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Are the Coalition f*cking it up ?.
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Uncle Spielberg
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Yoda
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IMO Yes!
The debt situation can be improved through 3 ways.
1)Economic Expansion which improves Tax Revenues and reduces spending on benefits like Job Seekers Allowance.
2)Improved performance of banks increases prospect of regaining financial sector intervention.
3)Government Spending cuts and tax rises (e.g. VAT) which improve public finances.
However, there is also a danger spending cuts could reduce economic growth and therefore hamper attempts to improve tax revenues, which is ALL this government seem to be doing and focused.
Uncle Spielberg
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Does the person proved to have had a shittier time get a free BHAFC ticket or something ?.
fruitnveg
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Surely not a competition you would want to win though, even for BHAFC?
Why are you being all chummy? Half an hour ago I was the devil incarnate for pointing out how boring your self pity sounds. Now it transpires that I was in a position worse than yours but didn't bore everyone for three years and instead did something about it; and you're making out it was all a joke.
Can't you just stick to your guns Gareth? I said your self pity over three years is now getting absurd, you said you hoped I'd go through a shit time of it and luckily for you, I have done. That's the bottom line.
Uncle Spielberg
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No point in comparing notes but I can guarantee my situation has been far worse than what you have been though. But do not rewrite history you are the one who told me to f***ing get over it.
I think comparing notes is ESSENTIAL to bring this episode to a satisfactory conclusion.
And then, of course, NSC will judge on who has had it worse.
hitony
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I've had it worse!!!!!
I'm afraid I've already laid all my cards out on the table, Bozza. I think what makes it most horrendous is the FRIGHTFUL ribbing from the likes of you about my non-Albion attendance.
Stacked up against US's terrible misfortune (he has only had half a decade to realise mortgage brokering might not have much of a future), I don't think I stand a chance.
Stacked up against US's terrible misfortune (he has only had half a decade to realise mortgage brokering might not have much of a future), I don't think I stand a chance.
hitony
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I'm afraid I've already laid all my cards out on the table, Bozza. I think what makes it most horrendous is the FRIGHTFUL ribbing from the likes of you about my non-Albion attendance.
Stacked up against US's terrible misfortune (he has only had half a decade to realise mortgage brokering might not have much of a future), I don't think I stand a chance.
I was in new housing development for pretty much most of my life, until about 2.5 years ago I never thought it would collapse in the way it has done, I always knew things were going to tighten up, as they have done before, but to this extent I doubt anyone ever thought it would get like this, and I have lived through 2 biggish recessions before.
Should I have realised that my whole career path was a waste of time and had no future in it? one thing I have realised, I will never work in that industry again as my age goes against me, and as for other options, all prospective employers do is look at my CV and say, why do you want to do
?? when all you know is construction, and that applys to all the mundane jobs on offer.ROSM
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I'm afraid I've already laid all my cards out on the table, Bozza. I think what makes it most horrendous is the FRIGHTFUL ribbing from the likes of you about my non-Albion attendance.
Indeed it was.............SHAMEFUL
You do have my sympathies, Tony. It's horrible being out of work, and must be more so when you reach a point where you feel your age goes against you. But the simple fact is that you're not on here talking as if your own unfortunate situation is completely hopeless and somebody else's fault, time and time again, interjected with massive doses of self pity.I was in new housing development for pretty much most of my life, until about 2.5 years ago I never thought it would collapse in the way it has done, I always knew things were going to tighten up, as they have done before, but to this extent I doubt anyone ever thought it would get like this, and I have lived through 2 biggish recessions before.
Should I have realised that my whole career path was a waste of time and had no future in it? one thing I have realised, I will never work in that industry again as my age goes against me, and as for other options, all prospective employers do is look at my CV and say, why do you want to do
Me too but I declare an interest.
I just had an argument with A labour suporter this lunchtime, she voted Lib Dem in May for the first time because she likes Norman Baker - some people do - but now feels betrayed by people like Cable.
I said to her :
A) we have only been in power 5 moths; after 13 years Labour were still trying to blame the Tories for the mess we are still in.
B) Labour are trying disinherit the whole mantra of "New Labour" but does that mean Clause 4 will be restored? I think not. Ed Miliband has as much working-class background as David Cameron by the sound of him, an effete and affected peevish accent.
C) Where Ed will gain - and is making full weight of that - is that unlike his bro and most of the Labour heirachy he claims he was against the Iraq invasion. But what about Afghanistan?
D) A Lib-Lab coalition was impossible, the numbers didn't add up. When the LD's went with the Tories we had 56, they had I think 290 odd. By any mathematics that means we had less than 20% of the power. So we are lucky to get far more than 20% of the influence.
E) Every party makes pre-election promises it can't keep. Prescott pledged to renationalise the railways.
F)A lot of us "rejoiced" that the Tories lost in 1997, at that time it was broadly thought, hoped even, that there would be a Lib-Lab coalition. Paddy Ashdown certainly planned for it.
Etc etc...
hitony
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You do have my sympathies, Tony. It's horrible being out of work, and must be more so when you reach a point where you feel your age goes against you. But the simple fact is that you're not on here talking as if your own unfortunate situation is completely hopeless and somebody else's fault, time and time again, interjected with massive doses of self pity.
Problem is, there are many many people in my position, not just related to the housing / finance industrys as well.
You are right, I will not pour out my issues related to lack of work ect on here, as basically there is no point, I will and will continue to comment now and again on threads like this.
hitony
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I've even considered becoming a rent boy..........BUT I'M TO OLD 