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iolanthe07 wrote: »the Tories had to sort it out in 1952, 1970, 1979 and now again in 2010. History repeats itself. I think Labour probably mean well, but they just can't seem to get out of the habit of spending other people's money - the curse of the left.
Easily fall for myths do you? I bet you believe in Fairies as well
Barber did not seek re-election at the general election of October 1974, and left front-line politics. For some years he was often referred to as "The Demon Barber", by Conservatives as well as former opponents. It was admitted then that he had inherited from Labour the biggest trading surplus ever recored and had left the economy in its worst state since the war.'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 Thatcher0 -
It's a labour myth'blame strategy that it somehow all the fault of the bankers. If they'd have stored some food for the famine years we'd be no worse off now than Canada or Australia.
I'm sure most intelligent people can see that hence why they lost the election.
Why didn't you mention Ireland :eek: Perhaps you should give them more credit for keeping us out of the Euro.'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 Thatcher0 -
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Why didn't you mention Ireland :eek: Perhaps you should give them more credit for keeping us out of the Euro.
Why?
I don't believe any of our parties wanted to be part of the euro, did they?
Comes to something where you have to give credit to a party for not doing something no one else would have done either.0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »Why?
I don't believe any of our parties wanted to be part of the euro, did they?
Comes to something where you have to give credit to a party for not doing something no one else would have done either.Nick Clegg: We should consider joining the euro
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/nick-clegg-we-should-consider-joining-the-euro-1515755.html0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »Why?
I don't believe any of our parties wanted to be part of the euro, did they?
Comes to something where you have to give credit to a party for not doing something no one else would have done either.
I am afraid the Tories have a history on that one, remember the ERM debacle :eek: and I am pretty sure your party would have gone for it in the past
'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 Thatcher0 -
I'd like to give them credit for the original decision back in the 90s but I don't recall any of the parties wanting to join the Euro recently.
I don't blame them RECENTLY although as Wheezy points out above:eek: '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 Thatcher0 -
What you have to remember is all politicians are lying thieves.
left/right or labour/coservative doesn't matter.
The only thing that they care about is being elected.
I think that is true.
I have posted elsewhere that politicians have less power than they would like to believe they have...
The current crisis is due to massive commercial failures in the world of banking... But it has become a party political issue because the banks have more power than the politicians
The banks remain silent - they blame neither the government lack of regulation, nor the stupidity of their customers
They also make enormous profits
They are taking the wee-wee out of us all
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MegaMiniMouse wrote: »The current crisis is due to massive commercial failures in the world of banking... But it has become a party political issue because the banks have more power than the politicians
This isn't correct, the banks worked in line with the laws set by the government. Logically the regulation is therefore at fault.
The reason we're in such a mess is because our government put nothing away in the years of plenty (actually running a GDP deficit in the years before the crash) so when the famine hits we're hit hardest.
The banks did not cause the deficit.0
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