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[challenge entry] Britain Isn't Working

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(I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:33, archived)
# Yeah that poster always made me angry as I remember the job queues under Thatcher
and now it's all coming around for another go. Never trust a Tory and especially Never believe a Liberal is truly liberal.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:40, archived)
# It's certainly a sad state of affairs
The smirk on Osborne's face as he delivered his Comprehensive Spending Review took me straight back to the 80's

Tough but fair is bullshit - This country is likely to be on it's knees this time next year.
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:44, archived)
# yep
just in time for the olympics
(benito vaselini no not that one, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:46, archived)
# Just in time for the beach volleyball ...
(I helped save b3ta! Prequal This is serious business. Very serious., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:48, archived)
# Shove ha'penny
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:51, archived)
# *awards gold medal*
(I helped save b3ta! Prequal This is serious business. Very serious., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:51, archived)
# I don't think there will be any gold medals maybe cardboard painted to look gold
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:52, archived)
# maybe just a balloon. And a twix if youre first
(benito vaselini no not that one, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:55, archived)
# no chance of any milk though :(
It's like being a teenager all over again!!
NSFW due to swears
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-GhcVpU9_E
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:56, archived)
# Elizabeth Duke will be supplying the medals
(I helped save b3ta! Prequal This is serious business. Very serious., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:56, archived)
# These kind of cuts will cripple what little grow we have.
The economy was slowly picking up and essentially we need small businesses at the helm of that growth to bridge the wealth gap but all this will do is put the majority of small businesses and franchises out of business and create a greater seperation of wealth.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:48, archived)
# Absolutely agree
but what I can't figure out is why the Tories would want to vandalise the country in this way, what's the end game?
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:55, archived)
# It's the old theory of "Trickle-Down" that Thatcher used
that big finance is the way to generate big capital and that will stimulate growth and eventually the wealth will trickle down to the poorest. Yeah well we had that situation and big finance fucked it up for everybody by getting greedy and nothing has been fixed to prevent that happening again. The Big Banks are now like a Poltical Cartel they tell the Government what to do not the other way around. We need to renationalise the banks and tell them to fuck off for good.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:01, archived)
# yes
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:21, archived)
# That
is pure class
(I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:33, archived)
# Cnuts
(I helped save b3ta! spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:38, archived)
# They want to invade Guernsey
and take it back from those bastard French...
(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:02, archived)
# "to bridge the wealth gap"
is a key phrase there, I think
(I helped save b3ta! Prequal This is serious business. Very serious., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:02, archived)
# Making half a million public sector workers redundant
and another half a million people working in the private sector who rely on government contracts lose their jobs is not going to help bridge the wealth gap.

How will raising council rents to 80% of market value help bridge that gap?

Reducing benefits for the sick and vunerable, raising tuition fees that will exclude kids from a university education simply because they are from a less well off background - I can't see how any of this will help :(

(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:09, archived)
# You took the opposite meaning I had intended :)
What they've done won't bridge the gap. It'll keep the wealth where it is.
(I helped save b3ta! Prequal This is serious business. Very serious., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:14, archived)
# hehehe
sorry, I had to get the rant out though ;)
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:16, archived)
# I expect from a Tory point of view they are doing an inverted Robin Hood
Steal from the Poor to give to the Rich in the vain hope that feeding the fatcats will stimulate some economic growth that will pay dividends for the whole of society in the long term. That's the theory but as we know it's bullshit Big Finance creates a false economic bubble that is based essentially on the art of gambling with futures and currencies. Real economic growth can only be sustained from the ground upwards. You have to have workers to create things and sell those things or services. Having fewer workers will mean goods and services will be more premium and expensive thereby a luxury rather than an essential need. We will have to endure years of hardship to gain a little reward from these measures and even when we have the recovery they wanted there is nothing to stop Big Finance fucking up again!
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:19, archived)
# It's basically an attack on the public sector
hidden behind a fairly thin smokescreen. Note that what bits of the public sector remain - higher education is a case in point - are going to be under increasing pressure to service the needs of the private.

