New Labour is not governing the United Kingdom any more.
Tens of thousand are put out of work each week, hundreds of thousands put onto short time or told to stay at home indefinitely. Plant lies idle. Docks and disused airfields are packed with unsold and unsaleable products intended for markets that have disappeared at home and abroad. The pound has lost a quarter of its value in the last month. There is no access to working capital loans or other credit. All United Kingdom banks are technically insolvent. The remnants of the UK force that invaded Iraq is still parked outside Basra airport where it has been since it made an agreement with Iraqi militias to withdraw there in every sense of the word; in Afghanistan troops are improperly equipped and without helicopters. Inequalities in wealth, opportunity and educational access grow. As do repossessions of houses.
Still the obscene sums in bail-outs and kick-starts roll off their propaganda networks, while bank notes roll off their printing presses, and prices of what the people must buy rise and rise despite the manipulated figures that pretend this is not happening. Our savings are rendered literally worth less, and retirements and life plans blighted.
To add insult to injury we are denied any chance to hold these self important incompetents to account. And make a start on clearing up the damage they are wreaking in our country and its industries and institutions.
At the moment the country is running by inertia, on the remnants of a once sound system, both social and economic, that is more robust than the sociopathic, obsessive fiddling to which it has been subjected for the last twelve years. But even that will give way soon.
Then what?
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The helicopter issue. Future Lynx has only just been given the go ahead {December 08} despite being ready to commit to for 3 years.
3 years to make a decision. That is just to START the development, building and supply of these machines. When will they actually be ready? The nation has been at war, without sufficient helicopters, that is a scandal.
HG: I thought we discussed all this last Wednesday (your post of 14 Jan: A General Election immediately etc).
From over the water it looks like the options available diminish daily.
Nomad, yes, but the situation gets worse and more convulated daily. I am wholly convinced of City Unslicker's 'bad country' rather than bad bank conjectures.
Capitalists@Work wallops the nail on the head again BQ. Helicopters can be bought off the shelf, surely? Why, when every other country's military is helicoptered- up and has been for years - even the police have lots of helicopters here - were decisions taken (or not taken, which is the same difference) by New Labour to have no helicopters? Old helicopters, wrongly equipped helicopters, unarmoured ground vehicles? Tactics derived from civil disturbance in the United Kingdom, not the armed invasion of another state.
The invasion of Iraq was planned for years and years. Troops were committed without any of the long-term defence expenditure required. And the Chancellor that denied those expenditures in a personal struggle over personal ambition, is now committing warships to the Mediterranean.
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