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What is Labour's Economic Policy?
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They don't need one. They could dress a donkey in a red rosette and most northerners will vote for it.
What does that say about the other lot
'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 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »They could dress an A!s in a blue rosette and most southerners and Tatton residents would vote for it.
In fact they often do, metaphorically speaking, of course '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 -
That's not my recollection.
There was plenty of 'Told you so' and of course the current mess in Government finances shows the folly of the massively redistributive policies of the Labour Government. Even Labour admitted that they'd spent all the money when they left power. I don't think there was any glee at the plight of the UK except perhaps from the usual people that think that they can get a cheap house but that's not Tories so much as idiots.
I am surprised at that statement from you Gen he was merely following tradition like the old Tory Reggie Maudling who wrote a note to his successor Jim Callaghan in 1964."Good luck, old C0ck ... Sorry to leave it in such a mess.":)'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 -
No, you've just proved the opposite.
Compare and contrast:-
in june 2010 gideon promised to end the deficit by 2015
Treasury chief George Osborne said his government will eliminate the structural deficit ...... by the 2014 financial year, ending 2015
Although of course knowing the difference between the deficit and the structural deficit would involve a grasp of basic economics.
It is not quite as simple as that especially when the deficit is built on shifting sands i.e. the potential permanent shrinkage of the UK Finance industry. I should imagine the removal of the cyclical deficit by 2015 would have been considered a given in 2010, the real challenge was measuring and removing the Structural deficit (and that is presumably why he only mentioned Structural). Can you imagine the implication of him saying that we will remove the structural deficit but not the cyclical?'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 -
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Not gone to war in Iraq and Afganistan. (total cost > £20,000,000,000 link).
I would think that figure is very much on the low side at peak I saw reports suggesting figures closer to £5bn pa. Depends on how much the US cross charge us for their support no doubt. PaulF81 can give us some insight?"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: »I would think that figure is very much on the low side
And that's just the money, very much the least important part of it.0 -
And that's just the money, very much the least important part of it.
I agree and what has really been achieved in large parts?"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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