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Labour seen as more competent

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  • coastline
    coastline Posts: 1,662 Forumite
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    Does anyone know who takes part in these polls anyway...I honestly haven't heard of one person..
    I dont think it makes much difference whos in power...they've all got the same problems to tackle...mind I think we'll see the top rate of tax at 40% within a few years regardless of reducing budget deficits..
    Looking at the chart below it doesn't look like any party in the last 30 years has taken ..running a surplus...seriously..
    We've hardly had a pay back of the national debt...infact 1992 looks a disaster with 8% of GDP deficit...and theres no banking crisis either..

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  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Doesn't sound so good when you realise the interest figure is £43 billion.

    More than education budget... 1/3 of the NHS budget...

    One has to ask if all that money was spent wisely and efficiently.
  • Thrugelmir
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    Wookster wrote: »
    More than education budget... 1/3 of the NHS budget...

    One has to ask if all that money was spent wisely and efficiently.

    PFI is lurking off balance sheet as well.

    NHS trusts are burdened with high fixed costs for years to come.
  • CLAPTON
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    Wookster wrote: »
    More than education budget... 1/3 of the NHS budget...

    One has to ask if all that money was spent wisely and efficiently.


    well clearly it was not all spent wisely or efficiently but maybe the issue is who would do any better?
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    well clearly it was not all spent wisely or efficiently but maybe the issue is who would do any better?

    Well by nature, the Conservatives spend less and do not see the state as magic solution to everyone's needs, wants and desires like Labour does so I'd wager they waste less.
  • coastline
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    well clearly it was not all spent wisely or efficiently but maybe the issue is who would do any better?

    this is it really...its not a corner shop a fellas ran for 40 years and knows where everything is..
    we'll just have more of the same I reckon...reduce the budget deficit and hopefully some economic growth..
  • CLAPTON
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    coastline wrote: »
    this is it really...its not a corner shop a fellas ran for 40 years and knows where everything is..
    we'll just have more of the same I reckon...reduce the budget deficit and hopefully some economic growth..


    it's hard to see how the deficit will be reduced without significant growth to generate more tax and reduce umemployment benefits

    we no longer have any state industries to sell off or a large amount of north sea oil revenue to bail us out.
  • coastline
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    it's hard to see how the deficit will be reduced without significant growth to generate more tax and reduce umemployment benefits

    we no longer have any state industries to sell off or a large amount of north sea oil revenue to bail us out.

    Well hopefully yesterdays 2.6% growth forecast for 2014 kicks in..
    We know there might be another £10bn out of welfare yet..
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    the interest figure is £43 billion.

    A third of which the government pays to itself.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    coastline wrote: »
    Well hopefully yesterdays 2.6% growth forecast for 2014 kicks in..
    We know there might be another £10bn out of welfare yet..

    Where is the 2.6% of growth going to come from unless the Government open the taps ?

    Welfare is another matter, especially if it is on top of the existing cuts. Like a balloon you squash it one way it pops out somewhere else unless you eradicate the air.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
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