Anyone else remember how bad it was under the last Tory government.

mewbie_2

Sorry Annie - I assumed this was a joke thread.

Didn't realise you were serious.

Thing is Labour are to be kicked out, they've had long enough, noses in the trough, corrupted now. So whoever comes next doesn't matter, as long as it's not Brown.

In some ways it's a shame there isn't a more serious political debate, but hey, that's what happens when you give people the vote.

Kez100

islandannie wrote: »

Quote me 15% interest rates under a Labour government?

Because I can Quote that Figure uner The Tories.

Along With 4 million unemployed,.

15% interest on £65k is 5% on £195k. It's the same thing.

We'll have 3 million unemployed soon .....and counting.....

michaels

How was 39 Victoria Street today?

How much do they pay you to post this stuff?

After the election will you look to do the same job for the Tories?

islandannie wrote: »

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/blair/Remember-life-under-Tories.2867180.jp

I remember it well.

Very sad times.

chewmylegoff

islandannie wrote: »

Quote me 15% interest rates under a Labour government?

Because I can Quote that Figure when we had a Tory government.

Along With 4 million unemployed,.

callaghan 1976 - interest rates were 15%

next.

NerveAgent

islandannie wrote: »

Boom and Bust under the Tories....... NEVER.

Neither me nor the article were claiming that so I'm not sure what your point is?

ukcarper

Kez100 wrote: »

15% interest on £65k is 5% on £195k. It's the same thing.

We'll have 3 million unemployed soon .....and counting.....

not when your only earning half

Ephemera

islandannie wrote: »

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/blair/Remember-life-under-Tories.2867180.jp

I remember it well.

Very sad times.

Give it ten years and you can change it to 'Labour government' and elicit even stronger reactions.

I have a nasty feeling (and I truly hope I'm wrong) that the 70's are going to seem easy compared to the !!!!!! storm we're walking into...think it's bad now??? It's only just started.

And some of us are trusting the architects of the bust to get us out of it. If they couldn't stop it with their wonderful insight how the heck are they going to make it any better exactly??

And no, I don't think a Tory government would have done it any differently either. :rolleyes:

Time2Go_25

We're OK as long as Gordon is at the helm.

"And I tell you we have learned from past mistakes. Just as you cannot spend your way out of recession, you cannot, in a global economy, simply spend your way through recovery either."


(Gordon Brown, Labour Party Conference 1997)

islandannie

michaels wrote: »

How was 39 Victoria Street today?

How much do they pay you to post this stuff?



Nothing at at all.

ERM debacle anyone?

With North sea Oil revenues at their height and privatisations bringing in Trillions the Tories still Screwed up royally.

Explain that if you can.

ukcarper

If we had a Labour goverment over the last ten years it might not have been so bad