Quote Originally Posted by great_fire View Post
The markets thought free-marketeers were too extreme? That hardly sounds likely. It was because they weren't balancing the books and the two year commitment to subsidising ebergy bills.
Exactly GreatFire.

And this Conservative Party is certainly not right wing - it isn't even conservative. It is about borrowing and spending on a massive scale. It will have to also increase taxes because of its reckless spending (overseen by Sunak). It looks far more like a Socialist Government than anything else. An economic crisis was completely predictable after the "money no object" virus free-for-all. And even without the war and the resulting energy crisis we would have been in dire straits and we would have needed to reduce spending. And the energy crisis is made worse by the insane commitment to "nett zero" - Conservative governments have been blowing up coal fired power stations - not just "mothballing" them but ensuring that they could never be used again! And meanwhile the masses have an infinite appetite for imported rubbish from China who's commitment to fossil fuels never worries the young, holier-than-thou eco-warriors protesting to save the planet in their Chinese clothes and training shoes with their cheap Chinese electronics. And anyone who thinks Europe is the solution to our any of our economic problems needs to realize just what German politicians have been quietly doing for the last 37 years - consuming vast amounts of Russian fossil fuel making Putin very happy and secure whilst pretending to be "green".

And the Labour lot are likely to simply spend more, borrow more and tax more so there is no solution there - heaven forbid if they manage to get in (which is starting to look likely).