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Old 08-06-2010, 21:15   #32
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Re: Just before the robbing Tory budget

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Originally Posted by garinda View Post
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).

Some speech that, Garinda, and there's a whole lot of truth in what you say. Maybe we should look back to the similarities that were occurring in pre-1939 Germany when Herr Hitler utilised the unemployed to build up a massive armaments program prior to his invasion of Poland which subsequently kicked off the second world war.

Could not what is happening in Greece and the imminent downfall of the euro with all it's implications for the European Union lead to another major conflagration?
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