The British economy is lying flat on its back in an alleyway with wee dribbling down its leg.
– Rod Liddle (£)
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I disagree. Some that lie on their backs in the gutter are looking at the stars. We are face-down.
Labour (the lights are on but nobody’s home) will immediately propose yet another NGO – ‘Raising Revenue in a Shrinking Economy’.
There, something done to address the problem.
[sarcasm]
and that wee is Two Tier pissing on him.
Perry,
Thank you so much for giving me a laugh on a Sunday morning.
Well, at least the British economy has a Nintendo game console to help it pass the time.
I’m struggling with the wee dribbling down the leg, whether the body is on its back or its front. That’s just not how gravity works.
But Rod is an LSE social psychology student, a journalist, retired Marxist revolutionary, and CND enthusiast. So we cannot expect science to be his strong point.
Five years of Labour and every community, no matter how small, remote or idyllic will have its own grooming gang and the pound will be four for a dollar. Britain is in a hole so deep daylight is barely visible yet over half the population still favour the uniparty. Sigh.
I think Roué is unduly pessimistic. A bit.
The support for all the main parties is very shallow. The Tories fell to 9% in the last Euro elections.
Labour has a floor, maybe 25% …. against the hated Tories, but the floor doesn’t work the same against Reform. The people who hate Reform are in the South and vote lefty anyway.
If Reform can get to 30% it could even win a majority. eg on Electoral Calculus put Lab and Tory on 20% each, Lib Dems on 15%, Reform on 30% and Green on 8% and you get a Reform majority of 18.
What are the odds ? Who knows – maybe 5-1 against ? 10-1 ? But not zero. You don’t need 50% rejecting the uniparty with the uniparty vote split four or five ways. 30% may be enough. 35% would be plenty.
(Subject of course to the rigging 😉 )
Lee,
I am pessimistic. The next election is a long way away and Nigel presents as the continuity conservative party, much to the dismay of serious right wingers. Will Tommy Robinson throw his hat in the ring? Even if Nigel wins he doesn’t strike me as someone who is going to do a Milei. Interesting times, eh? 😉
Is there, in the real sense, much of a British economy left?
Certainly, compared to the size of the population of the United Kingdom, the production of food, raw materials and manufactured goods is not sufficient – and the Credit Bubble games of “The City” were exposed in 2008 so graphically that no one has an excuse to continue to support them.
The conclusion for the future of this land (for the British people) is simple, and brutal.
What do you define as a “real” economy?
Is it the local* production of food, raw materials and manufactured goods, then?
*I’ve added “local”, as that appears to be implied.