Do you want to discuss boring politics? (9 Viewers)

fernandopartridge said:

The Bond Market Bluff

Every time someone in British politics proposes funding public services properly, the bond markets get wheeled out like a loaded gun. Spend more on the NHS and the markets will panic. Hire more teachers and investors will flee. Suggest running a larger deficit and the warnings become...

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An article with a lot of truths but also some misconceptions and intentionally missing some basic facts (and if I am being less kind, including some untruths). Unfortunately this is what will be going around on social media and people will latch onto it because it aligns to their own political thinking and/or because it makes everything sound, well, a lot easier

....and before you know it, the Greens are probably basing their manifesto around it.

CCFCSteve said:

An article with a lot of truths but also some misconceptions and intentionally missing some basic facts (and if I am being less kind, including some untruths). Unfortunately this is what will be going around on social media and people will latch onto it because it aligns to their own political thinking and/or because it makes everything sound, well, a lot easier

....and before you know it, the Greens are probably basing their manifesto around it.

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Yeah, but the counter argument is you've got a group of people who will intentionally make things shit if government decide to invest in their people rather than looking after investors already sizeable wallets.

And then we wonder why everything is shit and doesn't work and why despite there apparently being more wealth than ever we've got more people in poverty and people needing to use food banks to get buy.

Stop pandering to the greedy. selfish arseholes, or we're just going to go further and further down the shitter. Until one day the people decide they've had enough and all hell breaks loose.