Which essentially means that tax revenues are being privatised.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:46, archived)
# the thing about the liberals
is that they're really just taking the place of where Labour was in the 80s.
They were the ones that had to choose between Conservatives and Labour, and essentially chose what appeared to be the lesser of two evils. I was glad they chose the tories as I really hated certain players in Labour (Particularly Mandelson, who was trying to push through the draconian anti-pirating/anti-terrorism internet snooping measures) but that's really turned around with the news that the e-mail database, which had been shelved, is now back on the table.

sometimes I just hang my head in shame.
(Canazza is mostly listening to Yes, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:59, archived)
# Once bitten, twice shy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:01, archived)
# i reckon we could lose a few air traffic controllers.
we havent had a plane crash in ages.
(benito vaselini no not that one, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:41, archived)
# Fair Point
(I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:48, archived)
# And surely some sane health workers would be cheaper?
(I helped save b3ta! Prequal This is serious business. Very serious., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:52, archived)
# Yet Again

Another fair point....Don't think I've really thought this through
(I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:53, archived)
# *appoints Legless Chancellor*
You're the man for us!
(I helped save b3ta! Prequal This is serious business. Very serious., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:58, archived)
# Every time I think about the recession, I feel sick and depressed
but I just came across this fluffeh pic which made me feel all warm.

So nings - I give this to you for warms, and also finally got me an icon!
/betterlatethanneverblog



dog's expression is fantastic!
(don't care it's not shopped - I've done my time here)

(I helped save b3ta! camp freddy well, would you look at that!, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:08, archived)
# That's lully, Jahled would appreciate it too.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:22, archived)
# That dog is totally going to score.
Also the photos are lully and good icon work there.
(I helped save b3ta! Prequal This is serious business. Very serious., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:25, archived)
# You can see the dog is thinking he'd win easily in a fight.
The leopard knows better.
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:51, archived)
# Just a little political comment
20bn a year will be saved by all the cuts to your/our services....
But the banks that caused this shit face FUCK ALL penalty.
(I helped save b3ta! Traducer, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:55, archived)
# THIS ^^
Probably 'cos their in charge now. Fuckers.
(Lexachu A buh? no, not a buh, a bomb!, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 11:15, archived)
# Makes me sick
The BoE gives the banks our tax money at a low rate, they lend it out back to us at a high rate, make a fucking huge profit and pay themselves enormous bonuses. I just don't fucking well believe it.
(I helped save b3ta! lord bofingham, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 11:30, archived)
# It has got beyond a joke
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 11:59, archived)
# Am I the only one who thinks this is a good thing?
I mean, do y'all propose that we just keep spending money that the country doesn't have, like labour did? Blaming the Tories for the cuts is just shooting the messenger... These cuts wouldn't have been necessary if Labour had done their job properly. Most of the public sector jobs that will be lost were created by the previous government, not to get anything useful done, but to provide additional guaranteed Labour voters for themselves.

Frankly, I'm glad that the spongers are finally being told exactly where to go. If this offends you, then you are one of these cancerous spongers, and I'm glad your life-on-easy-mode scam has finally been stopped.

Stick that in your collective pipes and have a good long toke.

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 14:31, archived)
# I kinda agree with this guy...
Though not the cancerous spongers bit.

Anyway if Labour stayed in power, they would have made cuts AND raised taxes. And I doubt anyone here would have liked that?
(iboyoh, Fri 22 Oct 2010, 17:07, archived)
# damn straight
labour produced lots of flashy (needed?) hospitals/schools but used PFI to finance it thus chaining the places to exruciating payments for decades. this produces a final bill well in excess of the initial bill cost and wastes the operating costs during the repayment period.
under labour the NHS' budget increased hugely with no improvement in performance/service.
(dyllon nice beaver., Fri 22 Oct 2010, 19:54, archived)