Yes, Thank the lord, Labour handed over the reigns with the economy in an amazingly good state. The coalition just frittered all their good work away by creating false growth.............Hang on a minute..............
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The UK economy: well on the road to recovery?
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Yes, Thank the lord, Labour handed over the reigns with the economy in an amazingly good state. The coalition just frittered all their good work away by creating false growth.............Hang on a minute..............
And Gordon sold half our gold cheaply and lost £5-7 billion for us. Gordon is a moron. It's official. The Sun said.
The Birdman
New member
Car jobs announced in Birmingham 1500 new jobs will be created, many others in the supply chain, lets have some good news we all this together.
That's because the national debt on it's own isn't all that relevant. We have national assets that far outweigh our national debt.
Anyway, credit where it's due - the economy is beginning to turn round. Thank God the Tories aren't running the government on their own though - they'd have cut everything to the bare bone and crippled the recovery. I've always advocated a pragmatic approach to austerity. We need to make cuts, but can't cut as much as we'd like, so had better find other ways of stimulating the economy.
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Strange comment to make. For what it is worth I do, but I pay 9.99 euros a month.
Southover Street Seagull
Well-known member
Economy recovering? Lies, damn lies and statistics?
http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/the-uk-economy-unspun
http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/the-uk-economy-unspun
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
It shouldn't really as perhaps it reflects more the narrow margins there are now between political parties.
SK1NT
Well-known member
This is probably a stupid question but how can the government start thinking about this new London to Birmingham train that gets you there, what 20 mins quicker at a cost of over 50 billion, when we have the national debt? If they have this money spare for the new rail line why can't they start clearing this debt, instead of cutting police and downsizing the NHS etc to help clear the debt?
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
its either
or someone is from another planet
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
I'm a member of the Labour party. Cheers
so was I until they became the new tory party
Tubby Mondays
Well-known member
And still Cameron and Osborne couldnt beat him in an election!
Correct. And I cannot see how they have gained votes since then.
I really do think this is a cheap shot. They're not perfect but they are a long long way from the Tory party nasty idealogy.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
with the likes of poor old Dennis Skinner having to trail blaze any kind of socialism in the labour party what exactly would you call them other than watered down tories.
tories nasty .....no,no silly maybe and a bit laughable
MICK PATCHAM
Banned
Labour are OVER ......unions have jumped a sinking ship
yxee
Well-known member
Arguing over the economy is stupid, nobody understands it yet everyone talks like they skipped to an alternate reality and compared the results of each different policy. For all we know the indicators could be twice as good or twice as bad if Labour won.
Once you acknowledge this reality, 99% of substance in any debate evaporates.
All you have left are statistics, which are usually boiled down to a single magic number like "unemployment", as if the binary choice between employed and unemployed is enough to specify the state of the job market.
At least Ed is doing the right thing (for the wrong reason) in trying to sever the umbilical cord between Labour and the legalised cartels.
Once you acknowledge this reality, 99% of substance in any debate evaporates.
All you have left are statistics, which are usually boiled down to a single magic number like "unemployment", as if the binary choice between employed and unemployed is enough to specify the state of the job market.
At least Ed is doing the right thing (for the wrong reason) in trying to sever the umbilical cord between Labour and the legalised cartels.