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What a little fibber

Pobby
Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
Mr Brown said: "I will not allow house prices to get out of control and put at risk the sustainability of the future." He said he was determined that the UK should not return to the "instability, speculation and negative equity" of the 1980s and 1990s.

I did e-mail my MP regarding this. Didn`t get a reply. Hmmmmm.
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  • hethmar
    hethmar Posts: 10,678 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Car Insurance Carver!
    Yes, and then there was his (in)famous "no return to bust and boom" speech.:(
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    Where is the lie?
    Not Again
  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    hethmar wrote: »
    Yes, and then there was his (in)famous "no return to bust and boom" speech.:(

    Oh yes. A lot of people yearned for that.



































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  • Kohoutek
    Kohoutek Posts: 2,861 Forumite
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    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    Where is the lie?

    It would be more reassuring if it was a lie, because that would mean the Gordon Brown realised that abolishing boom and bust is impossible.

    The scary thing would be if he actually believed what he was saying!
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,511 Forumite
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    And even more scary because he still does...
    Kohoutek wrote: »
    It would be more reassuring if it was a lie, because that would mean the Gordon Brown realised that abolishing boom and bust is impossible.

    The scary thing would be if he actually believed what he was saying!
    I think....
  • 1984ReturnsForReal_2
    1984ReturnsForReal_2 Posts: 15,431 Forumite
    michaels wrote: »
    And even more scary because he still does...


    An even more scary is people think the Cons can do better..
    Not Again
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    hethmar wrote: »
    Yes, and then there was his (in)famous "no return to bust and boom" speech.:(

    as gordon clarified when pressed on this matter, "what i actually said was no return to tory boom and bust".

    this was another lie, as he did actually say no return to boom and bust about 1,000,000 times.
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    chewmylegoff wrote: »
    as gordon clarified when pressed on this matter, "what i actually said was no return to tory boom and bust".

    this was another lie, as he did actually say no return to boom and bust about 1,000,000 times.

    And even if he had said "no return to tory boom & bust" it would have been meaningless. Clearly a Labour government can't return to tory anything, by definition.
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  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    My personal favourite was "a weak currency is the result of a weak economy, which is the result of a weak government".
  • dopester
    dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite
    Years of him in the House of Commons mocking the Conservatives with his 'no more boom and bust' line.

    He repeated that line over 100 times in the House of Commons.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQVF9s01NYI&feature=related
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