tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post817694260346810227..comments2024-03-13T18:03:14.612+01:00Comments on South Of Watford: Most People Have Left The Floor, But Zapatero's Still DancingGraemehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948656158638818739noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27941559.post-8201371157902607302010-09-24T10:27:43.057+02:002010-09-24T10:27:43.057+02:00I think there's something else, though, which ...I think there's something else, though, which is that wealthy people, or come to that well-off people in general, don't really suffer in a recession. They don't lose their money, they don't lose their homes. They aren't generally coining it in on the scale they were before, and they don't like that, but they are not, personally, very much affected.<br /><br />So this leaves them free to demand things that suit their prejudices, emboldened by the fact that there is a lot of anger and confusion about which they will feel themselves entitled to respond to.<br /><br />I think the solution will be to privatise everything. I think that's what they want and I think that's what they'll try and do. Local, regional and antional governments of the right will be trying to do this throughout Europe and those that try it will be the recipients of much, much publicity and praise. And if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter because they people who rely on services and state pensions <i>don't matter</i>.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.com