Goodbye!!

He's kept us all in order ent he really. Not too many discrepancies! Maybe a few. But he's a good bloke our Tone!

Originally Posted by helen

I think Blair is evil, but not as evil as Brown - he's an utter criminal - selling the nation's gold at the bottom of the market and raiding private pensions being the major crimes.

I hate this government, and have voted against them in all three elections. Unfortunately, they've created such a mass of non - key public sector workers (anybody seen the jobs section of the Guardian? WTF!) with nice final salary pensions etc that they've got a nice core of voters for next time.

I can't wait to see the back of them. Luckily, by lining up Brown as the next PM, they've committed political suicide.

All true, although apparently it'll take a massive swing for the Tories to win the next election. So even if it was called now it's a tall order, but it could be up to 3 years away. Given that the majority of people when it comes to politcs have the memory and interlectual capacity of a gold fish, the electorate may well have forgotten how evil Brown is by then.

Either that, or they'll be bought off with a cushy public sector job.

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

they'll be bought off with a cushy public sector job.

Eureka! Make everyone an employee of the state and that'll solve the pensions crisis at a stroke. After all, state employees still have wonderful pension schemes, paid for by the others... oh

Originally Posted by chazzyb

Eureka! Make everyone an employee of the state and that'll solve the pensions crisis at a stroke. After all, state employees still have wonderful pension schemes, paid for by the others... oh

Galling isn't it. I find local government employees especially anoying. Some sanctimonious git (usually someone who you'd imagine struggles to tie their own shoe laces) trying to come up with feeble excuses to explain why your council tax has just doubled.

Worst of all, none of them, dispite trying to convince us they're able to spend our money better than we are, are the slightest bit aware of the fact that they're a useless economic dead weight being supported by people that are actually productive.

[Biker Biggles]

Interesting concept about produtive workers supporting economic dead weight.How many of us on here do jobs that create wealth and generate income for GB ltd?If you go back pre Thatcher millions of British workers manufactured cars bikes trains busses lorrys aircraft ships and countless other items.Others made vast amounts of steel and other components,or were engaged in shipping and transporting these items all around the world.
That's all gone over the last twenty years,so where does our income come from now?You can only sell Chelsea and TVR to the Russians once.