Grubby Osborne & His Divisive Economy? Thats A New One From Sarah Teather!

DecentLivingWage

Two most telling words in this feisty article are 'leave' and 'behind!' What kind of economy and society will this govt bequeath us ask Teather? Suggests in the minds of many , the life of this administration is already over and all eyes are on General Election 2015 - is this the earliest campaigning has ever started? Going to be a gritty (if not grubby) rollercoaster if something doesnt happen with the economy soon folks...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/grubby-osbornes-crude-opportunism-is-capitalising-on-fear-8563137.html

Dreadzone

Could someone please remind me what economy Labour bequeathed its minions?

- no new energy generating capacity
- bigger welfare state with higher youth unemployment despite a growing economy
- biggest deficit of a G8 nation
- falling education standards
- unprecedented levels of private debt

Feel free to add to this list, the above is not exhaustive.

ILW

She is a liberal. They will be in the wilderness for the next couple of decades after the next election, whatever the result.

mystic_trev

Teather knows she'll be out of a job come the next Election, just one reason being that the bedroom Tax effects her Constituency more than any other. I'll be glad to see her go, she's a serial 'back stabber' and due for her comeuppance!

CLAPTON

My one main abiding memory of Teather was the morning of the commons vote on raising student fees.

The BBC 'doorstepped' her as she left her house.

She totally refused to discuss this great issue of the day and literally ran away down the street.

What an unprincipled cowardly vacuous person.

kabayiri

Dreadzone wrote: »

Could someone please remind me what economy Labour bequeathed its minions?

- no new energy generating capacity
- bigger welfare state with higher youth unemployment despite a growing economy
- biggest deficit of a G8 nation
- falling education standards
- unprecedented levels of private debt

Feel free to add to this list, the above is not exhaustive.

Huge cost overruns and inflexible contracts in defence. (e.g Air refuelling tanker PFI farce, air craft carriers without planes and unfit launch systems)

Pathetic schemes to bribe the poor, like laptops for the poor. I wonder how many of these have since broken or been pawned.

Massive expansion of state spend (£200bn+) which will take decades to wind back.

Err, that's enough for now.

angrypirate

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Two most telling words in this feisty article are 'leave' and 'behind!' What kind of economy and society will this govt bequeath us ask Teather? Suggests in the minds of many , the life of this administration is already over and all eyes are on General Election 2015 - is this the earliest campaigning has ever started? Going to be a gritty (if not grubby) rollercoaster if something doesnt happen with the economy soon folks...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/grubby-osbornes-crude-opportunism-is-capitalising-on-fear-8563137.html

Well, Ed Miliband treated Hollande as though the sun was shining out of his backside, saying what Hollande has done to France is what Miliband wants to do to the UK. Well, France is now in deeper do doo than ever, significantly worse than the UK. Rock on Holl-iband.

Generali

kabayiri wrote: »

Huge cost overruns and inflexible contracts in defence. (e.g Air refuelling tanker PFI farce, air craft carriers without planes and unfit launch systems)

Pathetic schemes to bribe the poor, like laptops for the poor. I wonder how many of these have since broken or been pawned.

Massive expansion of state spend (£200bn+) which will take decades to wind back.

Err, that's enough for now.

People being killed in their hundreds through deliberate acts of neglect in hospitals.
People being prevented from reporting rape.
2 illegal and probably pointless wars that have killed scores of young British soldiers at vast expense.
The collapse of the British house building industry.

ILW

Generali wrote: »

People being killed in their hundreds through deliberate acts of neglect in hospitals.
People being prevented from reporting rape.
2 illegal and probably pointless wars that have killed scores of young British soldiers at vast expense.
The collapse of the British house building industry.

Look on the bright side - we did have millions more civil servants of one sort or another, along with a massive ambulance chasing legal profession.

[Deleted User]

ILW wrote: »

She is a liberal. They will be in the wilderness for the next couple of decades after the next election, whatever the result.

Say what you like about the libs, they have one overwhelming attribute - an unrivalled capacity for self-delusion. As the largest party in Edinburgh (15 out of 58 seats) after the 2007 Council elections, they were in a pact with the SNP to form the administration. They were confident that they'd still have a say in the Council administration after the 2012 elections........

They were destroyed.

In 2012, they went from 15 seats to 3 (the Greens won 6!)

About the only "aren't we good" thing they can point to is their policy of a 10k basic rate tax threshold. As I've mentioned on another thread, although I'll benefit from that, if the country is as financially knackered as we are told, it can't afford the 5.3bn it costs over normal indexation.

I'm almost looking forward to the next general election coverage to see the expressions on the libs faces as they are ceremonially humped at the polls.

WR

PaulF81

With projected constituencies and the strong shift to the right, it won't matter if labour get in. UKIP and the reinvigorated right in the Conservative party are going to kill any labour bills in the house.

The lib dems? Who are they? Electorally dead and buried.