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Good luck getting that through. Touching anything to do with the grey vote is career suicide....

Do you think the Afghans translators are fluent in English? If you send educated people to learn Pashtun for a year they will come out the other side fluent.

Realistically if the army army had assigned troops to spend a year doing intense pashtun then they could have used UK soliders. I imagine the Afghans learnt English in only a few months.

At least they speak English and work :p

I'm against immigration but when you think what we promises them:

- we won't leave the country in a mess
- we'll bring peace
- you're safe with us
...

How to make the UK economy look like less of a mess:

Import millions of people - CHECK
Drop interest rates to 0.5% - CHECK
Create a housing boom to give the impression of wealth - CHECK
Print...

Easy answer: we aren't actually rich.

What are they going to buy from us? They live on a continent with vast resources, we have a few chavs and a bit of coal. What about the people that no longer have jobs in Europe that will have to...

The worst thing is that if you tell anyone they think you're completely nuts! I just keep my mouth shut, vent a little on here, and keep saving my money in none fiat currency based forms.

I think...

I agree.

I was watching TV yesterday and they were talking about the rising economic levels in third world countries. They gave the example of a coffee plantation (or whatever it's called), where...

Actually there are loads of parallels with pre WW2 germany: economic instability, rising far right parties, currency depreciation....

We are actually in a far worse position, globally than pre...

Forgot to mention that Sir Mervyn King has announced that a recovery is one the horizon....

recorvery... MY @SS!!!!!! What's on the horizon is a mad max type scenario!

It's not that easy. We are well and truly f**ked. We not only produce nothing, we have a huge proportion of the popullation that is largely unemployable. Not only do we need to produce enough...

One of those countries is Argentina....

It's a dog eat dog world....

On a per person basis we have lower tax receipts than we did 10 years ago. The immigrants might be legal, honest citizens but unless they pay over £20k a year in tax they are taking more than they...

you raise a lot of interesting points.

The truth is that unless you are paying in £20,000 a year in tax you are actually taking more from the country than you pay in. Very few Ethnic British pay...

The EU isn't perfect but even I agree that if the EU didn't exist we'd have the same problems, though perhaps not as bad.

The whole problem is: cheaper unskilled labour in other countries, the...

Meant to say $80US billion

Recovery?!?! Really?!?!? Interest rates are still 0.5%, no significant cuts have been made to government spending, $80US is being spent on QE every month and the average American has a standard of...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22536437

Unemployment on the way up again

What does USP mean?

I was refused a position in the police because i'm a white male. No joke. Positive discrimination is still discrimination.

Any more good news stick in this thread. Thought I'd start of with the news that France is back in recession despite record low interest rates of the ECB

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22536197

http://money.uk.msn.com/uk-falls-down-oecd-economic-table

Is anyone surprised?

At the previous place I worked, the receptionist was black and kept telling me she was being discriminated against. She even said one of my colleagues was a far right supporter just because he had a...