It looks as if the next few years are going to be bleak in the UK.

 

My question is, what businesses are going to do well? Organised crime? Gin? Harlots? Toaster makers?

All this doomsaying really isn't going to help getting people spending again. A bit too late for that sentiment I know, but still.

What is this **** sandwich you speak of, the austerity measures the UK is taking?

1. Dismantle the corrupt finacial sector at the City of London

 

2. Start new and build a real economy

 

3. ???

 

4. Profit

 

PS: Might take a while though, but it's propably already too late anyways.

Invade someone.

It looks as if the next few years are going to be bleak in the UK.

 

My question is, what businesses are going to do well? Organised crime? Gin? Harlots? Toaster makers?

I'm getting my mom a Dualit for xmas, which is clearly a sign that the toaster business will bloom.

2 million British public workers on the strike

 

Solution? Fire dem all!

2 million British public workers on the strike

 

Solution? Fire dem all!

It looks as if the next few years are going to be bleak in the UK.

 

My question is, what businesses are going to do well? Organised crime? Gin? Harlots? Toaster makers?

 

Move to Australia?

Make Guillotines, Wals. This soon will be a very fast growing business.

What is this **** sandwich you speak of, the austerity measures the UK is taking?

 

Yes, although I'm not against austerity per se. I just mean we need to face the fact that we're going to be in a period of austerity and adapt.

 

My question then is: what now? Do we all train as navvies, or something? Go abroad? Invade Austria?

 

There must be some better option for all our unemployed to do than sit about on the dole. So what is it?

One unintended side effect of selling the austarity measures so effectively is exactly that it's making people think they are helping by not spending. It's not the blitz, being comunally miserable for queen and country is going to make things worse.

There must be some better option for all our unemployed to do than sit about on the dole. So what is it?

Agrarian socialism?

My question is, what businesses are going to do well? Organised crime? Gin? Harlots? Toaster makers?

 

Hand powered grass juicer.

 

I've heard grass is really nutritious once made into a digestible form.

All this doomsaying really isn't going to help getting people spending again. A bit too late for that sentiment I know, but still.

That's often my thought as well...not to say there aren't actual serious problems (everywhere lately it seems), but the gloomy media coverage doesn't help.

 

Don't know of a solution for the suddenly large crowd of unemployed, tho...that's always a tough one.

One unintended side effect of selling the austarity measures so effectively is exactly that it's making people think they are helping by not spending. It's not the blitz, being comunally miserable for queen and country is going to make things worse.

 

There needs to be a decade or so of readjustment like this. It's correct that people shouldn't be needlessly spending. Simplistically speaking, debt is not good, savings are, and more importantly waste and thoughtless consumption are causing vast environmental problems not least of all global warming and clean water shortages (ever seen how much water and energy go into making the average consumer good?).

 

I'm sorry but a perpetual consumption/perpetual growth economy is a fanciful notion that needs to start being challenged. Especially for countries with populations which are NOT increasing.

 

Maybe we can return to looking at consumerism as something positive when we've made the lifecycle of goods highly-sustainable.

What we have now is a slump, the opposite of a bubble. It stands to reason that if we stop the cycle of boom and bust for good, if such a thing were possible, now would be a bad time to do it.

What we have now is a slump, the opposite of a bubble. It stands to reason that if we stop the cycle of boom and bust for good, if such a thing were possible, now would be a bad time to do it.

 

Damn good point.

There must be some better option for all our unemployed to do than sit about on the dole. So what is it?

 

Become a British spy.

It's not just the UK Wals. All of Europe is ****ed.

It's not just the UK Wals. All of Europe is ****ed.

No, not all. But a lot.

It's not just the UK Wals. All of Europe is ****ed.

 

Strangely not very comforting. Since unlike our Austrian colleague I worry about my neighbours.