How are you all surviving the severe economic downturn? How are the economic fantasists messing up in the City and Wall Street affected your day to day living? At my end my dad has recently gone out of work, while I have found it practically impossible to find work in my area for over two years now, with only my mum working in the much maligned public sector racking in the cash. At least the home I'm living is paid for, while I'm trying to get a GCSE Math qualifications, which could be a useful tool for much better things and I can adapt to the virtual collapse of the UK that will most likely happen in the next ten years.
But I still feel like ranting:
Well the Thatcherite counter revolution is over. Neo-Liberalism has run to its logical conclusion, falling on its sword of greed and spite. Not only was the housing and property market shot to s**t through execessive privatization (including council housing) but it was put under strain by blind immigration, with greedy employers in the private sector seeing them as a stop gap to prevent the national debt from imploding sooner.
The influx of immigrants went down as well as a brick through a glass coffee table with the majority of people who weren't corporate executives or small business owners, although I don't hold anything against the immigrants themselves giving the obvious stress of moving to another strange country, often away from their famillies, to work for poor wages while denuding their home countries of proper labour. However the pressure of immigration on society and business forcing society to pick up the tab has done wonders for the BNP.
Then when the corporate greedheads are not importing wage slaves into Britain they're exporting their offices and factories out of Britain. It was a strategic blunder that America and Britain moved the bulk of their manufacturing to China, but more recently giant corporations like Dell Computers and Cadbury-Schweppes had the bright idea of offshoring their British Isle production to Poland (where ironically much of the recent foreign labour came from anyway) and they did this to sell the land the factories were built on (despite the fact the property market is plummeting into the Earth's core). I guess these are the machinations of the European Union, a malignant nascent superstate apparently trying to run Britain into the ground at every turn out jealously for being a partner of the United States and the Commonwealth.
In effect many if not most 16 to 35 year olds have been unceremoniously thrown onto the scrapheap because of this system of retardo-capitalism depending on dirt cheap labour and fat cat salaries, with 200, 000 young (or youngish) bright people leaving Britain a year primarily because of these economic ravages and the general lackadaisical attitude of the private sector in offering reliable employment (with salaries worse than government welfare and random firings).
The economy should serve society not the other way around, and this BS 'Globalization' (brought on by improvements in logistics and communications) is a ploy for recklessly short-sighted and maliciously selfish corporations to run roughshod over the interests of entire populations and even whole countries, ignoring the fact that you need these populations and countries to sustain the economy in the first place.
If this carries on, it just gives the current political and economic power brokers more rope to hang themselves with and I wouldn't be surprised if a socially/economically ruined Britain gives rise to a British version of Mussolini or Castro.
But I still feel like ranting:
Well the Thatcherite counter revolution is over. Neo-Liberalism has run to its logical conclusion, falling on its sword of greed and spite. Not only was the housing and property market shot to s**t through execessive privatization (including council housing) but it was put under strain by blind immigration, with greedy employers in the private sector seeing them as a stop gap to prevent the national debt from imploding sooner.
The influx of immigrants went down as well as a brick through a glass coffee table with the majority of people who weren't corporate executives or small business owners, although I don't hold anything against the immigrants themselves giving the obvious stress of moving to another strange country, often away from their famillies, to work for poor wages while denuding their home countries of proper labour. However the pressure of immigration on society and business forcing society to pick up the tab has done wonders for the BNP.
Then when the corporate greedheads are not importing wage slaves into Britain they're exporting their offices and factories out of Britain. It was a strategic blunder that America and Britain moved the bulk of their manufacturing to China, but more recently giant corporations like Dell Computers and Cadbury-Schweppes had the bright idea of offshoring their British Isle production to Poland (where ironically much of the recent foreign labour came from anyway) and they did this to sell the land the factories were built on (despite the fact the property market is plummeting into the Earth's core). I guess these are the machinations of the European Union, a malignant nascent superstate apparently trying to run Britain into the ground at every turn out jealously for being a partner of the United States and the Commonwealth.
In effect many if not most 16 to 35 year olds have been unceremoniously thrown onto the scrapheap because of this system of retardo-capitalism depending on dirt cheap labour and fat cat salaries, with 200, 000 young (or youngish) bright people leaving Britain a year primarily because of these economic ravages and the general lackadaisical attitude of the private sector in offering reliable employment (with salaries worse than government welfare and random firings).
The economy should serve society not the other way around, and this BS 'Globalization' (brought on by improvements in logistics and communications) is a ploy for recklessly short-sighted and maliciously selfish corporations to run roughshod over the interests of entire populations and even whole countries, ignoring the fact that you need these populations and countries to sustain the economy in the first place.
If this carries on, it just gives the current political and economic power brokers more rope to hang themselves with and I wouldn't be surprised if a socially/economically ruined Britain gives rise to a British version of Mussolini or Castro.
Once that happens, they'll be looking at the claim review teams because I'm sure they can motivate claims review teams to work faster using those same methods.