Preparedness for when

maryb

Odd, a post I made seems to have disappeared, and I'm sure it did go through. So sorry if this ends up as a double post

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24546521.

Find this a bit worrying given that there was another big refinery closed a few months ago - was it at Coringham? Less and less resilience in the system though I'm not sure what effect it will actually have in the short term

GreyQueen

greenbee wrote: »

I guess the next question is was the other candidate any less of an idiot?

:cool: I never voted for this numptie. I voted for a lesser numptie. The vote went several ways and the scum floated to the surface. Blame the students.......and they got a summary lesson in the importance of political advancement to a young pol on the make when they got their fees increased, or whatever it was that was done to their great detriment shortly after the general election.

I guess being done over by the coalition MP was a useful life lesson. shame the rest of us get The Idiot for the rest of the parliament.

'Spose one good thing about being universally regarded as a fool; it cuts the workload in the consitituency down somewhat; since no one imagines that The Idiot can do anything about their problems, they don't bother to approach them. I occasionally get to talk to self-important little twerps from their consitituency office - deep joy.

jk0

Last time I went to vote, I asked if there was a box for 'none of the above'.

Surprisingly they told me just to put my voting slip in the box unmarked. I'm not sure if they count up the 'none of the above' votes and record it somewhere, or if it just counts as a spoilt paper, but it's food for thought nonetheless.

mardatha

Wonder if the America thing will just die down now, or if there will be any shift because of it?

thriftwizard

mardatha wrote: »

Wonder if the America thing will just die down now, or if there will be any shift because of it?

Can't help thinking that they just keep right on digging themselves further under... as do we all! I mean, what happens to you or me if we keep on increasing our credit limits & borrowing right up to the max, with no real means of paying it back, just our lender's confidence that somehow we'll pull an answer out of the hat? Sooner or later, they'll lose that confidence, surely. Next installment February, folks...

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Surely there must come a time when when even the biggest nations reach the top of thier ability to carry on borrowing to sustain what is an unsustainable way of life? What happens then? an orderly downsizing of expectations and reduction in what we all consider to be our normal rights and services or complete chaos and anarchy? I don't think we will have long to wait to see either. It seems so ridiculous that most people have aspirations to be and have what is just NOT possible and then pretend it is even to themselves by spending on credit and putting up the pretence that all is the way it 'looks'. I can't pinpoint just when this silliness of entitlement to it all came about I don't remember it being that way in the 70s but it seems to have crept in sometime in the mid eighties and I still don't understand why, never was the brightest cookie in the barrel, but if we've managed not to have debts and to have a comfortable life without feeling we're hard done by and enjoy the things we've done and have now why haven't more folks done the same? Mystified!!! Lyn xxx.

VJsmum

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

'. I can't pinpoint just when this silliness of entitlement to it all came about I don't remember it being that way in the 70s but it seems to have crept in sometime in the mid eighties xxx.

Ooh, I think I can....

One word

THATCHER

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I was too busy having babies to take notice of the world at that point, spent 5 or so years with two littlies that slept 30 minutes in 24 hours if I was lucky!!! No wonder I missed it!!!

ArthriticOldThing

Well said VJsmum - on the nail.

GreyQueen

Morning all.

I was listening to the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning and they were going on at length about the debt ceiling crisis (just postponed a few months, just postponed) and even used the phrase popular with ZH; kicking the can down the road.

They will never get out from under. And they have indebted people who are children now and people yet unborn to pay for their foolishness. Jolly japes to realise that people who aren't even yet a twinkle in somebody's eye have had their future security and prosperity hocked to finance current obligations and overseas military adventures to steal resources from others whilst they waste their own hand-over-fist.

This ends with a bang not a whimper.

I regard living an indebted lifestyle as modern serfdom. You don't have a lord of the manor, you have credit cards, payday loans, mortgages etc etc. And a big chunk of what you can produce is taken by force before you can use it and used for often nefarious purposes, such as being given to vicious regimes to buy our armaments to further oppress their citizenry and destablise their regions.

It's enough to make a cat laugh, most days. Good job I've long been a cynic or I'd be really disheartened.

Today the sun is shining and the sky is blue. I have mooched the charity shops and donated some stuff, bought a lot of fruit and veg for £1 from the Magic Greengrocer, run some errands for SG and have the rest of the day to myself.

I will be mending some clothes. I'm often mending things at time of financial crisis; pure co-incidence but amusing, none the less.