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>> No. 29059 Anonymous
29th November 2020
Sunday 7:56 am
29059 Dave Prowse
Personally I think the Green Cross Man was his best work.

Rest in Peace Darth Vader.
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>> No. 29101 Anonymous
30th November 2020
Monday 12:05 am
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>> No. 29104 Anonymous
30th November 2020
Monday 11:37 am
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>>29091
This hit home for me on how accents have become more subtle in recent decades. Mostly because I'm now enough of an old fart that I can notice how different I sound compared to the next generation.

Probably for the best, you wouldn't think a Peterborough-esque accent would be difficult but I do have to consciously slow down when talking to foreigners.
>> No. 29119 Anonymous
30th November 2020
Monday 6:01 pm
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>>29104

>how accents have become more subtle in recent decades

Apart from Scouse, which has inexplicably mutated beyond recognition. It used to be a gentle sing-song accent but now it sounds like a cat getting raped.
>> No. 29121 Anonymous
30th November 2020
Monday 6:46 pm
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>>29119
Ye fooooochhhhhhhing pricchhhhhhhhhhhhchchchchchhhh
>> No. 29213 Anonymous
3rd December 2020
Thursday 8:57 pm
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>>29086

Oh fuck that's fucking horrible. No charm, you can barely hear what the little shit is saying and-

...I just got to the bit where they cross the road. Is this like the 'How Now Blue Cow' where she goes to the meat factory, or is that actually a 'Think!' advert and a real one? That was pleasantly jarring.

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>> No. 29052 Anonymous
28th November 2020
Saturday 9:08 pm
29052 Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name

>Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name – Fugging – after ridicule of their signposts, especially on social media, became too much to bear.

>They finally grew weary of Fucking, its current name, which some experts say dates back to the 11th century.


And nobody will ever know...

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>> No. 28933 Anonymous
25th November 2020
Wednesday 7:42 pm
28933 Diego Maradona: Argentina legend dies aged 60
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54810392


Not corona wot dun it.
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>> No. 28941 Anonymous
26th November 2020
Thursday 10:53 am
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>>28936

>There's no such thing as "routine brain surgery"

"Routine" from the perspective of doctors, obviously. If brain surgery is all you do, then fiddling around inside a person's brain is presumably just another day's work.
>> No. 28942 Anonymous
26th November 2020
Thursday 11:14 am
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>>28935
How do you find obscure-as-fuck stuff like this? It has 30 views.
>> No. 28943 Anonymous
26th November 2020
Thursday 11:21 am
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>>28942
He uploaded it.
>> No. 28944 Anonymous
26th November 2020
Thursday 11:28 am
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>>28942

Sort by upload date or filter by date. Also:

https://millionshort.com/
>> No. 28960 Anonymous
26th November 2020
Thursday 3:36 pm
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>>28944
I searched for "britfa.gs" on that site and this was the second result:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50545658

Doesn't seem very accurate

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>> No. 28800 Anonymous
13th November 2020
Friday 11:30 am
28800 Leeds officer dressed as clown during five-year undercover police operation
Millions of pounds of public money was “misspent” on undercover policing operations – which included an officer being trained as a clown, a public inquiry has been told.

>Peter Weatherby QC, who is representing 18 individuals and organisations who have been spied on, played a video of an officer known as EN34, whose undercover name was “Lynn Watson”, on Tuesday.

>In the clip, filmed in Leeds in 2004, she appears in costume and clown make-up, waving a feather duster, as part of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (Circa) – a street performance campaign group.

>Mr Weatherby said EN34 infiltrated the group, along with a series of other peace and environmental campaigns, over a five-year period during which she “befriended and tricked countless individuals”.

>He also showed a picture of HN118, whose assumed name was “Simon Wellings”, who he said used his time undercover to build an orange military tank out of plywood and cardboard.

