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Originally Posted by Mancie
And were do you get this information from?.. can you show any real evidence that this country would have been in the same position as Ireland?...you seem unable to grasp the concept that every single advance economy in the world has suffered a global recession over the last 4yrs or so... this country was emerging out of that recession in 2010 along with Germany and France, but the policies of this government that are based purely on ideology are cutting growth, cutting standards of living and cutting jobs.
Margaret I reckon you have lived through a few governments wether tory labour and now these condems..(well maybe two) do you really believe this government ?
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Mancie...please do not put words into my mouth that I haven't said.
I said that Britain would be in a
similar position to Ireland(that, believe it or not is a bit different)...and what I meant by that is that we would (like Ireland) have had our credit rating downgraded...this would mean that we would not be allowed to borrow money at the rates we are borrowing at now......the international community would charge us much more for the money they doled out.
I know all about the global recession which was precipitated in America with toxic loans and the banks taking on dire risks without thinking of what would happen if the worst came to the worst(which it did)......and I did actually point that out in an earlier post.
As for us emerging out of the recession...I think that is an optimistic politically enhanced view. You are believing what the Labour spin docotors tell you.
I can only tell you that my views on the financial state of this country are as I have stated before........we, as a country spent money foolishly...money that we didn't have. Money that now has to be found from somewhere.
Please believe me....if the Labour party had got back into power, they would be making the same kind of swingeing cuts, despite their claims to the contrary.....the thing about being in opposition is that you can say anything you damn well like ....it is
never going to be tested....and they know that.....and they think we are fool enough not to know that.
I know that if I go to Tesco and try to buy my groceries and cannot pay the bill .......then I have to do without something.......and that something might be sorely missed...but I cannot have what I cannot pay for.
As a country we are in the same kind of situations...we cannot have what cannot be funded.
As I also said in a previous post, 13 months is not long enough to clear up the financial mess that was left by the previous incumbents.
The International Monetary fund seem to think that what is being done in the way of reining in spending, is the right way to go.........and for governments, these are the guys that have to be pleased.....they are the ones who hold the
international purse strings.
I do not care about the colour of the shirt the government wears......it matters not one jot to me whether we have Labour, Tory Lib Dems...or a group of monkeys running the country, as long as they can sort out the problems that we are beset by.
I don't quite know how many times I have to tell you this to be believed...and it is getting tedious. I have
NO POLITICAL ALLEGIANCE.