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The Former Treasury chief secretary's message to his successor

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  • marklv
    marklv Posts: 1,768 Forumite
    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    No !!!!!!, I kid you not, this was the sum total of his handover letter.



    :eek::eek::eek:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/may/17/economy-georgeosborne

    It's just a joke for goodness' sake! :)
  • dealsearcher
    dealsearcher Posts: 756 Forumite
    Clearly then folks the last 13 years have just been one big joke by Labour on the british public. Let's hope we all see the funny side eh?
  • mbga9pgf
    mbga9pgf Posts: 3,224 Forumite
    marklv wrote: »
    It's just a joke for goodness' sake! :)

    Remember the joke when VAT hits 20% and the current government sack 25% of the public workforce then.

    I bet you will find that hilarious too.

    Proves everything that many on here were saying. New Labour are officially the worst government in British history.
  • pelirocco
    pelirocco Posts: 8,275 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Person_one wrote: »
    And that pesky global financial crisis.


    Now now , you know there is no place on here for intelligent posts:rotfl:
    Vuja De - the feeling you'll be here later
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    Remember the joke when VAT hits 20% and the current government sack 25% of the public workforce then.

    I bet you will find that hilarious too.

    I can make the distinction between a simple joke between two people taken in context and an awful government who messed a lot of things up. So can most people.
  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    Its almost like saying "I raped your daughter, I enjoyed it, now live with the consequences".

    Yeah of course it's almost like that. :rolleyes:
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    nickmason wrote: »
    Doesn't this lend strength to the argument that - Mandelson and Adonis excluded - the Labour party wanted out of government, .

    Well, of course they wanted out. They lost the election. In a democracy, you accept the will of the people.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    Its almost like saying "I raped your daughter, I enjoyed it, now live with the consequences".

    It's not the same in the slightest.
  • Jonbvn
    Jonbvn Posts: 5,562 Forumite
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    The problem is the situation is worse than actually stated in the letter. Not only is there no money left, but there are huge debts which have to be serviced.

    It's absolutely hysterical............ NOT!
    In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    kennyboy66 wrote: »
    and who said Tories (and Lib Dems!) had no sense of humour.

    You of all people must know there is a history of leaving notes to your successor, some helpful, some not so. All a bit school boyish, but a worse crime in my book is rushing off to headmaster (the press in this case) to make a big deal about it.

    It made me embarrassed that I had voted LibDem, it really was pathetic.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
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