the economy.

[blueish swede]

Weren't the last incumbents the Con-LibDem alliance? Or can you just keep going back and back until you find someone you want to blame?

 

[SWP's back]

It was about 500 billion when Blair resigned as PM compared to 1.8 trillion now.
Yes cabinets do blame previous incumbents, definitely at first but not usually after they have been in power for more than six years.
At least twenty seven countries run a surplus ( check out Google) including Denmark and Norway.
Only five countries have no debt.

What about the deficit in comparison?

We've been through this.

 

[Len Rum]

Weren't the last incumbents the Con-LibDem alliance? Or can you just keep going back and back until you find someone you want to blame?

I blame Reginald Maudling the outgoing Conservative chancellor in 1964.
He left a note for the incoming Labour Chancellor "Sunny Jim" Callaghan. It read " Good luck old cock. Sorry to leave it in such a mess".

 

[tiggsywiggsywoo]

The economy as been in a so called mess since as long as I can remember. I'm 65. it's a load of propaganda, as Albert Fiinney would say.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Osborne was a clueless ****. Politics answer to Jose Mourinho.

 

[Irwell]

Osborne was a clueless ****. Politics answer to Jose Mourinho.

Yet his Northern Powerhouse project spurred one of the largest waves of inward investment in decades. Well informed? No. Well intentioned? Yes, as far as Manchester went.

 

[Len Rum]

Osborne was a clueless ****. Politics answer to Jose Mourinho.

Some of his biggest fans were and still are on this forum.
Quite prominent posters.
No names no pack drill.

 

[Len Rum]

Yet his Northern Powerhouse project spurred one of the largest waves of inward investment in decades. Well informed? No. Well intentioned? Yes, as far as Manchester went.

Precisely. "As far as Manchester went". But nowhere else.
Political gimmick.

 

[Irwell]

Precisely. "As far as Manchester went". But nowhere else.
Political gimmick.

The entire concept was to create a northern balance to London. Absolutely, that wouldn't benefit everyone in the north directly if you look at it in the short term. The benefits were generally for Manchester and were indirect elsewhere. Long term, however, imagine a city on the scale of London at the other end of England acting as a political and economic counterbalance.

It is a brilliant long term ambition.

 

[Bill]

Some of his biggest fans were and still are on this forum.
Quite prominent posters.
No names no pack drill.

loved him.
what he did for our country was unbelievable.