Reply to: What austerity?

[Zero Liability]

[darmstadt]

We need back Thatcher now

[Old Greg]

It cost the tax payer £1m to her in the ground and you want to exhume? Get him!!!

He likes 'em a bit gamey.

[scooterscot]

For 30% I would dig her up myself. If we stuffed her and sat her on the front benches she would be far more effective dead than any of that lot in either party

It cost the tax payer £1m to her in the ground and you want to exhume? Get him!!!

[DodgyAgent]

A bit of grave robbing now for you DA? Or do you just supply the labour - for a 30% cut?

For 30% I would dig her up myself. If we stuffed her and sat her on the front benches she would be far more effective dead than any of that lot in either party

[BrilloPad]

We need back Thatcher now

A bit of grave robbing now for you DA? Or do you just supply the labour - for a 30% cut?

[DodgyAgent]

We need back Thatcher now

[darmstadt]

I don't think so. A lot of Thatcherite rhetoric maybe but little sign of drive or competence.

But they like her, seen at the Ukip Party Conference:

(more weird tulip seen there: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/ukip-if-you-want-to

[SpontaneousOrder]

I think the point is being lost.

If failed business is not allowed to die, new ideas and efficiencies are not born.

It's worse than that. If they are failing and aren't allowed to fail, then they are being supported artificially. That means that they are a drain - as opposed to simply being a barrier to new efficiencies.

[BrilloPad]

I think the point is being lost.

If failed business is not allowed to die, new ideas and efficiencies are not born. If we don't adapt to the changing world around us we'll fail, like Woolworths and all the others which I've already forgotten.

Or just say you are a bank. Too big to fail.

[scooterscot]

And how much:



would there have been there in the condition you define as capitalism?

I think the point is being lost.

If failed business is not allowed to die, new ideas and efficiencies are not born. If we don't adapt to the changing world around us we'll fail, like Woolworths and all the others which I've already forgotten.

[BrilloPad]

Barstewards!!!

I agree. And I am one of them. But one has to do one's best - even if one hates it.

[Old Greg]

One called capitalism, where failed businesses go bust and die.

Instead we inflate them with tax payers money. And you love it.

And how much:

Zero hour contracts, no wage inflation, increasing costs of living.

would there have been there in the condition you define as capitalism?

[scooterscot]

But what is the alternate state against which you compare it?

One called capitalism, where failed businesses go bust and die.

Instead we inflate them with tax payers money. And you love it.

[Old Greg]

It's not an argument, it's a contradiction.

You claim stimulus does good for an economy. But the exact opposite is the truth and self evident. Zero hour contracts, no wage inflation, increasing costs of living. Really if this was an argument it should not be so easy to dismantle.

But what is the alternate state against which you compare it?