FairDooz Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Then you seem to have answered your own questions and shown why no political party is putting forward an alternative. There may be no serious full scale alternatives to the free market on offer at the moment. That doesn't mean to say anyone is happy with the unfettered excesses of the financial sector and those who reward themselves disproportionately. When David Cameron explores "moral capitalism" it's not because he supports "the system" as it stands. Quite the reverse. He's acknowledging its failings and trying to allay the growing concerns about inequality, imbalance, short-termism and the spaculators who have no sense of social responsibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muldoon Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Is it because it is true? Ha ha ha ..... spot the Daily Torygraph reader :hihi: or should that be "Tonygraph ?" Heh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Ha ha ha ..... spot the Daily Torygraph reader :hihi: or should that be "Tonygraph ?" Heh! Anybody who wants to get some truth from the news would read a broad range of papers. Which incidentally you can do for free on the net. Maybe you should give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeMaquis Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 I wonder why the Daily Torygraph would say that? Quite clearly it's sabre rattling, they know this is the most unpopular government since Thatcher and are trying to influence public opinion. A media company trying to do that ... imagine The most unpopular government since Thatcher? This week this poll http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/ put the Tories ahead. Go back 3 years and Labour finished 3rd in the European elections and in Cornwall actually came behing the Cornish nationalists. How many times, Mecky, do you need reminding YOU GOT 29% AT THE LAST GENERAL ELECTION because of how useless and UNPOPULAR Labour was? No one does self-delusion like the Labour Party does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Doesn't having an overclass mean somebody is going to be an underclass? Suppose they don't like being an underclass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muldoon Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Anybody who wants to get some truth from the news would read a broad range of papers. Which incidentally you can do for free on the net. Maybe you should give it a go. Why ? when they dont publish pictures of naked women to laugh at ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Not biting Muldoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 The most unpopular government since Thatcher? This week this poll http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/ put the Tories ahead. Go back 3 years and Labour finished 3rd in the European elections and in Cornwall actually came behing the Cornish nationalists. How many times, Mecky, do you need reminding YOU GOT 29% AT THE LAST GENERAL ELECTION because of how useless and UNPOPULAR Labour was? No one does self-delusion like the Labour Party does. This is great, it really pleases me no-end to see you hate me. Rock and roll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Further down the article is this.... Murray exposes how the new United States upper class, which he labels a “cognitive elite”, has developed an hereditary stranglehold over the top professions and management positions. The brightest people tend to marry each other, then ensure that their offspring get to the best schools and universities, with the result that, to quote Murray: “The parents of the upper-middle class now produce a disproportionate number of the smartest children.” These gilded families then inter-marry and socialise together, living in the same areas, creating a phenomenon which Murray label United States, where the cleverest and richest congregate. What Versailles was to 18th-century France, these smart postcodes are to 21st-century America – a sure sign of a sclerotic social system and long-term decline. This is worthy of a discussion. Has the developed world, become, as such in the last 30 years, by an upper echelon who has breed with itself in order to achieve an ultimate dominance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 The most unpopular government since Thatcher? This week this poll http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/ put the Tories ahead. Go back 3 years and Labour finished 3rd in the European elections and in Cornwall actually came behing the Cornish nationalists. How many times, Mecky, do you need reminding YOU GOT 29% AT THE LAST GENERAL ELECTION because of how useless and UNPOPULAR Labour was? No one does self-delusion like the Labour Party does. The polls also have Ken ahead of Boris at the moment. Read into that what you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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