Straight from that policy genius Osbourne.
The same genius, who when presented with an open goal at the last general election managed to hit the fucking bar. I just hope that in an era where more people read twitter and facebook than the Murdoch press that that is carried through to an election.
This promise is simply the Tories trying to win back the real nutters in the party from UKIP as the last thing they need is their vote being split at the next General Election, particularly when the traditional splitting of the Labour vote to the Lib Dems is likely to have less of an impact.
Rant over... oh Torys, what a bunch of cunts.
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slartifartfast When all around are losing their heads, duck., Wed 23 Jan 2013, 7:45,
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Winning back the frayed fringe...
...and also deflecting attention from a perennially stalling economy for which they have no solution. Blaming problems of ones own making on outsiders is the textbook jingoist propaganda model.
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daveyclayton Gosh, is it really, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 8:20,
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I thought this was a global economic crisis?
Everybody's fucked except the Chinese.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 9:44,
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Yes, but....
www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/04/spending-cuts-tories-recovery
and...
www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/02/youth-unemployment-minimum
There was another article I used to link to but I can't find it..
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Jorvic, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 9:55,
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Can't we just have a conversation rather than pamphlet slinging?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 10:18,
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Sorry
But yeah, the global crash happened, what counts is how you deal with it. Everything the Tories have done and the results there of were predicted. The VAT hike for instance was one of the stupidest things possible they could have done, the NI increase would have been a fairer and less damaging approach. Whilst Labour would have, and were borrowing more on the short term, gradually bringing down that borrowing whilst maintaining jobs (through investment such as the Future Jobs fund, and through Public Sector workers which keeps money physically in the economy) and the favorable interest rates we have (and had at the time of the election) we could have maintained the growth we had, and started to deal with the deficit. As it is the borrowing needed to support those the Tories and Lib Dems have thrown on the doll far excedes the borrowing that Labour proposed for its stimulus. Friedenomics got us in to this, the idea that flogging your house off brick by brick, roof tile by roof tile is the best way to deal with negative equity on your mortgage, will get us out of it is bat shit insane in my opinion...
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Jorvic, Wed 23 Jan 2013, 10:28,
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