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Hmm I think you need to throw in the influence of global capitalism and it’s accompanying hand maidens. If you take Goldman Sachs by way of example just how much chaos does that organisation cause, and then profit from. An organisation that is joined at the hip to global business and...

Hmm, I think you are being evasive. If you did really genuinely want to clear Labour from blame for the CAUSE of the 2008 crisis, who did you think was arguing different? It’s like someone starting a thread having watched the World at War box set and stating that anyone who thought the...

Economically speaking I think the difference between Blair/Brown and their Tory equivalents was wafer thin, they were all for free markets, consumerism and privatisation. So I don’t think there would have been a material difference in consequence. The nineties were painful for some, but then...

I certainly wouldnt argue that they were the root cause, as with all crashes the root cause is rapacious greed facilitated via the capitalist system. It would have been no different had the tories been in charge, but then Labour under Blair/Brown were tories. There were specific policy...

Interesting, perhaps Ed Balls shouldn’t have apologised in Parliament due to the part the Labour Govt played in mishandling of UK financial services. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/sep/12/mps-shocked-ed-balls-says-sorry All the indulgment of RBS, the facilitation of sub prime U.K...