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angrypirate wrote: »Balls (and for that matter the entire Labour party) are very good in opposition - they just disagree with whatever the Tories do. However the second Labour get into power they are clueless as to what to do.
they just spend, and when the money runs out, they continue to spend it.
clueless morons.
what to everyone with a brain is "waste" they consider "growth".0 -
angrypirate wrote: »Balls (and for that matter the entire Labour party) are very good in opposition - they just disagree with whatever the Tories do. However the second Labour get into power they are clueless as to what to do.
labour haven't been good in opposition at all, they've just been lucky that (a) the coalition has been an indecisive flip-flopping joke throughout this term and (b) the eurozone crisis has happened / global economic malaise continued. bet they can't believe their luck.
all the tories did in opposition was oppose everything that labour did - and the second they got into power they were clueless as to what to do. i wouldn't describe them as having been very good in opposition as a result.0 -
Fat Boy Ballz is one of the biggest wastes of space in Westminster.Graham_Devon wrote: »He probably is. It's very easy to laugh when that's all you have to do!
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No fan of either of them.
Courtesy of Wiki
Ed Balls
Crossdale Drive Primary School in Nottinghamshire, and then the private all-boys Nottingham High School, [5He went on to attend Keble College, Oxford, where he gained a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (graduating ahead of David Cameron), and later Harvard, where he was a Kennedy Scholar specialising in Economics.[6]
George Osborne
Osborne was educated at two independent schools in west London: at Norland Place School in Holland Park and St Paul's School in Barnes (near Hammersmith),[10] followed by a Bachelor's degree at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford[2] where he received a 2:1 in Modern History.[7]
Interesting pedigrees.
Interestingly neither has had a real commercial role outside politics. Balls did some economic writing and osborne was adata entry clerk and retail product display optimisation clerk."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 Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »No fan of either of them.
George Osborne
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I am sure his family would have shuffled him off into the army in the old days
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
The_White_Horse wrote: »they just spend, and when the money runs out, they continue to spend it.
clueless morons.
what to everyone with a brain is "waste" they consider "growth".
and yet at the time the Tories agreed with their spending0 -
downshifter98 wrote: »I know there are bigger things to worry about but tonight on the news our chancellor claimed the government would now focus 110% on the economy - now I'm a Tory voter and also generally try to be positive about things but to hear the person who is meant to run our finances use the term 110% just made me cringe; my old maths teacher would be turning in his grave - never dreamt that this state school kid who left school at 16 with a few o'levels (I'm late 40's) would one day feel superior to a chancellor of the exchequer....sharpen up Mr Osbourne.
Didn't your English teacher at school allow you to use the expression?
Given that a high proportion of the country are dependent on text speak to communicate. Anything more complex would have been unintelligble to many.0 -
Loughton_Monkey wrote: »NThis is all supplemented by payday loans at 110% monthly interest. ..
Come on explain where you get a 110% pay day loan:rotfl:Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
Come on explain where you get a 110% pay day loan:rotfl:
What don't you believe? 110% monthly rate is by my calculation 7,356% for the whole year (APR).
Or are you assuming that because I'm retired, I can't possibly get a payday loan?
Well the simple truth is that Mrs Loughton Monkey ensures that all my pensions and investment income go to her, and she "pays" me just enough to keep me in Gin & Tonics and Cigars. If I need extra money (e.g. for petrol) then Mrs Loughton Monkey lends me the money at this rate.
I try to avoid it because I hate cutting down on cigars or Gin & Tonics.
It all started when she started listening to that 'Woman's Hour' nonsense on Radio 4......0 -
I am sure his family would have shuffled him off into the army in the old days
If ever there was a 1st world war General, it would be Osborne.
20 miles from the front, dressed up in his finery stuffing his pasty, podgy face with roasted pheasant and port, while sending the Salford Pals over the top.
He even sends a young girl on to newsnight to take the flak.US housing: it's not a bubble - Moneyweek Dec 12, 20050
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