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What makes my blood boil is that, back in 2010, there were Nobel Prize winning macro-economists screaming that Austerity was absolutely the wrong thing to do and that it would lead to a decade or more of low economic growth and stagnant wages.That was dismissed by the Tories. They said that cutting Government spending would actually make the economy thrive and all os us richer.Well the results are in now. Up there on that chart. Who do you think was right?
What about the sixties? Things were good as far as I remember
See Ldr. There's the tragedy of it.They were told in 2010 that trying to cut the deficit rapidly by cutting Govt spending when the economy was still on its knees would a) Not cut the deficit quickly and b) cause a lot of unnecessary economic hurt.Guess what?They tried to cut the deficit quickly by cutting Govt spending. They STILL haven't eliminated the deficit, 5 years after their 5 year target. And we've just had the worst decade of economic growth since the Napoleonic Wars.And STILL folk won't accept that those economists were right and Cameron & Osborne and pretty much everyone on the Right were wrong. I'm not sure exactly what it would take to get folk to examine their pre-conceived ideas if this doesn't.
One without any form of social media please!The 90's was the last great decade.... World's gone to sh1t ever since!
Raven.Right the way from the War to the end of the 1970s, incomes were rising and the rises were spread pretty evenly across society. That happened under both Labour and Tory governments.In the 40 years since then, there's only been one decade where that has happened and it was the one decade when Labour were in power.Go figure.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 06, 2020, 10:06:02 pmRaven.Right the way from the War to the end of the 1970s, incomes were rising and the rises were spread pretty evenly across society. That happened under both Labour and Tory governments.In the 40 years since then, there's only been one decade where that has happened and it was the one decade when Labour were in power.Go figure.Billy you obviously missed the attempt at "humour" in the last part of what I said
Any time without reality TV it dies my nut. Pretty people and idiots becoming famous because they’re pretty people or idiots or in most cases bothWhy people watch this garbage is beyond me. Whatever happened to the days when famous people had some kind of talent