Recipe for disaster...

[originallambrettaman]

And the country is paying for those policies NOW. The communist system would of fallen anyway as it was a flawed system.All policies that have made the bankers and Shareholders rich and the people who really earn the money poorer. This country is fast approaching been the poor man of the industrial world. The class system is NOT dead, it is growing and we are fast emulating Brazil where the super rich live in Penthouses and the super poor live in wooden shanty towns, in fact the only reason this country cannot be described as third world is the fact that our poor have not yet been put in wooden Shanty towns, but mark my words if the policies of Thatcher and her followers(this government) continue we will get there. Thatcher policies are Robin Hood in reverse, rob the poor to feed the rich.

What a complete and utter crock of ****, we remain the fourth biggest economy in the world, we have the world's 22nd highest per capita income(Brazil are 75th) and there is no imminent danger of shanty towns popping up(not unless you count Stoke).

In rapidly growing markets, there's always a massive gap between the top and the bottom, it's happening now in China, India and Brazil, exactly as it happened here during the industrial revolution. Over time the wealth spreads and if you think that things here are really that bad, then you've obviously never been to Brazil, India or China.