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Osborne and Cameron to resign
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grizzly1911 wrote: »Perhaps they wouldn't have wasted billions in changes for change sake.Just a thought.
Labour did that consistently in the period 1997-2010 so why would they have stopped then?
The Tories did much the same in the prior 18 years.
My motto for Government: don't just do something, stand there!0 -
Just as a comment grizzly1911, maybe that after so many years of Conservative rule, Labour had decided that the people of our country deserved a better quality of life and to achieve this they could only spend money past the point of no return and beyond.
Another view we have is...IF they won the next election do you not think that they would have learned from mistakes made and follow new policies?
Lab made the same mistakes for 11 of 13 years (they promised to keep Tory spending plans for the first couple of years)
What makes you think that Labour learned any lesson especially as they seem to have opposed every Tory tax rise and spending cut since 2010? There must be something so please share.:)0 -
Lab made the same mistakes for 11 of 13 years (they promised to keep Tory spending plans for the first couple of years)
What makes you think that Labour learned any lesson especially as they seem to have opposed every Tory tax rise and spending cut since 2010? There must be something so please share.:)
Labour has never ever made a tough decision. The only tax raising positive message they claim to have made (ie. The 50p tax rate) was actually tax negative.
They don't have a clue when it comes to basic arithmetic, let alone managing a countries finances.0 -
Lab made the same mistakes for 11 of 13 years (they promised to keep Tory spending plans for the first couple of years)
What makes you think that Labour learned any lesson especially as they seem to have opposed every Tory tax rise and spending cut since 2010? There must be something so please share.:)
I would like to think that they could look back at these years and see where they went wrong before 2010 and not go down that road again.
Since then they could only oppose what the Conservatives are doing because they do not have any answers to give.
Only in my opinion of course which does not account for very much on this Forum with all the experts here but I like to say my bit.0 -
It appears that even after you put the trolls on ignore the moronic threads that they create still appear, minus their posts !No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:The_White_Horse wrote: »Thatcher cared about doing what was right for the country.0 -
GeorgeHowell wrote: »It appears that even after you put the trolls on ignore the moronic threads that they create still appear, minus their posts !
George ....life would be rather boring if you just looked at yourself in the mirror all day as some on here appear to do.0 -
Labour did that consistently in the period 1997-2010 so why would they have stopped then?
The Tories did much the same in the prior 18 years.
My motto for Government: don't just do something, stand there!
If you inherit a deficit, that you think is so humungous that you want to prattle on about it for ever more, by all means put the brakes on. Wholesale reorganisation to achieve the same thing can wait a while."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 -
The coalition have been blaming labour for some of the problems for 2 years.
Labour have been blanming Thatcher for pretty much everything (and done abslutely nothing but continue on the same path she laid out!) for 22 years.
It's difficult for one set of party followers to tell another to stop blaming, when the same party followers are still blaming thatcher for everything as soon as it's get's difficult as "thatcher started it".0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »Labour have been blanming Thatcher for pretty much everything
Yes, but Labour politicians and supporters are mostly idiots.
We expect that sort of nonsense from them.
It is however deeply tragic that the same party that gave us Thatcher can now only come up with the Cameron/Osbourne comedy act.“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”0
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