>The officer was photographed at an anti-arms trade protest in the tank with the Globalise Resistance group, which he infiltrated from 2002 until he was unmasked in 2004.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/crime/leeds-officer-dressed-clown-during-five-year-undercover-police-operation-clown-army-3032173
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>> No. 28834 Anonymous
13th November 2020
Friday 9:22 pm
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>>28833

The police are quite happy to infiltrate the far-right in their free time.
>> No. 28835 Anonymous
13th November 2020
Friday 9:40 pm
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I assume the argument is that violent groups are usually grown out of non violent groups (like the way alf is the militant wing of peta to anyone in the know even though officially they aren't they just happen to spring spontaneity) so they need to infiltrate the non violent groups to be in a position to join the violent groups when they start which means being a known violent to begin with.

It is all ends justify the means crap, but I see the slip.
>> No. 28838 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 5:11 am
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>>28830

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ21d_eSUkE
>> No. 28854 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 11:50 am
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>>28828

Do you have any evidence far right groups in the UK receive establishment funding?
>> No. 28855 Anonymous
15th November 2020
Sunday 12:19 pm
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>>28854
He's talking bollocks. When you can get your message across by throwing money at professional twats like Are Nige or Laurence Fox and by actually owning media organisations there's no need to give money to a bunch of racist skinheads.

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>> No. 28797 Anonymous
12th November 2020
Thursday 10:19 pm
28797 Daredevil Brit climber, 19, strips NAKED while swinging off a 660ft crane
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13168292/daredevil-brit-climber-19-strips-naked-660ft-crane-benidorm/

Adam Lockwood, 19, clambered up the construction crane in Benidorm, Spain, last weekend.

He removed his climbing trousers and shoes and hung from the 200 metre crane's arm with both hands in a death-defying stunt.

For the daredevil climber from Manchester, it was the latest in a series of jaw-dropping climbs he has achieved, but the first he has completed by hanging naked.
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>> No. 28831 Anonymous
13th November 2020
Friday 8:17 pm
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>>28823

>The danger is the entire thrill.

Curiously, the world's best free solo climber seems to have some kind of neurological immunity to the effects of fear.

https://nautil.us/issue/39/sport/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber
>> No. 28836 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 12:41 am
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>>28823

>The adrenaline rush of knowing one slip could end your life is 100% of the reason these mad lads are doing it instead of the hard wall at their local gym.

If you get a kick out of the possibility of absolutely life ending mistakes that could happen at any time within split seconds, and so much so that you become addicted to the experience, then I am sorry but you're just a bit too fucked in the head to be allowed to be out in the world where you are obviously a danger to yourself, and possibly others.
>> No. 28837 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 3:20 am
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>>28812

>You can say this about almost anything, including equally dangerous things like driving a car.

Yeah good point, I wonder how dangerous it is to go cycling. I'm a bike rider myself.
>> No. 28839 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 1:15 pm
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>>28837

>I wonder how dangerous it is to go cycling.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzhlDnTv0pc
>> No. 28847 Anonymous
14th November 2020
Saturday 5:03 pm
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>>28839

If you don't jump a ravine is it even worth bothering?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76VEPXYaI0

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>> No. 28775 Anonymous
11th November 2020
Wednesday 8:00 pm
28775 Croydon Council ‘declares bankruptcy’
>

Croydon Council ‘declares bankruptcy’ and bans spending with Section 114 notice



>It is the first time a local authority has issued a Section 114 since Northamptonshire County Council in 2018

>Croydon Council has effectively declared bankruptcy, just weeks after auditors accused the Labour-led authority of years of financial mismanagement.

>The council issued a Section 114 notice on Wednesday, barring all new spending except on safeguarding and statutory services.

>It is the first time a local authority has issued the notice since Northamptonshire County Council in 2018.

>Last month Croydon Council was placed under a government review after a damning report by auditors Grant Thornton found there had been “collective corporate blindness to both the seriousness of the financial position and the urgency with which actions needed to be taken”.

