Reply to: Maybe it's time England, to taste the future of tory land.

[Spacecadet]

Hanging is too good for them!!

maybe, but it is one of the more cost effective methods...

[DodgyAgent]

The corollary being that a capitalist is someone who has something but doesn't want to share it with anyone else?

That is correct, but I enjoy the irony in the socialist comment.

[shaunbhoy]

Blair should be hanged for war crimes and Brown hanged for criminal accounting practices.

Hanging is too good for them!!

[DimPrawn]

If Labour had spent all those billions that it borrowed on proper projects like hospitals, roads, infrastructure etc we could at least have assets against the debt. But instead, Brown blew all that money into public sector salaries and pensions in order to stay in power.

Every other new hospital has been built with PFI. It was the biggest con that Brown engineered.

Nail on the head. None of the money was "invested" it was wasted and there's fook all to show for it.

Blair should be hanged for war crimes and Brown hanged for criminal accounting practices.

[TimberWolf]

A socialist is someone who has nothing and wants to share it with someone else. So how does socialism create any wealth to bail out capitalist failures

The corollary being that a capitalist is someone who has something but doesn't want to share it with anyone else?

[Doggy Styles]

aren't current economic woes of a capitalist origin? With socialism being used to bail out capitalists rather handsomely?

Whatever socialists are using to bail anyone out, you can be sure it's someone else's money, created by capitalists.

[fullyautomatix]

If Labour had spent all those billions that it borrowed on proper projects like hospitals, roads, infrastructure etc we could at least have assets against the debt. But instead, Brown blew all that money into public sector salaries and pensions in order to stay in power.

Every other new hospital has been built with PFI. It was the biggest con that Brown engineered.

[DodgyAgent]

aren't current economic woes of a capitalist origin? With socialism being used to bail out capitalists rather handsomely?

A socialist is someone who has nothing and wants to share it with someone else. So how does socialism create any wealth to bail out capitalist failures

[Mich the Tester]

I don't think I am the only one. It seems to me that the majority of us ex-pats are fully aware of the shortcomings and advantages of both our homelands and adoptive countries. I do agree that there are a few of us who seem bedazzled by their new homes, but I would suggest they are a small but vociferous minority.

whs, probably more aware than most

[Arturo Bassick]

Sorry, you're the exception!

I don't think I am the only one. It seems to me that the majority of us ex-pats are fully aware of the shortcomings and advantages of both our homelands and adoptive countries. I do agree that there are a few of us who seem bedazzled by their new homes, but I would suggest they are a small but vociferous minority.

[gingerjedi]

The socialist cretins still don't get it do they?

No they don't but nor do the the Tories, we either have a free-for-all spending splurge from the lefty loonies or a kick in the nuts from the millionaire Tory toffs.

[Mich the Tester]

No they don't. Our expats, to a man, love the socialist utopias they see in Europe

erm, , not sure about that

[TimberWolf]

The socialist cretins still don't get it do they?

aren't current economic woes of a capitalist origin? With socialism being used to bail out capitalists rather handsomely?

[Doggy Styles]

No they don't. Our expats, to a man, love the socialist utopias they see in Europe even while said utopias unravel before their eyes because they are unsustainable.
The last government in Europe to come close to balancing the books was the Tory one of the late 90s.

Late 80s

[sasguru]

Unfounded generalisation there!

Sorry, you're the exception!