MSE News: Gordon Brown calls 6 May General Election

JasonLVC

roy62 wrote: »

If you are at the bottom of the ladder the Tories will make sure you stay there.

Is that the housing ladder - where ordinary folks cannot afford to buy a home under Labour's "No boom or bust" rhetoric?

roddydogs

"There may be a Hung Parliament"..............guess how many time this will be mentioned before May 7th...................WE KNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ninky_2

roddydogs wrote: »

"There may be a Hung Parliament"..............guess how many time this will be mentioned before May 7th...................WE KNOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

canada currently has a so-called "hung parliament" although they don't call it that. they did quite well in the recent "global economic crisis" i beleive. cross party co-operation might not be a bad thing. game theory suggests that co-operation can often be the stongest position.

MiserlyMartin

Mary_Hartnell wrote: »

As we sit here watching a national debt - that could have been paid off by North Sea oil - grow, with borrowing to pay interest on the former borrowing.
Every man woman & child is going to be lumbered with a crushing debt because the country and its future has all been mortgaged.
For the young the choice is emigrate/emigrate/emigrate (Australia or Canada).
Ladder, what ladder? Ah a rope ladder down into one of the life boats.

So what is safe: Education? NHS? Foreign Aid ?! Trident????!!!! the first 2 - 3% of 20% VAT going to the un audited European accounts (definitely).

The vision of hell the boy Osborne presiding over the collapse of the pound as an alternative to a Greek style solution?

What a choice between deckchair attendants on the Titanic.

This is the reality. The UK is basically shafted for at least a decade, until the debt is repaid. But emigrating is a lot harder now your house is worth less and worth even less again due to Brown wrecking the pound. Along with your salary and savings should you want to take it with you abroad. The time to get out would have been 2005-2006. What to do now?