>The report revealed that warnings about the council’s parlous financial situation dating back to 2017/2018 had been effectively ignored.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/croydon-council-effectively-bankrupt-section-114-b66240.html
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>> No. 28777 Anonymous
12th November 2020
Thursday 1:54 am
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I thought councils were not allowed to lose money? Did I make that up entirely or is there some manner of law or prevision like that?

Anyway, one of the reasons I like more decentralisation in this country is so someone's keeping an eye on scoundrel laden councils like these. Maybe Croydon really did think they had a brilliant plan and they'd be millionaires by this time next year and never again have to rely on a drip feed of cold piss from central government, but Manchester are a complete load of bastards who've let the city centre go to pot in various ways.
>> No. 28779 Anonymous
12th November 2020
Thursday 8:53 am
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Is this anything to do with how the Tories encouraged councils to be more like businesses and raise money that way? You know instead of funding from central government?
>> No. 28782 Anonymous
12th November 2020
Thursday 9:19 am
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>>28777
No, councils aren't allowed to set unbalanced budgets. They can't stop themselves from losing money if it all goes tits up, though.
>> No. 28784 Anonymous
12th November 2020
Thursday 12:17 pm
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>>28779

It's a long story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate-capping_rebellion
>> No. 28885 Anonymous
19th November 2020
Thursday 3:53 pm
28885 Bexley Council backs job-cutting strategy to balance books
>Bexley Council has approved its latest strategy for a raft of money-saving measures including cutting up to 150 full-time posts from its budget in an effort to plug a large financial black hole.

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/18881467.bexley-council-backs-job-cutting-strategy-balance-books/

Looks like Bexley's next. There are rumours, not yet published, that they will be begging the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government for money this week.

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>> No. 28692 Anonymous
3rd November 2020
Tuesday 9:55 pm
28692 Yankpocalypse 2020 Locked
One nice thread for the American election. Which will be nice.
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>> No. 28693 Anonymous
3rd November 2020
Tuesday 10:13 pm
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Thanks for making the third thread about it.

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>> No. 28624 Anonymous
31st October 2020
Saturday 12:49 pm
28624 Sean Connery
Oh.

The best Bond.
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>> No. 28625 Anonymous
31st October 2020
Saturday 12:53 pm
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>>28624
Was it covid wot done it, or just old age?
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31st October 2020
Saturday 12:54 pm
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>>28625
Yes.
>> No. 28628 Anonymous
31st October 2020
Saturday 1:24 pm
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>> No. 28629 Anonymous
31st October 2020
Saturday 1:31 pm
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The only Bond ever worthy of that name.


RIP.
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31st October 2020
Saturday 1:47 pm
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>> No. 28551 Anonymous
25th October 2020
Sunday 3:52 pm
28551 Potential ITZ
Attempted hijacking of oil tanker reported off Isle of Wight.

Police dealing with incident involving Liberian-registered vessel south of Sandown.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/25/attempted-hijacking-of-oil-tanker-reported-off-isle-of-wight
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>> No. 28583 Anonymous
28th October 2020
Wednesday 12:28 am
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>>28581
If you ever post this shite again I'll kill and eat you.
>> No. 28584 Anonymous
28th October 2020
Wednesday 7:48 am
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>>28583
He's just saying it as it is. The voice of reason.
>> No. 28585 Anonymous
28th October 2020
Wednesday 3:34 pm
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>>28583


I watch this when I need cheering up.
>> No. 28609 Anonymous
30th October 2020
Friday 6:24 pm
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>>28585
I use this one for the same purpose.


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30th October 2020
Friday 7:23 pm
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>>28583
Have some fresh hot Davidson.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IPMVu4wzZE

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>> No. 28523 Anonymous
22nd October 2020
Thursday 12:38 pm
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In December it'll be 10 years since the so-called Arab Spring started.

