If we're out of the woods now ... who gets the credit?

penguine

purch wrote: »

We're not...............so nobody is the answer.

Everything is very fragile, and nobody can say with any certainty what is around the corner.

The measures taken to avert a depression/crisis are unprecedented, unproven and the ultimate results unknown.

We may have dodged one bullet, only to be walking straight into another.

I think I'm going to wait a while before dishing out too much credit to anyone.

I'm mostly in agreement with you. I think it would have been catastrophic to let banks continue to collapse, but by bailing them out (ie nationalising their losses) I think what has been done is basically dilute the pain over a number of years.

With regard to house prices, a year ago 50% collapse in house prices was easy to imagine. Now it's a lot harder to visualise, but I still think it could happen, just over a longer period of time.

I wouldn't be surprised if in 10 years time the economy still isn't looking too great. If that's the case, Labour and the Conservatives will both be getting a share of the blame, and nobody will get any credit for doing anything right.

b0rker

Cat695 wrote: »

I think people won't vote labour because working people are sick to death of paying out for people who can't be ar@sed to work........which Labour seem to love making people do.

What exactly did the Conservatives do to reduce unemployment when they were in power:?

YTS anyone?!?!?

StevieJ

b0rker wrote: »

What exactly did the Conservatives do to reduce unemployment when they were in power:?

YTS anyone?!?!?

There is at least one footballer that I know about who was only taken on by a club because of YTS and soon went on to win a major trophy

Dan:_4

Cat695 wrote: »

I think people won't vote labour because working people are sick to death of paying out for people who can't be ar@sed to work........which Labour seem to love making people do.

Im not a fan of Labour or Gordon Brown by any strech of the imagination, but cannot bring myself to vote Tory, esp while that knob Cameron is in charge.

Graham_Devon

Really2 wrote: »

Bloody hell on more important news rewired thanked someone considered to be a "bull"

Get me some water

Don't get yourself too excited.

It's not "rewired". It's Rewired.

The copycat in other words. I believe other purely thanking usernames have been rewired3 & rewirded2. Presume these are getting banned.

b0rker

Dan: wrote: »

Im not a fan of Labour or Gordon Brown by any strech of the imagination, but cannot bring myself to vote Tory, esp while that knob Cameron is in charge.

I think Cameron's Conservatives would manage to get about 3 votes north of the border and all 3 will have to come from some elderly people who have voted Conservative all their lives and refuse to change teams at such a late stage.

Dan:_4

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Don't get yourself too excited.

It's not "rewired". It's Rewired.

The copycat in other words. I believe other purely thanking usernames have been rewired3 & rewirded2. Presume these are getting banned.

all "rewireds" should be banned, they don't serve much purpose.

Really2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Don't get yourself too excited.

It's not "rewired". It's Rewired.

The copycat in other words. I believe other purely thanking usernames have been rewired3 & rewirded2. Presume these are getting banned.

Oh I thought the one who "thanked all the bears off" had defected.

Graham_Devon

Really2 wrote: »

Oh I thought the one who "thanked all the bears off" had defected.

Nah. Though he probably will soon. Theres no bears left to thank.

Yakubu22

Dan: wrote: »

all "rewireds" should be banned, they don't serve much purpose.

I'm suprised a "re-rewired" hasn't appeared yet