Government to offer loans to buy cars

StevieJ

Wookster wrote: »

The real source of 'wealth' has been debt that has come through the so called international money markets. This has masked the fact that we don't actually produce much now but sustained the quality of life.

Well stop borrowing then, I know I don't so it must be you plus my income comes from all over the world not just the UK.

Sir_Humphrey

StevieJ wrote: »

Well stop borrowing then, I know I don't so it must be you plus my income comes from all over the world not just the UK.

Me neither, I don't even have a credit card! It is interesting how the Tories are claiming that the fall in the £ won't help, before saying how the fall of the £ on Black Wednesday rescued the economy in the mid-1990s. Shome mishtake shurely?

Rochdale_Pioneers

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

Me neither, I don't even have a credit card! It is interesting how the Tories are claiming that the fall in the £ won't help, before saying how the fall of the £ on Black Wednesday rescued the economy in the mid-1990s. Shome mishtake shurely?

Their other slice of illogic is this:

"We disagree with everything the govenment is doing. A Conservativce government would not be spending this money"
"The government can't call us the do-nothing party, look how they have stolen our policies!"

Generali

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

Me neither, I don't even have a credit card! It is interesting how the Tories are claiming that the fall in the £ won't help, before saying how the fall of the £ on Black Wednesday rescued the economy in the mid-1990s. Shome mishtake shurely?

Possibly more interesting that Labour claim not to have made a complete ar se of things!

No more SIZE=1]tory[SIZE=2 boom and bust.[/SIZE][/SIZE]

Sir_Humphrey

Generali wrote: »

Possibly more interesting that Labour claim not to have made a complete ar se of things!

No more SIZE=1]tory[SIZE=2 boom and bust.[/SIZE][/SIZE]

I have never argued that Gordon Brown does not deserve some of the blame. Mainly for giving the bankers exactly what they wanted for the 10 years he was Chancellor.

Generali

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

I have never argued that Gordon Brown does not deserve some of the blame. Mainly for giving the bankers exactly what they wanted for the 10 years he was Chancellor.

It's definitely all the bankers' fault.

Borrowers? Blameless.
Politicians? Whiter than white (literally! Of course the horrid right wing in the US won't allow a non-white person to be president whist those lovely Liberals in Europe will vote for lots of Black people to hold positions of real power, PM, Chancellor of the Exchquor, FO and Dept of Defence. Erm.....)
Regulators? "Not me guv'. I was just doin' what I wuz told."

Yup. Burn the bankers. Burn them!

Sir_Humphrey

Generali wrote: »

It's definitely all the bankers' fault.

Borrowers? Blameless.
Politicians? Whiter than white (literally wtw, as black people are only allowed into power in nasty, racist, right wing America - according to the stereotype the left love anyhow!)
Regulators? "Not me guv'. I was just doin' what I wuz told."

Yup. Burn the bankers. Burn them!

??? Well, you might think that, but I just said the opposite in my previous quote.

Generali

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

??? Well, you might think that, but I just said the opposite in my previous quote.

Ok, my sarcasm doesn't come across well using the written word.

Do you really just blame the Bankers for the current problems. We've met and you're bright I thought. I certainly didn't take you for the sort of idiot that would just go to look for a scapegoat and then start banging on about his creed.

Sir_Humphrey

Generali wrote: »

Ok, my sarcasm doesn't come across well using the written word.

Do you really just blame the Bankers for the current problems. We've met and you're bright I thought. I certainly didn't take you for the sort of idiot that would just go to look for a scapegoat and then start banging on about his creed.

I have made perfectly clear in my past posts that just about everyone is to blame, but the bankers are to blame to the greatest extent, as they were at the centre of the credit bubble web.
I can understand why you have this siege mentality, perhaps you need to have a good lie down.

Generali

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

I have made perfectly clear in my past posts that just about everyone is to blame, but the bankers are to blame to the greatest extent, as they were at the centre of the credit bubble web.
I can understand why you have this siege mentality, perhaps you need to have a good lie down.

No siege mentality here Old Boy. Possibly a spot of jealousy in the number of your posts referring to the hell that awaits Australia?

I don't recall you having any interest in Australian economics until a couple of months ago.