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Because privatised health care is even worse - and we should know - Ireland has a hybrid part public part private health system. The NHS is one of the most precious things that Britain has - one of the few national health systems in the world - fund it properly, pay the staff properly, stop...

1. Rusty Maggie I did indicate above that the change to neo-liberalism did lead to economic growth - at least in its earliest stages (in fact that world economy was turning just as Thatcher was coming into power as the recession bottomed out in 1979). I would dispute your figure of 35% - if...

Food and clothing are significantly cheaper in real terms than 50 years ago - why - 1. Food is increasingly produced in huge ranches with large machinery - and are generally filled with chemicals to give them an increasingly longer shelf life. In 1800 it took 56 work hours to produce a acre of...

Of course the theory is bogus - it is a mechanism to drive down wages and increase profits. Only once in the last 50 odd years has a measure been taken in a capitalist context that brought inflation to a shuttering halt. That well-known Republican chancer Richard Nixon, in an effort to cut...

The 99% are and have been suffering declining living standards since the emergence of neo-liberalism in the late 1970s. The poorest 10% of people in Britain pay a higher effective tax rate than the richest 10%. The NHS doctors are not on strike for a pay increase - the are on strike for pay...

Potter has to be very careful about the next job he takes - he has to be at least to some small degree a success. Another debacle like Chelsea and he will be off the boards for most clubs who will adopt the attitude that his success at Brighton was down to the club and not the man (particularly...

Of course they support him - there isn't a cop in America that doesn't vote Republican - and why ? - because Trump and the Republicans allow the cops to act with impunity. One of the first steps necessary for policing in America is the abolition of qualified immunity. Furthermore, America isn't...

Trump is more of a catalyst than anything else - the groundwork for the far-right in America has been consciously nurtured for quite a while - by some very wealthy individuals (e.g. Rupert Murdoch) - if Trump dropped dead tomorrow there would be a dozen more Trumps waiting in the wings to...

Are people still trying to push this conspiracy :rolleyes:

Let's be clear - wage rises DO NOT cause inflation. Inflation is the result of the drive for profits. Capitalism needs inflation to maximise profits and keep the good times rolling (for the 1%).

Not quite right - the club is owned by a tiny number of very wealth people and a handful of vulture funds. Given the amount that has been harvested out of the club by the Glazers (and the vulture funds through interest) - the money for Greenwood is inconsequential. But irrespective of that - a...

Oh yea - idiots from day one to think they could have got away with it - thinking with their balance sheet rather than their brain.

Sewerage plant worker - actually no - how about somewhere where he doesn't have any contact with women - maybe a men's prison, as the shower cleaner.

Trump is not the problem - he is nothing more than a manifestation of the decrepit, decaying, cesspit that is capitalist society in America.

American right-wing judges are like every other right-wing politician in America - lining their pockets at every opportunity (and sometimes up to a lot of other stuff as well). And just so we are clear - the Dem judges are just as bad as the Trumpers.

It was 5-5 on Saturday and Foster was at fault for all 5 conceded. He knew his time was up and made the right decision.

It is the right thing to do - it would have been a major mistake to have kept him. On top of getting booted by MU - the guy shouldn't get signed by any other club - anywhere (but you know some gobsh*te owner will think he can face down the baggage that comes with Greenwood).

A further addition to this - have a look at the 2min highlights from QPR and Ipswich yesterday and you will see why I think Armstrong is going to be a good player.

Everton look like they are in major trouble

Delighted for Connolly - but Rosenior says he isn't fit and can't play for more than 30 mins. Rosenior is going to be a very good one (he has produced in every coaching job he has done) - I suspect that he will be high on the list when eventually RDZ gets poached by someone.