Friday, Jan 30, 2009
Gordon is 'absolutely confident about Britain’s future'
Telegraph: Gordon Brown: All Britain needs is confidence in itself
Having failed to see (or ignored) the problem and not acted early enough to solve it Gordon waxes lyrical about the British spirit and problem solving of the ability of its people (rather than it's government). After all if we don't talk the country down all our problems will go away, so lets all remember that 'careless talk may cost Gordon his job and record of financial prudence and sound economic stewardship.
Posted by enuii @ 11:55 PM (1606 views) Add Comment
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1. hpwatcher said...
How low can he go?
2. quiet guy said...
The Prime Minister is clearly in denial. I am doubtful that he will ever own up to his mistakes - not even on his deathbed.
"The British spirit is to see a problem, identify it, and get on with solving it."
Gordon is not doing this. Perhaps the Labour Party will dispose of him when it realises that it is due for a long stretch in opposition but I'm not hopeful. Meanwhile the taxpayer debts roll towards us. Can you hear the rumbling?
3. shining wit said...
"The British spirit is to see a problem, identify it, and get on with solving it."
I'm british - Born here and bred here
Indentify the problem - Simple - The problem was financial mismanagement by the banks, the stupid public getting into increasing debt and a government who were greedy to live off the property, debt and credit boom. And an ex-chancellor who believed his own publicity and sucked up to the financial markets like a junkie.
Solving it - Get rid of this inept governement, reduce property prices, introduce a limitation on property price growth to keep them lower, somehow, reduce/limit population through reduced immigration and getting lazy MoF'ers off benefits who are capable of working and stop easy credit ((err like don't give everyone a friggin credit card) and to stop putting too much money in the system.
Easy!
No naff off Brown and stop petending you're not part of the problem!
And stop pretending that making legislation, writing reports and blaming the yanks is anything other than an excuse for governing!
4. sneaker said...
To misquote Roosevelt
"The only thing we have to fear is confidence itself."
5. Morpheus said...
And that will return after the next election when we've got these clowns out !
6. hpwatcher said...
Talk is cheap.....
7. Ulfar said...
I have lots of spirit Gordon, however the levels of debt you have saddled this country with are so gargantaun that spirit isn't going to help.
8. str 2007 said...
Shining wit
Agreed I think there are alot of people in the country who could be put to good use (currently languishing in front of Trisha or such like on their flat screen) who frankly, although they don't know it yet, would feel alot better about themselves for a good days work.
And this disability thing is totally out of control.
I think it's the Germans who are handing out government vouchers for spending on German products. A bit self protectionism maybe, but they didn't cause this mess US & UK did with reckless lending.
But vouchers do at least offer a direct route for injecting capital into the system rather than filtering it through a bank.
Give me £2000 of furniture/household goods vouchers which can only be used against 33% of purchase and I'll likely take advantage of the 33% discount and release another £4000 into the economy. (I think the government has committed each of us to about £10,0000 of debt so far and I haven't seen any benefit. In fact just my savings rate drop by about 80% and my foreign spending power drop by 30%.
Doesn't make me want to shop.
Perhaps we should be running for government and kick some arsh !
9. a saver said...
We Brits will need all of our spirit to deal with the fallout from the way GB has screwed our economy!
10. icarus said...
So we don't need a government, we just need a "Feelgood" advertising campaign. Go out and spend, because you're worth it.
11. plato said...
Well I'm 3rd generation. My grandparents(Greek immigrants) came to the UK mid 1920s. Worked hard,prospered, respected the great opportunity this country offered, Felt proud to be here,wanted nothing else than the comparative dignity and freedom available to all who sought such a life. Places of culture abound in museums,galleries,libraries,theatres etc. Schools somewhat down the list nowadays,but acadamia at the top was the best and recognised as such. I think the way my environment directed me to. Hopefully it is the right way.
Somewhere over the last few decades emerged a morose attitude filled with greed,superficial intelligence and selfishness. Spread like a virus through the majority of a once respectful society that is best described as a loss of morality.
I doubt this is accidental and the rapidity is frightening. To ask for confidence under such circumstances is a reflection of how far up the ladder this attitude has spread. I think though, it actually started from this level and has spread downwards.
12. P. Riddy said...
No, foreigners need to have confidence in our currency, and our debt base should be taken down.
13. will said...
Let's face it, we dropped the Great in Great Britain years ago. Having a history is not enough, we need a future.
14. tyrellcorporation said...
Great Britain is the political term describing the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland made on 1 May, 1707 under Queen Anne of England - "the two kingdoms of Scotland and England shall...be united into one kingdom by the name of Great Britain"
Nothing to do with being 'great' (although it obviously was for a few centuries at least as the pre-eminent global power).
15. enuii said...
Perhaps Greater Britain would be a better description or maybe that was the initial intention or meaning.
Like the term Greater London it would mean the all encompassing area within it's larger boundaries.
16. sneaker said...
Begs the question, which government would you prefer: a corrupt one, or a mad one?
No guessing as to what I'm intimating here.
17. jackas said...
There is no such thing as British spirit any more. Not where I live in London. Isn't it potilically incorrect to ask people in London to behave in a British way?
18. fjcruiser said...
I am confident too about the future that people will finally vote with their feet and kick NU Labour out so the next 10 years can be spent rebuilding that British spirit and the economy as well.
19. inflation is eating my savings said...
Is this the BNP site?
I thought it was about house prices being too high.
20. enuii said...
@16 ??????????????????????????
Don't catch your drift on that one, are you trying to be provocative?
21. inflation is eating my savings said...
@17
No- I'm reacting to the tendency to blame the global problem on an overinflated market at home- and therefore to blame Brown for everything. The money has stopped everywhere, and the local contribution, although significant, was only part of it. So yes, it is ok for Brown to come up with the "we're in this together" stuff. The fact that we have had an unsustainable boom, is almost a separate matter- in isolation, it might have popped 5 years ago. It might not have- they might have inflated for ever, until they were selling tents on the last piece of spare uninhabited moorland. It is perhaps good that they didn't.
My point is that the fight them on the beaches attitude (as pushed by several in the thread) is perhaps not appropriate. We have to be smarter. Sorting out problems at home and sod everyone else is impossible if RBS have 2trills in liabilities.
22. shining wit said...
inflation is eating my savings at 18
"the tendency to blame the global problem on an overinflated market at home- and therefore to blame Brown"
"The fact that we have had an unsustainable boom, is almost a separate matter" -
Please mate ! Where have you been for the past 12 years? BNP site - Yeah, theirs loads of jingoistic immigrant bashing here! - The trouble with being too liberal, is it sometimes makes you all muddy and wolly and frightened to say, enough is enough.
He is obviously not to blame for everything, precceding governementshave been crapper than crap - Just letting this financial mess get out of hand that's what this d!ckhead has done !
- Who created the FSA and made up their rules? Who removed the power from government and created the MPC. Removing the interest rate control from the treasury will be seen to have been stupid, the individuals who controlled it plain got it wrong? Who thought that by making the city bigger and bigger would safegaurd our economy? Who said he was going to abolish boom & bust? Who said he wasn't going to let the property market get out of control?
Governments are their to govern, not create committes, make reports, pass the buck and pretend they had nothing to do with the mess.
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