, in an attempt to sort out the current financial mess we're in, but they said they'd hold back doing it immediately, so as not to 'damage the economic recovery', but which we all know was really a way of trying to woo the electorate, by not having to think about cuts in the here and now.
Socially, and morally, the successive Labour governments made some historic inroads.
However, when it came to economics, they were hopeless.
They also courted the city financiers just as much as any previous Tory governments, and succeeded in making London the destination of choice for every dodgy oligarch, and dubious billionaire...hardly the actions of a party connected in anyway to socialism.
Under new Labour champagne flowed in trendy Islington, and a boom was enjoyed, with no thought of tomorrow.
We've had the boom, now it's cuts, or bust.
As others have pointed out, if you ran a household like the country has been managed, we'd now be pushing our worldly goods down the street in an old pram.
The political blindness exhibited by Mancie, Jaysay & co. can be quite amusing, if it wasn't also a little sad.
Like a red and blue Chuckle Bothers.
To me (it's Thatcher's fault), to you (no it isn't, it was all down to Callaghan).
