Colin L
High-tech low-life
Greg
It is foolish comments such as "unmitigated disaster" that makes me despair.
It is impossible to discuss anything with someone who bandies expressions like that around.
The FSTE 1000 has grown by approx 20% under Gideon which beats inflation.
We are creating more jobs etc than anyone else in Europe and according to Newsnight, last night, nearly 80% of those jobs are full time. The economy is expanding faster than most EU countries so the only people doing the moaning are the usual professional moaners.
We need more of the medicine, not less and that is why Labour and the Libs will continue with it. The electorate will decide what it wants and what you and I think on a hifi forum is of no importance at all, hence my much reduced input into these pointless discussions and before you ask, Yes I will pull out of this and I already regret my input into it as I am not going to convert you to my way of thinking and vice versa. We are both wasting our time.
Mick
I despair of anyone who thinks that the FTSE 1000 means anything to th real economy in a time of quantitative easing when money is practically given away at minimal interest rates and speculation is rife. Heard of a bubble Mick?
The UK worker works for lower pay rates and for longer hours than practically anyone else in Northern or Southern Europe. The new jobs created are largely insecure and low paid - more than 50% of the welfare benefits paid by the government are to people in work whose wages are so shit they need top-up.
UK productivity has crashed because companies arent investing because of the austerity programme, which has cost each and every family in the country £4k pa for no great result apart from fulfilling Tory dogma.
But you're OK on your beach in Spain, so thats OK then.