Triple Dip For Construction - 60 000 Jobs Lost

angrypirate

antrobus wrote: »

Labour have a 'Plan B for Boost'?!? Where is it? Can we have the details?



See:
UK BailOut - IMF Ride Into Town - What Would It Take?
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4562001

Have you forgotten already? It was only four days ago.

I thought it was Labour's Plan B for bust

antrobus

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

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This thread is about crisis last ditch attempts to save the last remaining shreds of our construction industry which is in triple dip...

A recession is (by defintion) two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. Construction was up 0.8% in Q4 2012 (says he, checking the figures with the excel tables provided by ONS) so it is not currently in a dip or recession, because one quarter's figures do not make a recession.

So you're wrong again.

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

...There is a lot of pent up demand money to be made - why arent we making it?...

What on earth does that mean? What is "pent up demand money" and how exactly do you 'make it'?

P.S. Still waiting for the details of Plan B for Boost.

Thrugelmir

Originally Posted by DecentLivingWage
...There is a lot of pent up demand money to be made - why arent we making it?...

If there was then construction wouldn't be struggling!

The Olympic construction boost is over.

DecentLivingWage

Pent up demand is the powder keg of people waiting to buy homes! or even rent them - an opportunity is being missed! Labours Olympics saved us last year - we need something else in the way of construction to save the industry - like houses! or even better roads! But banks wont lend while Osborne/coalition is still there #Uncertainty

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

Why on earth would the UK call in the IMF? It's a ridiculous notion

What DLW means is that he wants the Coalition out but he doesn't trust Milliband/Balls on the economy; he is advocating the appointment of an IMF technocrat to run the treasury.

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

Calling the IMF in means requesting a bail out from them.

The IMF visiting for talks is a completely different thing.

Canny voters won't believe you thank god. They are following that funny looking one off Made in Chelsea on twitter so they can't be fooled by the right wing media; they know what is really going on.

antrobus

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Pent up demand is the powder keg of people waiting to buy homes! or even rent them - an opportunity is being missed!

Demand and desire are two very different things.

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

Labours Olympics saved us last year -

When did the British Labour Party take control of the Olympic movement?

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

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we need something else in the way of construction to save the industry - like houses! or even better roads!

Just because Construction is down a bit, it doesn't mean to say that that it's on its last legs and about to disappear.

DecentLivingWage wrote: »

...But banks wont lend while Osborne/coalition is still there #Uncertainty

Really, you think that? You think that the people who run the banks won't lend money until Ed Balls gets his hands back on the Treasury? Don't you think some of them might remember what happened last time he was in that position?

DecentLivingWage

a bit!!!!! 60 000 Jobs?? Voters will NOT stand for that schmoozing any more! Elderly senior voters may have once relied on establishment figures/media for their facts,figures and voting advice but that just isnt the case any more - they need more respect . Social media is sharper coverage now - often voters/citizens who happen to glance at their liatas are abreast of breaking events/figs before their busy MP is! A bit indeed ! Nice Try tho

Thrugelmir

Originally Posted by DecentLivingWage
...But banks wont lend while Osborne/coalition is still there #Uncertainty

And Labours total lack of policy ?

DecentLivingWage

Pretending that Labour has no policies wont work either - it looks like the IMF are about to endorse them!! Too Far Too Fast Too Unfairly Investment in Construction Infrastructure Housing creates its own jobs and growth Other policies are in the pipeline, but they won't be goaded into revealing them before the manifesto is launched (was same for Cameron when he used to represent the future Standard practice which voters are perfectly capable of understanding!)