End of Britain

[Cricko]

An interesting video from Moneyweek showing where our country stands now.

http://pro.moneyweek.com/myk-eob/LMYKP529/

 

[steveo]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring...-Gear-series-20-episode-6-BBC-Two-review.html

 

[A Century United]

I lost interest when they showed a pretty poor grasp of statistics by using the life expectancy of everyone (skewed by high infant/child mortality), using it as the life expectancy of a working man, then saying that a working man who lived to 70 was like someone today living to 115. Really? Because I think that a lot more people lived to 70 at the turn of the century than live to 115 now.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Looks like alarmist nonsense from a magazine trying to sell more copies.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I can't view videos at work. Can anyone summarise, or has MK done that already?

 

[MK Shrimper]

I can't view videos at work. Can anyone summarise, or has MK done that already?

I didn't get the video either, but a long text description.

 

[Napster]

It's rubbish

http://coppolacomment.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-end-of-britain-not-yet.html

 

[A Century United]

I can't view videos at work. Can anyone summarise, or has MK done that already?

Pretty much,

This Yorkshireman sums up the problems with the article quite well.

 

[superblue24]

Pretty much,

This Yorkshireman sums up the problems with the article quite well.

No he doesn't. He's just a ranting blogger.

 

[A Century United]

No he doesn't. He's just a ranting blogger.

Whereas the magazine article is a poorly researched numerically illiterate advertising puff designed to initially sell magazines, and ultimately part you from your "wealth".

 

[MK Shrimper]

...and i feel fine.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

...and i feel fine.

Britain's not the world.

Go back to sleep.....

 

[MK Shrimper]

Britain's not the world.

Go back to sleep.....

:raspberry: Just what this thread reminded me of :raspberry:

 

[superblue24]

Whereas the magazine article is a poorly researched numerically illiterate advertising puff designed to initially sell magazines, and ultimately part you from your "wealth".

Agreed the original article is inaccurate and just plain scaremongery.....But the blogger loses credibility because he is just in an apopleptic rage at Money Weekly. I don't really agree with his opinons and his sources lack clarity (Index Mundi is a collation of charts and statistics from various sources across the net).

He's just a lefty looking to snipe at the Torys in any way possible, and I'd take no more notice of him than I would of what gets written in the Guardian. I took some time to read his other blogs and came to the conclusion he's just a northern whinger, whingeing about cuts and the current regime. He speaks rather confidently about the country back in the days of Harold Wilson etc considering at the age of 33 he'd have been little more than a glint in his fathers eye!

Anyhow, to say he "sums it up well" is not accurate at all. He offers an equally direct article strewn with rants.

 

[A Century United]

Agreed the original article is inaccurate and just plain scaremongery.....But the blogger loses credibility because he is just in an apopleptic rage at Money Weekly. I don't really agree with his opinons, his sources lack clarity (Index Mundi is a collation of charts and statistics from various sources across the net), he just sounds like BarnaBlue but with a brain, a little more clarity and less self importance.

He's just a lefty looking to snipe at the Torys in any way possible, and I'd take no more notice of him than I would of what gets written in the Guardian. I took some time to read his other blogs and came to the conclusion he's just a northern whinger, whingeing about cuts and the current regime. He speaks rather confidently about the country back in the days of Harold Wilson etc considering at the age of 33 he'd have been little more than a glint in his fathers eye!

Anyhow, to say he "sums it up well" is not accurate at all. He offers an equally direct article strewn with rants.

Poor Barna!

Fair point though, I was a touch hyperbolic...

 

[Napster]

Poor Barna!

Fair point though, I was a touch hyperbolic...

You should read the link I posted from an actual economist. :winking:

 

[superblue24]

Poor Barna!

Fair point though, I was a touch hyperbolic...

Good point. I'll remove that bit.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

I have read today that Japan has a national debt which makes ours look like a puddle to their ocean.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I have read today that Japan has a national debt which makes ours look like a puddle to their ocean.

Yes but Japan's "lost decade" of zero growth back in the 90's looks set to become something British politicians will replicate.