Manifest Stupidity: Labour Condemned by their Own Words

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Surely they could do all of these things and still pass on less tax to our kids via extra borrowing than Labour are 'promising' to?

It's a c3% increase in spending over the life of the Parliament. The growth in tax from the growth in GDP over the next five years will easily cover this.

BobQ

Generali wrote: »

Worse, I've committed to reading a load more over the next few days. :eek:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/manifesto2015/ConservativeManifesto2015.pdf

https://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/manifesto/Green_Party_2015_General_Election_Manifesto.pdf

More work......

Generali

BobQ wrote: »

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/manifesto2015/ConservativeManifesto2015.pdf

https://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/manifesto/Green_Party_2015_General_Election_Manifesto.pdf

More work......

I've just done the Greens. The Tories will have to wait 'til tomorrow. Cheers for the links.:beer:

Crivens the Greens are a verbose lot.

IronWolf

cepheus wrote: »

Car crash interview after another for the shoddy Tory campaign

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/13/sajid-javid-mocked-on-bbc-daily-politics_n_7054024.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

and past propaganda coming back to haunt them.

They're both as bad as each other. I would rather the parties laid out which areas they would cut, I thought the Tories would be better but recently all they have released is unfunded spending commitments which means even more drastic cuts to any areas they haven't mentioned.

Generali

IronWolf wrote: »

They're both as bad as each other. I would rather the parties laid out which areas they would cut, I thought the Tories would be better but recently all they have released is unfunded spending commitments which means even more drastic cuts to any areas they haven't mentioned.

As I say, the spending increases that the Tories have committed to sum to roughly 3% of Government spending. If GDP grows at normal rates (at the moment it's ahead of normal and that might be expected to continue for a while according to most economists) then a rise in Government spending of that order would be entirely consistent with the deficit falling.

I've not had a go at the Cons manifesto as yet so I don't want to jump the gun. I think it's fair to say that the Labour party are promising the moon on a stick with their current policies though so it's a bit rich to claim that the Tories have some horrendous spending gap. It's just not true. As GDP rises so does tax revenue.