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

Graham_Devon

Well it's been rendered absolutely impossible to actually discuss.

I keep answering questions, but appears to be absolutely impossible to get the same in return.

Night y'all.

ukcarper

ukcarper wrote: »

Quote:
“On a visit to Gateshead, Mr Miliband said the UK had its own version of the "American dream" - that each generation will enjoy more opportunities than the previous one.

Speaking ahead of the speech, the Labour leader, who hosted a meeting of his shadow Cabinet in the north-east, said: "The problem is that the government has no plan for growth. The Confederation of British Industry have said they've no plan for growth, and actually they're kicking away the ladders from young people in this country who are the future growth of our economy.

"When you're abolishing plans to help young people back to work who are unemployed, or trebling tuition fees, then you don't have a plan for growth, you're kicking away those ladders."

Tell me what’s not true about the above statement or tell me what the Tories are doing for you people.

On the subject of answering questions

Wheezy_2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Well it's been rendered absolutely impossible to actually discuss.

I keep answering questions, but appears to be absolutely impossible to get the same in return.

Night y'all.

Nite nite Graham.
When you get up maybe you could answer my question also.

Wheezy wrote: »

That's it? Did Mr. Shapps actually announce any policies to achieve that period of house price stability?

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Degenerate wrote: »

How do you think most of that reduction in debt/GDP was achieved? By spending cuts or growing GDP?

Growing GDP which is why the Codpieces have f***** us all over.

StevieJ

Graham_Devon wrote: »

The tories.

I aint hiding from anything. Not even a tory supporter.

There was a recession to deal with then too.

But no point in ignoring the fact that it was being paid down and declining before labour took power.
.

It hadn't been declining since the early 70's and before that it was probably due to an increase in GDP stemming from post war economic booms.

StevieJ

The point is the Labour Viv Nicholson complex and the the Tory's as economic alchemists just doesn't hang together if you review the facts in the round.

StevieJ

ukcarper wrote: »

Who was in power from 1990 to 1997?

If I am not mistaken from that chart it appears that the debt % was higher in 1997 than 1979 when the Tories gained power. Bearing in mind all those oil revenues, not to mention the flogging of the family jewels (deliberately under-priced) Sometime it feels like being present at that table with Alice, The Hare and that Hatter chappie with some of the views on here

Mike_parsonnage

Generali wrote: »

But that's not the reality of Tories in power. The vast majority pay basic rate tax only. The last lot cut that from, what was it 30% to 22%? Something like that. The 'big cuts' in tax for the rich mostly meant they paid more tax. The highest earners paid a far higher percentage of their incomes in tax after Lawson's budgets than in 1979.

Not quite the last lot cut tax from 25% down to 20% but they put up National insurance from 10 to 11% tax under a different name . They also froze tax free allowances a few times so what was given in one hand was taken back in another hand.

The percentage the highest earners paid dropped from 50% and 60% top rates down to 40% . The only reason the highest earners would have paid more would have been if they had earnt more after Lawsons budgets. The percentage they paid had dropped.

blueboy43

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Yup....

Kinda fits.

The recession of the early 1990s was an economic recession that hit much of the world in 1990–91.

Are there other types of recession ?

quantic

Mathematicians, engineers, scientists etc solve problems, the only thing these politician's are capable of misleading people into thinking they are going to do things when they are not even capable or smart enough to if they wanted to. They are a walking designer suit. Listening to the pricks in the commons make me cringe, and the theatrics makes me bloody cringe. I do not want someone who I can relate to or someone who is 'a nice bloke' to fix the worlds problems, I want someone who is absolutely the best qualified man/woman for the job.

Sadly, its rare that someone who is actually brilliant at doing a job ends up being the one that runs that department, the people who set out in their career wanting to run something do, and most of the time they just brown nose their way to the top, rather than demonstrating any kind of ability.