Austerity was a terrible thing to do. It's basically removing money from the economy, which surprisingly enough makes the economy weaker than it would otherwise be. This was a time to borrow to invest, you can pay off the debt once things are booming again.
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Austerity was a terrible thing to do. It's basically removing money from the economy, which surprisingly enough makes the economy weaker than it would otherwise be. This was a time to borrow to invest, you can pay off the debt once things are booming again.
Every argument that you make is over simplified nonsense. The last labour government ran modest deficits, nothing out of the ordinary. The global financial crisis caused by untamed capitalism, the type cheered for by the Tories, caused the big deficit.
2006/7/8 are all less than any year since the Tories took office.
Why would they be turned away? If they registered to vote before the deadline surely they would be able to vote.
Not an election day without stories of people being turned away from voting. Hopefully it gets resolved quick sharpish.
Depends, it was Labour in 2010 too with a much smaller UKIP vote share. Sounds like a real swing constituency with no UKIP.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d08.stm
*EDIT* just looked back to 2005 and 2001. Amazing how huge Labours vote used to be there compared to now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newca...rliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2000s
Labour had 1 bad year(2009) The Tories had 5 years after that where the deficit was higher than Labours's bad year. The last 2 years are not down to the Labour figures in the 3 years prior to 2009.
And yet still a ton of cuts, imagine how bad it could be? Maybe you are looking at the wrong party to blame
Genuine. Link to page it is on: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37489...f-jihadi-scum-we-need-more-f-you-im-millwall/
Labour for 98 years, I make it.
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Well yes and no, strength of position is also important so a stronger government will help, as takes away some of the noise from negotiation.
And also depends who you believe is a stronger candidate for negotiations.
Your assertion was that the deficit had increased over the past seven years.
I remember the debates quite well, and on no single occasion did the official Leave campaign promote what you advocate. I think you know full well that such a course as you suggest is designed to suit your personal agenda, more than it represents the spirit of the result.
The banking crisis required a bailout whoever was in power. That side of things can't be blamed either way, aside from the general lack of controls put in place pre crisis.
How about a referendum on the terms after the Brexit negotiation is complete then? Just to make sure the British people are getting what they actually wanted.
The last Labour government were in arguably the biggest boom cycle the world has seen with the boom of the Internet.
does anyone else nosey at the addresses off candidates on the ballots?
Mine was something like this:
Ukip: Private Estate
Conservative: feck those houses are basically castles
Labour: ow thats just round the corner...... i could go round for tea.
Lib Dem: ow their some cute cottages i like them
Green: no address in this constituency???? huh?
Mine was something like this:
Ukip: Private Estate
Conservative: feck those houses are basically castles
Labour: ow thats just round the corner...... i could go round for tea.
Lib Dem: ow their some cute cottages i like them
Green: no address in this constituency???? huh?
Farrelly voted against Brexit so that won't go down well with the voters.
http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/brex...-50-by-march/story-29968291-detail/story.html
Tory candidate is active on social media too whereas Farrelly isn't. I expect they'll go blue for the first time.
The British press are a disgrace. Britain doesn't have a democracy, it has some kind of pro Tory propagandist state or whatever you can call it.
Over 95% of the British press basically turns into a Tory party propaganda machine at an election because it's in the interests of the proprietors of these so called media outlets.
To call Britain a Banana state is an insult to most Banana states! It's a kin joke!! Please please please, vote for anything except the party the majority of the press wants you to vote for. It's in your interest to do so.
Over 95% of the British press basically turns into a Tory party propaganda machine at an election because it's in the interests of the proprietors of these so called media outlets.
To call Britain a Banana state is an insult to most Banana states! It's a kin joke!! Please please please, vote for anything except the party the majority of the press wants you to vote for. It's in your interest to do so.
I'm cynical and pessimistic but the British press keep surpassing expectations. Amazing.
Do you think Tories, who belive regulation gets in the way of business, would have made any laws to protect us from the crash?
You think North Sea oil, robotics and the desktop computer had no effect on Thatchers economy?
Are you implying they wouldn't have stopped a global economic crisis? You must be one of them terrorist sympathisers.
Is there any youtube stream or something similar where I can follow the election night if I'm not in the UK?
That page got worse and worse.
It includes a model wearing underwear inspired by Theresa May's shoes
iplayer with a VPN
Ordinary folk vote Tory because it makes them feel like they belong to a club that's well above their station .
Sad.
Sad.
Nope! But nor did Labour. The crash was pretty much inevitable. No one gets in the way of the gravy train... Until it runs out of track!
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Why is it always used as a stick to beat labour?
No it didn't. If you actually believe in capitalism, you have to let failing businesses, even banks, die when they lose billions of pounds. Since the banks were bailed out, governments aren't in a position to do it again. And have the banks learned their lesson? No they haven't.
Right. No matter who was in charge we would have had a catastrophic crash. Stop blaming Labour
It's clear regulation of the press isn't needed at all.
But you know, 'freedom of speech', 'you can't say anything these days mate...' or whatever the latest right-wing bullshit is.