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The Polls - Labour Lead At 14 - Is It The Economy?
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Graham_Devon wrote: »How do you know? I wasn't even actively posting on this forum! Infact, this particular forum didn't even exist!
And in any case, were we not still giving away free laptops at that point?
When 2007+ (i.e. 2007-2010)?'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 -
I am saying that debt has increased by £360 billion in two years of Tory govt against £450 billion in thirteen years of Labour, now check that statement below again.
And I'll say again, that is such a stupid comment. It takes no account of how fast debt was increasing in May 2010.
Furthermore your argument doesn't make sense. You say growth is growing up faster but yet you criticize any deficit reduction measures. Can you make up your mind please?0 -
BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »And that's why the Tories won't win the next election. They have failed to live up to their promises : they promised to reduce the debt and its getting bigger !!!!!!.
I think that if the Conservative Government have any chance of winning the next General Election they will have to start quickly making sensible policies that will work.
They need to remember the statement one of our famous Statesman Winston Churchill who said...
...He who fails to plan, is planning to fail.
So the ball is in their court0 -
And I'll say again, that is such a stupid comment. It takes no account of how fast debt was increasing in May 2010.
Furthermore your argument doesn't make sense. You say growth is growing up faster but yet you criticize any deficit reduction measures. Can you make up your mind please?
I can't quite understand that second para, where have I criticised deficit reduction measures? I did question whether one off receipts would have any affect on the structural deficit.'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 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »How do you know? I wasn't even actively posting on this forum!
Yes, and we rue the day that you found us. It's a shame you didn't remain on Discussion Time, your pollution dissipated within a larger pond.0 -
Rover going down did not take the whole economy with it. The banks failing would have.
The point is that all the reasons successive governments have given for their industrial vandalism suddenly didnt seem to apply when it comes to the banks.
Of course, you're right, if RBS had failed the impact would have been global.
But time after time after time our government has stood by while our manufacturing sector disintegrated into bankruptcy and foreign ownership. The result of this is that all we had left is the illusion of prosperity based on exponentially increasing debt.
Well the debt cant increase anymore. The cards are maxed out and where's our manufacturing sector when we need it.
Please note that I'm neither pro tory nor pro labour. They both shoulder a heavy burden of blame for the ruination of the UK.Mortgage debt - [STRIKE]£8,811.47 [/STRIKE] Paid off!0 -
No point in being brave and out of office.
I'm sure that you have just voiced the sentiments of far too many of our professional politicians. They are in it for the power and prestige, rather than having a vision for the country and trying to persuade others to share that vision.
Consequently, politicians will never make the hard choices that are needed. That is how we ended up with a national debt in the first place."When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson0 -
What good would it have done? Kept a few thousand in work building rubbish cars that nobody wanted to buy.
Jaguar Landrover doing well though once the unions had been defeated
You answered the first part yourself.
JLR had nothing to do with union crushing simply being taken over by TATA Industries from India, along with British Salt."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 -
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MacMickster wrote: »The problem is that neither party has a credible economic strategy.
Most likely as it's not possible to create one. The scale of the problem is so large and so complex. That's more a question of very slowly tightening the screw in a thousand different ways. Adjusting people's expectations as necessary. The next 5 years could be pretty grim for many. Read the Autumn thoroughly and its similar to Mr Brown's way of working. Bury the bad news now for the years ahead in the small print.0
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