Joe Public's basic understanding of economics

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Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue

You’ve made your opinions abundantly clear regarding older generations and I find it really dogmatic and callous.

You continually conflate with people being Anti EU as right wing and that simply isn’t fair.

What propaganda were Tony Benn and Mick Skinner fooled by?

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Don't know about Tony Benn but Mick Skinner probably thought England was the best rugby team in the world in the late 80s/early 90s :hehe:

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Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays

Don't know about Tony Benn but Mick Skinner probably thought England was the best rugby team in the world in the late 80s/early 90s :hehe:

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WTF lol
Mick Lynch :)

Mick Skinner was the streets as well wasnt he?

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Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue

WTF lol
Mick Lynch :)

Mick Skinner was the streets as well wasnt he?

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Or Mick Skinner, the Frankenstein fusion of Mick Lynch and Dennis Skinner, creeping out of the shadows and assaulting LoM and North Cardiff Blue with its rabid socialism when they least expect it!

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Originally Posted by Swiss Peter

Economically, it is a shitshow everywhere in Europe at the mo. The question is, with our 'new found freedoms', are we in a stronger or weaker position to climb out of this pit, relative to other European economies. I have my own views, and time will tell, but posters repeatedly referencing the current German recession relative to small growth here make themselves look a bit dim by refusing to look at the bigger picture.

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The point here is that some people will only ever report bad news, and in often hysterical and hyperbolic fashion and they will do so not at an attempt to be accurate but to make party political points - I suspect several posters are members of parties and thus view this as part of the battleground.

So when people only ever cherry pick bad news and then, with limited rationale then point it back to an event in the past they disagree with, it does become relevent to point out that nearly every single problem facing Britain is also faced by other countries, sometimes to a greater extent, sometimes to a lesser extent.

And that's important in my opinion, because that is far closer to the truth than some people want to portray.

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Originally Posted by JamesWales

The point here is that some people will only ever report bad news, and in often hysterical and hyperbolic fashion and they will do so not at an attempt to be accurate but to make party political points - I suspect several posters are members of parties and thus view this as part of the battleground.

So when people only ever cherry pick bad news and then, with limited rationale then point it back to an event in the past they disagree with, it does become relevent to point out that nearly every single problem facing Britain is also faced by other countries, sometimes to a greater extent, sometimes to a lesser extent.

And that's important in my opinion, because that is far closer to the truth than some people want to portray.

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Seems Joe Public doesn't have the best grasp of how inflation works, but they know instinctively when life is getting worse for them and, for the large majority, that's what's happened over the past fifteen years, thirteen of which have seen the same party in power. If there are countries out there in western Europe who have had things as rough as we have over what is now getting close to a generation, I'd be interested to hear about them.