The Polls - Labour Lead At 14 - Is It The Economy?

Generali

Wookster wrote: »

That's the one.

I was being sarcastic about his qualities. Whatever they may be, they do not include charisma, knowledge, wisdom or experience.

Sorry, the political stuff passes you by when you become a foreigner.

Wookster

Generali wrote: »

Sorry, the political stuff passes you by when you become a foreigner.

No worries. Lucky you, watching UK politics as I do its enormously depressing. On the one hand you've got the drug addict asking for one more hit then they'll go chaste (we've heard that before), on the other you've got folks who can't seem to organise a p1ss up in a brewery.

Then there are the lunatics at the fringes.

Its a depressing time for UK politics.

Generali

Wookster wrote: »

No worries. Lucky you, watching UK politics as I do its enormously depressing. On the one hand you've got the drug addict asking for one more hit then they'll go chaste (we've heard that before), on the other you've got folks who can't seem to organise a p1ss up in a brewery.

Then there are the lunatics at the fringes.

Its a depressing time for UK politics.

Aussie politicos are a useless bunch of.......... [insert most horrible insult you can think of], they really are. Incompetent, corrupt, asinine, venal, idiotic, rude and grubbing are the words that spring to mind freely. Give me a day and a thesaurus and I'll put those [word] to shame .

Bad times seem to breed bad politicians. The 1970s was a horrible time for leaders for example.

grizzly1911

Generali wrote: »

Aussie politicos are a useless bunch of.......... [insert most horrible insult you can think of], they really are. Incompetent, corrupt, asinine, venal, idiotic, rude and grubbing are the words that spring to mind freely. Give me a day and a thesaurus and I'll put those [word] to shame .

Bad times seem to breed bad politicians. The 1970s was a horrible time for leaders for example.

When the brown stuff hits the fan you can usually tell those that can deliver and those that can't, unfortunately when it stops flying it generally lands on those that can.

No different in business you often find the rapid pole climbers are useless at actually achieving anything and simply get promoted out of harms way.

DecentLivingWage

Wookster wrote: »

No worries. Lucky you, watching UK politics as I do its enormously depressing. On the one hand you've got the drug addict asking for one more hit then they'll go chaste (we've heard that before), on the other you've got folks who can't seem to organise a p1ss up in a brewery.

Then there are the lunatics at the fringes.

Its a depressing time for UK politics.

Yes, and now Mervyn King at the Bank Of England says this Xmas quarters figures are going to be dire - we're going back into recession for a triple dip I think the polls will stay like this as long as the economy is dying on its feet. I just think the city,markets,banks will not lend under Osborne! They hate coalition and are dubious that there will be continuity after the election (ie deep down they think Cameron will fail in re election- NoConfidence!) Messy!

BertieUK

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Yes, and now Mervyn King at the Bank Of England says this Xmas quarters figures are going to be dire - we're going back into recession for a triple dip I think the polls will stay like this as long as the economy is dying on its feet. I just think the city,markets,banks will not lend under Osborne! They hate coalition and are dubious that there will be continuity after the election (ie deep down they think Cameron will fail in re election- NoConfidence!) Messy!

Time to change the leaders I'm afraid if they are to stand any chance of winning the next election.

DecentLivingWage

BertieUK wrote: »

Time to change the leaders I'm afraid if they are to stand any chance of winning the next election.

Yes, when voters feel cornered with no choice, they just think 'to H with it,I'm voting Ukip!'

Wookster

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Yes, and now Mervyn King at the Bank Of England says this Xmas quarters figures are going to be dire - we're going back into recession for a triple dip I think the polls will stay like this as long as the economy is dying on its feet. I just think the city,markets,banks will not lend under Osborne! They hate coalition and are dubious that there will be continuity after the election (ie deep down they think Cameron will fail in re election- NoConfidence!) Messy!

Thanks for the post. It's always refreshing to see labour zealots post their ideological bile in the desperate hope they will convert folks.

BertieUK

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Yes, when voters feel cornered with no choice, they just think 'to H with it,I'm voting Ukip!'

I think that if the country took a confidence vote on the popularity of the two leaders they would be similar to the growth figures.

But then they would try and convince you the opposite was happening, and of course it was all someone elses fault.

This is the sign that they have to be replaced otherwise we are going to be going down an unclassified road leading us into uncharted territory.

Wookster

BertieUK wrote: »

But then they would try and convince you the opposite was happening, and of course it was all someone elses fault.

Actually it was someone else's fault.

It is hard to find many objective measures on which the country was in a better state in May 2010 than it was before Labour came to power.

To name a few:
- Greater inequality of wealth distribution
- higher levels of personal, public & corporate debt
- bigger state
- biggest deficit
- lower education standards
- higher long term unemployment
- bigger housing shortage
- less energy generating capacity

It is astonishing that people can look back on the labour government's time in office and not see that problems were allowed to grow and fester rather than be sorted out.