Misery Index: Anaemic Growth Reflected in Minor Misery Bite
On the day that David Cameron’s blue-sky, million pound happiness index is widely mocked, allow Guido to give you a little dose of reality. With the anaemic growth and a high public sector cash-requirement, there has been an increase in how miserable we feel, however the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show our misery, like our growth, flat-lining around the “not as bad as it could be, but pretty low” area. Things will get a lot uglier if we don’t get economic growth…
N.B. Stats bods can check Guido’s adding up here.
But we won the test match?
I’m just sad that the GD figures were not a lot worse.
I’m not sure my misery level has fluctuated as wildly as on that graph.
More a steady ‘just get on with it’ level – around 10%?
Ed balls and Mikky Clark (financial guru) on radio 5 live soon.
Last time Ed on he was ripped to shreds by mikky – exposing the labour lies and track record.
Could be worth a listen……. hopefully balls plan to reduce VAT (which means £13billion more debt) will be exposed as a greek tradedy
borrowing more does not work – spending less does – but what do you spend less on – does Balls even agree about spending less yet … ?
Everyone knows what to spend less on, the government isn’t listening though.
Ed Balls talks about 2% growth in last year of labour goverment, but says nothing about the £200 billion QE to get it.
We now cant do that again, and again each year to prop up weak growth.
0.2% is at least real growth – but weak
Better than no growth.
At this rate Cameron and Osborne will give government in a plate to Labour.
Electing these two are the greatest Tory fuck up.
I hope we don’t get rioting in the street, this is the biggest worry I have.
need to stop spending on GOV departments
CUT CUT CUT
we are in trouble
Every cloud ……..It wont harm our case
Surely you are mistaken….the interview to which you refer took place on the BBC….only a hysterical anti BBC reaction will do….now come ladies, sort yourselves out – let’s have the abuse, go on ….you know you want too
Economy Grows 0.2%
Inflation at 5% That means we are in a recession. What other Knacker from the LSE will lie through the Media stating the economy is growing.
Natural Gas prices are 3 times less than in 2008 $12.3 per m,btu in 2008. and now $4.6 m,btu. But our energy goes up ITS CALLED TAX. MORE TAX SMALLER ECONOMY.
Dont listen to politicians they couldn’t run a corner shop, never mind the Country.
If we had politicians that could run a corner shop then we wouldn’t be in this mess. Utter Gob Shites to a man
Abso-phuckin-lootley Admiral.
An Admirable post sir.
Not as interesting as you may think it is in the country at large
Its nice to see No 10 not supporting Osborne. Osborne might be packing his bags to leave No 11 for family reasons.
The weather was slightly too cold at the start of the year and a bit too warm later on; and quite windy as well. The tragic events in Japan have undermined our crucial supply chains. And the Royal Family have only themselves to blame by organising a wedding – instigating an economically disruptive Bank Holiday – at such a sensitive time.
I could point the finger elsewhere. Lady Gaga went on tour during the spring, which kept a significant number of productive units away from their desks. Nick Clegg indulged in a five-day visit to Brazil, when he could have been marshalling the forces of economic activity back home.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8661562/UK-GDP-growth-live.html
My business has found that people who owe us money in instances where they are themsleves expecting to be paid by the government for the work done have slowed down the flow of payments.
Unfortunately, being British, we are anhedonic and crave disappointment.
My new word for the week, ‘anhedronic’.
‘Anhedonic’. No ‘R’.
Thank you Sir William.
I shall remember as I myself am often in trouble with my Rs.
We agree Guido, you should come and join my party. You want growth, I want growth; you want to restore VAT to pre-Osborne rates, I want to cut VAT. As for our minor disagreements about the structural debt, more quantitative easing I’m sure we can gloss over these.
“National Statistics show our misery, like a growth, flat-lining around the”
“Like a growth”???????
Pot and Kettle come to mind Billy
You are not putting my standard up with Guidos and Neo-Guidos standard and education (Plus thier highly educated interns)?
Billy come clean. Are you Blair’s new speechwriter?
Ex FT
Look, let’s be honest about it. The problem is when you’re a political leader, never mind a prime minister, you get your message across, you have to get your message across, through you guys [journalists], so whatever I say today the whole of the public’s not going to be watching every word I say. What happens is you will write about it, or you’ll put it on your television and you know, therefore of course it’s going to matter to have relationships with people in the media.
