Gordon's alive!
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Here's a nice thought anyway, this could be us if we listen to the protesters and do as they wish.
http://www.openeurope.org.uk/researc...estructure.pdf
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This also echoes my thoughts
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No one, or almost no one, will point out the amazing truth, which is that these cuts — variously described as ‘savage’ or ‘draconian’ or, by the TUC, as a ‘massacre’ — are actually comparatively mild. Far from being ‘slashed’, public expenditure at the end of the process in 2014-15 will be a mere three per cent lower in real terms than it was in 2009-10 before the cuts began.
That wasn’t a misprint. Three per cent lower. In 2009-10, government spending was £669 billion. In 2014-15 it is projected to be £647 billion, if you strip out the effects of inflation, or an estimated £764 billion if it is included. Expenditure will be £710 billion in 2011-2012, so in money terms it has already gone up.
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Dr Morgan recounts how in 1999-2000 government spending totalled £343 billion. Had it simply risen with inflation, it would have reached £438 billion by 2009-10. In fact, expenditure that year was £669 billion, an increase in real terms of 53 per cent over a ten-year period during which Gross Domestic Product (i.e. the value of all goods and services produced by the economy) increased by less than 17 per cent.
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The Selfish Left.
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Well,I don't know Arthur,TBH I have job offers galore at the mo... I even have to refuse stuff!! 
There's plenty of work out there,and a positive,can-do mindset is a good start,imo. (although I quietly suspect you don't really care for that) |
Me too actually. Get contacted at least a couple of times a month.
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For those interested there is a 'March For The Alternative' iPhone app. Don't worry, for those impoverished peeps who can only afford an iPhone 3GS it works on that one too.
There's some irony there in pretty much the most expensive smartphone having an app for this somewhere.