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  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Yet.......

    But we will.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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  • cells
    cells Posts: 5,246 Forumite
    prosaver wrote: »
    thats a positive..


    exactly, far too many people imagine an increasing population adds to the pressure of public services and jobs but forgets they also contribute to them.

    Nobody is complaining that the lines in Tesco are getting unbearable with the population at +500,000 from last year. They clearly innately understand that people pay for their food and Tesco can expand its service with a growing population. The same is true for schools and hospitals and any public service.
  • cells
    cells Posts: 5,246 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Yet.......

    But we will.


    People wont notice it, instead of fixing the finances by around 2020 it might be put back by 10 years and you wont be able to show someone in 2026 that they are paying more in taxes and getting less in services due to decisions made 10 years prior
  • CLAPTON
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    cells wrote: »
    exactly, far too many people imagine an increasing population adds to the pressure of public services and jobs but forgets they also contribute to them.

    Nobody is complaining that the lines in Tesco are getting unbearable with the population at +500,000 from last year. They clearly innately understand that people pay for their food and Tesco can expand its service with a growing population. The same is true for schools and hospitals and any public service.

    indeed so but that doesn't make the UK a better place to live and bring up one's family.
  • BobQ
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    Rinoa wrote: »
    Michael Gove today:

    Bosses of big companies aren't going to get £5m salary.

    Immigration will be controlled by Oz type points system.

    We'll get hundred of thousands of houses built every year - including social housing!

    And pigs will fly throughout the land
    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.
  • chucknorris
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    cells wrote: »
    People wont notice it, instead of fixing the finances by around 2020 it might be put back by 10 years and you wont be able to show someone in 2026 that they are paying more in taxes and getting less in services due to decisions made 10 years prior

    If it does work out that way, by bumping along the bottom for a few more years, rather than having a recession, it might work out better for some if interest rates stay lower for longer.
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  • chucknorris
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    BobQ wrote: »
    And pigs will fly throughout the land

    Very good for umbrella sales then!
    Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop
  • BobQ
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    Rinoa wrote: »
    Gove gave a surprising speech. Says big business and globalisation isn't working for ordinary people. Criticized high pay in top jobs and wasn't very polite to The City, who gave huge bonuses to people who 'just got lucky'

    It wasn't what I expected to hear from someone having ambitions to be Tory leader. I was impressed.

    Some people are easily impressed.....Did he not also claim that the NHS would now get only £100m extra once he controls the £350m he said would be reclaimed?

    Leave won by lying. Boris has been shafted by Gove and both have shafted the country.
    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.
  • BobQ
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    prosaver wrote: »
    thats a positive..
    BTW the brexit camp never said there going to spend all the EU money , contribution on the NHS.
    I cant find anything word for word?

    You mean apart from in huge letters on the side of a large bus?

    Try this then

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36040060
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  • BobQ
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    prosaver wrote: »
    positive
    we didnt have a emergency budget :beer:

    :beer:

    Yet.............................................
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