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  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    RenovationMan wrote: »
    The continual fix at 0.5 is great news for my mortgage free challenge and feeding more money into the economy will probably pep up my bonds.

    Everything is going well. :)

    Except the price of your house, the cost of food, the cost of fuel......
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »
    They claimed they would be able to cut spending - it is growing in real terms. And they claimed they would have reduced the deficit by now - it's much higher than the one in the budget.

    We'll see if they can keep their promises.

    True, but at least it seems to be heading in the planed direction.
    I suppose it is a case of judge them if they fail.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    Really2 wrote: »
    True, but at least it seems to be heading in the planed direction.
    I suppose it is a case of judge them if they fail.

    They have a lot of time left in the parliament. And the grand ship of state takes some time to turn.

    That's what I am saying.

    They will get time to show what they can do... whether people like them right now is pretty irrelevant.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »
    They have a lot of time left in the parliament. And the grand ship of state takes some time to turn.

    That's what I am saying.

    They will get time to show what they can do... whether people like them right now is pretty irrelevant.

    Indeed, I think the like/dislikes of parties have shifted that much since the general election. Well except for the Lib Dems. :)
  • undetterred
    undetterred Posts: 635 Forumite
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    Dan: wrote: »
    It's just the flip side of the coin. There are a few on here who take pleasure in homeowners in negative equity and repossession.

    Dont wind him up,hes still !!!!!! at the fact a tube driver gets 50k,we'll never hear the last of it.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »
    Politically you do have to ask how long the Tories can keep going with the current narrative.

    As long as it takes. The UK appears to be 2 steps ahead of Europe and the USA at the moment. We need to remain so.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »

    They will get time to show what they can do... whether people like them right now is pretty irrelevant.

    Mrs T was hugely disliked and discredited at the outset of her tenure. Fortunately she had the bottle to carry through necessary actions that ultimately did this country an enormous amount of financial good.
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    As long as it takes. The UK appears to be 2 steps ahead of Europe and the USA at the moment. We need to remain so.

    I'd agree but that's not how it works.

    There's a limited time that the narrative can be used for. Blaming labour at the next election (whether true or not) and pointing out that things aren't quite as bad as the US or Europe isn't going to win an election.
  • RenovationMan
    RenovationMan Posts: 4,227 Forumite
    DaddyBear wrote: »
    Except the price of your house, the cost of food, the cost of fuel......

    The price of our house is irrelevent as we have no plans to move for the next 20 odd years, we grow some of our food on the farm, I have a train season ticket bought before the recent rail hikes on an interest free season ticket loan, our central heating is still off as we are heating the house with free wood and our electricity useage has gone down 20% due to the recent purchase of A++ rated white goods and move from electric shower to one supplied from our water cylinder.

    You can either moan about life or get on and sort it out.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    RenovationMan wrote: »
    The price of our house is irrelevent as we have no plans to move for the next 20 odd years,

    And after 20 years. You plan to cash in?
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