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Thanks @Carer . I was thinking of switching to Lloyds. My sister recently switched to Chase although she does banking on her mobile. I prefer to pay by cash or card and do online banking on my PC.
I've been with Barlcays for years but I've had it with them now. I can no longer message them via their website because the button doesn't do anything, and the layout you get when viewing transactions now looks like it was done by a kid who has never had a bank account before. I have to view statements to get a clear view of ins and outs, whereas before I could just look at recent transactions. ...
Most countries today operate some form of socialism. The NHS, welfare state and state education are socialist programs. Some, like Argentina, have taken it to extremes and are now trying to dig themselves out and undo the damage. Socialism doesn't create an equal society. It create a society where most people are poor except for a political elite. I'm not saying privatisation has been a ...
What you are describing is communism rather than socialism, and we haven't reached that stage yet. Socialism is, for example, where the government takes more of your income from you than it needs to for the necessary functioning of government. The claimed purpose is usually to fund social programs or to redistribute wealth, but we all know that it never does this and usually causes more ...
I never said the right are immune to corruption and tyranny. I said government needs to be kept as small as possible so it can be kept in check. There is no such thing as a small socialist government. Socialism means big government and vice versa.
@Teign, I agree about powerful elements seeking to exert further control over nation states. That was why we voted out of the EU. Hopefully, we've won that battle but who knows. The PPE scandal was standard banana republic socialism. Politicians print money and launder it through their mates to buy houses and yachts, etc.
Neoliberalism was about minimising government spending, not bloating it out. Neoliberalism in the UK has been long dead. You do realise that anyone holding UK debt is losing significant wealth due to currency devaluation? That debt will be held by the private pension funds of UK workers due to government regulation. The funds don't care about devaluation because it isn't their money. ...
They are socialist policies. The highest immigration ever, the largest natonal debt ever, the most money printing ever, the highest inflation and currency devalutation since the 70s, highest handouts ever, massive numbers on welfare and not working, highest taxes in decades ... You would think Jeremy Corbyn had been in power these last 5 years lol.
UKIP/Reform stood aside for the Tories to implement conservative policies, but the Tories never did. That's why they aren't stepping aside this time. Galloway is not getting as much abuse from the left-wing media as Farage, no.
The left dominate mainstream media, which is why all you hear about is how far right and racist everyone they disagree with is. Tories, Labour and Lib Dems all support the same left wing policies.
