The General Election Thread

[foxy]

Ed the red has admitted to the BBC that he will be increasing tax. I'm sure this may appease some of the socialists but looks like it's back to being the same old Labour, tax the successful..

Also scared the general public will buy in to the myth that the NHS will be better under Labour.

 

[andyhinch]

i honestly have no idea who to vote for...

I might vote green, given my line of work, should be interesting :)

 

[Chancy Termites]

i honestly have no idea who to vote for...

If you're in England then UKIP, Greens or independent should be the only choices. Voting for LibLabCon will just keep the old problems going.

 

[Len Rum]

Ed the red has admitted to the BBC that he will be increasing tax. I'm sure this may appease some of the socialists but looks like it's back to being the same old Labour, tax the successful..

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Thank God then that Dave has no plans to raise VAT.

 

[urmston]

After inheriting an economy where government income exceeded its expenditure, New Labour let public spending spiral out of control while they were in power, until it reached a huge £153 billion more than government income by 2009/10.

Another episode like that will probably ruin the UK for all time.

If you've got kids voting Labour will saddle them with huge debts and austerity for all of their lives if they stay in the UK.

 

[Len Rum]

Says a person who has written 4250 posts in just over 2 years compared to my 3396 posts in eight and a half years.

You are as profligate with your opinions as Labour is with other peoples money.

Shame that 'Jeffrey' has profligately racked up a national debt of 1.5 trillion to artificially manufacture a 'recovery' which all of us now have to pay for as the hammer falls and we return to the thirties with Captain 'running scared of electoral debates' Dave and first officer 'Jeffrey' at the helm.

Your delusion knows no bounds, its breathtaking in fact.

Let me try to explain to you simply then.
Gideon set a target at the beginning of this Parliament to eliminate the deficit and to achieve a national debt somewhere below a trillion (I don't know the exact figure) by the end of it.
Half way throughout the Parliament he realized that he couldn't grow the economy and reduce unemployment if he kept to these targets, so basically like a Labour Chancellor on the booze he let borrowing rip and with the help of an artificially induced property boom the economy has grown and unemployment has reduced ( albeit with zero hours and low paid jobs). Some of this improvement would have happened anyway if he'd nothing purely due to normal cyclical economic activity
Hence we have a national debt of 1.5 trillion and are still running a deficit. That's why the brakes have to be slammed on with the same level of cuts again plus 50% in the next five years. His new target is to eliminate the deficit by mañana and fcuk knows what the cumulative national debt will be by then.
Oh and the balance of payments is in the toilet.
In other words 'Jeffrey' has pulled some levers to make growth and unemployment levels temporarily favourable at election time. That's why he concentrates almost exclusively on these two measures of the economy.
When he slams the brakes on and does a reverse turn, growth and unemployment will do likewise.
Capiche?

 

[Len Rum]

After inheriting an economy where government income exceeded its expenditure, New Labour let public spending spiral out of control while they were in power, until it reached a huge £153 billion more than government income by 2009/10.

Another episode like that will probably ruin the UK for all time.

If you've got kids voting Labour will saddle them with huge debts and austerity for all of their lives if they stay in the UK.

Think you'll find the Tories have already saddled us with huge debts and austerity for many years to come mate.
The deficit left by Labour had more than a little to do with the global financial crisis in case you'd forgotten about it.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Reading this thread HAS MADE ME HAPPY I WILL BE LEAVING THE COUNTRY FOR A LONG TIME AND DONT HAVE TO VOTE FOR ANY OF THE USELESS FUCKERS. Sorry pressed caps lock not rewriting it

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Really? I take it you remember what thatcher did to this country? The increased borrowing of cameron? You tory clowns really are in a world of your own. Dont worry,labour will pull us out of the shit...again.

My dad you to say "if brains were dynamite you wouldn't even have enough to blow your nose"
Its quite appropriate as a reply to this

your dad was as clueless as you then tory boy.

You thick fucking ****

 

[the plasterer]

Shame that 'Jeffrey' has profligately racked up a national debt of 1.5 trillion to artificially manufacture a 'recovery' which all of us now have to pay for as the hammer falls and we return to the thirties with Captain 'running scared of electoral debates' Dave and first officer 'Jeffrey' at the helm.

Your delusion knows no bounds, its breathtaking in fact.

Let me try to explain to you simply then.
Gideon set a target at the beginning of this Parliament to eliminate the deficit and to achieve a national debt somewhere below a trillion (I don't know the exact figure) by the end of it.
Half way throughout the Parliament he realized that he couldn't grow the economy and reduce unemployment if he kept to these targets, so basically like a Labour Chancellor on the booze he let borrowing rip and with the help of an artificially induced property boom the economy has grown and unemployment has reduced ( albeit with zero hours and low paid jobs). Some of this improvement would have happened anyway if he'd nothing purely due to normal cyclical economic activity
Hence we have a national debt of 1.5 trillion and are still running a deficit. That's why the brakes have to be slammed on with the same level of cuts again plus 50% in the next five years. His new target is to eliminate the deficit by mañana and fcuk knows what the cumulative national debt will be by then.
Oh and the balance of payments is in the toilet.
In other words 'Jeffrey' has pulled some levers to make growth and unemployment levels temporarily favourable at election time. That's why he concentrates almost exclusively on these two measures of the economy.
When he slams the brakes on and does a reverse turn, growth and unemployment will do likewise.
Capiche?

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