SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:58 Wed Nov 19
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GDP growing 43% slower than in May 2010. What can this ludicrous and unintelligibly-phrased statistic actually mean without any context?
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Westham67
1:46 Wed Nov 19
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I'll be honest and say not really.
But in layman's terms they have spent/borrowed more than they wanted to ?
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SilverSurfer
1:41 Wed Nov 19
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we borrow money at ridiculous rates
To give aid to other countries.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:41 Wed Nov 19
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Westham67 1:38 Wed Nov 19
'surface , wasn't cutting spending a major part of their election manifesto ?'
Yes, mate. Do you know the difference between the annual deficit and the cumulative national borrowing requirement?
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Westham67
1:39 Wed Nov 19
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*blamed labour for the financial crisis.
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Westham67
1:38 Wed Nov 19
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surface , wasn't cutting spending a major part of their election manifesto ?
I do recall for their first 2 years in office the basically blamed the financial crisis. Not true of course but the banged and on about it until it became a fact for the hard of thinking
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:27 Wed Nov 19
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SLC 10:26 Tue Nov 18
'This Tory led Government has borrowed more than all of the Labour Governments added together '
Given the effects of inflation since 1923 and the annual budget deficit that Labour left behind, how would this have been avoided?
Take your time - but do come back. I've asked you this many times before, but it appears to have slipped your mind each time.
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Justin R
12:28 Wed Nov 19
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Longest sustained drop in real term earnings in living memory, but the economy is on the up.....
Righto.
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,
7:13 Tue Nov 18
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Well you sound confused to me. Grayling for example is cracking down on legal aid which will affect the legal profession and hence yourself. However as it's under a tory lead coalition you'll put it down to worldwide recession whereas if Milliband were in power you'd doubtless blame Labour.
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Grumpster
7:08 Tue Nov 18
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I'm not that old comma (been in employment 25 years), but my point is that none of us give a shit about the world economy and we only care about our own income and so judge the governments on how we fare ourselves. On average I've always taken home less under labour as I work in law and as all solicitors are toffee nosed fuckers and Tories, the second Labour get in they batten the hatches, stop overtime payments and chill out on wage increases.
Exactly the same no doubt happens to other sectors when the tories get in, though I don't care about them.
Last 6 years would have been shit regardless of the party due to the world's economy all being wank.
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Grumpster
7:08 Tue Nov 18
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I'm not that old comma (been in employment 25 years), but my point is that none of us give a shit about the world economy and we only care about our own income and so judge the governments on how we fare ourselves. On average I've always taken home less under labour as I work in law and as all solicitors are toffee nosed fuckers and Tories, the second Labour get in they batten the hatches, stop overtime payments and chill out on wage increases.
Exactly the same no doubt happens to other sectors when the tories get in, though I don't care about them.
Last 6 years would have been shit regardless of the party due to the world's economy all being wank.
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,
7:01 Tue Nov 18
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So between 1979 and 1997 you were doing alright. Then your income slumped from 1997 until 2010 and now it's looked up again?
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Grumpster
6:53 Tue Nov 18
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Never read the Mail once in my life thanks, it's just true.
The fact that I was taking home a lot more money under the various Tory governments means nothing, it's just a coincidence and was nothing to do with how the country was run or what job sector I was in.
I don't bother voting as all politicians talk shit and won't make a slight difference to my life, other than when the lager prices are put up.
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,
6:51 Tue Nov 18
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If there is one thing I have noticed over my more than forty years alive it is how some people confuse local and national politics to the extent that they don't realise how their MP has no power at all over what local government does with it's ratepayer services.
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Phils White Gloves
6:49 Tue Nov 18
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Grumpster, get your head out of the Daily Mail, it'll do you some good SON.
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HairySpotter
6:47 Tue Nov 18
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I thought this was about Diana Ross and Michael Jacksons kids
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Grumpster
6:46 Tue Nov 18
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If there's one thing I've noticed in my 40 years on the planet, it's that Labour supporters are the most self righteous cunts going when it comes to talking about politics and that includes all of my mates in their wanky unions.
All politicians are cunts regardless of who's in, so there's no real point moaning about it.
Labour absolutely ruined me financially, but if it wasn't them it would have been someone else shafting me anyway, as they're all as bad as each other.
I'm only happy that my local seat is Tory, as before they got in Labour only took the bins once every fortnight and the Tories changed that to weekly which is fab!!
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SLC
6:32 Tue Nov 18
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Grumpster wrote...
Most of the current problems are all due to Labour's over spending
'Spending' that Cameron and Osbourne promised to match so we'd have the same 'stability' problems had they been in charge.
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,
6:24 Tue Nov 18
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In fact most of our current problems are due to the 2008 Banking crash. Fortunately because the hapless Brown kept us out of the euro zone we have been able to climb out of trouble despite Osborne killing off our nascent 2010 recovery.
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Grumpster
6:15 Tue Nov 18
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Most of the current problems are all due to Labour's over spending.
Now the Labour supporters who originally put them in boo hoo a lot because of the coalition's hard line policies to try to get the country stable again.
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,
6:01 Tue Nov 18
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I think the deal struck between our government and EDF [ for building and running the nuke power stations ] will leave the country with as bad a legacy as Brown's PFIs.
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