What if the pound just keeps on falling? Never mind the fears that it will fall until it might as well be a euro anyway - we're nearly there already.
What if it keeps heading right on down. What's to stop it? Who wants sterling?
Raise interest rates. That'll make it worthwhile.
Mortgages, input costs? It's a matter of balance.
Pity we have an unbalanced prime minister.
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I found the above post and comment thread rather disturbing.
I honestly feel that our country needs to be broken before it can get better. IF it can get better.
Two choices - a calamatous crash. I prefer this because there are still enough good people here to react.
Or
This constant drip-drip erosion, death by a thousand cuts etc. Far more insidious and difficult to deal with.
I'm quite excited by this impending doom really. I'm loving it that Brown looks visibly ill and hating every minute of his life (so he ought). The prisons are full ... when decent people realise that their houses aren't worth diddly and that in reality they have nothing to lose ...
The doom isn't impending, it's arrived. And it's here for a decade and more if Japan is anything to go by.
Your work, lifestyle, amusements, choices are enabling you to skirt round the disaster, Electro, and all honour to you for being so clear-sighted and capable, but more and more are not coping at all - nothing like the opportunities that existed for us improving on our parents' living standards are open today. People starting their adult lives are facing years of severe economic depression and low living standards.
Poor housing, poor public services, little chance of setting up a business, low income, ...it's too depressing to go on. We only get the one go, and this will continue for ages.
Sometimes I wonder if all this climate change stuff is to head off aspiration as well; I want a pretty car, available and easy to get onto flights, to visit places in reasonable comfort, or go mountaineering should the whim take me (which it won't but you might like to).
And for the last 11 years wealth has been siphoned out of the entire population and transferred to the already rich while that utter fool and class traitor Brown has indulged silly ideological half-baked trotskyoid redistributionist fantasies with our hard-earned wages and salaries. And ruined many children's life chances. He, and his vile coterie, deserve more than removal from power.
Always look for the silver linings, HG. There's no point in not doing so.
Yes, Ek, but I don't feel I can fight in the streets, so blogs are peaceful ways of telling the truth in the face of the BBC tide of propaganda.
The whole country is going to be turned into Northern Rock as far as I understand the Treasury proposals.
I'm quite mild in what I say. You should have a look at Sackerson's and Schadenfreude's recent posts on
Sweden's governance (which is the New Labour social model) if you want really depressing.
"Silver lining."
The blissful realisation that even in our own individual lives we can't control things and that we never could - it was just an illusion. Letting go.
The moment when one resigns one's self to say "Sod it. I'm just going to live for today." and really mean it. To stop and smell the flowers - to take in the view.
My great regrets (I have many). I wish that I'd stayed in London and ridden the second boom in my house. I wish that I'd taken that driving job at Virgin - at both home and work I would have doubled my money and been ripe for emigration by now. So I've not been so clever, especially since I could see all this coming from far off.
We are all going to be poorer. I comfort myself knowing that better people than me have been poorer still.
My only concern (and it should be everyones') is that we restore rule of law, civility and equity in this country.
Most of us could do with being a little thinner and less hedonistic and more parochial in outlook.
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