Well, they could always do a Cyprus - you'd better keep your trading profits tucked up under the bed.
Yes, that's correct. I thought that's what you asked me. If I've misunderstood you, which seems likely, could you elaborate the point you were trying to make. Thanks.
Yes Jon, you keep that lovely fiat money tucked under your bed where the Government can't debase it
Of course we remember it
I was starting work in the mid 70's and distinctly remember the power cuts and sugar rationing and all the other nonsense that was going on previously.
Remember thinking that all the politics and unionism was nonsense too.
Didn't have to wait too much longer for all that to end. When Thatcher got in, it was like a breath of fresh air for anyone who got "on message". She was basically saying that for anyone who wanted to get on and make a go of it, then govt would not step in the way. I took full advantage of the new mood. Others mind, just carried on the same as before, whinging about this and that, and got left by the wayside.
It should not be the responsibility of govt to provide everything for the people from cradle to grave. Govt should just gtf out of it and leave people to get on with things.
Decline of the British Empire started well before the 1970s. More like 1850s +
Think railroads, shipbuilding and textiles. Decline of all three industries had very little or nothing to do with labour laws which did not exist back then.
Victorian era was the height of bloody minded arrogance and free for all take everything. Some people still believe the charge of the light brigade was a victory proving cavalry alone could take out gun placements.
I'm amazed that this banking fiasco - as a consequence of emulating the American free market model is perceived as such a big issue in perspective to the WWars and great depression etc.
Lack of good investment and management. Leaders management set the trends and labour follows. We've gone through trade union power abuse to management bonus, numeration and risk abuse and we can all see where the greater wreckage lies.
That patriotic Maggie twit sold BL short for 500m subsidy whilst allowing the police to import BMW bikes and cars to take their place. I'm absolutely shocked and stunned by the wreckless, ill thought out daft interpretation of economic history.
No one mentions the oil shock, prices going up and lack of strategic planning or decent management.
Invest billions in Concorde (sold all of about 8 planes; 4 to UK and 4 to France) and starve BL of funds whilst Japanese invest in new models, plants and processes.
I've spent my studies on the economics of Milton.F and disastrous policies of Mrs.T
Yes the trade unions were required to be dealt with but a much better model existed for TU and Banking in Germany. Monumental stuck up management and flag waving is what we have in the UK.
Where's the bucket
PS. EU is not at the end road. Just on a revision course for the better. We'd do well to follow and adhere to the Germans imho.
Perhaps we should vote to be a German state and both leave the Euro Union and adopt the German Mark as currency. Perhaps sell the Royal Family as a franchise to the USA
Decline of the British Empire started well before the 1970s. More like 1850s +
Think railroads, shipbuilding and textiles. Decline of all three industries had very little or nothing to do with labour laws which did not exist back then.
Victorian era was the height of bloody minded arrogance and free for all take everything. Some people still believe the charge of the light brigade was a victory proving cavalry alone could take out gun placements.
I'm amazed that this banking fiasco - as a consequence of emulating the American free market model is perceived as such a big issue in perspective to the WWars and great depression etc.
Lack of good investment and management. Leaders management set the trends and labour follows. We've gone through trade union power abuse to management bonus, numeration and risk abuse and we can all see where the greater wreckage lies.
That patriotic Maggie twit sold BL short for 500m subsidy whilst allowing the police to import BMW bikes and cars to take their place. I'm absolutely shocked and stunned by the wreckless, ill thought out daft interpretation of economic history.
No one mentions the oil shock, prices going up and lack of strategic planning or decent management.
Invest billions in Concorde (sold all of about 8 planes; 4 to UK and 4 to France) and starve BL of funds whilst Japanese invest in new models, plants and processes.
I've spent my studies on the economics of Milton.F and disastrous policies of Mrs.T
Yes the trade unions were required to be dealt with but a much better model existed for TU and Banking in Germany. Monumental stuck up management and flag waving is what we have in the UK.
Where's the bucket
PS. EU is not at the end road. Just on a revision course for the better. We'd do well to follow and adhere to the Germans imho.
Decline of the British Empire started well before the 1970s. More like 1850s +
Think railroads, shipbuilding and textiles. Decline of all three industries had very little or nothing to do with labour laws which did not exist back then.
Victorian era was the height of bloody minded arrogance and free for all take everything. Some people still believe the charge of the light brigade was a victory proving cavalry alone could take out gun placements.
I'm amazed that this banking fiasco - as a consequence of emulating the American free market model is perceived as such a big issue in perspective to the WWars and great depression etc.
Lack of good investment and management. Leaders management set the trends and labour follows. We've gone through trade union power abuse to management bonus, numeration and risk abuse and we can all see where the greater wreckage lies.
That patriotic Maggie twit sold BL short for 500m subsidy whilst allowing the police to import BMW bikes and cars to take their place. I'm absolutely shocked and stunned by the wreckless, ill thought out daft interpretation of economic history.
No one mentions the oil shock, prices going up and lack of strategic planning or decent management.
Invest billions in Concorde (sold all of about 8 planes; 4 to UK and 4 to France) and starve BL of funds whilst Japanese invest in new models, plants and processes.
I've spent my studies on the economics of Milton.F and disastrous policies of Mrs.T
Yes the trade unions were required to be dealt with but a much better model existed for TU and Banking in Germany. Monumental stuck up management and flag waving is what we have in the UK.
Where's the bucket
PS. EU is not at the end road. Just on a revision course for the better. We'd do well to follow and adhere to the Germans imho.
). It really is a brutal environment for the unprepared and ignorant.
I can't understand why you frequent these boards when you are so anti free- market Atilla. Trading couldn't be more opposite to the socialist ideals you talk about. It is survival of the fittest in the extreme. There is no one in the markets to hold your hand or bail you out when you are wrong (unless you are 'too big to fail' of course
Socialism (Central Planning) is precisely that and just look how well it worked out for the U.S.S.R...remember them?
