That’s exactly what the last Labour government did and it was the best government in my lifetime, and I’m 49.
I thought the groupthink zombie cliche is that Blair is a “war criminal”, and you can therefore ignore the 10 years of economic prosperity and public service improvement.Apparently they were neoliberals and therefore bad.
And all those people who benefited from working families tax credits, they weren’t really better off, they were just manipulated into feeling that way by having more money.
I thought the groupthink zombie cliche is that Blair is a “war criminal”, and you can therefore ignore the 10 years of economic prosperity and public service improvement.
The bad old days. Thank God we’ve got sensible people running the country now.A neoliberal war criminal.
The worst kind.
And around 4,000 miles away an orange gimp smiles and says "that's ma boy!!"I see your point she looks a bit rough, but it doesn't help when you're installing a pole dancers pole in your flat and letting someone take pictures of you on it.
What a complete Bonehead using taxpayers money to help out his bit of stuff.
This might be the first and I won't be the last that we will hear about Johnson spaffing public money away for his own personal gains.
Don't worry - we've a sensible opposition ready to take control.The bad old days. Thank God we’ve got sensible people running the country now.
You mean those the government is responsible for? The Education system for one has been squeezed relentlessly for years and even if the promised £20bn funding from Johnson materialises it only takes the system roughly back to where it was before austerity, it's the same for the police and the 20,000 extra officers, after around 26,000 were culled during austerity.
But your's is not some theoretical fantasy.
It is a view evidenced by the continual success of capitalist economies, in very stark contrast to the abject failure of pretty much every hard left socialist economy over the last 100 years.
That the likes of Rascal *continue* to fail to recognise this, really beggars belief.
I thought he came across far better in the second episode.
The world is changing Chippy .... most routine jobs will soon become automated.... decisions will (if the answer to two plus two always equals 4) be managed by AI..... Capitalism cannot survive if there are no people with sufficient surplus income to purchase the goods.
My local ASDA has installed another two self serve checkouts .... sorry i meant laid another 5 people off. its happening everywhere .
Oh definitely, they’re nearly as bad. That’s the point.Don't worry - we've a sensible opposition ready to take control.
Dear God.
Agreed. But countries cannot do anything about it acting alone because we live in a connected, competitive world. If we unilaterally choose to pay people more and employ more people then our goods and services will be more expensive and why would another country buy them? Indeed why would our own country buy them?
So until we have a worldwide consensus on this, and pretty reasonable coordination and normalisation of pay levels globally, across the major continents including Africa, then we are stuck with it the way it is.
My guess is capitalism has another 100 years left in it. And whilst that's the case, we'd better live with it and deal with it.
Going for socialism "early" will just make us all poorer and put millions out of work as our uncompetitive businesses see sales falling and one by one, go under. As the world stands today, wealth creation needs a vibrant private sector and you don't get that by regulating and taxing the shit out of it. Funny that.
Of course. That's what austerity means. I wonder what some people thought when they were told - repeatedly and clearly told - that austerity would mean cut backs and "tough choices".
That austerity was contentious and unpopular with many, I get. No-one goes a bomb on pain do they. But the electorate voted for it, in 2010, 2015 and 2017. That's what happens under our democratic system.. Sometimes you get what you want, others not.
The world is changing Chippy .... most routine jobs will soon become automated.... decisions will (if the answer to two plus two always equals 4) be managed by AI..... Capitalism cannot survive if there are no people with sufficient surplus income to purchase the goods.
My local ASDA has installed another two self serve checkouts .... sorry i meant laid another 5 people off. its happening everywhere .
A suggestion, and I know is a pretty radical position, but as opposed to going full blown socialism, maybe get those companies at the forefront of the technological advances to actually pay some fucking tax. That would be a great starting position.Agreed. But countries cannot do anything about it acting alone because we live in a connected, competitive world. If we unilaterally choose to pay people more and employ more people then our goods and services will be more expensive and why would another country buy them? Indeed why would our own country buy them?
So until we have a worldwide consensus on this, and pretty reasonable coordination and normalisation of pay levels globally, across the major continents including Africa, then we are stuck with it the way it is.
My guess is capitalism has another 100 years left in it. And whilst that's the case, we'd better live with it and deal with it.
Going for socialism "early" will just make us all poorer and put millions out of work as our uncompetitive businesses see sales falling and one by one, go under. As the world stands today, wealth creation needs a vibrant private sector and you don't get that by regulating and taxing the shit out of it. Funny that.
A suggestion, and I know is a pretty radical position, but as opposed to going full blown socialism, maybe get those companies at the forefront of the technological advances to actually pay some fucking tax. That would be a great starting position.
They should just resign.
On mass.
Hold their hands up & say " Enough is enough, we are going to knock it on the head, as a service to the country & to save those who might still vote for us, from themselves ".
But what will Nazis do in their spare time?