We don't quite owe as much as we thought

chucky

kennyboy66 wrote: »

Surely this can't be true.

In the last 6 months of office, Labour were operating a 'scorched earth' policy which included burning billions of pounds on a remote Scotish island in a blatant attempt to get fans of the KLF to vote for them.

it can't be true - this [STRIKE]unofficial tory party forum[/STRIKE] MSE forum has been telling me otherwise

1984ReturnsForReal_2

So the ConDems have already saved £7.5bn.

Excellent work.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

sunshinetours wrote: »

Yes we only owe £893bn - you're right Labour have been totally vindicated from any mismanagement.....

I'm feeling dizzy from the amount of spin some try to manage on this board

Over £1,000,000,000,000 by the end of the year though..

Blacklight

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

Over £1,000,000,000,000 by the end of the year though..

Not necessarily so. They have only said they will cut/save 6bn. They have been silent on the matter of raising revenue/tax receipts/selling stuff.

lemonjelly

No they haven't. Taxes will be cut. They've been quite clear about that...

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Blacklight wrote: »

Not necessarily so. They have only said they will cut/save 6bn. They have been silent on the matter of raising revenue/tax receipts/selling stuff.

In any case it is impossible to make an impact in 2010 with all the payoffs they have to make & that alone will increase borrowing.

They have promised to cut the lower & higher tax brackets & reduce Corp Tax & increase inheritance tax allowances.

The only thing left for them to do is increase VAT.

Unless you can think of another way of raising revenue like windfall tax on banks & the robbing of pension funds?

It ain't happening mate. Not this year..

chopperharris

Its scotland i feel sorry for , it was basically them that enabled labour to get to power.... with promises of repairing and replacing what years of tories did oop north , and in those 13 years of labour nothing changed.

My spies tell me that Brown is considering running for the leadership of scots labour , with a view on being the premier.....as if fxxking over scotland once wasnt enough when he was in london hes coming back to finish what he started.

But still we can console in the fact that another working class leadership is in power with clegg and co , well working class in that these are the only people that will have any jobs .... you can see why they say education is the forefront of their manifestos , when you look at how the cabinet was nearly all in oxbridge.Why oh why do the people vote in toffs thinking that they are just like the common man , if these politicians were only voted in by those that had the same schools and wealth , ie common like them , then they would have had to give up their deposits after the election.

Emy1501

StevieJ wrote: »

Puts those £6 billion cuts into context

Isn't that the same 6b which according to many on here and Labour kept banging on about would tip us back into recession?

A._Badger

According to Radio 4's More Or Less, this lunchtime (generally regarded as a fairly unbiased source) the UK's government debt stands at around £90,000 per household and is still increasing.

Spin your way out of that, socialists!

chucky

A._Badger wrote: »

According to Radio 4's More Or Less, this lunchtime (generally regarded as a fairly unbiased source) the UK's government debt stands at around £90,000 per household and is still increasing.

Spin your way out of that, socialists!

Radio 4 is the BBC right?

unbiased? i don't really know but a couple of days ago you were saying something completely different about the BBC:eek:

A._Badger wrote: »

I suggest you read the story from that noted mouthpiece of Tory propaganda, the BBC

spin and squirm yourself out of that one Mr H. Ypocrite