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Old 14-03-2009, 01:28 AM
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.... of Britian being a "first word" country???

With this recession we are loosing a large amount of our traditional manufacturing to china and the far east, business failures on an epic scale, death of the car industry etc etc etc

A nation of growing workshy loosers so no "get up and go" to pull us out of recession as if your on benefits then "What recession??".

So is our time as a country with wealth now up???

How long before we end up a mess like Russia post cold war or places like romania????

Cant be long now!! UK will go bust, then what, government organisations dont get paid, degradation of society to a new low??

And my once "secure" forces pension i think is very much just as much at risk as everyone elses investments!!


What do you think???

Just a "Few" years of financial poverty and we'll then bounce back??? or is the UK changing for the worse for the forseeabe future???

Is it time to get out???

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sooner the world come's to an end the better i dont give a shit
Old 14-03-2009, 02:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Rs Baz
sooner the world come's to an end the better i dont give a shit
Our lass think's i'm mad but it will happen it is coming.
Old 14-03-2009, 03:26 AM
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2012 they reckon lol
Old 14-03-2009, 07:01 AM
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yep this country is fooked left the back door open for too long,just think britain was the best country had everything,now look at it cant even get a job.crazy
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Originally Posted by malcs-escort-cos
yep this country is fooked left the back door open for too long,just think britain was the best country had everything,now look at it cant even get a job.crazy



Exactly , we let everyone in , gave them homes / money / fed and clothed them and then even gave them our jobs

I fear our country will not recover unless there are some serious changes , and that just will not happen as there are far to many doo gooders in this now shit hole of a country
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The only thing we need to get out of is the European Union, it's been downhill from day one.
Old 14-03-2009, 10:19 AM
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The World WILL end, it's a fact, it may take 1000's of years but it will end.

This country has been in a far worse state than we're in now, and we are still here, for example when the British Empire first started to crumble.

As with Global warming, most people are looking at too short a view of things.

Manufacturing will always move to the developing nations.
Whilst I've been alive electrical/electronic goods manufacture has gone from here to Japan, to Taiwan and now to China.
It will be going to India next then Africa.

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Old 14-03-2009, 10:41 AM
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well bounce back. its not the end of civilisation as we know it. we wont be living in mud huts and wearing sheepskins to keep warm.
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Originally Posted by malcs-escort-cos
yep this country is fooked left the back door open for too long,just think britain was the best country had everything,now look at it cant even get a job.crazy
If we had implemented a closed door immigration policy right from the 2nd world war till today, I suspect our economy would be in a worst state than it is in currently.
Old 14-03-2009, 10:49 AM
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not closed door but controlled with limits to the amounts entering depending on their trade or occupation or speciality. no one should get a free ride, everyones got to contribute something to society.allowing many thousands of europes bottom rung parasite scum to enter doesnt really help.we have enough home grown to sort out.
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This country is fooooked and i think it will take a bloody long time to get back on its feet.There are to many sponging bastards in this country getting everything for nowt.
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Originally Posted by fuzzy
not closed door but controlled with limits to the amounts entering depending on their trade or occupation or speciality. no one should get a free ride, everyones got to contribute something to society.allowing many thousands of europes bottom rung parasite scum to enter doesnt really help.we have enough home grown to sort out.
I believe sorting out the "home grown" ones is more important.

By defintiion anyone who has managed to make it here all the way from afghaminstan, avoiding the authorities all the way, has at least got off their arse and done something to improve their life, which puts them a couple of rungs up from a lot of the home grown scum we have who wouldnt do the same.
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Originally Posted by Glenny Boy
This country is fooooked and i think it will take a bloody long time to get back on its feet.There are to many sponging bastards in this country getting everything for nowt.
IMHO the problem is a far simpler one, we have more outgoing money than we have incoming money.

We all buy cheap foreign goods continually, and with every single taiwanese TV or chinese conrod etc we buy, the value of the uk goes down slightly.

If you have a company, you make sure your incomings are more than your outgoings in order to make profit, I dont see how running a country is any different TBH

China for example has come forward by doing the opposite of what we are doing, they have sold more than they have bought.

Sure more people coming in means it dilutes a little bit how much of the UK wealth each of us have, but I dont believe that effect is as significant, plus many of them work in low paid jobs which actually manage to enable us to compete better with the foreign countries in the first place!

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Old 14-03-2009, 02:14 PM
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I got my pension statement through today - in the 12 months to Feb it has lost well over 1/3rd of it's (already meagre) value.
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what you mean ,dilutes a little bit how much of the UK wealth each of us have,more like shit loads properly ant afected you yet but it will,like i said left the back door open for too long,too many do gooders yeah will properly go back to normal but will take time basicaly sponged this country dry
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