UK doomed in long run

[expat]

Mmm that Fantasy Island book looks very interesting. Soon as I receive some pay I may place the order with Amazon..

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts...082838,00.html

The article says:

Labour believes Britain is at the cutting edge of the knowledge economy and that Britain's well-educated (sic), highly skilled (sic) and entrepreneurial (sic) workers are ready to kick German, American, Japanese and Chinese butt all round the global village.

Wrong! Britain does have a lot of educated and highly-skilled workers, but those of us with get-up-and-go have, well...... we're not kicking German butt, we're selling our solid skills to solid German companies, because British companies don't have much use for us.

[expat]

That's good. Maybe they can then afford the social bill for an unhealthy, ageing, unemployable population.

They can, if they get to keep their own money.

[sasguru]

Now that's wot I'm talkin' about!

Aaaaah-ah Aaaaah-ah!

Wot a good role-model, innit?
I bet the Germans with their engineering PhD CEOs must be choking with laughter over their bratwurst.

[DimPrawn]

Excellent article (and book) - seems to be a rehash of what any sensible person has been saying for years. The Apprentice with it's thick as pig-tulip "business people" summarises what's going on.

Now that's wot I'm talkin' about!

[sasguru]

Excellent article (and book) - seems to be a rehash of what any sensible person has been saying for years. The Apprentice with it's thick as pig-tulip "business people" summarises what's going on.

[moorfield]

If oil prices do keep going up, it looks as though the Scots are sitting pretty. Their "uneconomic reserves" suddenly become viable. The SNP must be laughing bigtime.

That's why Gordo keeps harping on about "Britishness" - he'll never let Scots independence happen.

[DimPrawn]

If oil prices do keep going up, it looks as though the Scots are sitting pretty. Their "uneconomic reserves" suddenly become viable. The SNP must be laughing bigtime.

That's good. Maybe they can then afford the social bill for an unhealthy, ageing, unemployable population.

[MrMark]

If oil prices do keep going up, it looks as though the Scots are sitting pretty. Their "uneconomic reserves" suddenly become viable. The SNP must be laughing bigtime.

[Bagpuss]

It's been 'peaking' for years. When I was young, we were told oil would run out by the 1980s.... then it was the 1990s....

Darn you went to the same school, we were had! Lucy et al who went to proper schools were told the truth about the worldwide atheist/socialist conspiracy.

[TheBigYinJames]

Global oil production is going to peak in the next decade. Then we really are doomed.

It's been 'peaking' for years. When I was young, we were told oil would run out by the 1980s.... then it was the 1990s....

[moorfield]

Global oil production is going to peak in the next decade. Then we really are doomed.

[DimPrawn]

Great doom posting.

[TheBigYinJames]

This should really have been pasted in the Doom Poll thread.

Don't you people realise that "doom-mongering" is a popular way to control the population? When you're all scared, you spend, eat, consume and stay indoors.

[MrMark]

Britain, on the 10th anniversary of Tony Blair's arrival in Downing Street, is a place whose default mode for earning its crust is to employ the gift of the gab. The Germans may have the engineers, the Japanese may know how to organise a production line, but the Brits have the barristers, the journalists, the management consultants and the men and women who think that making up jingles and slogans in order to flog Pot Noodles and similar products is a serious job. It has the deal-makers in the City who make fat fees by convincing investors to launch bids for companies, and the corporate spin doctors who tell former pals in financial journalism that tycoon X will make a better fist at running Ripoff plc than tycoon Y. It has the publishers and it has the "film development" companies, some of which have actually been known to produce a film. The four iconic jobs in 21st-century Britain, according to a thinktank called the Work Foundation, are not scientists, engineers, teachers and nurses but hairdressers, celebrities, management consultants and managers.

Mmm that Fantasy Island book looks very interesting. Soon as I receive some pay I may place the order with Amazon..

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts...082838,00.html