But I think one thing that is very important is to try and get those relationships right in the sense that the media is an important part of our democracy, on the other hand governments should govern for the public interest.
Just the clarity you would expect from a regular kind of a guy.
Is he still alive?
Why wasn’t he in Norway?
governments should govern for the public interest……………pure TB fantasy bullshit to even suggest that is a realistic alternative. The man was clearly mental.
And the summer holidays are here – so we can’t be completely miserable.
if only the beeb would do something about their dire weather forecasting which hasn’t been right once in the past couple of weeks!
Try http://www.weather.com, they are usually right in their forecasts unlike the Met Office/BBC.
And the Met costs the taxpayer £170,000,000 a year to run.
But it provides employment for 1,700 civil service non-jobbers, so that’s OK.
There’s big money to be made out of AGW. Very big money indeed.
Only if they can convince enough gullible people to go along with it. The fraudsters behind AGW have their work cut out on that one.
Thanks.
I have found accuweather to be best. Light-years ahead of global-warming-scam bastards like the Met Office.
http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/index.asp
Late July and August is a silly time to take summer holidays. the nights are drawing in and the evenings getting chilly.
Arse. Guido’s software stripped out the URL.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html
Cornwall’s North Coast has been covered in a cold sea mist for days now. Not that it will affect the BBC’s interpretation of the weather which extends the SE to cover the rest of the country.
yes indeed
london is the uk
For once the Scotch show good sense. They have their August Bank Holiday at the beginning of August when it is still warm not like the Enlishers who have it at the end of August when it is pissing it down and pitch dark by 7.30.
Look at the Met Office rainfall radar. You can see if rain is coming and that Scotland is getting it again.
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Their site is pants. This is better http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
Cheers, good site.
for those really anal about weather there is this site which is just a directory of weather sites
http://www.greatweather.co.uk/
The Met Office web site has ” Climate change” next to “Weather”.
Far more chance of grants and overseas jollies than telling us about “Dogger,Fisher,German Bight”.
The IPCC stated in their Third Assessment Report: “In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with a coupled nonlinear chaotic system, and therefore that long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.”
None of which stops them doing so.
Exactly. Someone should tell that to the pathetically bad attempt at being a science aka Steve Jones.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/8656765/Steve-Jones-tells-the-BBC-dont-give-denialists-so-much-air-time.html
They are trying to predict the future of the most complicated machine in the world: the world.
I’ve been trying to point this out for sometime now… Any recursive simulation will produce exponential error, and very quickly will swamp any predictive value back to chance.
Big state and big government stuffed with useless corrupt self-serving fuckers here and in Brussels make me more miserable than anything else.
It was fairly obvious from the look on Osborne’s face that the news was going to be pretty poor, he hasn’t had smirk on his face for the past few days. We’ve got to wait to see if the figures over the next month are revised for better or worse.
From a Labour boom to Tory bust!
From a Labour credit card spending spree to a Tory clean the Labour mess up situation. Same as in 1951, 1970 and 1979.
Labour’s booming debt.
Its £2 trillion actually.
Though Piers Fletcher Osbourne is adding to the crap pile on a daily basis now.
Where are the real Conservatives?
Whimpering in the corner, or out networking for their new jobs post- inevitable election wipe-out in 2015.
Waiting to emerge after they’ve got rid of the wishy washy Limp Dums.
Do be such a dumbass.
What you see is what they are – George & rusty Dave are pro EU high tax, borrow and spend liberals.
And Dave & Co transform themselves overnight into Conservatives?
Aint going to happen, dream on.
At last count around thirty real Conservatives left in the parliamentry party.
The rest? More like wishy washy Social Democrats, if Roy Jenkins were still alive, he would be their patron saint.
You have no idea how miserable I feel.
I bet my inferiority complex is worse than yours.
You’ve got nothing to be upset about Johann, you’re a brilliant writer. The best in a generation.
Why does Norway think it is a good idea to send young people to an island to politically brainwash them?
If you hold those sort of events down town, the ‘young people’ tend to wander off to McDonalds
We hang-out in Starbucks to use their free wifi with our iPods/iPads/iPhones to criticise western capitalist imperialism.
The Norwegian government allies itself with Hamas. What a politically correct hellhouse it must be there.
It seems that at school, Anders Behring Breivik, like all boys in Norway, had to do needlework!!!!! There’s a good chance therefore that every man in Norway today is a nutter.
