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GamePlayer wrote:Are you kidding? The only thing worse than an American is a Brit. Hell, even the French are more tolerable than the English!

GamePlayer wrote:Are you kidding? The only thing worse than an American is a Brit. Hell, even the French are more tolerable than the English!

Seraphan wrote:

GamePlayer wrote:Are you kidding? The only thing worse than an American is a Brit. Hell, even the French are more tolerable than the English!

"We are not amused!"

Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. You’ve spoken here about free trade, and amen to that. Who would have guessed, listening to you just now, that you were the author of the phrase ‘British jobs for British workers’ and that you have subsidised, where you have not nationalised outright, swathes of our economy, including the car industry and many of the banks? Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this house if your actions matched your words? Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the worst condition of any G20 country?

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around £20,000. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. Now, once again today you try to spread the blame around; you spoke about an international recession, international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squalls. But not every vessel in the convoy is in the same dilapidated condition. Other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls and clear their rigging; in other words – to pay off debt. But you used the good years to raise borrowing yet further. As a consequence, under your captaincy, our hull is pressed deep into the water line under the accumulated weight of your debt We are now running a deficit that touches 10% of GDP, an almost unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary; countries where the IMF have already been called in. Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising; like everyone else I have long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things. It’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year - in the last twelve months – a hundred thousand private sector jobs have been lost and yet you created thirty thousand public sector jobs.

Prime Minister, you cannot carry on for ever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we’re ‘well-placed to weather the storm’, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense! Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so; the European Commission has said so; the markets have said so – which is why our currency has devalued by thirty percent. And soon the voters too will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.

Freakzilla wrote:Did y'all hear that Parlament member's rant about the Prime Minister the other day?

Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. You’ve spoken here about free trade, and amen to that. Who would have guessed, listening to you just now, that you were the author of the phrase ‘British jobs for British workers’ and that you have subsidised, where you have not nationalised outright, swathes of our economy, including the car industry and many of the banks? Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this house if your actions matched your words? Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the worst condition of any G20 country?

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around £20,000. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. Now, once again today you try to spread the blame around; you spoke about an international recession, international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squalls. But not every vessel in the convoy is in the same dilapidated condition. Other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls and clear their rigging; in other words – to pay off debt. But you used the good years to raise borrowing yet further. As a consequence, under your captaincy, our hull is pressed deep into the water line under the accumulated weight of your debt We are now running a deficit that touches 10% of GDP, an almost unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary; countries where the IMF have already been called in. Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising; like everyone else I have long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things. It’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year - in the last twelve months – a hundred thousand private sector jobs have been lost and yet you created thirty thousand public sector jobs.

Prime Minister, you cannot carry on for ever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we’re ‘well-placed to weather the storm’, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense! Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so; the European Commission has said so; the markets have said so – which is why our currency has devalued by thirty percent. And soon the voters too will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.

I heard that shit on the radio and got a hard on. I wish we had politicians with enough balls to stand up and call out Obama for the same thing.

Freakzilla wrote:Dude, we won't even be able to pay the interest.

Crysknife wrote:

Freakzilla wrote:Dude, we won't even be able to pay the interest.

That's ok, we'll leave that for the next Republican president.

chanilover wrote:

GamePlayer wrote:Are you kidding? The only thing worse than an American is a Brit. Hell, even the French are more tolerable than the English!

That's only because you don't understand what they're saying to you. I did my bit for Anglo-French relations and shagged a Frenchie. This reputation they have for being the world's best lovers is completely undeserved.

moreh_yeladim wrote:

chanilover wrote:

GamePlayer wrote:Are you kidding? The only thing worse than an American is a Brit. Hell, even the French are more tolerable than the English!

That's only because you don't understand what they're saying to you. I did my bit for Anglo-French relations and shagged a Frenchie. This reputation they have for being the world's best lovers is completely undeserved.

Do you really think a French woman would give her all in bed with a Brit?

Of course, that Brit MP ought not have made the assumption that only private-sector work is productive, but otherwise he's damn right.

Anyway, I'm going to scupper this whole thread by pointing out that America is not, in fact, the most hated country on Earth. That title goes to Israel, who proudly open up with the full aggression and rudeness of their culture on the basis that if everyone will hate you anyway you might as well tell them all to fuck off.

Schu wrote:(psst - I don't think the french women got the reputation as the best lovers on earth...)

Schu wrote:Actually, not enough people around the world care about Israel for it to be the most hated country on earth.

Purge wrote:

Schu wrote:Actually, not enough people around the world care about Israel for it to be the most hated country on earth.

Really? And what reality does this take place in?

Schu wrote:

Purge wrote:

Schu wrote:Actually, not enough people around the world care about Israel for it to be the most hated country on earth.

Really? And what reality does this take place in?

News crews love it of course, which gives the appearance of everyone caring. But some people just figure that the middle east can bomb themselves out of existence for all they care. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm not bloody far.

Freakzilla wrote:It's not that we don't care, it's that that is what we expect to happen.