Happy new year! Have a great 1930!

[seagullsovergrimsby]

When Labour won the 1997 election they inherited a fairly strong and stable economy. When they handed it back in 2010 the country was nearly bankrupt, there had been a run on a British bank for the first time in 100 years and government spending was out of control.

I do believe that our economy could be run better and fairer than it is at present, but I would not trust Miliband and Balls to run a tuck shop, let alone the British economy.

I'll give you three words - Global Financial Crisis , the Tories would have also screwed it up had they'd been in power.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Champagne socialism and everyone is equal not forgetting that some are more equal than others.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Couldn't have written it better. People have such short memories. This was the imbecilic party that started it in 1997 and was luckily taken away from the drivers seat five years ago.

There never has been and will never be a Labour government with prudent fiscal policies that stimulate growth coupling it with sensible public spending. They just don't have the brains to do it.

TNBA


TTF

"There's nothing left"...remember that?? What would Ozzie Osborne leave on a card? "Don't ask Vince to help?"..

 

[Danny-Boy]

Nuts to the Labour v Tories debate, I'm not sure I want to live in a place that gives James Corden an OBE...

THIS..with knobs on. Fat useless part.

 

[Hastings gull]

He's referring to Osborne's policy right up until the recession hit. Remember Brown wanting to call an election soon after his coronation? That was scuppered by Osborne's inheritance tax reduction plans, which means that he was planning to increase government spending in 2007.
What Osborne claimed he was going to do after the election was to get rid of the deficit in one term. Alastair Darling said that was too difficult, and that Labour's aim was to reduce it by half. It has been reduced by half in this parliament, but at considerable cost to growth and the social fabric.

Thanks for your help. I appreciate that it was not your original post , by the way, but am rather baffled at this. OK, he was trying to reduce inheritance tax but why would this be taken as read that he was planning to increase government spending -surely there were other measures that might have indicated, seen en masse, that he was deciding on quite the opposite.

 

[Hastings gull]

I'll give you three words - Global Financial Crisis , the Tories would have also screwed it up had they'd been in power.

This is pure speculation, as I am sure you know. Might have happened, but then might not have done; either way, this adds little to the debate. I do recall the Labour politicians always talking of the global crisis, doubtless with some justification, and this was trotted out every time there was bad news. Since then, it has emerged that they were also very profligate, which had nothing to do with the global crisis.

 

[Soulman]

This is pure speculation, as I am sure you know. Might have happened, but then might not have done; either way, this adds little to the debate. I do recall the Labour politicians always talking of the global crisis, doubtless with some justification, and this was trotted out every time there was bad news. Since then, it has emerged that they were also very profligate, which had nothing to do with the global crisis.

We could have sold some of our Gold to help out........oh no hang on........

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

We could have sold some of our Gold to help out........oh no hang on........

Brown apparently had to sell the gold bullion when the unpaid invoices for Blair's military jaunts into Kosovo , Sierra Leone , Iraq and Afghanistan were found in a filing cabinet at Number 10

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

They need to advertise then

They are, in Australia because no one in the UK wants to do the work.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

I'll give you three words - Global Financial Crisis , the Tories would have also screwed it up had they'd been in power.

Can you name one prolonged period of time when Labour have been in power and the UK has had a stable economy. Look back at the 1970's. There was huge inflation and interest rates running at 17%. Labour have demonstrated time and time again that they can not be trusted with the economy.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

They are, in Australia because no one in the UK wants to do the work.

No one wants to do the work, or no one wants to rack up a £50k debt gaining the qualifications?

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explor...lth-professions/paramedic/entry-and-training/

Students on full-time courses in paramedic science are not eligible for financial support through the NHS Bursary Scheme

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

so why would you want to inflict that political imbecile on us and the consequences that would follow, whilst you are safe living in another country?

Maybe he would do better than the divisive cretins who are destroying anything that is worthwhile in this country at the moment.

 

[HantsSeagull]

i was under the impression you live in Germany?! is that correct?

You are correct.

Maybe he would do better than the divisive cretins who are destroying anything that is worthwhile in this country at the moment.

they are all idiots - i don't want to get into a politics row. i just resent being told whats best for us by someone who doesn't live here!

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Can you name one prolonged period of time when Labour have been in power and the UK has had a stable economy. Look back at the 1970's. There was huge inflation and interest rates running at 17%. Labour have demonstrated time and time again that they can not be trusted with the economy.

Crikey, was you not around when John Major was prime minister.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

they are all idiots - i don't want to get into a politics row. i just resent being told whats best for us by someone who doesn't live here!

I am allowed to vote. And maybe one day I'd like to return.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

No one wants to do the work, or no one wants to rack up a £50k debt gaining the qualifications?

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explor...lth-professions/paramedic/entry-and-training/

Good point.

 

[Eeyore]

Of course, if you don't want spending cut to levels not seen since the 30s, if you don't want to party like its 1929 tonight, you know what to do in May.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/03/autumn-statement-2014-george-osborne-spending-cuts

Have a great year!

As much as I'm no fan of Labour Party, I think, if we're talking major cuts, you have miss-read our political landscape.

 

[Soulman]

they are all idiots - i don't want to get into a politics row. i just resent being told whats best for us by someone who doesn't live here!

He starts the threads as well.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

they are all idiots - i don't want to get into a politics row. i just resent being told whats best for us by someone who doesn't live here!

Not seeking row! Happy new year! Up the Albion! Viva Chris Hughton and Nathan Jones etc etc.

 

[Mr Bridger]

As much as I'm no fan of Labour Party, I think, if we're talking major cuts, you have miss-read our political landscape.

I have a spare 'N' left over from my christmas scrabble if you want it?