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Topic History of: Socialist UK Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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In The Know (as always)
hedda wrote:
no,manufacturers drove jobs abroad.
Oh ... it was the manufacturers that made us the sick man of Europe was it ?
Not all those British Leyland workers (always on strike) but buying Datsun cars ?
when i was 10 in 1902 or thereabouts
A dimentia cure is long overdue !!!!
hedda
In The Know (as always) wrote: Kenneth Mintcake wrote: We used to be the best in the world at strikes but we've forgotten how to do them these days.
... then we woke up, and realised the Unions had driven ALL the jobs abroad !
no,manufacturers drove jobs abroad. It's the nature of business to go where labour is cheap and it's as cheap as chips in (Communist) China.
Of course huge corporations like WalMart in the USA are similar and pay poverty wages - so poor most employees need a second job and now getting to need a third.
ITK again shows he doesn't even understand Capitalism let alone Socialism (which he claims has failed despite Russia / China/Vietnam surviving superbly).
The real problem with cheap labour- unions have created the Middle Class by elevating huge swathes of the poor but now comes the crunch as the Market Economy Voodoo economists (beloved of Maggie & Reagan) have effectively dismantled the Middle Class.
It's why 2 US billionaires, right wing Warren Buffet and lefty George Soros see a coming collapse based solely on the destruction of the Middle Class (and predicted by me when i was 10 in 1902 or thereabouts).
Just as Rome collapsed because of Slave Labour (no unions to keep wages high)
honey!oh sugar sugar.
In The Know (as always) wrote: honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote: If the housing benefit bonanza hadn't pushed the price of houses up they might have been able to afford a house in an area of their choice in the style they wanted like everybody else.
... esp if they got a job !
More incentive to.
In The Know (as always)
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote: If the housing benefit bonanza hadn't pushed the price of houses up they might have been able to afford a house in an area of their choice in the style they wanted like everybody else.
... esp if they got a job !
honey!oh sugar sugar.
In The Know (as always) wrote: hedda wrote: Cameron has sold of 12,000 properties.
I'll take your figures at face value, not sure if they are right or not.
BUT, if correct, thats 12,000 members of society now - who have a stake in society, and will want to work hard, see their asset grow, and have something to pass onto their children.
You can instantly spot the bought houses on any council estate - they are the ones where the garden in tended and not full of bikes and pshchairs.
If the housing benefit bonanza hadn't pushed the price of houses up they might have been able to afford a house in an area of their choice in the style they wanted like everybody else.