A stitch in time just about saved nine.
Nuthin’ wrong with needlework or knitting…it was the marksmanship/hunting and political studies that made the difference
I bet the lads doing national service had known how to do needle work in the first weeks, they couldn’t send clothes back home for mummy to repair or their socks, they would have been on charge with buttons missing and holes in their socks
I think you’ll find that the UK is an island too!
Over 1,000 islands, in fact. Most of us are on the biggest one, called ‘Britain’.
Unfortunately, Scotland is not an island.
It could be if we dig a big enough trench that approximates the border!
Why didn’t I think of that
Could we put a minefield on our side before we repatriate the far northerners back home?
Actually the north of Scotland geologically is the same as north america, different from rest of UK
However, I think that should Brown, Balls (Mr/Mrs) and the Milibands still be in power the Misery Factor would be at least -50.
If misery is negative, does that mean you are happy?
Build a Bonfire, build a Bonfire, put the Bankers on the top, put the Mps in the middle and Burn the F@cking LOT
And then begin thier trails?
I’ll never be out of work whilst you’re on here
And for good measure, make sure Chris Huhne is thoroughly soaked in petrol, first.
We’d have to use a Bio-Fuel we don’t want him complaining about all the extra CO2 that will be in the atmosphere as he burning!
That’ll be the only proof of man made global warming!
Are lot after long pig, it has to be roasted slowly
With third way socialists in power here in the UK for what seems like an eternity there is nothing to feel happy about.
50.1% of all economic activity in the UK is Government spending.
Its official.
We have become East Germany.
Well done Blue Labour – following the fiscal insanity of Brown & Balls will cost the Tory Party everything forever – & rightly so – you do not deserve to be called Conservatives.
The Daily Mail reported that Cameron is spending £25 million to create 10,000 new apprenticeships, it did’t say if they were in India or Pakistan though.
Where are these apprenticeships, what sort of trades, will that mean working on the job and day release to technical collage with meaning qualifications at the end of the appenticeships, how long will they last, what ages can people apply for them, how long will the apprenticeships last (the last I had heard was 3 years down from 5 years ). It is no good talking apprenticeships without specifying what are, apprenticeships deminished over 30 years to virtually nothing, employers now that a lot of apprentice trained men and women are edging towards retirement they say they cannot get trained people, now I wonder why?
Still desperate for PM Ed Miliband, eh Guido?
Actully most on here wanted Ed Balls to win the labour leadership contest.
I did.
Well, the missis is happy becos she’s retired before her pension can be trashed by the government.
I took early retirement for exactly that reason. Lots of teachers have done it.
me too
We did too. Pay up Germany, France, Britain. Suckers!
Not necessarily. I think public pension payments were cut in the 30′s. Might see that again if things were to get really bad
With the US and EUroland sliding down the shitchute and us throwing money around as if we were rich and it wasn’t borrowed, you shouldn’t have long to wait now.
Pension cuts = lying about Inflation…
Pensioners can tell mps and government ministers if there is inflation, they at the cutting edge, those in parliament haven’t on the whole haven’t the foggyest, they get those lovely expenses cheap meals, booze and anything going for free. Come on parliamentarians get up to speed.
Let sunshine win the day.
I’m tat! I’m a mong! Yap yap yap yap! Wheeeee!
Well alright!
Just how does McMental manage to sweat from the belly button down?
And just why does he have this urge to have his picture taken with lezzas?
plastic nappies can have that effect
I’m English, being a moaning, miserable git is what we do best.
Prozacs all round?
I`ll be back!
Back where?
Start a blog so that even more people can fucking ignore you?
“Fat kweer gets others to write utter fucking rubbish”
on the back of selling ads for shit cars
Hold on , the other fat kweer got there first
A bloated sexual deviant with internet access is a bad thing
Who can we quote on that ?
you oversized queen
Why? Does that tick your social conscience box? Or is it just a political opinion humouring “all right thinking people” ?
don’t worry about anything Sarah Brown has signed the Hope Not Hate book, that will stop those dastardly Nazis
Who is this Sarah Brown? Is she a Brownskirt?
Sarah Braun
‘Hope not hate’ another meaningless slogan from the Komrades.
The left are shitting themselves over this, their multi culti, non gender specific, everyone is a winner regardless of ability, socially engineered, rainbow alliance paradise, may not be so lovely and cuddly after all.
