http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/122008/economists-expecting-massive-house-price-crash.html Welcome to The Thrifty Scot financial help site. Look through our credit cards, loans, mortgages, savings and insurance sections Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/122008/economists-expecting-massive-house-price-crash.html/comment-page-1/#comment-3505 clive Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:27:31 +0000 http://www.thriftyscot.co.uk/?p=3625#comment-3505 The UK is undergoing a change of economic identity. Away from the aspirational Thatcherite 80s ethos of small business owners, independent suppliers and home owners ('Essex man') etc towards a New Labour neo-soviet post 1997 ethos which is, for most people, a profoundly downwardly mobile experience. Where a small elite in business, government & banking own and control most of the assets which are run by cheap highly motivated labour often imported from the developing world & eastern europe. Meanwhile the unemployable native population are slowly turned into a massive unskilled & resentful underclass. The UK is undergoing a change of economic identity. Away from the aspirational Thatcherite 80s ethos of small business owners, independent suppliers and home owners (‘Essex man’) etc towards a New Labour neo-soviet post 1997 ethos which is, for most people, a profoundly downwardly mobile experience. Where a small elite in business, government & banking own and control most of the assets which are run by cheap highly motivated labour often imported from the developing world & eastern europe. Meanwhile the unemployable native population are slowly turned into a massive unskilled & resentful underclass.

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