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ErnstRemarx wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Couple forced to live apart after 65 YEARS because of savage care cuts
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/co ... er-5186412

Very sad story - and will get all the more common if we don't sort out the ludicrous divisions between health and social care provision and spending. Wasting a huge amount of the health budget with this poor lady stuck in hospital ... for the sake of far less money to provide the necessary home care. Not to mention the terrible denial of human rights here ... yes, I consider it that bad ... denial of the right to family life.

Just remember - if the local council don't have the funding to keep that couple together, the blame lies in London with Cameron. Never forget. Never forgive.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index. ... t-weekend/

The mystery of the second ICM poll that was carried out last weekend

citizenJA wrote:"Today, turning to the European crisis, the crisis in the United States and the long-term stagnation of Japanese capitalism, most commentators fail to appreciate the dialectical process under their nose. They recognise the mountain of debts and banking losses but neglect the opposite side of the same coin: the mountain of idle savings that are “frozen” by fear and thus fail to convert into productive investments. A Marxist alertness to binary oppositions might have opened their eyes."

- Yanis Varoufakis

Phone polls like this one don’t come cheaply. They’re not the sort of thing that a party or organisation that’s strapped for resources can be commissioning. My feeling is that it must have been linked to the Conservative machine. If I am right then the person who knows better than anybody whether the ICM Guardian poll was an outlier or not is Lynton Crosby.

Meanwhile we know from the other polls that were carried out at the same time and later that there has yet to be corroboration for the CON surge that ICM found.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Ernst, the incinerator went through, I think. Appeal to Pickles is pointless, isn't it?

ErnstRemarx wrote:

citizenJA wrote:"Today, turning to the European crisis, the crisis in the United States and the long-term stagnation of Japanese capitalism, most commentators fail to appreciate the dialectical process under their nose. They recognise the mountain of debts and banking losses but neglect the opposite side of the same coin: the mountain of idle savings that are “frozen” by fear and thus fail to convert into productive investments. A Marxist alertness to binary oppositions might have opened their eyes."

- Yanis Varoufakis

I tell you what, I would rate our chances in the UK an awful lot higher if that bloke was in charge of our exchequer, instead of the wanker we've got. I think Greece has got it right. The climb out of imposed austerity will be painful - for the owning classes; for ordinary Greeks, this could well be the escape route. If the EU intervene to scupper this, then shame on them. Austerity was never really needed - another capitalist myth. Fancy giving private banks billions of our money without guarantees? That's what happened. I'd have privatised the fucking lot.

ErnstRemarx wrote:

citizenJA wrote:"Today, turning to the European crisis, the crisis in the United States and the long-term stagnation of Japanese capitalism, most commentators fail to appreciate the dialectical process under their nose. They recognise the mountain of debts and banking losses but neglect the opposite side of the same coin: the mountain of idle savings that are “frozen” by fear and thus fail to convert into productive investments. A Marxist alertness to binary oppositions might have opened their eyes."

- Yanis Varoufakis

I tell you what, I would rate our chances in the UK an awful lot higher if that bloke was in charge of our exchequer, instead of the wanker we've got. I think Greece has got it right. The climb out of imposed austerity will be painful - for the owning classes; for ordinary Greeks, this could well be the escape route. If the EU intervene to scupper this, then shame on them. Austerity was never really needed - another capitalist myth. Fancy giving private banks billions of our money without guarantees? That's what happened. I'd have privatised the fucking lot.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

ErnstRemarx wrote:

citizenJA wrote:"Today, turning to the European crisis, the crisis in the United States and the long-term stagnation of Japanese capitalism, most commentators fail to appreciate the dialectical process under their nose. They recognise the mountain of debts and banking losses but neglect the opposite side of the same coin: the mountain of idle savings that are “frozen” by fear and thus fail to convert into productive investments. A Marxist alertness to binary oppositions might have opened their eyes."

- Yanis Varoufakis

I tell you what, I would rate our chances in the UK an awful lot higher if that bloke was in charge of our exchequer, instead of the wanker we've got. I think Greece has got it right. The climb out of imposed austerity will be painful - for the owning classes; for ordinary Greeks, this could well be the escape route. If the EU intervene to scupper this, then shame on them. Austerity was never really needed - another capitalist myth. Fancy giving private banks billions of our money without guarantees? That's what happened. I'd have privatised the fucking lot.

Given that the two biggest EU nations are Greece's big creditors, and they have between them 13 times the population of Greece, would it really be "shameful" to take a hard line with Greece?

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Payment by results?!

How on earth can a supposedly neutral assessment be paid on that basis.

TechnicalEphemera wrote: In my view yes.

The EU trashed Greece by dithering. In reality they did this to give their banks time to reduce their exposure to any haircut.

Now Greece is running huge surpluses, but its people have no healthcare and the suicide rate is horrendous.

The deal should be to write off some of the debt (a good chunk of which the EU caused) and to reduce the interest payments to sensible levels.

Greece has a new discipline, they may not privatise everything but they will collect taxes and they will run a surplus. Call it a win, do the same for Portugal, Spain and Italy; see growth return.