Who would have thought it?
In a very, real sense, yes!
No wonder the left are shitting it.
Spain had a terrorist appeasement march after Al Q bombed Spanish trains…
puke
I think “open debate not hate” would be better.
But Labour all over Europe do not want a debate about immigration or K_ommon P-urpose.
They certainly do not want to discuss the cultural genocide they have begun against the indigenous peoples of Europe.
This man is the tip of the iceberg.
Just like Cameron.
Where can we go to find the ” Hate the Brown’s Book” to sign.
Sarah.
I personally don’t give a flying f**k what you think or do. Why don’t you just piss off home and clean up the shit and mess left by your old man or are WE still paying a cleaner the minimum wage to do it for you?
Fuck off and get a job instead of living off the state. Nobody gives a flying fuck what you think.
And while you’re at it, tell that useless incompetent deranged prick you’re “married” to, he should be hanged for treason.
What makes this boring cow think anyone’s interested in what she thinks or does. THis self-absorbed bint wants to get a proper job instead of living off her barmy, bone idle husband’s taxpayer funded salary.
I bet she’s a feckin’ wow to live with!
Not as ugly as it will get in the winter when hundreds of thousands of us remember that the kids didn’t get a summer holiday this year as we had to put our hard earned aside to pay exorbitant fuel bills. Then I’ll be *ucking miserable.
Gas man came to read the meter this morning. I seriously considered knocking him out and stashing him in the shed.
If you let him dry out for a month or so he should burn well in a wood burner.
Good idea. We have one at each end of the house. We could compare the calorific value of the gas and the electricity man.
And another will be along in 3 months. Bit like the carlsberg (?) ad.
Makes me proud to be British…the Dunkirk spirit is alive and well, just as long as we don’t join Johnny foreigner’s Euro we should win through.
You’d then get an estimated bill which would be even higher…oh for the days of the nationalised electricity and gas industry…remember when Thatcher promised it would be better for us all (having privatised utilities)? “Merely a “fly by night” politician, nicely retired when their shit hits the fan…My Dear Mrs Thatcher, do you remember back in the heady days of 1980and-frozen-to-death….smash the unions, sell off the housing stock…get a mortgage to pay the gas bill, it all came right in the end didn’t it Mrs T?
It actually did work out alright, right up until around 2000 when the EU decided that they way forward was to tax energy and go ‘green’.
The average household energy bill was at that time around £250 p.a. now it is around £1,500 and set to double in five years time.
All the major parties are in agreement over this insanity.
It will all end in tears of course, but not until some very rich people have got incredibly richer and millions of formerly middle class join the poor.
We have a highly competitive energy market working in the consumer’s interests. When I get kicked out at the next election, or get released from prison, I will be taking a well-paid job with one of our wonderful energy companies.
The problem with the energy market is government interference and tax / subsidy requirements.
It’s now a rigged market working against the best interest of the consumer and for the energy providers benefit.
The government has completely distorted the market deliberately with various incentives and tariffs and is now trying desperately to pretend, it has done nothing of the sort and anyway ‘our hands are tied’ by international committments.
What government will not say however, is that it should never have got involved in those ‘international committments’ in the first place.
“Things will get a lot uglier when the effect of ” the cuts” actually kicks in though…”"
….. and the start of the football season
Saw Mandelson on the box last night,
that made me bloody miserable I can tell you.
By the way Paxman. I know you’re a quiz
fraud and don’t know any University challenge
answers at all.
Paxo looked extremely shaken by that bloke from the EDL.
I missed it. Why would Paxo have been shaken?
Because he wasn’t stirred!
Notice the correlation between that index and the amount of ‘reality TV’ on our screens at any given time?
Should traditional Keynesian models replaced with a Cowellian model?
Could this be the key to a new economic model? A new road to prosperity?
Should outdated economic indicators be replaced by a reality TV index?
Why does the secret to economic prosperity depend on an increase in the amount of reality TV?
Read all the answers in my new book, ‘The General Theory of Unemployment, Disinterest and Other People’s Money’.
Cameron’s ‘Happiness Index’ deserves to be mocked. He seems to have a problem with labels. ‘The Big Society’ hints at ‘Big Brother’ and big government, when what he meant was ‘small government, less government’. Perhaps he wants to know what concerns people most, or what makes them feel they are living in a civilized society. According to Buddha the greatest happiness is the happiness of insight. Dave take note.
