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Topic Started: Jun 10 2012, 09:42 AM (278 Views)
madfor4

No, not Bob Dylan but George Osborne.....

Strange how the 'Global Financial Meltdown was all due to Brown's incompetence but the current 'double-dip' is all the fault of those nasty foreigners across the channel.

I wondered why they 'allowed' the extra days' holidays for the Jubilee; next excuse already sorted.
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Nothing any politician of any party wouldn't use as an excuse for our poor economy! Another is we're all in the same boat!
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I think he's clutching at straws. The basic strategy seems to be to rely on the wishful thinking of the private sector springing into action and saving the day - for some unknown reason; really a pure act of faith. Where is the causal sequence of economic stages? There is no demand because there is minimal confidence. This government - the Tories - are essentially free-market purists to the point of fatalism. It was pointed out recently that America, supposedly the land of ultra laissez-faire, has achieved its strength by very deliberately 'picking winners' and giving strong government backing plus some protectionism, which the Thatcher government rejected as anathema.

There was a BBC4 documentary about the Blue Streak rocket the other day, very good science and technology, which was cancelled at the very point of its successful launch, when others carried on to profit in the age of satellite communications. We suffer from a lack of imagination, timidity, and short-term thinking. It feels like the parable of the talents to me. There have been many similar cases. The discovery of graphene at Manchester University has received tepid support while other countries are giving lavish development money.
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The basic strategy seems to be to rely on the wishful thinking of the private sector springing into action and saving the day -

'Wishful thinking' and 'springing' are w symptomatic of knee-jerk reactions by the incompetent politicians who we have to suffer.
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Nothing any politician of any party wouldn't use as an excuse.....

I do not want a cluster of excuse-makers in charge. I want meritocratic intelligence.
This is divide-&-rule politics and the sooner we are rid of all parties, and have a parliament composed of individual thinkers whose common aim is the betterment of the greatest number, the better. Then there is no hiding place. No excuses, thank you.
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madfor4

Rail Franchise fiasco.....
Patrick McLoughlin and his predecessor (Justine Greening) had assured us that the process was 'robust' (well the 'bust' bit was right) and Branson was a poor loser.

Now it turns out that it was "the fault of civil servants who forgot to include 'inflation' in the calculations??????" so no need for a minister to be blamed...

This bunch had better stop the redundancy of government employees or they'll run out of scapegoats...
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I've just been reading that Justine Greening is an accountant and so might have been relatively well placed to notice what was going on - but really it's typical of omni-shambles and airy-fairy-ness. They are more concerned with the whole idea and fantasy of competition than the actual details.
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madfor4
Jun 10 2012, 09:42 AM
No, not Bob Dylan but George Osborne.....

Strange how the 'Global Financial Meltdown was all due to Brown's incompetence but the current 'double-dip' is all the fault of those nasty foreigners across the channel.

I wondered why they 'allowed' the extra days' holidays for the Jubilee; next excuse already sorted.
Yes, but notice that Balls and Milibean are studiously ignoring their own roles in the near-bankrupting of the UK while they were (asleep) at the helm.
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