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Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 707872)

not a guess cos it's a non brainer... the early 80's economy was total borrowing.. encouraged by the Government..but Thatcher and the brilliant minds of Howe,Lawson and Lamont turned borrowing into a craft..I remember Thatch saying you can't buy a house without borrowing .. which is logic for most people .. and then they sold off shares in essential public assets like electric/gas to "the public" who then expecting big returns... this "mob" may not have a clue.. but I know the alternative.. and it is dire!

You don't get much more dire than this set of clowns (sorry that being offencive to clowns, they make people laugh) The last Tory Government may have had their faults, but they left Blair and co with the best economic outlook that any incoming government has had in our history and when they are kicked out at the next election with have left the worst economic future this country has ever seen, any kid being born today will be 23 years old before this countries back to where we were 12 months ago, you don't get any more dire that that Mancie, wake up and smell the coffee

I am not a fan of Gordon Brown but surprise surprise, who starts this thread? And the notion that some are saintly (blue) and others disastrous (red). How simple politics is to you Andrew? Take a look back and mistakes have always been made. Chamberlain, Heath, Thatcher have all made bad decisions.

Thatcher sold off our one great national asset North Sea oil for a pittance, shut down mines and sold off banks and was the architect of Cameron's broken society which is costing the country £billions. Labour have now had to lock up a record 90,000 people and the prisons are full.

Chamberlain had no policies and a piece of paper (like David Cameron) and failed to deal with the major issues of the day.

Listening to you and your clapped out nonsense it's depressing. People like yourself Andrew hysterically peddled 'THE FACTS' that Northern Rock was a disaster, break the Government, was all wrong, and would take decades to pay off. Currently it's two thirds paid off IIRC one year on, and making a profit, and about to offer ordinary folk 90% mortgages AND has turned a small shareholding by Taxpayers in to a billion pound asset. Much of the borrowing now has gone into bank shares so what happens when Cameron comes in and is cash rich?

You need to stop ranting and raving and take an honest look at the bad AND THE GOOD.

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Originally Posted by g jones (Post 709540)

Oh hello Moaning Myrtle's back from a refresher course in the chamber of secrets at Hogwarts:rolleyes:

*avoiding yet more useless posts about the disastrous past of blue & red party politics*

Worked out that my mum & brother will see a substantial rise of a few hundred pounds in income over the next year. The Budget clearly works in the short term, which is extremely important and necessary. We can only wait to see what happens in the long term.