I think the next five years could be like the Blair early years. Much uncertainty has gone, and it could be a good growth period for the UK. Only thing holding them back is Europe.
Britain should stay in Europe but it needs to negotiate new terms, especially on immigration.
Education and the NHS will get hammered over the next few years, they always do under a Tory government.
Five years from now it will be all change again. Not many UK governments get a third term.
Matthew, 30 Jan 2016, 09:21 AM Your simplistic view is so flawed it is not worth debating. The current oversupply will be swallowed in 12 months. By the time dumb shits like you realise this prices will already be rising.
Do you have any more inside info you would like to share?
Well I will have to cop that one sweet - my family are all labour so I suppose I was too hopeful there.
Definition of a doom and gloomer from 1993 The last camp is made up of the doom-and-gloomers. Their slogan is "it's the end of the world as we know it". Right now they are convinced that debt is the evil responsible for all our economic woes and must be eliminated at all cost. Many doom-and-gloomers believe that unprecedented debt levels mean that we are on the precipice of a worse crisis than the Great Depression. The doom-and-gloomers hang on the latest series of negative economic data.
One thing I will own up to is that I am a traditional Labour supporter and I reckon the UK working man will have a bit of a rough ride for the next five years.
But sadly, Labour were never going to win this one. The Tories scare mongered the British public into voting them into power. It was a very negative campaign.
In the early hours of Friday morning, Neil Kinnock took to TV to blame the voters for the result. He said that too many of them had put their own fears of economic insecurity before the interests of the poor. He may well be right, but he misses a point: people do generally vote in what they perceive to be the interests of them and their families.
The job of the Left isn’t to scorn that, but to try to convince people that helping others is in their interest, too – to link the needs of the community to the aspirations of the individual. Sadly, when the Left fails to do this and loses as a result, it tends to blame everyone but itself.
What it doesn’t realise is that the voters don’t respond well to rich celebrities telling them that the Tories would drown the NHS in the bathtub, or that there’s some grand capitalist conspiracy to keep Miliband out of Number 10. Voters want to be reasoned with, not bludgeoned to death with Puritan moralising.
In the early hours of Friday morning, Neil Kinnock took to TV to blame the voters for the result. He said that too many of them had put their own fears of economic insecurity before the interests of the poor. He may well be right, but he misses a point: people do generally vote in what they perceive to be the interests of them and their families.
The job of the Left isn’t to scorn that, but to try to convince people that helping others is in their interest, too – to link the needs of the community to the aspirations of the individual. Sadly, when the Left fails to do this and loses as a result, it tends to blame everyone but itself.
What it doesn’t realise is that the voters don’t respond well to rich celebrities telling them that the Tories would drown the NHS in the bathtub, or that there’s some grand capitalist conspiracy to keep Miliband out of Number 10. Voters want to be reasoned with, not bludgeoned to death with Puritan moralising.
GBPAUD trading 1.95 this morning, sink sterling, sink
2.1163
Money for old rope.
Matthew, 30 Jan 2016, 09:21 AM Your simplistic view is so flawed it is not worth debating. The current oversupply will be swallowed in 12 months. By the time dumb shits like you realise this prices will already be rising.
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