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Balls Vs Osborne

Wookster
Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
in Debate House Prices & the Economy
Read this semi-humorous bit in the Telegraph today:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9833585/Snapshot-Do-the-Osborne-diet...-and-lose-pounds-fast.html
If you’re Mr Balls, you believe that financial troubles under the last Labour government were due to global economic problems, whereas financial troubles under the current Coalition are due to the Coalition’s own incompetence.

If you’re Mr Osborne, meanwhile, you believe that financial troubles under the last Labour government were due to the Labour government’s own incompetence, whereas financial troubles under the current Coalition are due to global economic problems.

Important to get that straight.

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  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    Wookster wrote: »
    Read this semi-humorous bit in the Telegraph today:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9833585/Snapshot-Do-the-Osborne-diet...-and-lose-pounds-fast.html

    Adversarial politics between two lightweight non-entities. Sums up our plight as a nation I'm afraid.
    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 Thatcher
  • DaddyBear
    DaddyBear Posts: 1,208 Forumite
    They're both incompetent idiots and thoroughly dislikable. However, I agree more with Osborne's side of this particular argument.
  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    DaddyBear wrote: »
    They're both incompetent idiots and thoroughly dislikable. However, I agree more with Osborne's side of this particular argument.

    Osborne is in office, and not being part of a Labour government sees the need to retain some contact with reality. Balls is in opposition and is a tribal political bully who sees it as fair game to say anything in order to try to win the votes of the gullible.
    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 Thatcher
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