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The tories = free market + small central government
Labour = Regulation + large central government
You = Regulation + small central government
Must make voting difficult
Britain's Trillion Pound Horror Story...
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The tories = free market + small central government
Labour = Regulation + large central government
You = Regulation + small central government
Must make voting difficult
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The tories = free market + small central government
Labour = Regulation + large central government
You = Regulation + small central government
Must make voting difficult
Labour hasn't meant regulation for about 30 years...
I do.
We are an oil producing nation. Some of the largest reserves in Europe.
Yet fuel prices have mostly remained near the top if not the highest at points in Europe, with taxation levels in almost astronomical proportion.
It's called having people over a barrel. And not having much else to claw money from.
It's still somewhat peverse.
3600 new laws and massive amount of red tape. So much that councils are begging the coalition to cut them.
Ukip don't do themselves favours sometimes, especially on some policy but on Europe and holding government to account I like them.
I can't vote for them though, that has to go elsewhere..
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But petrol is much more expensive on the continent? The only place it's cheaper is Eastern Europe really.
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We're talking about market regulation, not bureaucracy.
The tories = free market + small central government
Labour = Regulation + large central government
You = Regulation + small central government
Must make voting difficult
Brown deregulated in the most retarted fashion possible, making control almost out of reach.
Labour = fail.
Two wars in ten years, too. What do you expectBenefits and Student Loans are only a fraction of the problems now causing all out cuts.
£200 billion a year is spent on welfare, a disgraceful amount.
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So you're saying that by pure coincidence as GB left number 10 and locked the door, the last money we could possibly get hold of dripped out of the piggy bank?
Just not true. We haven't even needed to go to the IMF. We've still managed to pay our troops and our nurses and service our debts. And it seems the tories arn't implementing most of the cuts until about 2013 going on 2020!
I am truly confused.
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I think he's misunderstood what you said.
Petrol is low, currently. Historically it's been all over the place.
That's not to mention that is average price, in some parts of the country prices can top £1.30-£1.40+ regularly.
Desiel is currently second.
Tax has been increased above inflation by tories and labour for decades.
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'any interest is creating debt that there is no money to repay'
I may have misunderstood ..
Did you mean - like - if I had a £2000 loan with £20 a week interest .. I couldn't afford that 20 quid?
Are you saying that's the situation the UK is in - we can't afford the interest repayments?
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It's a pretty fair tax though. High admittedly, but better this than that stupid road tax that is the same no matter how much or little you use the roads ... :/
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You do understand the difference between debt and deficit, don't you britboy?
We're currently running a deficit, which means that we're borrowing money to meet our spending commitments because national income (tax revenue, VAT, whatever) is lower than our national expenditure.
That is why we have to make cuts, otherwise we're borrowing more and more money in the hope that one day national income will rise significantly. There is no indication that this will happen in the near future and therefore it makes no sense to try and spend our way out of recession (which has worked in the past) and into growth.
We are paying interest on the debt, by the way, to the tune of 27.2 billion last year and 42.9 billion this year. If that's how much it rises in just one year, what do you think it would be after 10 years of making small meaningless cuts?
That's the thing. Debt is fine. Debt enables growth and investment. BUT only when you're running a surplus, when you have extra money to cover the repayments and interest. Otherwise you end up in the mess we're in.
We're currently running a deficit, which means that we're borrowing money to meet our spending commitments because national income (tax revenue, VAT, whatever) is lower than our national expenditure.
That is why we have to make cuts, otherwise we're borrowing more and more money in the hope that one day national income will rise significantly. There is no indication that this will happen in the near future and therefore it makes no sense to try and spend our way out of recession (which has worked in the past) and into growth.
We are paying interest on the debt, by the way, to the tune of 27.2 billion last year and 42.9 billion this year. If that's how much it rises in just one year, what do you think it would be after 10 years of making small meaningless cuts?
That's the thing. Debt is fine. Debt enables growth and investment. BUT only when you're running a surplus, when you have extra money to cover the repayments and interest. Otherwise you end up in the mess we're in.
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Wow, you are a genius, why has nobody thought of this before?