What did it actually achieve? Apart from toppling Gaddafi, Mubarak and probably a few others I'm quite clueless about it.
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>> No. 28541 Anonymous
24th October 2020
Saturday 5:03 pm
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>>28526

>In so many countries the revolutions, as most revolutions tend to, were either crushed or became the oppressors

Revolutions devour their children, as an old saying goes. Many revolutions in history were followed by oppressive or totalitarian regimes because they seized the opportunity of filling the power vacuum after the old elites were deposed. It was that way in the French revolution, in Russia, and places like Cuba or indeed even the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Almost all of those revolutions began with the highest aspirations of liberty and equality, but they just ended up swapping out one corrupt elite for another corrupt elite. Because what you need to run a country isn't idealists who don't know much else besides the fact that they want the old regime gone. You need realists with power instincts and the will to usurp that power. Who then tend to be just as corrupt and oppressive as the old regime.
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24th October 2020
Saturday 10:50 pm
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Obama / Clinton / Blair fucked up North Africa. Gaddafi always used the threat of being able to hold back the influx of North African Islamic mentalists rather than the ability to gain weapons. Bombama thought he could liberate the people, in the same way that the left could liberate Iran from the Shah. It all fucked up leading to a power vacuum and a militant brigade of ISIS moving from Syria, moving in to dominate North Africa and co-ordinating efforts with people smugglers to infiltrate Europe via Italy (Lampedusa) or wait for countries to accept them as ' refugees'.
>> No. 28543 Anonymous
25th October 2020
Sunday 12:00 am
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>>28542
What's going on in this photo, white middle class kids plus some boomers LARPing as refugees??
>> No. 28544 Anonymous
25th October 2020
Sunday 1:47 am
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>>28543
It's an invasion m8. Send them all back to Oxford-bongo-land.
>> No. 28545 Anonymous
25th October 2020
Sunday 7:50 am
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>>28543
It's an Amsterdam canal cruise.

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>> No. 28340 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 3:48 pm
28340 North Korea news
That is a fucking big missile.
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>> No. 28342 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 3:59 pm
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A quid says it's made of papier mache.
>> No. 28343 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 4:06 pm
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>>28342
I WANT TO BELIEVE.

I believe the Russians tried to build a TEL like that - the rocket is fine, its the transporter that doesn't work at that size.
>> No. 28344 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 5:37 pm
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>>28342 fiver says it's made of pixels
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10th October 2020
Saturday 8:05 pm
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Does it really matter? The people they most want to blow up are an M6 motorway away and they can't get them off the ground regardless. And for the record I WANT them to hit Washington DC, I just don't think they ever will.
>> No. 28347 Anonymous
10th October 2020
Saturday 8:55 pm
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>>28344

The transporter is definitely real. China got into quite a lot of bother for selling the Norks half a dozen massive "logging trucks".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS51200

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>> No. 28256 Anonymous
5th October 2020
Monday 11:20 am
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A HYPNOTIST has been arrested for giving patients illegal prostate exams during hypnotherapy sessions, officials said.

Robert Bruckner, 55, was charged with sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and practicing medicine without a license, WLNY reported.


Have you ever been hynotised?
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>> No. 28279 Anonymous
5th October 2020
Monday 7:14 pm
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>>28276

>Apparently you're either suggestible or you're not

Convenient eh? Call me cynical but I think it's much more likely that it only works on a tiny fraction of people to begin with, if any, and she's just essentially conning her "customers" out of the cash. I doubt she has a refund policy at any rate.

If you listen to people like Derren Brown, "suggestible" here is more or less a euphemism for "willingly playing along but telling yourself you didn't". No mater how willingly I played along I don't think I'd be able to make myself jizz by sound alone.
>> No. 28283 Anonymous
5th October 2020
Monday 8:04 pm
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>>28279
>"willingly playing along but telling yourself you didn't".

