'The economy is safe with the Tories'

[John am Rhein]

World financial meltdown!

 

The end is nigh!

 

i told you so

[Falconhoof]

the drugs industry could give the world economy a lift if they stop the war on it, regulate it, set up coffee shops in every town and city. License importers and distributors, train medical staff and labs to test the safety.

[Woodsyla]

elected i think with what, about 23% of the vote?

I really couldn't tire of kicking Nick Clegg's head in for this.

[charlie clown]

There's no ground-breaking thought in this article (from today's Guardian) but it sums up well my frustration with Labour's position (and that of the left in general) in terms of their (lack of) response not just to the current Greece & Euro crisis but everything since the American sub-prime lending fecked up the world's economy. The left should be wiping the floor with tories just now and positioning themselves behind some properly radical policies and they just look bankrupt of thought and ideas, dealing with trifling issues orund the edges insted of hitting at bigger targets.

 

linkielink

[John am Rhein]

on the left, we take the (appropriately profound hand gesture) long term view...

[aka Dus]

Goldman Sachs rules the world, not the government.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpg76VjTa58

 

[Rimbeux]

There have been characters in such positions saying this for the last three years. There seems to be a shed load of money effectively bet on the Euro collapsing or dropping like a stone. Political types fumble about talking about fundamentals and markets not behaving according to them, as if that's even a valid argument let alone realistic view of the s*** they have got into by spending too much money and borrowing it from people and a market place where many have hedged on them not paying it back.

[Spion kop]

f*** it, i'm killing the next person I see to eat the precious goo inside their skull and use their blubber for warmth during the winters without shelter and food.

[muleskinner]

This Alessio chap is a hoax isn't he? Had the BBC sucked right in.

[Knox_Harrington]

This Alessio chap is a hoax isn't he? Had the BBC sucked right in.

Seemingly not.

[Frosty Jack]

This Alessio chap is a hoax isn't he? Had the BBC sucked right in.

 

Some briefly thought he was one of the Yes Men, who'd had the BBC before. He isn't.

[muleskinner]

Just read a bit about him, seemingly an 'independent trader' who does bits of training and the like. Or is he?

[matty]

He's telling the truth, isn't he? A lot of these people make a lot of money trading in people's misery.

[NeilJ]

What's shocking isn't what he said, it's the fact that people were shocked by what he said.

[smithdown]

What's shocking isn't what he said, it's the fact that people were shocked by what he said.

 

This is it. For a country so terrified of socialism we seem to hardly know (or want to face up to) how the alternative works.

[aka Dus]

He's telling the truth, isn't he? A lot of these people make a lot of money trading in people's misery.

 

Nobody could accuse him of lying, hoaxer or not.

[smithdown]

Osborne really doesn't look like he understands what he's talking about.

[Gilps]

Osborne really doesn't look like he understands what he's talking about.

 

There's a reason for that

[surf]

has anyone discovered what the first oldest lie is yet?

[Sion]

I never have and probably never will understand the idea behind giving such an important job as Chancellor to people with little to no financial education/background. Nothing gets said about it either.

[RBM]

Osborne really doesn't look like he understands what he's talking about.

 

Osbourne doesn't understand the economy and it isnt a concern for him. His only concern is to use the economy as a beacon of fear in order to push through punitive, ill thought out cuts as part of a socio-economic agenda to undermine huge swathes of public infrastructure that stand in the way of the Tories annihilation of the public sector.

 

It is all driven by a loathsome political ideology that doesn't care for the people it is supposed to represent, assist and help and instead panders to huge corporations and the mega rich.

[Spion kop]

I never have and probably never will understand the idea behind giving such an important job as Chancellor to people with little to no financial education/background. Nothing gets said about it either.

What about other offices of state, only Teachers in charge of education, Doctors for the NHS, policemen for Home sec.

[smithdown]

What about other offices of state, only Teachers in charge of education, Doctors for the NHS, policemen for Home sec.

 

 

That's a fair point. However, a Health Minister who has been blessed from birth with immunity from all illness and disease, or a Minister for Education who was born with more innate knowledge than any reasonable person would expect to learn, or Batman's mum, you could say they might not be as well equipped as others to understand the effect that their brief has on their fellow ordinary citizens. And yet, so it is we see Osborne as our Chancellor of the Exchequer, a man who wouldn't know a bill if it bit him on the bo11ocks.

[Gilps]

for [HMT] to float the idea [of QE] is irresponsible in the extreme as it could shake [market] confidence

[stressederic]

That's a fair point. However, a Health Minister who has been blessed from birth with immunity from all illness and disease, or a Minister for Education who was born with more innate knowledge than any reasonable person would expect to learn, or Batman's mum, you could say they might not be as well equipped as others to understand the effect that their brief has on their fellow ordinary citizens. And yet, so it is we see Osborne as our Chancellor of the Exchequer, a man who wouldn't know a bill if it bit him on the bo11ocks.

 

Be fair. He has spent an awful lot of time and effort ensuring he doesn't have to pay much tax.