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To all the doom merchants...

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  • B_Blank wrote: »
    ...who constantly belittle the UK, and say we are a joke country whose economy is based on nothing and we will all be living in boxes soon.

    This is what I say:

    The UK is the most politically and socially stable country in the world, as it has proven for about 300 years, and it is capable of weathering alot of shocks to the global economy and still being ok.

    Do you realise the rather 'extreme' and silly way you have put this?

    Let me paraphrase what you are saying, but with a different example:

    1. Some say David Cameron is a blood-sucking, child-murdering, thieving, rapist.
    2. But actually he is really a saint.

    Do you not realise that neither assertion is true?

    We will not all be living in boxes soon.

    Neither are we the most "politically and socially stable" country capable of weathering a lot of shocks.

    Have you never heard of 'middle ground'?
  • B_Blank wrote: »
    So you believe there is no link between a countries debt and deficit? Nice.

    Deficit is the amount, per year, that the national debt increases. Something like a mere £180bn this year.

    So by the end of the current parliament, with the deficit finally at £0 (optimistic to say the least), we will have had 5 more years of increasing national debt, to more than £1 trillion.

    Oh, and this doesn't include PFI and pension liabilities, to name but a couple of fairly significant off balance sheet debt mountains.
  • gagahouse
    gagahouse Posts: 392 Forumite
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    B_Blank wrote: »
    So you believe there is no link between a countries debt and deficit? Nice.

    I think he means that while the deficit will reduce in real terms (if the govt can achieve its cuts and its assumptions about tax revenues are correct) in nominal terms it will actually rise so the debt will also rise.

    I'm sure someone will be along shortly to post the figures which either refute this or back this up.
  • Neither are we the most "politically and socially stable" country


    I am trying to find out what is the most politically stable.

    Canada or Switzerland? Perhaps Luxemburg?
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  • I am trying to find out what is the most politically stable.

    Canada or Switzerland? Perhaps Luxemburg?

    How do you define politically stable?
  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    I am trying to find out what is the most politically stable.

    Canada or Switzerland? Perhaps Luxemburg?

    Pretty keen on Holland myself.
  • How do you define politically stable?

    Its not my specialty.


    At the moment I am looking at what "The Most Politically Stable Countries Rating Organisation" say
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  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    How about Denmark.

    Any party getting just 2% of the total votes is guaranteed at least one seat in Parliament, which is probably the lowest requirement in any nation.

    They haven't had any one party with an absolute majority for over 100 years.
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Its not my specialty.


    At the moment I am looking at what "The Most Politically Stable Countries Rating Organisation" say

    What is their speciality?
  • StevieJ
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    B_Blank wrote: »
    O right, and the fact we are scientifically second only to USA is a "joke"? Just because you dont have a clue doesnt mean everyone in this country is so worthless and untalented

    Why do you belittle the British? second no way :p
    No, it’s not just our favourite national conceit. A few years back, a study by MITI - Japan’s equivalent of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - concluded that 54% of the world’s most important inventions of the past 100 years were British. Of the rest, 25% were American and 5% Japanese. “The Americans aren’t so good at invention because they think everything’s just great,” said Mandy Haberman, millionaire inventor of the leakproof Anywayup Cup for toddlers. “They’re not nearly critical or bloody-minded enough.” As for the Japanese, they appear too thoroughly conformist to be capable of off-the-wall thinking. A clockwork radio. I ask you. Its inventor, Trevor Baylis, who lives in a chaotic house he built himself on Eel Pie Island, in the Thames, is now trying to generate electricity from shoes, as you walk along, for re-charging the mobile and whatnot.

    http://www.thebis.org/newsroom/InventorsAndInvention.php
    '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
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