Georgia O'Keeffe

see you are one of the bitcoin fanboys on here, the only thing that gives bitcoin value is its decentralization, 21m and proof of work, which through many years of trying to understand is essential, maybe you should use your bitcoin valuation mindset and ignore parties (centralisation and the economic rent that comes with that), the uk has a fiscal balance of trade account (since it entered the EU) that makes Argentina look conservative. It would be helpful if you eliminated politics and just blamed que sera sera

i wont disagree with that, im an idealist but fully support your view that maybe we just had a few lucky decades

maybe you are right but personally i dont give a toss what politicians say or tell me, i look at reality and act accordingly with my logic (which may be wrong), if you are saying people act based on political influence, i dont argue, i dont know, but every individual is sovereign, if they give up that sovereignty to vote for their team thats up them, effectively you are saying politicians create peoples perspectives, i am saying peoples views create politicians views, i can only hope that i am right and you are wrong, the inverse is a horrible idea to me

sorry you will have to pinpoint the part where i have said human nature has changed, i cant see it in my post, all i have said is western values have changed and decayed in my view, maybe im wrong but i see it as a function of western decadence/privilege/economic rent collection that is going to disappear from 25 onwards, it will effect the whole world, but Europe more than most if this Bond Bull of the last 40 years turns into a Bond bear for the next 40 years, as i stated many years ago, Europe including uk will face a great regression and our decadence will make it far harder to deal with than those countries that havent been part of the western financial system

dont blame truss, johnson or Brown for this, i assume you are a human, you may not have voted for any of them, but in a democracy the fish rots from the tail up, not the head down

nice ethics that essentially highlight the decay of society and the west in two short paragraphs

ahhhh me yoof

the reality is the 10 wealthiest countries on the planet have populations of less than 10 million, the further reality is syriza are in a good position, they have patriotism on their side, the 3 biggest greek creditors are. Eurosystem SMP 45Bn EU 38Bn Greek public sector 30Bn Fortunately they can ignore the EU and wipe 80Bn of their debt simply by defaulting on the oligarchs who agree to shared responsibility *the greek public sector and greek banks, the greek deposit holders and public sector stand firmly behind redistribution... apparently

Leeds City Council has half the cashflow of Serco, perhaps they should be paying their CEO 1 million, to keep it consistent like

is this like when insects attack?

i suppose given tax credits and Housing Benefit its almost cost neutral for the taxpayer as anyone on minimum wage will be receiving support. But its not cost neutral for business. The sensible thing would be to reduce employers NI in line with the increase to neutralise it for business aswell but as Employers NI is generally a hiiden tax on tax on Labour that very few recognise theres chuff all chance of the govt reducing it. To be fair to the coalition, i dont see how this increase is any more beneficial than increasing the tax threshhold, fortunately the popn are generally so driven by their ideology of left and right that soundbites are all politicians have to come up with, the logical and inevitable follow through of those soundbites are pretty irrelevant when the population cares about nothing more than dogma

yep what a disaster, debt monkeys get to vote, lets all leave it up to the queen, at least she has vaginal superiority, GB used to be an empire, it can get back there as long as im alright jack and someone else is paying for it, the problem i have with house prices is im in the wrong side of it, special flowerism is great as long as i dont suffer the indignity of it

does this mean there'll be less fat Bstards in the uk? My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my child benefit, you wupped my father at 10 ball, prepare to eat kebabs