Are Labour two faced or two stupid?

lvader

Labour have criticised the Tories for vetoing a treaty that would require the UK to cut the deficit to no more than 3% of GDP and at the same time saying they are cutting too fast too soon.

Are Labour two faced or two stupid?

A._Badger

lvader wrote: »

Labour have criticised the Tories for vetoing a treaty that would require the UK to cut the deficit to no more than 3% of GDP and at the same time saying they are cutting too fast too soon.

Are Labour two faced or two stupid?

Um.. can I choose 'both'?

StevieJ

lvader wrote: »

Labour have criticised the Tories for vetoing a treaty that would require the UK to cut the deficit to no more than 3% of GDP and at the same time saying they are cutting too fast too soon.

Are Labour two faced or two stupid?

Where do you get that from, it would have done no such thing.

vax2002

cameron can Veto what he wants, the majority have signed it, we are in by default.

Butterfly_Brain

At least Cameron had the balls to stand up to Merkel and Sarkozy who seem to be running the EU.
That simpering wimp Milliband would have signed our sovereignty away by now

Degenerate

It's just party politics. Note that they are criticizing Cameron's negotiating tactics without actually saying we should have signed up to the thing. If Labour were still in power they would have done the same thing.

CLAPTON

3% was of course the requirement for anyone to join the Euro in the first place

as I recall, almost no-one (including germany) actually meet that requirement but they went ahead anyway

and I don't think they have specified the timescale for achieving that so everyone can be right.

lvader

StevieJ wrote: »

Where do you get that from, it would have done no such thing.

National budgets

Having failed to reach an agreement of all 27 EU members, the 17 eurozone countries and the other EU states apart from the UK are expected to sign up to the new deal, which includes:
Continue reading the main story a commitment to "balanced budgets" for eurozone countries

• defined as a structural deficit no greater than 0.5% of gross domestic product - to be written into national constitutions
• automatic sanctions for any eurozone country whose deficit exceeds 3% of GDP
• a requirement to submit their national budgets to the European Commission, which will have the power to request that they be revised
• eurozone and other EU countries to consider, within the next 10 days, providing up to 200bn euros to the International Monetary Fund to help debt-stricken eurozone members

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16116276

ILW

Like the way they use the term "debt stricken members" as if it just happened overnight with no warning.

lvader

Just re-read that it only applies to Eurozone countries, so it's OK for Labour that other European countries cut too fast too soon as long as UK doesn't follow suite?

Kennyboy66

lvader wrote: »

Just re-read that it only applies to Eurozone countries, so it's OK for Labour that other European countries cut too fast too soon as long as UK doesn't follow suite?

'people in glass houses' springs to mind