Well, this was my point posting the story; all the people I know of who have been hypnotised report it as being relaxed, but very aware of what is going on - rarely is it the (fake) stage hypnosis we see where people apparently do things they didn't want to do, or weren't actually happy doing. Which brings us back to the prostate examination...
>> No. 28284 Anonymous
5th October 2020
Monday 8:07 pm
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>>28274
He's Keir Starmer in a few years.
>> No. 28287 Anonymous
5th October 2020
Monday 9:19 pm
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>>28284
No. Looks like Jonah Hill in a few years.
>> No. 28480 Anonymous
19th October 2020
Monday 11:17 am
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Unless Derren is pulling yet another one of his famous double bluffs, he says being suggestible is just that - suggestion - and therefore it's not just rare, it's impossible to hypnotise someone into doing something they aren't happy to do. But he also draws a clear distinction between 'true' hypnosis and people who pretend to be hypnotised out of social pressure or the fun of it so I don't think >>28279 is right either.

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>> No. 27994 Anonymous
24th September 2020
Thursday 7:14 pm
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Police confiscate 345,000 recycled condoms in Vietnam

Police in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new, state media reported.

Footage by state-owned Vietnam Television (VTV) this week showed dozens of large bags containing the used contraceptives scattered across the floor of a warehouse in the southern province of Binh Duong. Police said the bags weighed over 360kg (794 lbs), equivalent to around 345,000 condoms, according to VTV.

The owner of the warehouse said they had received a “monthly input of used condoms from an unknown person”. A woman detained during the operation told police the used condoms were first boiled in water then dried and reshaped on a wooden phallus before being repackaged and resold.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/police-confiscate-345000-recycled-condoms-in-vietnam

Urrrrrgh!
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>> No. 27997 Anonymous
24th September 2020
Thursday 7:23 pm
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>>27994
I almost posted the same story.

Just BLEUEURGHRGHGH

Where did she get them all from?
>> No. 27998 Anonymous
24th September 2020
Thursday 7:25 pm
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Typical lefty media, always whinging about the environment then moaning whenever someone takes the initiative. Sad!
>> No. 27999 Anonymous
24th September 2020
Thursday 7:25 pm
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>>27997
Probably a side hustle for prostitutes.
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24th September 2020
Thursday 8:10 pm
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>> No. 28011 Anonymous
24th September 2020
Thursday 9:32 pm
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It's not easy being green.

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>> No. 27669 Anonymous
14th September 2020
Monday 5:11 pm
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‘Hitler youths’ using Instagram to recruit children

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hitler-youths-using-instagram-to-recruit-children-xfgnglklv
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>> No. 27887 Anonymous
21st September 2020
Monday 10:50 pm
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>>27869
The unions are over-blamed for Britain's pre-Thatcher malaise. Yes, they were chaotic bastards in the 1970s - but that was the nature of the period. The narrative that has stuck now is that in the 1970s we took a radical swing left and it all went to shit, which is practically the opposite of what actually happened.
Why was inflation so high by the mid 1970s? Unions? (They did bring down Heath after all) Not quite. Britain was running a highly inflationary economic policy under Heath to grow the economy in preparation for joining the EEC, while bank lending had been deregulated with the implementation of Competition and Credit Control. The result was that when the 1973 oil crisis hit and sent prices skyrocketing for everyone, Britain did particularly badly out of it.
The Miner's strike that brought down Heath was hardly union intransigence: They were some of the worst paid people in the country, they could've been given a raise in accordance with the government's pay guidelines, and on the eve of the election even the pay board was saying as much. Heath was the one who fucked up there.
So Labour came in offering the unions a fair deal: You keep down your pay demands, we'll up public spending so that your standard of living goes up, and everyone's happy. (This strategy actually worked very well for Australia in the 1980s.) Then Labour went back on that promise while expecting the unions to keep up their end of the bargain.
There's the famous IMF loan, which is usually imagined as a sign of national bankruptcy when it was really built on a succession of misunderstandings. The problem was never that we couldn't afford the domestic public spending deficit (measured in Pounds), the problem was that we calculated we'd import too much foreign goods without exporting enough of our own (the trade deficit), which meant we'd need a loan in dollars to make up the difference to stop the pound going down in value. The treasury at the time was operating with an economic model that says if the pound goes below a certain value, it'll go into freefall. We now know that to be untrue. On top of that, the treasury had miscalculated the cost of our imports in any case, so the loan was unnecessary. (Since about 1987 we've run a trade deficit every single year, for reference)
So Labour signed up to an IMF loan it didn't need and which demanded punitive public spending cuts, which understandably pissed off the unions. They were further pissed off when an election which was widely expected to happen in 1978 didn't. (Again, a miscalculation.) By the time the Winter of Discontent happened, the public sector unions had plenty of legitimate reasons to be upset with the government, and the private sector unions had plenty of legitimate reasons to demand their employers pay them more than the government's guidelines allowed.
But carrying on like this was never on the ballot paper: Setting aside the miners, the big reason for strikes was pay and conditions. Pay wasn't keeping pace with prices. This is a problem that would (world economy and non-implosion of the UK economy allowing) always have become less significant with time.

