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Comment on Britain’s austerity experiment is faltering by ActionDan

ActionDan — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:24:11 +0000

Yeah, perhaps Mr Wapshott should explain in greater detail how he would fund the spending binge that he proposes.

Would he rob anyone with savings yet again, through quantitive easing, or does he have a better plan?
I guess we could always default on our debts, but that would also cause a lot of short-term pain.

So far, the government is still a long way off even balancing the books, and the budget deficit is hardly narrowing. So what we’re seeing so far is really not even “austerity”, it’s just a small concession towards sensible management of the country’s accounts. Something that the Labour government should have done years ago to stop us from getting into this mess in the first place!

Comment on Britain’s austerity experiment is faltering by scythe

scythe — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:46:56 +0000

(quote) UK is back in recession, OECD says

The OECD says UK output will decline 0.4% in the first three months of 2012 on an annualised basis. The UK is heading back into recession and will be among the slowest of the world’s largest economies to recover in the first half of this year, according to a study by the Paris-based thinktank, the OECD.

Only Italy will struggle over a longer period to return to growth, highlighting the difficult situation confronting the British government as it battles to boost confidence and get the economy back on track.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/ mar/29/uk-back-in-recession-oecd

Comment on Britain’s austerity experiment is faltering by Gillyp

Gillyp — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:38:09 +0000

Amateurs with no experience and an ideology written by Thatcher …the last time this lot were in my family and all there friends lost everything ….here we go again.

Comment on Britain’s austerity experiment is faltering by mgb500

mgb500 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:47:48 +0000

Osborne’s broader economic experiment, however, is fast faltering. If it were a drug trial, doctors would be urgently taking patients off the snake oil and feeding them the placebo. In 2010, he inherited from Gordon Brown’s Labour government a fast-rising recovery in economic growth

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR- this is a joke?? please tell me it is?? You seem to have missed the TITANIC PINK ELEPHANT in the room – NewLieMore’s “growth” was fuelled by a MASSIVE debt binge – or had you failed to notice that???????

Comment on Britain’s austerity experiment is faltering by Lord_Foxdrake

Lord_Foxdrake — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:49:32 +0000

Conservatives F-Up EVERYTHING!

Comment on Britain’s austerity experiment is faltering by AMB2

AMB2 — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:38:06 +0000

Bit early for April 1st?

Comment on Tools to help you get out of debt by roxana80

roxana80 — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:50:31 +0000

Woow!It was 11.4 billion pounds in 2008?That’s a lot!

Comment on Press Round-up – February 8 by PropertyMatch

PropertyMatch — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:18:46 +0000

Estate agents are responsible for the stagnation of the UK housing market.

People are unable to move house because asking prices are all-over-the-place, causing massive uncertainty for those wishing to move house successfully.

Better advice should be provided by agents, using more exact evaluation methods, when advising owners putting houses on the market for the first time. Unfortunately having discussed this with several of them they seem to have no inkling that the problem is of their making!

Until they do, nothing will be done to improve the chances of buying and selling in what has become a chaotic market; even though there are many people wishing to move house right now.

Comment on Should Scotland become independent? by Kaybiff

Kaybiff — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:03:14 +0000

I think it should because the english are ruining us. They are not rescuing us they are making the country worse! If we are independent it cant get any worse than it already is! You are all pathetic. I would love to see you spending a year in scotland with taxes going up and us getting ruined. The only person we can count on is alex salmond. Definetly not you english people

Comment on No Union, please, we’re English by matthewslyman

matthewslyman — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:13:52 +0000

In support of @MadJockMcMad, in his/her statements about Westminster’s favouritism toward London:
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BBC: Transport spending ‘skewed towards London’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-162 35349
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The perennial justification for this preferential treatment? “London generates more revenue per capita than …” Blah blah blah. Like the average Londoner is 550× more productive than the average person in the North East of England: yeah right!!! They should try spending on the rest of the UK, what we’re worth; and then see how we perform. London is overpopulated yet people are still moving their to take advantage of effective government subsidies. The real reason for this injustice is because our politicians don’t like sitting in traffic jams on their way to work along with the rest of us…

@bassbhoy: “If I may contribute to this debate while living in Canada…Scotland could be a dynamic and vibrant part of the UK economy if it had more control over its own resources.”

Perhaps you missed the point by living in Canada, but Scotland has its own parliament now which controls much of Scottish finances and law. There are already significant and noteworthy differences between Scottish and English spending policy. We are already working within a federal model, and as you suggest, it’s working. Local people really do know best, what they need to succeed…

My point is only that the members of a federation prosper most when they work in harmony and coordination with each other.

Westminster Conservatives should start consulting their partners more seriously in matters of foreign policy – otherwise they will face waves of discontent in the coming years, from the English as well as the Scots.