Thursday, May 22, 2008
What is this nonsense?
bbc: The nasty decades of the past
There are some who see a cycle of boom and bust as inevitable. But as Britain and much of the Western world faces up to a downturn, it's easy to look back into the past and find nasty decades, writes Finlo Rohrer.
Posted by george monsoon @ 12:23 PM (558 views) Add Comment
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1. george monsoon said...
In other words " the world economy is screwed and we are all slaves to the government, but look how bad your ancestors had it. Count yourselves lucky"
what a cheek!
2. paul said...
Q. Why is only the BBC that comes out with this kind of rubbish?
A. Because the government's state media department tells them to.
3. uncle tom said...
This is a painfully uneducated piece, picking a few random snapshots out of history and then getting the facts in a mess. I could go into detail, but it's not worth it...
4. harold said...
"Fear not Sheeple, for this is merely history repeating itself. All will be well; go back to sleep sheep, while you are fleeced."
5. paul said...
"There was political instability as anti-Corn Law activists tried to get the government to accept free trade and the Chartists pushed for the universal franchise. "
The Corn Laws are the textbook example of government subverting their remit from the people for greedy personal gain.
At that time, MPs were mostly landed gentry who sought to maintain the high price of corn to maximise their own profits - meanwhile the rest of the population was starving because they could not afford to eat. MPs passed the Corn Laws as a means of protecting their own wealth at the expense of the poor, and the poor unsurprisingly took to the streets to riot.
This eventually culminated in the Peterloo Massacre, where soldiers bayoneted the public including women and children, and even today serves as an infamous reminder of what happens when the government starts to get a little too confident in its ability to fleece the public for their own personal gain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_massacre
I suggest the BBC researches these things a little better next time ...
6. jack c said...
"There are some who see a cycle of boom and bust as inevitable" - I seem to recall someone from the Labour party repeatedly claiming to have put an end to boom and bust in the UK -
More "conditioning" from the Brown Broadcasting Corporation in preperation for the economy nosedive
7. last_days_of_disco said...
I realized how bad the revisionism is with the BBC when they were spinning the immigration in terms, of, oh its all happened before, remember 1066...
I mean, if you are looking back that far you have totally betrayed this country. What is that, a coded message, "We are being invaded", but that's ok, its all happened before and only about 100000 died, so no problems then.
Agggh, miserable revisionist liberal %&£$*
Now we are getting the same utter trash about the economy. "Its not as bad as when Vespasian, did his punitive masacre at Ephesus.", Oh well, then thats ok then.
Its incredibly pathetic the lengths these propogandists go to. But the saddest most laughable part of it is when you talk to your buddies at work, they have uncritically sucked it up and spout it back at you!
8. An Bearin Bui said...
Yeah, let's keep this in perspective - I mean it could be worse: you could have 10 BTLs in repossession proceedings, be utterly bankrupt, have no job, no home AND have bubonic plague as well!
I'm sure Ye Olde Brittanick Broadsheete Corporatione was even churning out pamphlets back then saying: "Plague deaths create opportunity for buy-to-let investors as first-time buyer demand drops (dead)".