Some Unqualified Good News for Once

blueboy43

Generali wrote: »

Pretty good eh? Give them a second term and England will win the Ashes and the World Cup too.

Did you know that England have never won or retained the Ashes under Labour*?

I thought you usually explained your jokes* marked * !

I would guess you mean retain, unless I dreamt the 2005 & 2009 Ashes series.

Unless you meant won in Australia, although I'm pretty sure that just pre Thatcher that England would have won & retained the Ashes round about the Kerry Packer time.

We can of course state with certainty that England only win the world cup, and host the Olympics under Labour.

nearlynew

Totally meaningless.


Just more spin and bullsh1t I'm afraid.

blueboy43

blueboy43 wrote: »

host the Olympics under Labour.

oops of course 1908 was when the Liberals were the good guys.

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

Did you know that England have never won or retained the Ashes under Labour*?

What about 2005?

Sir_Humphrey

Generali wrote: »

Did you know that England have never won or retained the Ashes under Labour*?

We only ever win the World Cup under Labour.

Rooney would have been on fire had Brown been PM! :j

Mr_Mumble

By far and away the worst pillar (of 12) measuring the UK's competitiveness is Macroeconomic environment. The UK comes 56th (page 19 & 338 of the full report) by this measurement which includes the government debt (ranked 108th) and the budget balance (116th).

There are some really nerdy 'interesting' stats in the 501 page report. Britain has the third highest "available airline seat kilometers" in the world. Pretty staggering given that Japan and Germany (who're 4th and 5th respectively) have far larger populations and are as rich/richer than Britons.

Generali

The UK comes 55th for 'Public trust of politicians', 72nd in 'wastefulness of Government spending', 89th for 'burden of government regulation', 108th for Government debt, 95th for 'extent and effect of taxation', 54th for total tax take. It's clear what a big part of the problem for the UK economy is according to this mob.

UK's bank soundness comes 133rd behind such financial giants as Chad and Argentina.

FTBFun

Generali wrote: »

UK's bank soundness comes 133rd behind such financial giants as Chad and Argentina.

That sounds like crap to me.

michaels

Not sure the population in Germany is far larger (25% bigger?) and given that Germany is not an Island it is not surpirsing that we are more prone to get on a plane.

My guess for Japan is they may travel less for cultural reasons and also because there are less tourist destinations within a short (and therefore relatively cheap) flight distance.

Mr_Mumble wrote: »

There are some really nerdy 'interesting' stats in the 501 page report. Britain has the third highest "available airline seat kilometers" in the world. Pretty staggering given that Japan and Germany (who're 4th and 5th respectively) have far larger populations and are as rich/richer than Britons.

Generali

FTBFun wrote: »

That sounds like crap to me.

Take it up with the LSE, they did the UK part of the study.

It's worth remembering that the UK has had to nationalise 4 of her top 10 banks to prevent them becoming insolvent. I didn't hear of any bank runs in Chad or Argentina.