General Election June 8th

[RandomJ]

I've been following the chatter on the UK Voting Intentions website.

A number of people are reporting on a higher than normal turnout of young people at polling stations.

If true this could be closer than the final opinion polls have predicted.

Having said that, my home-office window overlooks our village polling station and I see nothing but oldies arriving to cast their vote...

I was the youngest at my polling station by about 40 years. Nothing gets old people moving faster than the fear of the next generation deciding the future.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Having said that, my home-office window overlooks our village polling station and I see nothing but oldies arriving to cast their vote...

 

[CitizenTID]

I don't trust any poll completed by this time. Most people vote after work. Students are still in bed.

 

[bumbleblue]

I was the youngest at my polling station by about 40 years. Nothing gets old people moving faster than the fear of the next generation deciding the future.

I am 53 and had to negotiate many a zimmer at mine this morning. Youngest there by a couple of decades.

 

[Chris in London]

I was the youngest at my polling station by about 40 years. Nothing gets old people moving faster than the fear of the next generation deciding the future.

Bullshit.

Two for one on cat food gets them going twice as fast.

 

[route46]

They all piss in the same pot......having said that I will vote Labour

 

[sir baconface]

Your talking so much gobbledegook you're confusing yourself. I fail to understand how you can have a deficit and yet somehow reduce a debt. A deficit is a deficit. If GDP goes up that will have a cosequential positive impact on the ability to reduce that deficit (assuming you decide to pay that down rather than spend it elsewhere)

The tories have reduced that deficit by 3/4's but it is still a deficit - therefore the debt will continue to rise.

How you seem to think borrowing more will help to reduce the deficit is frankly crass. If you need to stimulate the economy to encourage growth to help reduce the deficit you don't do that by taxing businesses more (affecting inward investment) and the wealth creators (the rich that socialists hate/envy so much) Increasing the minimum wage is likely to further discourage inward investment (growth) by encouraging businesses to invest where it is cheaper to fund employees.

What you are suggesting is the economics of the madhouse and indicates that you think Government is the economy when in actual fact the Government is nothing without the businesses and private individuals that create jobs, attract inward investment and sell goods and services abroad that brings revenue into the country - punish them and you are punishing yourself, it's like self flagellation and simply idiotic to believe otherwise.

Yes, yes, but Scottish economics are different.

 

[Len Rum]

The deficit is the rate of change of the debt. The debt can't decline without the deficit being a surplus (excepting the sales of assets).

Think of it as a car - the debt is your speed and the deficit is how much you're accelerating. When Labour left the car was going quickly and they had their foot planted. The Tories took over the car and eased off the accelerator but haven't begun braking. The car's still going faster than it was initially, but not as quickly as if we'd kept accelerating at the rate we were.

Or think of it this way:
City Stu in 2010: " Hello Mr Bank Manager, my business is in the shit, I'm in debt big style but I'm going to reduce my current spending and in five years time my books will balance and I can start bringing my total debt down".
Bank Manager: " Alright mate".
City Stu in 2015: "Hello Mr Bank Manager, sorry I haven't eliminated my deficit yet but it's down by 60% and falling."
Bank Manager: Too right you haven't eliminated your deficit, if you had your debt would have been 1.3tn and falling, as it is it's 1.6tn and rising. When are you going to get rid of your deficit?"
City Stu: " Er ..by about 2025....... Maybe"
Bank Manager: " You're 'avin a giraffe , by then your debt will be 2tn and if interest rates go up you'll never pay it back, especially as you're leaving that trading club. No way, you're not borrowing any more I'm capping your overdraft today. Goodbye mate".

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I am 53 and had to negotiate many a zimmer at mine this morning. Youngest there by a couple of decades.

Yer only a kid. The kid in charge of the list of constituents didn't know that our street began with a C and not an S!

 

[manctheknife]

Yer only a kid. The kid in charge of the list of constituents didn't know that our street began with a C and not an S!

Chit Street?