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Cost of living crisis

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  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    blueboy43 wrote: »
    1) It doesn't matter where food or energy is produced, if commodity prices go up, they go up.

    2) UK was self sufficient in gas until 2010

    3) God help us if people think the UK's future is making clothes. It was poorly paid work in the 1960's never mind 50 years later.

    Not if you grow your own.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    blueboy43 wrote: »
    3) God help us if people think the UK's future is making clothes. It was poorly paid work in the 1960's never mind 50 years later.

    Whatever the work is , its a job for somebody.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Hectors_House wrote: »
    The recession was caused by the distorted housing market as far as I can tell.

    House prices falling will be the end result of many other collapses within our skewed economy IMHO - the problem being that our economy will be really down the toilet by that time.

    No distorted housing market in Germany and they had one as well (unless you count most people renting as distorted).
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • blueboy43
    blueboy43 Posts: 575 Forumite
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Whatever the work is , its a job for somebody.


    Would you use the same argument about some of the government unproductive jobs.

    Apart from some high end specialists - no one in the UK can compete against South East Asian labour making clothes - we couldn't even do it 50 years ago and resorted to mass immigration into the northern mill towns.

    The only thing that would make it work would be tarriffs or tax credits to subsidise the wages.

    You may as well call for "pure collectors" to return in helping to rejuvenate the UK leather tanning industry.

    After all, a jobs a job.

    Ricardo was clearly wasting his time.





    *pure collectors, collected god !!!! which softens the leather, when the hides were soaked in it.*
  • blueboy43
    blueboy43 Posts: 575 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Not if you grow your own.


    subsistence farming - the way foward for the UK.

    More laughable nonsense.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    blueboy43 wrote: »

    *pure collectors, collected god !!!! which softens the leather, when the hides were soaked in it.*

    I'm sure that genuine god !!!! would be quite valuable.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    blueboy43 wrote: »
    Would you use the same argument about some of the government unproductive jobs.

    What is a Government unproductive job?
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
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    blueboy43 wrote: »
    subsistence farming - the way foward for the UK.

    More laughable nonsense.

    I thanked your post before this one, but here I'm not sure you're right. What is wrong with millions of us returning to a bit of grow yer own? Good for the wallet, the body and the spirit, plus reduces transportation.

    I have this wierd notion we should stop chasing and excpecting growth. If every nation on the planet inexorably grows, unfortunately we'll need another planet.

    What is wrong with standing still? This is a genunine question.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Conrad wrote: »
    What is wrong with standing still? This is a genunine question.

    I have asked a similar question in the past, why does every genaration feel the are entitled to a higher standard of living than the one before?
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    I have asked a similar question in the past, why does every genaration feel the are entitled to a higher standard of living than the one before?

    Well no-one is entitled to a higher standard of living to the previous generation but I certainly aspire to have a better one than my parents.

    I'd quite like my kids to have a better standard of living than me as well.
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