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German ridicule for UK policies

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BBC NEWS | Business | German ridicule for UK policies.

Isn't the German finance minister precisely right? What fools the British voters are to fall for policies which are the national equivalent of using one credit card to pay off another. What fools they are to follow a deluded man who has graduated from being a mere son of the manse to believing he's the actual Son of God. Old Holborn reckons he's "Dagenham" (i.e. three stops past Barking). It seems the German government (a coalition including their Social Democratic Party, by the way) agrees.

4 responses to “German ridicule for UK policies”

  1. tbrrob Avatar
    tbrrob

    They’re going to f**k us royally. I’m just glad I’m young and haven’t got much too lose.Apart from my freedom of course.

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  2. wonderfulforhisage Avatar
    wonderfulforhisage

    We’ve spent the last forty to fifty years dumbing down our education system to the point when the public at large don’t have the intellectual wherewithal to think for themselves. Little wonder the British electorate is in general so bovine.
    I can’t make my mind up whether this has been a conspiracy or cockup. Maybe a bit of both? Who knows?
    We need a LEADER, a Churchill or a Thatcher or even a Ghandi, to lead us out of this barren wilderness. And what have we got? Brown and the ‘Heir to Blair’.
    Cometh the hour cometh the man? Let’s hope so.

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  3. Guthrum Avatar
    Guthrum

    Mandelson is now going after Channel 4, Peston was an absolute disgrace on BBC last night, saying the majority of people agreed with Brown in this country, not Steinbruck

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    Olaf

    http://www.order-order.com/2008/12/balls-germans-dont-really-mean-it.html
    The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
    H. L. Mencken

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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