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Wookster

I am so sick of seeing ed ball on TV glibly blaming the Tories for all the nation's woes.

All Labour can ever think about is tax and spend and if you don't have the money, never mind, just spend it anyway.

Perhaps if they had won another term they'd have totally screwed the economy and people would treat them with the contempt they deserve.

Edit:

And to add to that, why is there a surprise that the economy shrunk? Labour presided over the largest growth of debt, both private and public since WW2. Of course there's no growth - we have no money left, as their Secretary to the Treasury pointed out.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

As opposed to the Tories who are going to tax the shirt on your back & then give that money to their mega rich school chums & continue giving it & give some more & then some more again.

Now, it may have escaped your notice but the economy is doing pretty much what Labour said. Like it or not.

It also may have escaped your notice that Labour also presided over one of the largest (if not the largest) periods of growth ever.


Thanks for the thread.

But do not go down the route of Osbourne knows what he is doing. He doesn't.

Wookster

Is that any worse than absolutely screwing the country by spending money we don't have and potentially taking us down the same path as Ireland/ Spain/ Greece?

A._Badger

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

It also may have escaped your notice that Labour also presided over one of the largest (if not the largest) periods of growth ever.

Clue: Borrowed money isn't income. A bubble isn't economic growth.

Flyboy152

Wookster wrote: »

Is that any worse than absolutely screwing the country by spending money we don't have and potentially taking us down the same path as Ireland/ Spain/ Greece?

Well if Osborne's policies achieve that, you may get your wish.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Wookster wrote: »

Is that any worse than absolutely screwing the country by spending money we don't have and potentially taking us down the same path as Ireland/ Spain/ Greece?

Like I have said before scaring the sh!te out of people with a few copppers (them few coppers make many billions by the way) & robbing them blind at every opportunity at the same time is hardly a way of injecting cash into a country.

All the treasury are doing is taking money from people who would normally spend it in the High Street anyway or keep it in a bank so the bank could reinvest (at revised realistic levels).


Instead the people that "benefited" from all the mistakes still have all that non-existent money still stashed in offshore accounts. Nice.

dori2o

Wookster wrote: »

I am so sick of seeing ed ball on TV glibly blaming the Tories for all the nation's woes.

All Labour can ever think about is tax and spend and if you don't have the money, never mind, just spend it anyway.

Perhaps if they had won another term they'd have totally screwed the economy and people would treat them with the contempt they deserve.

Edit:

And to add to that, why is there a surprise that the economy shrunk? Labour presided over the largest growth of debt, both private and public since WW2. Of course there's no growth - we have no money left, as their Secretary to the Treasury pointed out.

You are aware that before the current Government started sqatting in No10, that the countrys economy was in growth growing by 1.1% in the first quater of they year, with the defecit decreasing faster than expected. Yet 9 months after Dave and Nick decided to cohabit, the defecit has risen, and the economy is now back in decline.

Make of it what you will.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

A._Badger wrote: »

Clue: Borrowed money isn't income. A bubble isn't economic growth.

I am all for rebalancing peoples bank accounts. From the top first.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

dori2o wrote: »

You are aware that before the current Government started sqatting in No10, that the countrys economy was in growth growing by 1.1% in the first quater of they year, with the defecit decreasing faster than expected. Yet 9 months after Dave and Nick decided to cohabit, the defecit has risen, and the economy is now back in decline.

Make of it what you will.

Probably Wookie will make that a co-incidence.

Wookster

A._Badger wrote: »

Clue: Borrowed money isn't income. A bubble isn't economic growth.

No it sure isn't.

People really want to believe it is, because then they can get rich quick.

That is Labour's mantra... just like you don't need to pay for it to have it notion.

LauraW10

Oh dear wookster are you starting to realise the dreadful truth that the Tories don't know what they're doing!