What we are witnessing, is the beginning of the end of the Great Socialist Experiment in Europe. Socialism has promised more and more until its promises have become unsupportable. Now,its death throes commence; predictably these will leave a population conditioned to government dependency disillusioned and eventually destitute. There is a cautionary tale here, for those who would lead America downed the same road of Socialism, which continues to prove itself a failed ideology that leads only to dependency, disorder, and destruction. One might wish for the total collapse of the intellectually, morally and politically bankrupt international Left, and all the misery it has inevitably left in its sorry wake, but then, no truly pernicious ideology ever really dies; there is always some motley band of intellectual fools somewhere who believe they can make whipped cream out of horseshit, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Brainwash alert.... you ever read a book not written by the far right in the US?
If anything the changes in the world is the end of conservative politics. Why? Because they were in charge of the whole freaking mess we are in now. It was conservative politics that drove us over the edge, both in the US and in Europe. 90% of the countries in Europe have been ruled by right wing parties for the last decade... using American economic policies as their base.
Like it or not, it is the failure of Reaganomics that is happening now and we all have to change our ways. It took 30+ years, but it eventually doomed us all as it was predicted back in the day.
Sadly, both the US right wing and even the British still think the solution to our problems is more Reaganomics/Thatchernomics, and are blinded by partisan ideology to see that they were the ones that caused the problems in the first place.
Seems you know little about British politics! Best to STFU! The Labour party is responsible for the UK's economic problem with their policy of spend, spend, spend. The Conservatives left Labour with a very healthy economy, but it didn't take Blair and co long to tank it!
Stick to what you know and not what you think you know!
The problems of the UK economy are not the sole fault of the labour government, but in large part the fault of the world wide economic collapse thanks to the US. Had it not been needed to bail out the UK banks, then the UK economy would have been much healthier. Had it not been for the Irish problem, then the threat over the UK would not be as great as it is. And the Irish problem.. cold hard Reganomics at work.. unbridled lending and spending without consequences until it is too late.
But on the subject of New Labour.. it had far more in common with the right on economics and hence Reganomics and US economic theory, than anything else. New Labour did the usual deregulation and lazzie-faire approach of US economic theory brought on by Reaganomics. That in the end meant that they had to nationalize a host of banks when they realized that those banks had grown far larger than the economy could handle, and even worse, dipped their noses in the toxic crap hole of the US sub-prime market.
And it does not change the fact that New Labour's power in the UK was one of the few places in Europe where the right wing did not have power when the basis for the crisis in many countries was laid.
Take Spain.. it was the right wing who was in power when the building boom started, driven on by right wing leaning building companies who bought and traded politicians at all levels to gain favours and permits (mostly illegal) so that they could build. When the left finally took over they were too slow to deal with the problem and were sitting in the crapper when the US sub-prime mortgage driven world credit crisis drove the overheated and way too large building sector into the ground in Spain.
In France, the right has been in power for almost 20 years.
In Germany the right has been in power for 10 years
In Greece, it was the right wing who lied and used US banks/financial institutions to hide their debt...
In Italy, Berloscoloony had been in power for a very long time as well.
The list goes on and on. The right wing took over after the fall of the Soviet Union in most countries and have kept it for now.. that will change I suspect this election season.. for better or for worse.. we shall see.
But lets look at the UK economy again.
Unemployment is up. Exports are down, and economic growth (or lack of it) struggles to beat that of Spain ... now by economics 101, if you devalue your currency, which is what Cameron has done (as well as Labour did), then unemployment should fall because labour is cheaper, and your exports should go up and that should create growth. But that aint happening. He of course is blaming Europe for his problems.. but any idiot would know that the UK is know for crap quality in Europe so exporting to Europe or anywhere else is ...Those UK companies that do export, rarely use "Made in the UK" as a marketing thing...
Instead the deficit is almost as large as it was when Cameron took over, and he is focusing on strange cuts (Aircraft Carriers with no planes for example) and yet leaving a billion dollar nuclear weapon on the books... and having to give up cuts and reforms because they are not economically viable and more politically motivated. And all in the while he is protecting his banker friends.....
Is reforming the NHS against the doctors and patients wishes, not to mention breaking one of his promises in his election campaign... really the right way to get the UK economy running again?
All his cutting and mistakes are causing a depression in the population and when that happens, as it has shown in Europe and through out history... people stop to spend and start to save... which is disastrous to an economy trying to grow its way out of a massive hole.
Wow what world does this guy live in? Europes problems are too big a welfare state and too much taxes. Too much spending is the problem in Europe. Europe's "right wing policiies" this guy is delousional
