wealthy people are powerful and some of them run the world

currently money is the only measure of success we use, so those with the most money are counted as the most successful

if we accept money as a marker for success, we must also accept all the consequences that go with that

Agree with Stan – when will you use terms that we all understand Wonko? The wealthy people who run Europe are called capitalists, those workers who oppose them are called socialists…

Agreed, but other (non-defenceless) countries might decide to go to war with us as their economies begin to flounder in the wake of the economic foul-up we (i.e. our betters) have created. We aren’t exactly loved throughout the world for our past deeds.
As for it being bad for business tell that to the Yanks, who came out of WW2 doing very well for themselves for the next 60 years.

“The Bank of England has dropped the interest rates again to 0.5% and asked the Chancellor for permission to start quantative easing which, being a clueless idiot, he agreed to.”

Hmmm, The bank of England, (that great bastion of left wing socialism ???), and the former chancellor who handed them the power to decide the fate of the economy – not exactly a radical socialist idea I think….

If they were handing the money out as extra payments for pensioners to spend and boost the economy that way, then I could sort of see some semblance of socialism, but the money is going to the banks where I suspect that very little will be passed on – like most of the other cash given to them recently

“or an event on the scale of the second world war to rid ourselves of the consequences.”

I don’t think so, that would destroy markets and would be bad for business. These days we only go to war with relatively defenceless countries with mineral assets

I think you hit the nail on the head there. Trouble is, I don’t see us “winning” the next one. China has the technology, the population and the history. We (the West) no longer have the advantages, both industrial and financial that we used to have. We in the disUnited Kingdom no longer have the cohesiveness or spirit we used to have.

As soon as we get some socialists running the country we might be able to find out, but that’s not gonna happen all the while new labour are in power