[Gllug] [Long] Down-under response. Was: File On 4 on waste in Govt computing projects

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On 3 Mar 2010, Christopher Hunter stated:
> away any wealth this country ever had and run the economy so far into
> the red that we will never recover, unless the debts are written off -
> like they have been for so many third world countries.  Financially,

Rubbish. The debts will inflate away and be grown away. That's what
sovereign debts *do*. They never *are* paid off in toto -- the financial
system *depends* on their never being paid off in toto. (Also, we will
recover: look at the maturity dates on those bonds and see you in
fourteen years.)

> the "financial acumen" to hide the fact.  Gordon Brown's ONLY ability is
> being able to lie - about the economy, about his own snout in the
> trough, about his personal dealings with the staff forced to work for
> him, and even about his own sexuality...

Er, you *do* know politicians have access to libel lawyers, right? You
sound more like a paranoid schizophrenic than anything else at this
point. You could at least have quoted him coming out with something
utterly unbelievable: he's a politician so it's not rare or hard to
find. Generally his factual utterances aren't untruthful, just carefully
partial: the so-wrong-it's-hilarious stuff has to come from his
occasional self-assessments. *Nobody* at the top of politics can *ever*
give a candid self-assessment, and this is as true of Brown as of anyone
else.

('I’ve got no personal animosity towards anybody in politics' was a
particularly good one, from a recent Economist interview. Amazingly the
interviewer did not explode in laughter the instant he said this.)

> This country no longer has any kind of manufacturing base worth
> mentioning - it was killed by the massive inflation through the 60s and
> 70s and by trades unions making British companies uncompetitive against
> even our immediate neighbours, let alone the rest of the world.

Why not just say 'I support the Tories' and not bother saying anything
else? (Only actual Tories would probably run screaming from what you
just wrote above because it's so politically insensitive.)

[snip more overdone Tory propaganda: I know people in Conservative
Central Office and *they* don't go this far over the top; they certainly
don't think the last thirteen years have been unadulterated disaster the
way you seem to]

>                                                           rapidly rising
> crime rate.  

FAIL. Let's see what a well-known commie pinko rag mentioned above has
to say about this 'rapidly rising crime rate', shall we?

<http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15452867>

The British Crime Survey agrees (but of course you don't believe that
because it's run by the government, and you don't believe anything else
because it could have been bought: who *do* you believe? Conservative
Central Office, yes, but anyone else?)

 -- N., Tory voter in the last election but you're making me think again
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