This should be the one they get the leaders on.
UK General Election 2015 | Conservatives win with an overall majority
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That might be rather difficult...
Agreed. Tbf they're probably all lying down in a dark room by themselves right now.
Bit late to the party, but what a great result! Made all the sweeter seeing Balls lost his job!
Onward and upward!
Onward and upward!
A thing that gets lost in all this is that at the end of the day the British economy should be judged by how it works for British people, rather than how well it jumps through arbitrary hoops held up by economists and business. The Tories have done a brilliant job over the last 36 years of making people forget that, going back to Thatcher's first term.
Just think about it...
When you spend money to build houses, where does that money go... break it down.. Think of the bill of materials.
You are talking about leaking money out of the country, at a time when confidence is needed from outside sources, and therefore a large deficit must be avoided
Money's leaking out as it is. The last government borrowed more than Labour did. If you're going for fiscal responsibility, this government ain't it.
Personally, I'd rather that money went towards things that would a difference to people.
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100bn probably a 25 year life span so in the grand scheme of things 4bn a year is not a huge amount... Couple of quid per taxpayer per week... Or about a third of the foreign aid budget which was almost £12bn last year to put it in perspective
In other news I never even started on my snacks and beers last night. I struggled to stay awake and went to bed when only about 5% of the results had declared.
What, like the 2 million more jobs Cameron's lot have helped produce?
Which still don't cover those peoples rents, see them rely on food banks or worse. Employment was always going to get better. There's no need for aggressive cuts during a recession. The crash didn't happen because of government borrowing.
We need to get that woman screaming about Murdoch on QT on the caf.
I spoke too soon. Paddy Ashdown is set for a fight here. He's bitter and raw on the results today and he's maintaining nobility and some dignity but he's also coming out swinging on any attacks while he sulks in the corner.
Paddy Ashdown is getting too old and cantankerous for this game. I do wish he'd shut up.
That hat must have been salty.
And eat his bloody hat
Paddy Ashdown saying that 1000 people have joined the Liberal Democrats today. That'll be them at 1002 then.
Well that didn't take long...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...bsite-on-the-day-of-the-results-10237191.html
I can't believe we voted these cnuts into power. Watch them hit the most vulnerable, the hardest.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...bsite-on-the-day-of-the-results-10237191.html
I can't believe we voted these cnuts into power. Watch them hit the most vulnerable, the hardest.
Poor old Miliband tried that line and I nor the electorate, believed it.
There wasn't a feckin' question in her entire rant. Should've been dropped through a hole in the floor Dr. Evil style.
Exactly!
Can she do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke?
Talking about PR now, imagine how much power that would have given UKIP, is that how Nazi Germany started?
Alastair Campbell is being such an arrogant, self-entitled prick at the moment.
PR would never give UKIP/Nazis a majority though. Probably
By suggesting that the British public are not well qualified to make a rational decision on Europe?
Just in general, constantly interrupting people and dismissing everyone else's opinions.
What it ultimately came down to was whether the electorate trusted Miliband and Balls with a second go at running the economy. While I think both of them are fine on a personal level, I also think Moyes is a decent bloke but I wouldn't want him given a second shot at trashing United.
That's only with a ceteris paribus assumption, another voting system, and thy dynamics will change, people surely will have to think twice or thrice before deciding to choose that bunch
When though? Ed lost my vote from the get go with his "carry on where we left off" attitude. I do believe that were Labour in power the last 5 years they probably would took the same drastic action as the Tories did to get the country growing and people employed again ASAP, not much choice in the matter.
The rhetoric coming out of them from the start of their opposition however suggests some sort of long term fix as their plan where we would undoubtedly be in a darker place now than we are.
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A single vote doesn't cost anything. The chance that it will decide the outcome is a million to one.
It does gain something though. The self-complacency of regarding oneself as an enlightened person.
Conservatives are going to feck this right up now. So much of what they represent is opposite what I feel. I didn't vote (not that it would've made a difference, and they didn't win in my constituency anyway) but seriously. The world is going to be so much harder for people without wealths of income now. No more affordable housing, more zero hour contracts, welfare cuts. Not to mention they're going to continue culling the fecking badgers
Laissez-faire economic policy and killing those bastard badgers, that what I voted for (not in that order).
Miliband and Balls never ran the economy in the first place and Brown and Darling simply tried to put their fingers in the dyke holding back global finance's deluge of recession.
Nah, you're a £-in-my pocket sort of guy.
By the time of the 2010 election the economy was already on the mend and the recovery would have continued regardless of who was in power. One of the key reasons the Tories won this election is that a right wing press with vested interests spun a worldwide economic crash as a failure of Labour policy and the inevitable recovery as a Tory masterstroke, despite austerity actually having slowed down the recovery.
Balls was a major figure in the treasury. As for post-2008, yes, it was firefighting in which Brown rose to the challenge (albeit a delayed response to worsening conditions) but there was a failure to plan ahead in the boom years.
Anyway, that's history. The concern is that we are looking at no real opposition to the Conservatives due to Labour's collapse in Scotland.
I still don't understand why Labour didn't really nail that nonsense to the wall. Perhaps (as reflected on here) people simply don't listen or want to hear it.
This, Murdoch has spun people a wrongun and they've swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
So what now for miliband and clegg? Do they find new jobs/start new careers?