Hardly conflicts on a scale of WWI or II or even Korea (you missed that one, Mr W). Add to that the costs imposed by post war reconstruction, nationalisation of the health service, the railways and various other post ’45 experiments with socialism and you’ll soon see the problem.
Post ’97 we’ve just had experiments with socialism lite. Hell! They can’t even blame nationalisation of major industries (railtrack again falling a bit short of the 1945 government’s efforts).
Matthew
That the public wants to hold a very large quantity of risk-free government debt?
Falco
The major costs have come from the wars on nouns; drugs, terror, obesity, poverty, inequality, etc.
3 wars in the last 10 years? Lumping the Balkans various into one generic pot of putrid hate.
SE,
Hardly conflicts on a scale of WWI or II or even Korea (you missed that one, Mr W). Add to that the costs imposed by post war reconstruction, nationalisation of the health service, the railways and various other post ’45 experiments with socialism and you’ll soon see the problem.
Post ’97 we’ve just had experiments with socialism lite. Hell! They can’t even blame nationalisation of major industries (railtrack again falling a bit short of the 1945 government’s efforts).
That the public wants to hold a very large quantity of risk-free government debt?
The major costs have come from the wars on nouns; drugs, terror, obesity, poverty, inequality, etc.