All you have as amo is something that happened 12 years ago? As I said Heath did the same in 1970..you have chosen to ignore that fact.
All you have as amo is something that happened 12 years ago? As I said Heath did the same in 1970..you have chosen to ignore that fact.
I don't go for all this austerity bollocks anyway. It is just a way to control the masses whilst the 1% get richer.
The deficit has always been there,
It's just figures that NO government has any chance of paying off so they just print more money and fob us off with economic rubbish.
After WW1 we owed the USA 866 million,equated to in 2006,104 billion...In 1932 the USA just gave up it was becoming ridiculous. as for WW2 the money we borrowed for that we have now after 50 odd years paid back 4 billion to the USA and Canada. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6215847.stm
Where was all the shouting of "We must pay off the War loan" over the past governments..It is all Horse****.
Great response thanks Neil, nothing I would not have expected from your economic guru self :winking:..but it can never be repaid...it is futile to think it ever could be. Look at how much the world/people owe..it is unrealistic to ever think this can be repaid. Governments/Corporations like people to be in debt to them...who is it owed to..some form of shape shifting entity?
Our country without debt is a ridiculous fantasy...it will never happen. As I stated before it is a way to control the massive and keep the 1% rich. It is just pass the parcel of debt about and lets make the richer richer.
I guess with all due respect I have lived through a few more economic collapses than your good self this is nothing new to me, just a different date in our timelines.. not much changes we always seem to be on this see-saw.
Evening Standard last night stated the official figures released yesterday were that the quarter to end December saw growth of 0.5% which was below predicted levels.
Labour announced some spending plans and Tories said they were unfunded, Tories announced spending plans and Labour said they were unfunded - don't think we are going to learn much from these kind of announcements.
0.5% growth was official though.
If yearly growth was 2.6% and in the last quarter of the year was 0.5% then that is one hell of a drop...0.2% below projection but yearly growth is 2.6%. Pretty good when compared with Europe.
And most of that growth came from the service sector and not from production/manufacturing.
Of course that figure could still be revised upwards or downwards in the future.
It will be interesting to see the figures for Q1 when they come out in April (just in time for the g/e).
Will they confirm the current fragile growth or indicate that growth in the UK has ended?
Great response thanks Neil, nothing I would not have expected from your economic guru self :winking:..but it can never be repaid...it is futile to think it ever could be. Look at how much the world/people owe..it is unrealistic to ever think this can be repaid. Governments/Corporations like people to be in debt to them...who is it owed to..some form of shape shifting entity?
Our country without debt is a ridiculous fantasy...it will never happen. As I stated before it is a way to control the massive and keep the 1% rich. It is just pass the parcel of debt about and lets make the rich richer.
I guess with all due respect I have lived through a few more economic collapses than your good self this is nothing new to me, just a different date in our timelines.. not much changes we always seem to be on this see-saw.
It does kind of make me smile when Germany have lent the majority of the bail out to Greece. (God bless them for standing up for themselves) although even they are backtracking now to sweeten the EU.. that Germany owe so much of this paper money. http://countryeconomy.com/national-debt/germany
Ah, but the key point is, no party in government which has seen real living standards fall during its term of office, has ever been re-elected this side of WW2, (or indeed since the 1920's).
From Oxford Economics
Our Spending Power Index shows that households are enjoying a substantial boost to their finances from the combination of low inflation, accelerating wage growth and generous increases in the tax-free allowance. 2014 saw the largest improvement in spending power for nine years.
And our forecasts suggest that 2015 will be even better. We expect the index to rise at its fastest rate since 2001, which would take its level to within reach of the 2009-peak. This suggests that the ‘cost of living crisis’ is finally drawing to a close.
Probably too late to get a flat real living standards before the GE - but the trend maybe powerful enough. How many of the previous GE's were held when standard of living was falling rather than rising?
He should (maybe has) apologise but it's amusing how Gove attacked the profession for 4 year, Nicky Morgan holds views on equality that do not sit well with the open minded outlook teachers are expected to have, 400,000 children are being taught by unqualified teachers - and yet with one abrupt tweet some proclaim the teacher vote is lost. I think it would take a little more than that.Oopsy doddles again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...-twitter-teachers-stop-moaning_n_6592562.html
As my old gran used to say, 'If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all'
He should (maybe has) apologise but it's amusing how Gove attacked the profession for 4 year, Nicky Morgan holds views on equality that do not sit well with the open minded outlook teachers are expected to have, 400,000 children are being taught by unqualified teachers - and yet with one abrupt tweet some proclaim the teacher vote is lost. I think it would take a little more than that.
Don't we all!Oh absolutely, but you know how the media get all excited with crap like Facebook and Twitter. Anyway, I enjoy my petty torments.
Genial Harry Grout;1704276[B said:]I'm sure all these life experiences will endear the people to him[/B].
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/ed-miliband-on-his-life-experience-outside-of-politics-i-was-an-adviser-for-the-treasury-10018207.html
Perhaps you can tell us how Cameron's "life experiences" qualify him as a man of the people, (or even Farage's, for that matter)?
At least Miliband went to a local comprehensive school.Which is rather more than Call me Dave or NF can claim.