| Kyros said: For YOU. People who actually live in the UK find prices are rising rapidly. Life can be cruel n'est ce pas? Excuse my limited compassion. For a decade we Germans have been the number one exporter in the world but nevertheless had near flat GDP growth, flat house prices, wage restraints, high taxes ... While the English had a boom build on financial services and increasing house prices. (Do you actually "produce" something?) I mean I wish you luck but seriously that's how it is and I think its cool that I can profit a bit from it. |
I hadn't thought about it like that. I suppose that since we 'run' the economy (financial services) we do it on terms favourable to us. Yet the countries which manufacture stuff do less well than us - Africa provides most of our food, for example, but they are paid much less than it is worth in our country.
I would just say that, despite the impressive figures like GDP growth and house prices our country has had, due to the stupidity of our Labour government we as people have not benefited at all (schools and hospitals have not improved; taxes remain high; our infrastructure hasn't been improved; government and personal debt has never been higher; etc.). Now we are suffering a recession and the government doesn't have a surplus they can now inject to help us - they have a huge deficit.
