WestGorton
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Yes. That is what I mean. EU. That big powerful gang we are no longer in.When you say Europe, I presume you mean Western (i.e. non-Warsaw Pact) Europe.
Yes. That is what I mean. EU. That big powerful gang we are no longer in.When you say Europe, I presume you mean Western (i.e. non-Warsaw Pact) Europe.
Thought so. Still an interesting stat, nonetheless.Yes. That is what I mean. EU. That big powerful gang we are no longer in.
AgreedThought so. Still an interesting stat, nonetheless.
As you hinted, not a panacea, but neither is the current disparity in wealth, that’s for sure.
Example A M'Lud.Thatcher was one of our greatest prime ministers.
Had vision, backbone and clarity of thought. She reinvigorated the country’s entrepreneurial spirit, freed the economy from its 1970s stupor and boosted social mobility in turn. How we could do with her now.
We had a bottle of decent champaign in the fridge waiting for the day she carked, and it was opened when she did, as did many others.Mrs Vienna hates to hear that anyone has died, but she rang me to tell me the news, and I could hear the delight in her voice.
She absolutely hated the Grantham granny with a passion.
Says the bloke whose been on strike for months, stopping people getting to work, hospital appointments etc, all so he can get the pay rise he wants.Example A M'Lud.
A selfish ****.
Thatcher did not boost social mobility. In fact, it has been on the decline since her premiership. It has been especially precipitous in the North, sadly.Thatcher was one of our greatest prime ministers.
Had vision, backbone and clarity of thought. She reinvigorated the country’s entrepreneurial spirit, freed the economy from its 1970s stupor and boosted social mobility in turn. How we could do with her now.
One of the most damning charts that illustrates at least a portion of the detrimental impacts of Reagan’s economic policies and philosophy (again, I mean the full ideological apparatus around his rise and reign more then the man himself) that became so pervasive around the world in the following decades—and which ignores individual harm and goes straight to a place conservative economists and politicians claim to care about—is this one:Both before my time so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt.
But income inequality and the power of the middle class have shifted dramatically since Reagan, at least in the US
Maybe some of these impacts were unintended and things spiraled, but Reaganomics has had some extremely detrimental consequences - check the trends from when he became president and after, I think they say it all: https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/