OI! We'll have non of that thank you very much, stop talking sense! Labour ruined the economy, ruined the public sector, destroyed pensions, caused a housing crisis, has turned Greece into rubble, brought millions of EU immigrants into the country! Disgusting!
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OI! We'll have non of that thank you very much, stop talking sense! Labour ruined the economy, ruined the public sector, destroyed pensions, caused a housing crisis, has turned Greece into rubble, brought millions of EU immigrants into the country! Disgusting!
Certainly we can't blame Labour for ruining the economy, as quite rightly it was American sub prime mortgage fiasco that triggered the financial crisis.
Was Labour did, (and what why have done practically every time they have been in power) is spend more money than they got in tax.
Now this is what you tend to do during a recession, but Labour did it during the biggest boom (record tax revenue), this country had ever had.
Yes Labour had more money to spend than any other UK government in history and still spent more.
Most of the increases were the significant pay rises for public sector workers.
Yes they spent a lot on the NHS, but a lot of this was just wage increases, nice for the workers, but doesn't make the NHS better for patients.
Basically Labour buying votes, with borrowed money.
Unfortunately public sector workers paid the price for this with pay freezes when the money ran out. I suspect they'll fall for the bribes again.
What you should do when you have record tax revenue is to reduce the deficit, not increase it, since a downturn at some point is pretty much inevitable. Gordon Brown started to believe his own rhetoric and though the boom would continue indefinitely.
http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5509/economics/government-spending-under-labour/
Labour got into power with the fastest growing economy any new government had ever come into power to. They left it with the fastest shrinking economy.
Was Labour did, (and what why have done practically every time they have been in power) is spend more money than they got in tax.
Now this is what you tend to do during a recession, but Labour did it during the biggest boom (record tax revenue), this country had ever had.
Yes Labour had more money to spend than any other UK government in history and still spent more.
Most of the increases were the significant pay rises for public sector workers.
Yes they spent a lot on the NHS, but a lot of this was just wage increases, nice for the workers, but doesn't make the NHS better for patients.
Basically Labour buying votes, with borrowed money.
Unfortunately public sector workers paid the price for this with pay freezes when the money ran out. I suspect they'll fall for the bribes again.
What you should do when you have record tax revenue is to reduce the deficit, not increase it, since a downturn at some point is pretty much inevitable. Gordon Brown started to believe his own rhetoric and though the boom would continue indefinitely.
http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5509/economics/government-spending-under-labour/
Labour got into power with the fastest growing economy any new government had ever come into power to. They left it with the fastest shrinking economy.
Another revision from Tory stooage Ashcroft himself
https://twitter.com/LordAshcroft/status/594600742222172161
All your talk is only to down-talk UKIP and you bias is completely transparent, you pick and choose polls as badly or more so than anyone else here and you hide behind selective numbers stating that these are the facts,
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Spot on, i caught a few lefty shills saying that the ones on the right think that Labour ruined the economy, we all know they didn't. But they made it much much worse, i think we'd be in the middle of a boom by now if the conservatives won the 2005 election
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Are you using the term 'shills' ironically because I don't think there's another way to use it without a reflection upon yourself.
Thank you for making me laugh so hard I nearly passed out.
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I'm actually quite confident Ed will make a decent PM. Better than David Cameron.
I don't know why people think Cameron has been good he is a lair and has messed up Libya and not let's forget he has doubled the debt we owe.
Oh and not VAT up yeah ok.
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We'd also be better off if we hadn't had two years of failed austerity at the beginning of this Parliament, I mean thankfully they abandoned the worst of it (although you won't hear the Conservatives admit this) or we'd all be in a terrible state.
Certainly we can't blame Labour for ruining the economy, as quite rightly it was American sub prime mortgage fiasco that triggered the financial crisis.
Was Labour did, (and what why have done practically every time they have been in power) is spend more money than they got in tax.
Now this is what you tend to do during a recession, but Labour did it during the biggest boom (record tax revenue), this country had ever had.
Yes Labour had more money to spend than any other UK government in history and still spent more.
Most of the increases were the significant pay rises for public sector workers.
Yes they spent a lot on the NHS, but a lot of this was just wage increases, nice for the workers, but doesn't make the NHS better for patients.
Basically Labour buying votes, with borrowed money.
Unfortunately public sector workers paid the price for this with pay freezes when the money ran out. I suspect they'll fall for the bribes again.
What you should do when you have record tax revenue is to reduce the deficit, not increase it, since a downturn at some point is pretty much inevitable. Gordon Brown started to believe his own rhetoric and though the boom would continue indefinitely.
http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5509/economics/government-spending-under-labour/
Labour got into power with the fastest growing economy any new government had ever come into power to. They left it with the fastest shrinking economy.
The page you linked to doesn't back up your statements, and you know who else spent more than they took in? Pretty much every previous government, and at similar or higher levels.
"After a short period of budget surplus (due to spending restraint) in the late 1990s, the UK experienced a budget deficit of 2-3% of GDP between 2002-2007.
By historical standards, this is relatively low. It still met the Maastricht criteria of keeping budget deficits to less than 3% of GDP."
Being as you like that site, take a look at this page http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/7568/debt/government-debt-under-labour-1997-2010/
and read the commentary at the bottom. Two things that come up quite often that are really irritating; A government budget is nothing like a household budget. While the UK has control over its own central bank it couldn't ever become like Greece.
You really are ridiculous. I used the average of the 2 previous days poll of polls of the website I read daily, that was 12.5%. Like it or not, that is what the data was. However much you want the UKIP to do well doesn't change the reality of their popularity.
A quick check of the polls shows exactly why the 5 day average polls of polls was in the mid 12s:
Comres 28th: 11%
Ipos mori 28th: 10%
3 you gov polls27th-29th at 12% , and a bunch of other 11-13% polls around then.
The facts are the facts, 12.5% was the 5 day UKIP average. The 5 day running average will go up and down as different polls come in. Todays average is high mostly due to survation which always report anonymously high figures for UKIP. Yon also have to factor most websites are rounding. Figures, 12.5% will be shown as 13% on the BBC trackers and most others.
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Another reason an EU referendum is a bad idea, it's bad for business end of, even the tech industry thinks so
http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/02/why-the-tech-community-should-worry-about-next-weeks-uk-election/
http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/02/why-the-tech-community-should-worry-about-next-weeks-uk-election/
Not the tech industry but one CEO who doesn't want the Conservatives to win.
And here too from another financial analysis in the times
“The one thing that people don’t seem to be factoring in is that the Conservatives have said they want to have a referendum on the EU and I can’t see any way in which that’s positive for markets
Why should you have your pension protected, and be guaranteed a pay rise, simply because you work in the public sector?
Yeah is the DM but a great story never the less
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dn-t-write-good-cheque-150-glazier-TWICE.html
And D.P, your reply failed to justify or backup you previous claims, in fact it just shows how selective you are. Please put me on ignore because i don't want you replying to me with your verbal diarrhea
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dn-t-write-good-cheque-150-glazier-TWICE.html
And D.P, your reply failed to justify or backup you previous claims, in fact it just shows how selective you are. Please put me on ignore because i don't want you replying to me with your verbal diarrhea
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