newmercman:
That’s my point, at least with the EU poking their nose in they can’t [zb] you completely.Britain’s problems stem from what our own politicians did to us. The current decline started with the bid to get into the EEC at all costs. Jobs and wages? Thank Thatcher for destroying the unions and privatising our national industries and infrastructure. Unrealistic housing costs, again thank the Thatcher dynasty for flogging off social housing. Immigration spiralling out of control, that’s on Blair.
The Brexit thing was a publicity stunt by Cameron, it was an epic fail, Johnson was his opposition and somehow he disappeared from the running for Cameron’s replacement and May got the gig. WTF? Almost as ridiculous and immoral as Blair handing over the reins to Brown.
And you think this BOCs should run the country? Madness, pure and simple.
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Agreed. There was an almighty slump in 1975, right after we were fooled into joining the EEC. Property prices crashed, The stock market crashed, unemployment started to rise sharply, and inflation took off as well. Four years later, this country was on it’s knees, and voted for Thatcher to make the “Nasty” decisions to get us out of it.
Even she didn’t succeed in bringing back the death penalty, or getting us out of the EU though. We were just too damned poor as a nation by that point to climb over the proverbial “Colditz Fence”…
We didn’t really have any opportunity to leave, until 2002, which was probably the zenith of the short-lived prosperity ushered in by Labour, and their laxer public spending plans from 1997 onwards.
Today, some 16 years hence - we are still making enough money that the EU continues to have it’s money beertap firmly rooted in our proverbial juggular.
If Brexit isn’t achieved until the blood is running down the streets - then we risk having another “Hard Right” government in this country, akin to Thatcher, whom even I as a “Moderate Right” - didn’t vote for.
It is in everyone’s interests to get Brexit done as soon as possible, and THEN switch governments if you don’t like the way our incumbents are spending that money gotten back “unwisely”…