January 28, 201114 yr Well, after being roundly mocked when he tried to pin the blame for the slowdown on the weather last week, Osborne is now attempting to blame the trade unions... :lol: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12312417 Meanwhile, Boris Johnson's big idea for growth is that he and his pals Dave and Gideon should get tax cuts.
January 28, 201114 yr GO ON GEORGIE BOY, YOU TELL EM'! And Boris, well, it's Boris! But seriously, the Eton Mess isn't going to sort this out, and a double-dip is on, the Cuts are bruising the nation already, the VAT rise HAS affected here, the Rich are getting richer and the Poor, poorer... shame really, sustainable growth was being achieved IMO by Brown, and now the Tories are ripping it apart, cos' they gon' KRAZEH. Methinks we should go Tunisia on these bad boys.
January 29, 201114 yr Author Gideon claimed today that there would be "financial turmoil" if he abandoned cuts and tax rises... Mr Osborne told the BBC no politician liked cutting spending and increasing taxes, but he was trying to clear up the "mess" Labour left. The chancellor said: "I feel every day a huge responsibility to get these decisions right for Britain." He suggested union laws could be changed - as a last resort - if there were a wave of strikes. In an interview on the BBC Politics Show, Mr Osborne spoke of the responsibility to make the right decisions. "This is an enormously tricky situation that we've been bequeathed as a new government," he said. And he added that he was fulfilling his responsibility to the best of his ability. Unions Earlier in the week union leaders met in London to discuss co-ordinated protests in the face of what they see as "deep and rapid" cuts in spending, but stopped short of announcing strike ballots. On Friday Mr Osborne said he was as determined to fight "the forces of stagnation", including the unions, as he was to tackle the budget deficit. He reiterated his position that there could be changes in union laws. "We are prepared to consider changes to the law around strikes - as a last resort - but I hope we never get there, because I hope we can have a mature, grown-up conversation. "I completely understand that trade unions want to represent the interests of their members, but the interests of their members is that jobs are created and prosperity returns to our country." Honestly... the fact he's still trying to blame this on the previous administration has gone beyond a joke.
January 29, 201114 yr Labour are not entirely blameless but the idea that they are uniquely to blame is a total joke. After all, it's not as if our economic problems are unique. Of course the last Labour government should have done more to regulate the banks. But we all know what the Tory response would have been. And we all know that they would have done everything they could to block it. And who said, as the entire banking system was in danger of total collapse, that there was too much regulation? Some bloke called Gideon Osborne. Whatever happened to him?
January 31, 201114 yr Labour are not entirely blameless but the idea that they are uniquely to blame is a total joke. After all, it's not as if our economic problems are unique. Of course the last Labour government should have done more to regulate the banks. But we all know what the Tory response would have been. And we all know that they would have done everything they could to block it. And who said, as the entire banking system was in danger of total collapse, that there was too much regulation? Some bloke called Gideon Osborne. Whatever happened to him? Agreed... It really is just incredible the way the Tories are dishonestly just going on about "inheriting the mess from Labour" as a justification for destroying public services (which go far beyond "trimming the fat" that they sold to the voters during the election), they seem to want us all to forget about the £160 billion bank bailout programme that was kind of forced on Labour by the foolish risks that banks took, and I have no doubt at all that the Tories would've been against strong regulation of the banks in the 00s... The impression the "Coalishun" tries to give is that they somehow had absolutely no idea what state the economy was in, and that it was all a big surprise to them when they came into power.... I mean, really..... :rolleyes:
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