Thunder Bolt
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The national debt has tripled in the last ten years, despite austerity.
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[Politics] Health Inequalities
- Thread starter Garry Nelson's teacher
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The national debt has tripled in the last ten years, despite austerity.
darkwolf666
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That’s very interesting, could you point me towards some data regarding the drop Europe wide, please.
darkwolf666
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I think we can all agree, whichever side of the political spectrum you fall, that austerity was just an ideology, and had **** all to do with reducing the National debt.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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this is a good one, goes into detail (need to expand the article) https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/stati...tancy_at_birth_increased_in_2017_only_for_men
Bear in mind Ed Milliband was attacked quite badly for not being able to eat a bacon sandwich properly. Whilst I think you are right about Corbyn, the media in the main do not want Labour in charge, and will paint any Labour candidate in the next GE as "unelectable".
I’m sure the ‘wokerati’ will be along soon to stop any criticism of anything, other than traditional middle class values and common sense.
I would word it slightly differently but this is it in a nutshell.
I would also add that the electorate always gets the government it deserves.
Finally, to play Devil's advocate, my understanding of biology tells me that human longevity (within a population, which does not take into accountthe effects of evolution) will not continue to increase (certainly not at a constant rate) even if conditions become ideal, simply because there is a physical limit, just as there is in human size (hight, strength), as reflected in the rate of improvement of olympic records. The increases become smaller with time, creating an asymptotic 'curve'. Perhaps we are already close to the peak.
None of that means I support the shit shower that has run the country for ten years. However, that, sadly, takes me back to [MENTION=12935]GT49er[/MENTION]'s salient comment above.
darkwolf666
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Harry, fully understand we can't all keep growing older, but it shouldn't be the poor, those suffering most from austerity, that have to pay the price with early death...
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,204
Not a patch on Peter Mandelson being quite rightly CRUCIFIED for venturing into a Northern chippie for the one and only time in his life, spotting the mushy peas and asking for the 'avocado dip'
pearl
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Not a patch on Peter Mandelson being quite rightly CRUCIFIED for venturing into a Northern chippie for the one and only time in his life, spotting the mushy peas and asking for the 'avocado dip'
Is that true?
No, indeed.
And I was playing Devils' advocate.
I know that jolly red giant was boring us to death with his pro- momentum history-laden diatribes, but one theme of his, that an element in society has clawed back the postwar gains that gave us plebs some hope (union rights, decent pay, the chance to get on the housing ladder, job security) and replaced it with a structure that keeps a large number of us (especially the young) at their mercy (forced to rent, job insecurity, no union potency) seems to me increasingly to be an accurate precis.
That element in society being those who ideologically dispise the 'welfare state' and feel that individuals should keep all they earn and pay for health and education etc. directly, when required. 'No such thing as society' types. Plus those who would back any strategy that appears to benefit them, no matter how short term and no matter how detrimental to others. The hard right, in other words.
Hastings gull
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- Nov 23, 2013
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You have obviously never heard of such a thing as human nature; next you will be telling us how virtuous you are with never a thought to your own benefit. So you ARE a virtue signaller afterall..