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Many years ago I worked with a lad who never bought any fags and cadged them off me all the time. Eventually, I snapped and suggested that he started buying his own. His reaction was to call ME a tight Kitson!
A good socialist is a good socialist until someone else's money runs out.
I love the way I am constantly brought into your and Billy's analogies Syd, I must have made a bigger impression on you than you have on me,I only think of you both when I have an itch.
I reckon Sydney must be a socialist judging by the amount of times he gets publicly owned.
Israel, India, and the United Kingdom all adopted socialism as an economic model following World War II.Socialism is guilty of a fatal conceit: It believes its system can make better decisions for the people than they can for themselves.Socialism has failed in every country in which it has been tried.
Post ww2, three decades of socialism in the uk left us on the verge of being an economic dustbin on the global scale. The govt owned all majority industry such as auto and steel. Crushingly high tax rates on income and capital. Much of housing govt ownedTrade unions spending all their funds on political objectives such as controlling the Labour Party. . From 1950 to 1975, the U.K.’s investment and productivity record was the worst of any major industrial country. Trade-union demands increased the size of the public sector and public expenditures to 59 percent of GDP. Wage and benefits demands by organized labor led to continual strikes that paralyzed transportation and production. But workers were happy I suppose stood by their burning braziers day after day were they? The winter of 1975.piles of rubbish and rats in the street. Bodies unburied. This what socialism looks like.
Herbert, the 40's 50's and 60s generations were the best Britain has ever had, Just ask anybody who lived through those times, its the ones that followed who have made a mess of it and are digging even bigger holes as we speak.
Quote from: normal rules on October 28, 2021, 01:28:36 pmPost ww2, three decades of socialism in the uk left us on the verge of being an economic dustbin on the global scale. The govt owned all majority industry such as auto and steel. Crushingly high tax rates on income and capital. Much of housing govt ownedTrade unions spending all their funds on political objectives such as controlling the Labour Party. . From 1950 to 1975, the U.K.’s investment and productivity record was the worst of any major industrial country. Trade-union demands increased the size of the public sector and public expenditures to 59 percent of GDP. Wage and benefits demands by organized labor led to continual strikes that paralyzed transportation and production. But workers were happy I suppose stood by their burning braziers day after day were they? The winter of 1975.piles of rubbish and rats in the street. Bodies unburied. This what socialism looks like. You do realise that the Tories were in power for 18 of the 25 years from 1950-75?You reckon Churchill was a socialist? Or Macmillan? Or the 14th Earl Home? Or Ted Heath?Also, have a think what might have helped West Germany and Holland and France and Italy overtake us economically in that very period.
Quote from: selby on October 28, 2021, 01:58:42 pm Herbert, the 40's 50's and 60s generations were the best Britain has ever had, Just ask anybody who lived through those times, its the ones that followed who have made a mess of it and are digging even bigger holes as we speak. Eh up. It's Capstick Comes Home.We 'ad a lot of things back then that thi' dunt 'ave today. Rickets.Diphtheria.Hitler.