BlythPower
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Compare this marvellous piece of news with this one. Who says it's one rule for the rich and another for the rest of us!
Yup. After a decade of being encouraged to be irresponsible by their chums in the Labour Government, some company directors are behaving like prats. It will take a little while for this ship to be turned round.
And, yes, I am serious.
Labour are not much better though.Yes I do despise the Tories and so should every working class person in the country
Labour are not much better though.
Not the current party which is basically Tory Lite. They are effectively no longer the party of Attlee.Wow, I had you down as a staunch Labour
Should we expect any different ?
We're in the second year of a Tory government.
Yup. After a decade of being encouraged to be irresponsible by their chums in the Labour Government, some company directors are behaving like prats. It will take a little while for this ship to be turned round.
And, yes, I am serious.
In what way is the Government is responsible for private enterprises paying their top brass large wage packets?
I do not think it is capitalism per se that is at fault - it does seem to be the most efficient system for benefiting the most people to the greatest extent But there does seem to have been a sea change in recent decades - and, yes, I do believe it was accelerated under New Labour - where the idea of personal and social responsibility has been lost. The purpose of business is not simply to "make money" but to do so in a productive and useful way (as most major economist thinkers from Smith onwards seem to have believed). The gambling we see on money markets does not meet these criteria... What I do question is a greedy capitalist system which allows such increases at a time when the rest of us are told we are lucky to get 1 or 2%, if anything at all....
I do not think it is capitalism per se that is at fault - it does seem to be the most efficient system for benefiting the most people to the greatest extent But there does seem to have been a sea change in recent decades - and, yes, I do believe it was accelerated under New Labour - where the idea of personal and social responsibility has been lost. The purpose of business is not simply to "make money" but to do so in a productive and useful way (as most major economist thinkers from Smith onwards seem to have believed). The gambling we see on money markets does not meet these criteria.
Not the current party which is basically Tory Lite. They are effectively no longer the party of Attlee.
I am not referring to the fact that Attlee is no longer the leader of the party but that the direction of the party has significantly changed since then and as I have said before Labour have now abandoned many of their socialist principles. How many Conservative principles have the Tories abandoned?In the same mould that Conservatives are no longer the party of Churchill.
.... How many Conservative principles have the Tories abandoned?
It is easy to forget that traditional Conservatism is not the harshly right-wing stuff of the John Redwood school; it is concerned mainly with helping all sectors of society, just as with the traditional ethos of the Labour Party. The chief ethical difference between the two parties - traditionally - has been between individual responsibility and state intervention. The "Grass roots Tories", sipping their whisky, frothing about Europe and making plans for renewing the death penalty are as much a self-parodying tiny minority as the "Labour Activists", plotting in their cells the overthrow of capitalism and the eradication of the aristocracy. There is much common ground, but the public portrayal of the parties is based on stirring up conflict. This is why I applaud the coalition experiment. And why I believe that trying to portray Cameron simply as a rich toff who has no idea about real people is not helpful and intensely counter-productive.Well right wing conservatism has certainly taken a blow with the departure of Liam Fox.