What did I miss?

[A Lost Iguana]

So?  

[Invictus_88]

A general election?

Oh, hang on. That could almost be the name of one of your mule accounts...  

[A Lost Iguana]

Invictus_88

A general election?

Oh, hang on. That could almost be the name of one of your mule accounts...

IggysForgottenHisPassword?

That was me. I could not be arsed to look up the password for my Gaia accounts on my old laptop.

The election was interesting. The new Con Dem nation (I do love that pun) could be quite good. It could also be a ******** but the previous government set a good standard for ********.  

[UF6]

We have fifty years of setting standards for that. You could learn from us.

And on unrelated note. I really have to learn that laugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMyNk8J1c8g&playnext_from=TL&videos=SGc1pj68bjM  

[Garwaire]

Don't see why the Tories get so much beef. Sure, people keep refering to Maggie Thatcher. But in all honesty, before she came into power, Britain was a EXTREMELY broken nation.

Sure, okay, she did a few bad things which she's infamous for (Poll Tax, for example. But that was in her later years..). Before all that fuss started, she helped turn Britain away from being a poor, financially crippled nations to becoming the economic powerhouse before and during Blair's term in office.

Before she came in, the unions controlled everything and by having to much power, nothing could get done. What really annoys me is that before Thatcher's empowerment, Britain was hit often by blackouts, union strikes and rioting. Britain was definitely better off, and has been ever since her three successful terms in office. Which is kind of funny actually, as her approval rating was never less that 40% (Dave Cameron's was only 36%).

Either way, the Tories are in now. Sitting around squabbling about "my partie ish bettah!" won't get us anywhere. We now need to band together, set aside our differences and restore this nation.

In any case, thank god we're not Greece.  

[Invictus_88]

Admiral Serenity

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In any case, thank god we're not Greece.

Not yet.

http://fora.tv/2010/03/03/Richard_Wolff_Capitalism_Hits_the_Fan#Average_Debt_for_a_British_Family_170_of_Annual_Income  

[Foetus In Fetu]

I don't know that you really missed anything at all.

Anything at all.