Labour Ahead In Economy Poll -By 2% You Gov

chucky

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I've missed you chucky, glad to have you back.

Thanks for the kind words.

Also thanks for confirming that you posted on this thread just to troll rather than post your point of view on the current poll putting Labour ahead of the Conservatives. Thanks for that.

chucky

purch wrote: »

At least the Labour Election Machine appears to be moving with the times.

Spamming an internet forum with about 50 members, very 21st century.

Those 50 members could probably help win an election from looking at the current voter numbers.

Generali

chucky wrote: »

Thanks for the kind words.

Also thanks for confirming that you posted on this thread just to troll rather than post your point of view on the current poll putting Labour ahead of the Conservatives. Thanks for that.

Good to see you old chap. All well?

It's hard to debate a poll with no links. I tried Google which gives me the following headlines:

Poll: 91% of gay people in the UK support equal marriage
Liberal Democrats slump to fourth behind Ukip in poll
Record numbers of people with dementia in care homes
After Leveson: newspapers turn on the BBC when it asserts its ...
Eight million Britons have no savings, study reveals


Only the last seems to be about the economy but I can find no reference to Labour being 2% ahead on the economy.

I guess in the meantime we have to amuse ourselves by launching insults in the direction of DLW. He really is a dreadful troll you know.

chucky

Generali wrote: »

Good to see you old chap. All well?

All well squire. Hope you are living the life.

Generali wrote: »

It's hard to debate a poll with no links. I tried Google which gives me the following headlines

That's an internet forum for you, no link either to his post either. Just shows that Purch could be right regarding the Labour Election Machine.

Harry_Boyle

purch wrote: »

That Labour aren't further ahead is strange.

Exactly what I was thinking. Perhaps people's memories are not as bad as some would have us think. If Labour had repaired the roof while the sun shone in the boom years, then we wouldn't have needed the Lib/Cons to go up there in the wind and rain to sort it out.

I'll be voting Cons at the next election, not because I buy into their idiology but simply because I believe they are more likely than Labour to do what needs to be done.

nicko33

it may be from this poll

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/02/26/update-labour-lead-12/

http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/document/d7vua2mnnm/YG-Archive-Pol-Sun-results-250213.pdf

nicko33

Labour lead falls 3 points in 6 days
http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/02/20/update-labour-lead-15/

Voters are cleverer

angrypirate

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Voters are cleverer nowadays, I think they have picked up that the IMF and Ratings Agencies are telling all euro countries to change towards Ed Balls Plan B For Growth & Cuts together US, France and even Japan are doing this now, and Osborne has been tolds in no uncertain terms he must do the same. Voters have picked up that Ed Balls said that all along, and kept to it through thick and thin, probably knowing time would prove him right. Frightened voters dont spend and we need them to spend at home as UK is finished abroad and in Europe for the foreseeable future - even a falling pound wont help that as we dont have exports anuyone actually wants!

Ha ha, very funny. I love your sarcasm where you say the rating agencies have said that Osbourne should follow Balls plan.

Camdoon

prowla wrote: »

If the crisis under Labour was down to external forces then so is the current situation.

If Osborne is to blame for the current issue then Brown is to blame for the financial crisis and his imprudent claim of an end to boom and bust.

I'm no particular fan of the current government, and am not too particular about my local Tory MP, but having Labour back in would be ruinous.

Sums it up.

DervProf

Harry_Boyle wrote: »

Exactly what I was thinking. Perhaps people's memories are not as bad as some would have us think. If Labour had repaired the roof while the sun shone in the boom years, then we wouldn't have needed the Lib/Cons to go up there in the wind and rain to sort it out.

I'll be voting Cons at the next election, not because I buy into their idiology but simply because I believe they are more likely than Labour to do what needs to be done.

Spot on.

Labour enjoyed claiming they created a strong economy, low unemployment etc., but they blame "the rest of the world" for messing it up. Now they blame the current government for not fixing the mess within a couple of years. They will not admit that their "strong economy" was built on the back of some rather dubious practices by our banks (which their FSA was supposed to keep an eye on), which left them rather exposed to an almost certain economic crisis.

I believe that New Labour were running a budget defecit, even at the height of their "boom years".

As I was discussing with a friend at the weekend, people voted in the hope that the new government could repair the economy. Did they really exopect everything to be back like it was in 2006 within a few years ? Sadly, I think they did.