Can someone tell me one politician who is qualified to do this job

Debt_Monkey_3

Britain doesnt need a politician needs an Insolvency Practitioner

harryhound

Kez100 wrote: »

Vince cable, definitely. Straight talking too. Would be a breath of fresh air.

Damn & blast: I've just missed Vince Cable on "Desert Island Discs" - and that is one programme that the BBC does not put up on "listen again".

His background would also make him something of a "father figure & mentor" for the lad Obama, who also has a bit of a problem with the "readdies" to sort out.
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The "dear leader" has just been on the Radio:

"......You need this [global economic] coordination!
We are fighting this recession with every weapon at our disposal".

Sorry Gordon, you seem to have either broken or pawned every arrow in your quiver.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/4299883/UK-cannot-take-Icelands-soft-option.html

The elephant in the global economic room is China and that country of long memories is run by "ancient waxworks".
They still deeply resent the behaviour of your drug pushing predecessors.

How about a public apology for the "Opium Wars" ? - You never know they just might fall for the flattery.

But I very much doubt it

Harry

Interesting story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

Lord Palmerston, the English Prime Minister initiated the Opium War in order to obtain full compensation for the destroyed opium. China lost the war and was forced to open its five ports to foreign merchants and to permit a territorial concession of Hong Kong.

BlondeHeadOn

harryhound wrote: »

Damn & blast: I've just missed Vince Cable on "Desert Island Discs" - and that is one programme that the BBC does not put up on "listen again".

It's repeated tomorrow morning, isn't it? (Or it always used to be....)

Thanks for the information, I want to hear that as well - I will tape this one from the radio tomorrow.

Edited after checking Radio 4 website:

Bu@@er, not it isn't - todays was a repeat of last Sundays program. A link to some info about it here though:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml

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Nick Clegg. He`s the only one I have any respect for

matthewcb

iltisman wrote: »

In recent years the two best PMs were Thatcher and Blair a chemist and yet another lawyer, its not qualifications it is the ability to lead.

You must be referring to a different Tony Blair to the one I know of.

Don't ever say he was a good PM.

A shameless self promoter ultimately concerned with lining his own pockets and crippled by vanity.

Imho getting elected was his end goal, not the day the work started.

harryhound

No Tony Bliar was a good leader, shame about his defective judgement.

The sheeple voted for him (ok I know it was a minority).

He was adopted as a poodle by someone whose drinking days seemed to have affected his speech.

Together they marched their cronies cheering in a crusade against the Arabs - at least that is how the Arabs see it.

Global cooperation anyone?

Wookster

My money is on Vince Cable. Until he started giving the banks a hard time for trying to rebuild their fractured balance sheets he's been ahead of the curve through all of this.

Gordon on the other had has been living in a time warp:

- He steadfastly refused to acknowledge this was a boom
- He proclaimed 10 years of economic 'growth' as being something no other developed country had achieved in the last 10 years
- He claimed that the BoE had adequately addressed inflation in that 10 year period
- He claimed that the FSA was one of the best regulating bodies in the world
- He did not acknowledge that interest rates should have been significantly higher

He simply does NOT understand the nature of this crisis and therefore he is ill equiped to resolve it.

His actions will bankrupt Britain.

harryhound

storminbalder wrote: »

And John Kenneth Galbraith was talking !!!!!!!! too!

b0ll0cks?

I rather think JKG did a good job by adding "technostructure" to land-labour-capital of classical economics.
Too late to ask him now, he is pushing up the daisies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith


The Venetians, the commercial rump of the western Roman Empire tried this "democracy" malarky and agreed it did not work.

The Swiss seem to have a democracy that works, perhaps because they all vote for the "Residents Association" candidate.

A bit like this borough, said by a Halifax survey to be the best place to live in Britain?
http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/committees/councillors.htm

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/elmbridge-voted-britains-best-place-to-live_100122455.html

Conrad

OP

I think you have a point if you mean qualified by experience.
Most Politicians bare much similarity with those out of touch WW1 Generals that sent Tommy's to thier deaths, year after year. Too out of touch to be of real use. Too far removed from the storm. Unable to really empathise with those struggling on the edge. Too late and ineffective.

ModernSlave

If he was leader of LibDems we could get somewhere.