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Unbelievable chutzpah

Miliband talking about a slide in living standards and his shadow attorney general talking about the conservatives doing "long term damage" to the economy.

The gall of these folks is quite shameless!
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  • BobQ
    BobQ Posts: 11,181 Forumite
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    Wookster wrote: »
    Miliband talking about a slide in living standards and his shadow attorney general talking about the conservatives doing "long term damage" to the economy.

    The gall of these folks is quite shameless!

    Politicians, play politics , what is new.
    Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
  • WestonDave
    WestonDave Posts: 5,154 Forumite
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    Dur, before 2008 we were earning £100 per week and spending £110 with the other £10 coming from the post 2011 earnings. Suddenly we are now only having £100 less the already spent £10 less £0.50p interest to spend because of previous economic policy and Wallace wonders why we are feeling hardup with only £89.50 to spend rather than £110. Still most of the electorate are probably dumb enough to believe their story that you can solve a debt strangled economy by borrowing more so we'll probably get to see what Wallace and Grommitballs make of getting us out of the remaining mess!
    Adventure before Dementia!
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    Wookster wrote: »
    Miliband talking about a slide in living standards and his shadow attorney general talking about the conservatives doing "long term damage" to the economy.

    The gall of these folks is quite shameless!

    All I heard was Milliband still harking on about a tax cut for the rich. Seems it's a feature at every PMQ's!

    A tax cut meaning they are paying 45% instead of the 40% over the majority of labours reign.
  • angrypirate
    angrypirate Posts: 1,151 Forumite
    Milipede is grasping at straws now. He has no policy on the economy, no policy in Europe and is just like a lost little sheep with a Party that doesnt know what it stands for
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    All I heard was Milliband still harking on about a tax cut for the rich. Seems it's a feature at every PMQ's!

    A tax cut meaning they are paying 45% instead of the 40% over the majority of labours reign.

    Over the majority of Labours reign we were not in dire straights icon9.gif
    '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 Thatcher
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Milipede is grasping at straws now. He has no policy on the economy, no policy in Europe and is just like a lost little sheep with a Party that doesnt know what it stands for

    Is that the same party that is 12% ahead in the polls?
    '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 Thatcher
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Over the majority of Labours reign we were not in dire straights icon9.gif

    We were just defering the problems.
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    ILW wrote: »
    We were just defering the problems.

    Maybe that is why we now expect those that can afford it to help undefer the problems.
    '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 Thatcher
  • BobQ
    BobQ Posts: 11,181 Forumite
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    Milipede is grasping at straws now. He has no policy on the economy, no policy in Europe and is just like a lost little sheep with a Party that doesnt know what it stands for

    This may be true, but neither have the other parties.

    Were Labour leading a coalition, similar meaningless sniping would have prevailed and the Tories would still not know what it stands for.
    Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
  • Unbelievable chutzpah is Wookie and Devon getting all indignant when DLW or Moby post anything critical of the coalition while continually flooding the forum with their Tory fanboy soundbites.


    By the way, there's a thread in Discussion Time about this. I'll ask the mods to merge.
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