Britain stuck with high inflation, meagre growth..

[Robinho]

I don't think Thatcher necessarily did damage. If you don't distort the economy through easy credit the country should find the natural balance of industry and services. Britain was over industrialised prior to her arrival.

[ZARDOZ]

Abolish the BoE (money base to stay the same and the market to MANIPULATE interest rates)

FTFY to reflect the Libor scam

[darmstadt]

First thing we need to do is regain control of our borders which means leaving the EU amongst other things.

Wrong. The UK does have control of it's borders as its not a signatory to the Schengen Treaty which means that everyone has to show their passport unlike most of the rest of the EU. Maybe it should embrace the EU fully instead of constantly criticising it therefore giving the UK more control or alternatively just become the 51st state!

[BlasterBates]

Actually the EU allows countries to do more or less what they like with their borders. Germany didn't allow anyone from Eastern Europe into Germany in after they joined the EU. I beleive the UK was the only Western EU member to allow unrestricted access. Incidentally Germany and France were very reluctant to allow Eastern European countries in, that was due to the UK lobbying for it.

This is the thing the Newspapers make a big thing of the EU being responsible for Poles taking peoples jobs in the UK. It was the UK that basically got Poland in there driven forecfully by John Major, followed up by Tony Blair and it was the UK that invited them all to come over and work there.

The Germans felt it was way too early so they barred them all from coming in.

[mudskipper]

We need a big "buy British" campaign, along with the support for manufacturing to make the goods to buy at a competitive price.

Jobs making stuff.
People spend the money buying stuff.

[BlasterBates]

bring back the Austin Princess....

[SupremeSpod]

We need a big "buy British" campaign, along with the support for manufacturing to make the goods to buy at a competitive price.

Jobs making stuff.
People spend the money buying stuff.

Who have we got left who's skilled enough to make anything.

We've been de-skilled.

[Mich the Tester]

I'm bored of the recession now.

I'm starting to make the best of it; luxury cars are cheaper than ever, restaurants are offering good deals for the set menu and now that the rich babyboomers are getting too old to climb the stairs in their mansions, there are some very nice houses on the market at almost affordable prices. As long as you can stay in work, this recession thingummy can be OK. It is very boring to keep reading about it though.

[cailin maith]

I'm starting to make the best of it; luxury cars are cheaper than ever, restaurants are offering good deals for the set menu and now that the rich babyboomers are getting too old to climb the stairs in their mansions, there are some very nice houses on the market at almost affordable prices. As long as you can stay in work, this recession thingummy can be OK. It is very boring to keep reading about it though.

True enough...

It's boring reading about it and depressing


Mind you - I can't say I'm any the wiser as to a solution after reading all those posts. You lot can't agree on how to fix it.

[RasputinDude]

We need a big "buy British" campaign, along with the support for manufacturing to make the goods to buy at a competitive price.

Jobs making stuff.
People spend the money buying stuff.

The great British public would certainly NOT pay for goods manufactured in Britain. If we produced consumer electronics over here, there is no way in hell that we could afford to compete on price - our labour, energy and business costs are way too high.

We could match the quality, but not the price.