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Cannot believe it. Ed Milliband preaches about a generation priced out.

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  • ukcarper wrote: »
    With the Tories, LibDems and Labour
    Aaah well. Democracy being the best of a bad bunch and all that jazz.

    There IS no true choice.

    I think broadly speaking it's been the same regime since 1979.

    In 1994 I think RED became BLUE and in 1997 things were going to get better but they only got worse.

    Then in 2010 YELLOW became BLUE. We weren't even told things were going to get better! We were told the opposite. Things are going to get more worser!

    I'd sing the blues to express my woes but I think I'd only be advertising the glory of the BLUE regime.

    Think I'll just hit the Bols BLUE and watch a BLUE movie.
    Long live the faces of t'wunty.
  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    Earlier this week, housing minister Grant Shapps told The Observer he wants a period of “house price stability”, where prices rise below the rate of earnings to make property more affordable, especially for young people.

    That's it? Did Mr. Shapps actually announce any policies to achieve that period of house price stability?
    I assume the hypocrite tag can now be removed?

    No, the hypocrite tag can stay where it is when in previous threads you whined about posters saying anything negative about Tories, where you call for mature discussion, and follow it up with:
    It's absolutely infruriating.

    They can stick it.

    Phhhhuck off!!!
  • Graham_Devon
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    Wheezy wrote: »
    That's it? Did Mr. Shapps actually announce any policies to achieve that period of house price stability?



    No, the hypocrite tag can stay where it is when in previous threads you whined about posters saying anything negative about Tories, where you call for mature discussion, and follow it up with:

    LOL.

    Don't you just love forumonics.
  • Thrugelmir
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    Wheezy wrote: »
    That's it? Did Mr. Shapps actually announce any policies to achieve that period of house price stability?

    At the current time existing policies seem to have achieved this affect. So no tinkering needed.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    I can’t believe that people think that if the Tories had been in power they would have done something to prevent the boom.
  • Thrugelmir
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I can’t believe that people think that if the Tories had been in power they would have done something to prevent the boom.

    Easy to say with hindsight.

    The fact was they wasn't.

    As Thatcher left a mark on history in time so will Brown.
  • A._Badger
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Easy to say with hindsight.

    The fact was they wasn't.

    As Thatcher left a mark on history in time so will Brown.


    Perhaps more a Brown stain than a mark.
  • Graham_Devon
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    I can’t believe that people think that if the Tories had been in power they would have done something to prevent the boom.

    Maybe. But it isn't the lib dems or tories attacking labour for kicking the ladder under peoples feet after being in power for 11 years, is it.

    It's Ed Milliband trying to point the blame....again.

    The point isn't about who may or may not have done what. It's Ed Milliband trying to point a blame on the coalition, and misrepresent everything to the nation in order to find votes.

    This thread wouldnt be here if Ed hadn't opened his mouth to try and misrepresent a situation.
  • ukcarper
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    Maybe. But it isn't the lib dems or tories attacking labour for kicking the ladder under peoples feet after being in power for 11 years, is it.

    It's Ed Milliband trying to point the blame....again.

    The point isn't about who may or may not have done what. It's Ed Milliband trying to point a blame on the coalition, and misrepresent everything to the nation in order to find votes.

    This thread wouldnt be here if Ed hadn't opened his mouth to try and misrepresent a situation.

    That’s politics didn’t you notice that the Tories try to blame Labour for the hole deficit.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    edited 6 February 2011 at 1:14PM
    ukcarper wrote: »
    That’s politics didn’t you notice that the Tories try to blame Labour for the hole deficit.

    But labour WERE in power and WERE running the defecit.

    There is a difference.

    I don't believe it's politics to just misrepresent continually? Labour ran a very clever misresprestation campaign on the forests stuff. Sure, the forests stuff isn't the biggest issue on our hands, but they have been able to totally misrepresent the whole issue, and have been succesful. Trouble is, the whole country then doesn't move forward.

    I've not seen a party completely misrepresent an issue and completely misrepresent the actual policy before. Well, not since the Damien Green thing.
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