Who do you trust to run the economy? poll discussion

XRAT

Voting for any of the three main parties seems to be a vote for the 'least bad' option.
I'm with kopicbloodaxe (post#11) on this one.., at the next election lets have an option who we want to vote for.

slimcat_2

The very honest answer is none of them. Gordon Brown did alot of damage to the pensions fund let us not forget. Sadly there are too many folk in government who have have let recent events happen by allowing the fat cat culture and some of them have been cashing in on it. We the working will be taxed for their mishandling. I truely believe it is time those that played the devil with the money and the so called toxic mortgages should have to pay back. They have gambled with our money with the governments permission. They took huge bonuses and now when the **** hits the fan expect to be bailed out, but still they walk away with bonuses. We have generated a greed culture. The Government removed some powers of the B of E to stop some of this rogue trading. We are paying the price for stupidity.
The businesses that when profits dip let go more staff so that their wallets remain fat. In addition what actually belongs to this country...many utilies owned by other countries so they do as they please, banks not many Uk owned, manufacturing, well not much in this country and also owned by who. We sold out to the lets send it abroad, cheaper and then we can get more profits. If all that owned companies in this country asset strip and walk away we will be left in a dismal state. Huge unemployment. Lets face it we dont have much manufacturing in this country.

It makes my blood boil when the fat cats get richer at the expense of the ordinary person. The country is beginning to have the rich and then the rest of us. What the future holds is anyones guess but a deep dark long depression.

So who would I vote for to run the economy - someone with commonsense who is in it for the right reasons, and not just thinking how they can make a fast buck and walk away. Martin would do a greta job and Alan Sugar. Whilst he has made millions he started with nothing and can remember what it is like so I can sort of agree with that suggestion. BUT AS GOVERNMENT GO - well I dont trust any of them. They all promise the earth but when it comes to the crunch they do what they like, forgetting the ordinary folk that voted them in.

This country is in a mess... and those that are responsible should be made to pay.

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tomhill

Yet another vote for Vince ...

My personal view is that this whole disaster came about due to unsustainable levels of personal debt. The whole housing market boom just transfered wealth up the food chain to the people who needed it least and decopuled a houses real value from its advertised value. I think that we could do with a mandatory deposit scheme where people have to put down 10% or so of the value of the house as a deposit. If you dont have to put any deposit down then theres nothing theoretically stopping the average house price rising to £1,000,000. By mandating a minimum 10% deposit it would get harder and harder for prices to rise to unsustainable levels.

Plasticman

Vince Cable here too - he seeme to be the voice of reason in recent events. Interesting to see that he is well behind in the poll though! I wonder if some people are basing their vote on political preference or have never heard of the Lib Dems

Mozette

Natalie6999 wrote: »

I honestly don't think that there is anything to choose between the 3 main political parties - I wouldn't trust any of them.

I am a part time civil servant & since labour came to power the amount of money wasted on "flavour of the month" schemes is disgusting, yet the level of service we provide to the public has become a joke, they never get to speak to the same person twice, letters take months to be answered & everything is done to a script giving standard answers, not the answer you require.

Civil servants are leaving in their thousands as they feel that they are not given the tools to do a good job & provide a proper service to the public.

The higher level civil servants get big fat bonuses & pay rises but the rest are often paid just above the minimium wage with the government using any excuse to avoid paying us a decent wage for an honest days work.

What she said ^^^^
And I'd be happy with the same payrise that MPs get...even without the extra benefits.

Went for C on the basis that they're not Tory or NuTory, sorry NuLabour.

But yeah, I'd vote Martin Lewis for Chancellor, Eddie Izzard for PM, Stephen Fry for Education, Jamie Oliver for food, and shoot the rest of the useless shower.

Coveredinbees!!!!

I'll choose Ant and Dec, they have as much idea as any of the rest on the list.

Jennifer_Jane

I chose Vince too. I liked what they had to say at their Conference. Am already in a Tory area, so will definitely be voting Lib Dem.

nick_b

I voted for Vince as well. There's no contest; he's got an extremely good economic background (chief economist at Shell, head of economics at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and he was a lecturer in economics as well). By the comments here you'd think they'd be in the lead, but I guess most people have gone for the kneejerk opposition choice without really knowing what they're voting for. Shame.

lauzjp

with his degree in government and his business journalism, Martin Lewis is as qualified as any politician to run a government department!

richardpollock

Million dollar question eh? Or maybe we should count in billions. I'm afraid Mr Brown has had his day. During a decade of economic 'boom' his need to spend has left the country with nothing in the coffers!

I'm not political, but, frankly, no one elected Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, so why is he there?

A change has got to be good. My view, lets get someone new in, can't be any worse.