Majority of UK Voters Want Govt to reduce Cuts

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

A majority of British voters want the government to ease up on its austerity program in order to boost growth, according to a ComRes opinion poll released tonight.

69% agreed the government should slow its budget cuts and that higher unemployment was not a price worth paying for reducing the deficit, including 55% of Conservative voters.

Mr_Mumble

So the Brits are going Greek.... or the poll has heavily slanted questioning.

Every non-sourced topic here seems to be of, at best, dubious quality. The newspaper articles always seem to involve The Express on house prices or, in this case, The Independent on the economy.

lynzpower

where is the news article so we can check where your data has come from?

macaque_2

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

A majority of British voters want the government to ease up on its austerity program in order to boost growth, according to a ComRes opinion poll released tonight.

69% agreed the government should slow its budget cuts and that higher unemployment was not a price worth paying for reducing the deficit, including 55% of Conservative voters.

So which one do you want Brother Hamish? Low interests and high cuts or high interest rates and low cuts?

Graham_Devon

lynzpower wrote: »

where is the news article so we can check where your data has come from?

Of the 1,001 adults surveyed by ComRes between Nov. 25-27 on behalf of the Independent newspaper, 69% agreed the government should slow its budget cuts.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/11/28/majority-of-u-k-voters-want-government-to-ease-up-on-austerity/?mod=WSJBlog&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Feconomics%2Ffeed+%28WSJ.com%3A+Real+Time+Economics+Blog%29

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lynzpower wrote: »

where is the news article so we can check where your data has come from?

You want to check my data?

Turn on Sky news.... They're all over it, including the majority of Tory voters that want the cuts reduced.

Mr_Mumble

lynzpower wrote: »

where is the news article so we can check where your data has come from?

The original story:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-voters-tell-osborne-to-ease-up-on-spending-cuts-6269255.html

Graham_Devon

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

You want to check my data?

Turn on Sky news.... They're all over it, including the majority of Tory voters that want the cuts reduced.

All over it?

It's not even on the sky news website.

Not even in the business or economy sections.

Do you mean it was mentioned?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Graham_Devon wrote: »

All over it?

It's not even on the sky news website.

Not even in the business or economy sections.

Do you mean it was mentioned?

IN the BBC paper review, the Sky paper review, and both the BBC and Sky news broadcasts within the first 5 mins of the hour.

Anyway, here it is from the Indy link above.

An overwhelming majority of the public believes that George Osborne should slow down his spending cuts in order to boost Britain's anaemic growth levels, according to a ComRes poll for The Independent. The findings suggest growing public fears – including among the majority of Conservative supporters – that the deep cuts may be choking off a recovery.

Asked whether the Government should slow the pace of the cuts so that it can try to boost growth, 69 per cent agree and 24 per cent disagree. Even 54 per cent of Conservative supporters want to delay the cuts, as do 71 per cent of Liberal Democrat supporters and 86 per cent of Labour voters.

By 69 to 23 per cent, people do not believe higher unemployment is a price worth paying in order to reduce the deficit. Only a third of Conservative voters (36 per cent) agree with this statement

chewmylegoff

The majority of voters probably want some magic beans as well.

Have you answered Graham's "what cuts?" question yet? If not then what cuts?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Well according to the Indy anyway, we end up in the same place, at the same time, but with a lot more pain this way.

Mr Osborne will meet his "fiscal mandate" to eliminate the structural deficit (the part not caused by temporary factors in the downturn) two years later than he initially hoped – by 2016-17.

That could mean that, despite the pain of the cuts, he will not reduce the deficit any faster than Labour would have done.

The spending plans of Alistair Darling, his predecessor, aimed to halve the total deficit before the next election in 2015 and wipe out the structural deficit by 2016-17.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-voters-tell-osborne-to-ease-up-on-spending-cuts-6269255.html

Makes sense.

Higher growth and lower cuts, or lower growth and higher cuts, you end up in the same place as far as deficit spending is concerned.