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EEA was always the logical first step. I’m a remainer but could have accepted that as a compromise. It’s not palatable to hardened Brexiters of course but the argument that we could completely leave in 2-3 years was always fallacious. We can never completely leave and there will always need to be a serious of stepping stones that could take a decade or more to cross. When people argue against that kind of approach it has to raise suspicions. Typical binary U.K. politics where there can’t be nuances, just thick headed polar opposites. In or out, left or right etc...
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The System Is Ready To Blow
needsleep replied to Snugglybear's topic in House prices and the economy
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The IMF have said what they had to. To maintain stability and because what Osborne is doing is what the IMF would lis likely prescribe.
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Bilderberg Conference 2011
needsleep replied to Britney's Piers's topic in House prices and the economy
The boy Clegg has been before too if the rumours are correct. -
The majority of countries are fuelled by debt.
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Financial Times: " The Great Uk Debt Reveal "
needsleep replied to Tired of Waiting's topic in House prices and the economy
All the money has gone on benefits payments? All part of the profligate spending that created the vast debt and structural deficit? Maybe? Meths? Crack Cocaine? Who knows? -
You are joking. Fiscally the last Tory government were doing ok off the back of a natural upswing in the economic cycle. But they left the country with decaying infrastructure, schools and hospitals. They wasted billions on the futile attempt to keep us in the ERM. They presided over a series of cack-handed privatisations that have cost the country billions. They introduced the PFI framework to this country. They grew the state. They failed to regulate the finance sector. They were interventionist in the industrial economy but in a way that added no value. They presided over boom and bust, a h
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FUKUSHIMA earthquake and tsunami thread and aftermath
needsleep replied to geezer466's topic in Current affairs
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Because a lot of Tory boys are bigots. In fact many right wing traits are inherently bigoted. Wiki says this and I think it's fair: "The predominant usage in modern English refers to persons hostile to those of differing race, ethnicity, nationality, inter-regional prejudice, gender and sexual orientation, homelessness, various medical disorders particularly behavioral disorders and addictive disorders and religion or spirituality." So, bigots a lot of the Tory boys are, IMO.