Britain doesn't exist in a vacuum. Almost every first world country suffered similar instabilities and changes of government through the 1970s. Many of them even tell themselves the same story of their pre-80s reform world. (New Zealand also likes to play up how they were the most controlled economy outside the USSR for example) What made ours sting particularly badly was that it came at the tail end of decolonization, when we were already in the mood to feel like we were in permanent decline. Relative to our European competitors, we were actually doing better on inflation, growth and unemployment in the 1970s (as the sick man of Europe) than we were in the 1980s. But because the 1980s were a much more stable decade, the popular memory is that the tough medicine was working even as our GDP slipped behind that of Italy (a position we'd not recover from until 1997), that powerhouse of good economic management.

>>27875
British Leyland is a good example for the general precedent of British failures. Setting aside our government, our private sector management isn't very good either. Both in the 1970s, and echoed again after Brexit, you can see a recurring problem of laziness and complacency on the part of our management. When the pound drops in value, you can reliably expect British companies to pocket the extra profits by increasing their prices rather than using the fact their goods are now cheaper to expand into new markets and make themselves more resilient in the future.
The government agency that acquired British Leyland had actually been designed to buy a slice of successful British companies and help them with long term planning, etc, as well as to support organizations like co-operatives. That was one of the actual left-wing ideas of the 1974 Labour manifesto. But the Labour right were dominant in cabinet at the time and had no real interest in that sort of thing, so instead it wound up being used to save companies that it would be too politically costly to let die. (There's an excellent quote somewhere about how the National Enterprise Board went from "socialist maternity unit to capitalist nursing home" or something.)

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>> No. 27889 Anonymous
21st September 2020
Monday 11:25 pm
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>>27887
You need a hobby, possibly in writing political blogs.
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22nd September 2020
Tuesday 12:04 am
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>>27887
This is great. Long, but great.
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22nd September 2020
Tuesday 12:25 am
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>>27887

>British Leyland is a good example for the general precedent of British failures. Setting aside our government, our private sector management isn't very good either.

British Leyland suffered from attempted, and miserably failed central planning of operations and workflow between its constituent companies. At its worst, it was run like a government entity, and not like a private-sector conglomerate. Building cars isn't just about boshing together a few body panels with some nuts and bolts, you need to have people who ensure that factory A receives parts from factory B that are needed, when they are needed, and of adequate quality. Somebody trained in production logistics needs to be in charge of the big picture. Not politicians and government clerks. If you have them calling the shots, then you will run any private company into the ground, because their way of thinking just isn't compatible with running a private-sector, for-profit company. No matter if you've got a Labour or Tory government at the helm.
>> No. 27895 Anonymous
22nd September 2020
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I agree. Long political posts are great because they let you co-opt opinions about things you care nothing about, thereby fooling people into thinking you're more worldly than you really are.

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