Dave1970
Landlord.
They probably do have a hymen sheet, after all they are a bunch of c..................I'll get me coat
Norman Tebbit said:I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking till he found it.
IPA said:Norman Tebbit said:I grew up in the '30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking till he found it.
What riots?
Dave1970 said:They probably do have a hymen sheet, after all they are a bunch of c..................I'll get me coat
johnnyboy1965 said:2, Proprotional representation is wrong, its just not fair for some voters.
Aleman said:Gove is a true politician . . .if his mouth his moving he is lying :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:Dave1970 said:Michael Gove as a 'boss'?
calumscott said:How can a socialist pay for socialism without a strong market driven private sector paying high levels of tax? (previous socialist governments ludicrous borrowing excluded)
How can a capitalist reconcile that some services really are better served outside of a free market economy? (Electricity generation - there is only one grid, railways - there is only rail network for example)
Dronfieldbrewer said:Both of the above have missed the point that this once great nation was a giant of manufacture for the rest of the world, we invented things, we made things and most importantly we exported things. Which ever future government we get, we need to redress this balance and get rid of vast swaithes of pen pushing, bedwetting management and get back to basics. We need to encourage manufacture of stuff and export our way out of trouble.
The only party that are singing off this hymen sheet in my eyes are UKIP.
TRXnMe said:The last Govt that gave us a balanced trade was Major's, since then the balance of trade has been a 45 degree down slope, with us buying in much more than we sell, this is not a supportable model
Tim_Crowhurst said:TRXnMe said:The last Govt that gave us a balanced trade was Major's, since then the balance of trade has been a 45 degree down slope, with us buying in much more than we sell, this is not a supportable model
The "balance of trade" thing can be misleading. In terms of hard physical goods we're exporting less than we import, but that's only part of the economic equation. Non-tangible products have been an important part of the British economy for many decades, and have become even more important over the last fifteen years.
The UK has more major publishing houses than any other country, and our music and software industries are also amongst the largest. These industries have been changed more than almost any others by the digital revolution, resulting in a massive shift from hardcopy formats (DVDs, CDs, books) to digitals (MP3, FLV, PDF). Amazon has been selling more eBooks than hardcopies for several years. When a consumer in another country buys an e-product by a British author/singer/producer/etc., the UK economy benefits from the royalties, but the sale doesn't count as an export because, in most cases, the sale goes through a foreign intermediary like Amazon or iTunes, so the item sold is "produced" outside the UK.
Our universities are also an important source of income. A degree from a British university is held in great esteem in many countries, and for good reason: the UK is second only to America in the number of its universities in the world-wide top 100, and if you take into account the fact that our population is one-fifth that of the United States, we easily outperform them. Foreign students' tuition fees are not the only way in which we make money either - there's also rent, food, clothing and other living expenses, none of which are exports. The degree isn't an export either.
The same is also true of the UK's banking sector, which is heavily geared towards providing services in international banking. For example, when someone pays for something online from a country with a different currency, the transaction often goes through a British company like WorldPay, but the service provided does not count as an export.
This is also true of tourism, sports and other TV programs, online media, pay-for-access/service (e.g. dating, porn) websites: these don't count as exports, yet all of these involve money coming into the British economy to pay the people working in those industries.
The question is whether or not the income from all of these is more or less than the difference between our imports and exports.
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