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jmullee on May 27, 2008 - 8:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

(inflation-proof index-linked pensions? I don't believe it ;) )

A slide into anarchy?

Given UK's social history, I rather expect a slide into ever-more-vituperative fascism .. via the Sun, mail, telegraph, etc.

Your hopefully-ironic views miss the curious caste system in force since heavens-knows-when, where a large portion of the population subsist in quite impoverished circumstances, and now, with dumbed-down education, impoverished states-of-being too; a tiny minority in the UK live lives of unimaginably refined luxury, thier wealth squirreled away in financial mazes touching on cyprus, liechtenstein, belize, etc etc.

It's very clear to me that UK right now is an awful lot about making sure the very rich continue to get richer, and with the stranglehold the right wing have on the media, labour's hands were always going to be tied. Brown has and will be bludgeoned into oblivion the second he looks like he's even thinking about the colour red.

happily for you, I think all you can expect is more of the same, all the way back to ration books and feudal estates, indentured servitude, etc.

So .. you're in Burkes, eh ? :/

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MUDLOGGER on May 28, 2008 - 5:02am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

No, unlike a recent Labour Election Candidate, I am not in Burkes.

The Inflation proof , Index linked Pensions are true (for the payroll vote, not for many others though). How else do you expect the Government to retain a constituency? - Turkeys never vote for Christmas. Read the Guardian Jobs page.

'Happily for me'? Doesnt much matter about me. I weep for the next generation though.

Anyhoo,

Gordon Brown is making yet more pleas to OPEC regarding price and today he meets with Oil Company Execs to see how the UK can produce more oil.

That is the calibre of the man in charge.

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MUDLOGGER on May 28, 2008 - 5:10am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

The calibre of the man in charge:

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are meeting oil industry chiefs today as pressure mounts over soaring fuel prices.

Writing in the Guardian ahead of the talks, the prime minister said there was no quick fix to the "third great oil shock".
He called on nations to unite to stabilise the price of the commodity, which has increased from $10 a barrel a decade ago to $135 today.
And he said that the UK will argue that a global strategy to tackle the impact of higher oil prices will be put at the top of the agenda at the next meeting of the G8 group of industrialised countries.

Brown will use this morning's meeting with energy chiefs in north-east Scotland to attempt to secure a higher output from the UK's declining North Sea oil fields.

Yes - he really said that:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/28/economy.transport

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