Bailing out the financial institutions. Had they not, vast numbers of people would have lost life savings. Had one bank failed then there may well have been a domino effect and the collapse of the system would have followed as confidence evaporated.
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- Thread starter Herr Tubthumper
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Bailing out the financial institutions. Had they not, vast numbers of people would have lost life savings. Had one bank failed then there may well have been a domino effect and the collapse of the system would have followed as confidence evaporated.
melias shoes
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Don Quixote
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Doomed either way.Bit like if milliband and Balls take the helm. God help us.:
melias shoes
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I was talking about all there spending not just the banks. What about PFI that is going to take years to pay off.
yxee
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With Cameron's "help to buy" artificially elevating house prices even further and Miliband's Cuban-style price cap on energy prices, I don't think either party seems to understand the basics of supply and demand.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Now you will get cards to ensure you don't spend your benefits on drink, smoking or gambling, the Tories are in their death throes as a political force to be replaced by an ultra right wing UKIP type Tory and a hug a hoodie type centre right and it will ensure they are out of power for decades
beorhthelm
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this mantra from you is empty rhetoric. if there was never any money, then where is it all coming from, what created all the wealth that funds the public service in the first place? care to name one policy that takes wealth from regular people, and one where it is given to "corporate buddies".
Vegas Seagull
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Sounds like Farage and you have already had a skinful if you think that UKIP can overturn a 20,000 difference from 2010. Poor call to put this in 'top 6' or top 60 even
pastafarian
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What changes do you propose? Spouting Hot Air simply doesnt work.
Leekbrookgull
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You know polls are polls and you can read into them what you like,just look at the Scottish referendum results to see that,and just maybe people going to ballot may remember this ?
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Steve Foster
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I can't understand how anyone, unless they are an immigrant or unenployable or have no desire to work could consider voting for Labour! After the shocking mess that Brown & co got the country into, are your memories that short Lived?
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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Both Milliband and Balls said that Osborne's policies wouldn't work, and they have been proved wrong.
Sure things have been tough, wage freezes and high energy bills being two major issues, but we still have low mortgage rates and falling unemployment, and low inflation.
I really think labour are too big a risk when it comes to the economy.
Sure things have been tough, wage freezes and high energy bills being two major issues, but we still have low mortgage rates and falling unemployment, and low inflation.
I really think labour are too big a risk when it comes to the economy.
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Excellent and original argument. Not heard this before.
Fine, then take out the bank bail outs and look at the financial situation immediately prior to the financial crisis, a financial crisis that the Tories wouldn't have avoided.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Till it happens to her
Mellor 3 Ward 4
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These are the policies that were going to eliminate the deficit in one parliament. The fact that there are more people in part time work who want or need full time work. The explosion of zero hour contracts, not because people want them but because they are all that is on offer. Low mortgage rates that we had under the last government. We now have Osborne announcing that he is going to steal from the poor to pay back the rich with Pension changes and caps on some benefits and reductions on the maximum. This is the same Osborne who sold off the Post office to his mates who then sold it on for massive profit despite getting the good deal in the first place on proviso they were in it for the long haul!!!! Oh and don't forget about our triple A rating.
If I were an investigative journo, I'd be looking at the friends of Osborne just to see who has family about to peg it and, ergo, who would benefit from the immediate changes to the pension taxation!!!!
melias shoes
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What does it's matter whether it's an original argument. Truth hurts. You'll hear it again too.
melias shoes
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Would this be the pensions that Brown raided to help fund his spending spree.? What about the Gold reserves? Oh yeah, what Gold reserves. !!
These are the policies that were going to eliminate the deficit in one parliament. The fact that there are more people in part time work who want or need full time work. The explosion of zero hour contracts, not because people want them but because they are all that is on offer. Low mortgage rates that we had under the last government. We now have Osborne announcing that he is going to steal from the poor to pay back the rich with Pension changes and caps on some benefits and reductions on the maximum. This is the same Osborne who sold off the Post office to his mates who then sold it on for massive profit despite getting the good deal in the first place on proviso they were in it for the long haul!!!! Oh and don't forget about our triple A rating.
If I were an investigative journo, I'd be looking at the friends of Osborne just to see who has family about to peg it and, ergo, who would benefit from the immediate changes to the pension taxation!!!!