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Staying in the customs union is basically staying in the EU (with no say on anything). Some opportunity ! |
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The 2008 crash took most people by surprise. There was little warning from senior politicians about the risk of consumer debt pre-2008 and even amongst those cautious about the economy thought it would be China, not American mortgages, from where the crisis would originate.
In fact a year before the crash the Tories were promising to match Labour's spending: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6975536.stm Labour obviously have a lot of answer for both for the deficit at the time of the crash and a lack of regulation but neither of these were issues the Tories were warning about or prepared for. The partisan kool-aid people drink because they think in binary, red vs blue, terms is absurd. ---------- Post added at 11:22 ---------- Previous post was at 11:21 ---------- Quote:
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Back to the present moment.
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I don't think they could have let the banks fail. There are too integrated into the financial system and the dominos would have continued to fall into businesses that depend on them and ordinary people's savings and accounts. People forget that in the US, UK and some European nations the immediate impact wasn't as catastrophic as it could have been. The intervention did stem the crisis but as time has gone on the economy has been stagnant as we've failed to ever really move on and the impact has had a long, latent, effect instead. So maybe a short, sharp, shock might have been better. I don't know. As I said though it was a global thing. Labour are to blame for leaving the economy in a state where the reaction to it was more expensive and for the lack of regulation. That said I think the Conservatives would have gone with the austerity approach, it ideologically suited them as a response, rather than the Obama style stimulus anyway. Successful governments on both sides of the pond are to blame for the lack of regulation. |
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Gordon Brown sold Gold reserves at rock bottom prices. I totally and utterly blame them. Just wait where Corbyn, McDonnell and cannot count Diane Abbott, would leave us with their socialism bollocks, if they ever came to power. |
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That's a long standing traditional joke note done by every exiting chancellor for their successor. |
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Labour inherit healthy balances from the Conservatives when they come to power and leave nothing when they depart. ---------- Post added at 10:33 ---------- Previous post was at 10:30 ---------- Quote:
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Politicians not listening to the people continues to cause problems. People are still being told to shut up and go away. The current FPTP is the problem. The Brexit result argument is just one of the symptoms. |
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The government has listened and is trying to get the best Brexit deal it can. It is the remainers who don't accept the referendum result who are not listening to the majority who voted. |
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I find it humorous that a lot of (not all) remainers advocate for PR yet are trying to overturn a referendum result that was based on PR.
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I see no further point in trying to change a closed mind regarding our undemocratic electoral system. Disillusionment with the governments we get lumped with will continue. |
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