Thinking you can beat the financial markets in government would be and will be insane. Hopefully we’ll see some investment in the right places without this risk.

COYP

But there would not be financial markets without the Government, right?
I would like to see a real investment plan that can make this country 'sovereign', as I see it, which is to be a non dependent on other country's resources as we are now.

Definitely? Always? You sound like you’re okay with out of control inflation and interest rates.

COYP

This is all stuff that won’t be risked to that extent anyway, because if Corbyn did, he’d be voted out swiftly.

I wanna know the next scandal. The press must have a few skeletons for us to laugh or froth at. Any photos of Corbyn being rimmed by Diane Abbott?

COYP

You’ll need something when a gang from Croydon or wherever come for your home and belongings.

COYP

The deficit and debt has been reduced with 1) austerity. It’s either that or 2) spending stimulating growth. Imo it should’ve been 1 then an increase of 2 but 2 is late.

COYP

Labour want to tax the top 5% of earners more.
This may seem like it wont affect mr average but do you realise 70k puts you in this bracket.
Many tradesman and managers are in this bracket.
Be afraid, be very afraid if labour get into power.

Have to take issue with that. The debt taking war out of the equation, has gone up massively in the last 10 years especially.

f the deficit is important to you, fair enough. It's not that important to me as I see it as a sign that we're not a 3rd world country.

Thanks. I have. It's very interesting, however, as with everything, could be used, rather incompetently, as a political weapon.

There are numerous economic and social issues.

Look at the amount of remittances (money wired "home" ) that's leaving the country. It's billions and some of this is undoubtedly money earmarked for "social care" and paid out in benefits.

The stats related to this also reveal the relatively low number of immigrants who are actually working and the even lower number who are actually earning enough not to be a burden on the state. The threshold for this is surprisingly high.

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I believe there is also widespread corruption from what I've been told e.g. people renting out multiple council properties under multiple names, abuse of the child care provisions (people setting up bogus nursery's and re-directing funds/salaries elsewhere) and this is all enabled by people on the inside of our local councils.

Then there is the fact that all this is at the expense of people that have paid into the system all their lives. Look at the current crisis in elderly care. They are having to choose between heating or eating and many of our elderly are just dying.

We have block voting for socialist parties along with electoral fraud that increases and accelerates the ability for all this to happen and eventually will make it inevitable that we get a socialist government.

We have crime, we have social division and the facts of all of this are hidden from us and cannot be discussed.

At the end of the day the reason this is happening is partly because it depresses wages for big business but mainly to artificially inflate property prices that our entire economy (and that of the west) now rests on.

Edited by W12 (07 Nov 2019 1.00pm)