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Madmen in Authority
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Who gives a crap what their motives were?
The election came down to one simple choice. Economic ruination by following mentalist economic policy, vs the sensible one, take the pain and sorting out the deficit.
I don't think people voted for this, I really don't.If you keep doing what you've always done - you will keep getting what you've always got.0 -
I love this argument. It's all the socialists fault! And there was me thinking that the credit crunch was a failure of capitialism.... and George Bush is he a socialist?
No, that was down to d*ckhead socialists being in charge who didnt have a clue with what they were tinkering.
I bet if you took an IQ test across the Labour government it wouldnt approach 75% of the average of the lib dem/Tory benches. They are retards. Look at that fat slug prescott. He struggled with reading the other day on have I got news for you, never mind being intelligent enough to decide policy.
There is nothing conservative about spending more than you can afford. Look at the word Conservative. What does that suggest to you? I want a ferrari, but I know I wont get one. Why cant people tolerate the fact they CANT HAVE drugs that cost more than 20 times their average lifetime tax haul? Why can they not see there is a bigger picture than the now, that they are bleeding the nation dry through spending money that another generation will have to pay? Life isnt fair. Wipe it and get on with it.0 -
The trouble is that when governments do what the market want they can still have their credit rating down graded. You need look no further than Spain - passed it's austerity budget - great. Then gets down graded, why, because Fitch said Spain's austerity budget will lower it's medium term growth.
What do the markets want - they want low inflation, low deficit and low government debt - but they also want reasonable unemployment and growth.
In the end the markets may be reluctant to lend to countries with contracting economies, not just because of the obvious deficit/debt implications of a shrinking economy, but also because contracting economies and rising unemployment are not politically sustainable.
The government needs to be careful - there's a fine line between spooking the markets because you aren't cutting enough and spooking the markets because you've cut too much too quickly and stifle or reverse any growth.
I so agree.
Also, whatever short-term gain the coalition gets from being able to rubbish the Labour Party, it will be more than offset by the loss of confidence which will result if they create the impression among overseas investors that Britain is a basket case.
The govenment need to be talking the country up, not behaving as if it is the Titanic.If you keep doing what you've always done - you will keep getting what you've always got.0 -
Well take your head out of your socialist @rse and you might see the truth.
Turkey's really do vote for Christmas then, don't they? 'cos there must have been many who have voted themselves out of a job and on to the dole. Explain that to me please.If you keep doing what you've always done - you will keep getting what you've always got.0 -
do you blame those d*ckhead socialists in the USA for their economic tinkering too?No, that was down to d*ckhead socialists being in charge who didnt have a clue with what they were tinkering.
yes ok that's right because the UK caused the global economic crisis.The election came down to one simple choice. Economic ruination by following mentalist economic policy, vs the sensible one, take the pain and sorting out the deficit.
i forgot it's the fault of the socialists in the US.0 -
I so agree.
Also, whatever short-term gain the coalition gets from being able to rubbish the Labour Party, it will be more than offset by the loss of confidence which will result if they create the impression among overseas investors that Britain is a basket case.
The govenment need to be talking the country up, not behaving as if it is the Titanic.
The downgrade when it comes will last for a far shorter time than if we were going to carry on with the spend. What happens if we were to continue spending, as we did for 3 years after the credit crunch, then found we had all that extra debt and it didnt work?
Dont you get it? We exploded the deficit and it didnt change a thing, apart from conning thick Labour voters that it was all going to be ok, when really it wasnt? All we did was delay the inevitable, at massive cost, for the ego of one man, Gordon Brown.0 -
do you blame those d*ckhead socialists in the USA for their economic tinkering too?
yes ok that's right because the UK caused the global economic crisis.
it's the fault of the socialists in the US.
Tell me who was bragging before the credit crunch that he had made London the financial centre of the world?0 -
Turkey's really do vote for Christmas then, don't they? 'cos there must have been many who have voted themselves out of a job and on to the dole. Explain that to me please.
Its called doing the right thing. Something socialists dont have a clue about being selfish gets.
There is a greater good out there and sometimes you need to put everything else, like the future prosperity of the nation before yourself. Some people still believe in this country, despite all of the efforts Labour made to destroy our identity as a strong nation.0 -
he did and it's not far from still being it... there's an argument that maybe he shouldn't have but he did.Tell me who was bragging before the credit crunch that he had made London the financial centre of the world?
was his statement wrong. it's a simple answer, either Yes or No?0
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