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Originally Posted by SlowOne
This thread is a mirror of what happens to one-issue parties like the BNP. Once the initial burst of bile has gone, people get back to talking about what really matters, and realise that single-issue parties can't help the real problems.
@DaveG28 - I'll remember that when my taxes have gone up by 30% or so in the years to come. Bankers were not at fault, and I'm only paying off a National Debt bigger than anything for 200 years because manufacturing deserved to fail because it wasn't customer focused. I don't think manufacturing has put me in £200bn debt, nor do I think that any of the UK banks owned by France, Spain and Germany have either. If you think your tax rate is high now...  |
I'm not sure what your getting at tbh, I never said where I think the debt problem is from! In my view though it's because as a country of voters, we demanded labour levels of investment in NHS/Schools etc, but are only prepared to pay Tory rates of tax! It's our whole countries fault really for how we've voted, and allowing pfi's etc where we defer public spending but then pay the private investor far more in the long run!
Not sure if your blaming banks, or claiming I'm blaming manufacturing, but it's not either!
I'm sure everyone's right though, if we'd spent another 20 years bailing out British Leyland, bailed out Rover (Again!), kept loss making coal mines open, ordered ships we don't need to keep all the yards open, put punitive taxes on imports so it's cheaper to buy British than foreign (losing our exports as other countries retaliate), kicked out foreign labour to drive incomes up (prices too!), taken back the 5m Brits abroad when again other countries retaliate, if we'd only done all that, everything would be just fine and Dandy now!!
Sorry for being sarcastic everyone, I'm just a fundamentalist free Market capitalist!!