He seems to have a problem with thinking.
Let’s not let Balls get away with the budget deficits he engineerd when economy was humming along and tax revenues ware boosted by high stamp duty during the housing boom as well as taxes on city profits and bonuses:
Figures (%), according to OECD, for UK’s deficits in
2002: -2.0
2003: -3.7
2004: -3.6
2005: -3.3
2006: -2.2
2007: -2.8
Balls and Brown disastrous economic policy explained in vrious reports here:
http://www.tullett.co.uk/strategyinsights/index.aspx
Can bbc presenters please read these reports before interviewing Balls? Thanks
Unlikely. Martha is about to give him a free ride in half an hour.
Correct prediction. She gave him free rein
enabling him to spew usual bollocks.
Boy George was constantly interrupted although
I thought he was pretty weedy.
You talk as though we at the BBC are interested in unbiased reporting!
Look we shat all over the Royal Charter years ago so your going to be very disappointed.
Now pay your £145 TV Tax and shut the fuck up!
Isn’t it dreadful though when the Leiber Party pray for our economy to go down the pan so that they can then say ‘told you so’. They are nothing more than brainless w@nkers.
Of course the Cons never did that in opposition!
They didn’t have to…
Unfortunately they are far, far worse than that.
They are evil shysters, who think nothing of stealing from others, mostly less fortunate than themselves. Whilst dressing themselves in the clothes of the defender of the little guy, the worker and the downtrodden.
Of all the political groups in the UK, the Labour party is by far the worst of all, by some margin.
Hey Up Guido,
Surprised you haven’t congratulated me on my mega book deal with Penguin.
And I get to play myself in the movie!!!
How mad is that?
slow motion is it you fat c u n t?
Cameron does look like a coked up S tunt with a Durex on their head
Somehow I cannot imagine the blessed Lady T giving a flying fuck about “happiness”
The sort of thing that better dead and red scandanavian teenagers have a circle wank about before getting a well deserved 223 in the brain from a balding drag queen
May I just say in a slightly camp Barnsley ayy oop accent that at no point have I eveh had T’ inclination to have sex with tat boy who lives with me
Step on a landmine for us, will you? Cheers.
Look, I can clean my own teeth now!
But how do I get all that toothpaste off the carpet and back into the tube?
Hang on until the Universe stops expanding and goes into contraction. Meanwhile…………..
O/T I notice Twatson is getting a book deal about how wonderful he is and how Murdoch tried to give him a wedgie and etc etc. Maybe he’ll use it to propel himself as Party Leader when Labour lose in 2015.
i saw TWatson on tv last night. his general whinging was that whilst he was busy plotting and being part of an underhand effort to get rid of a successful leader someone else was plotting to use underhand methods to stop him/pay him back and he was disgusted by THEIR behaviour…
another u-turn by the coalition
remember the pledge to remove the DNA of every innocent person off the DNA police database, well how’s about this for ineptitude?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8660821/Innocent-peoples-DNA-profiles-wont-be-deleted-after-all-minister-admits.html
they reall are c-u-n-t-s
Welcome to East Germany.
Papers, show me your papers.
Continuity Labour out.
It’s the Molotov syndrome, someone suggested inserting the word “not to” just before the word destroy…”only 2 words” (the politician said), but totally reversing the original idea. If we had a universal register of all suspects (sorry, citizens) we would now know who exactly was driving Chris Huhne’s car, so there would be no speculation, no snidy stories, no innuendo…what sort of world would that be? To be honest no matter how much or little DNA is available you can guarantee plod will fuck it up…yer see they always know who’s a “wrong ‘un” then fit up (sorry,collect evidence to support their case)…look at the birmingham 6, lots of [now discredited] forensic there, wasn’t there? Why should DNA improve things? It’s just a more complex bit of forensic to fuck up and with it being more complex much more easy for a travesty of justice to take place.
Give the plod your DNA and forever live in fear of arrest.
You start making a nuisance of yourself and you never know where your DNA might turn up. Stalin and Hitler would have had wet dreams about a DNA controlled society.
Talking of flying, swallows know no borders, no government, no taxes, I fink I’m gonna join the swallows, no Tories though, they’ll find a way of privatisng nesting sites then lease them back so the swallows can disappear up their own arsesholes…that about sums up the Tories that sit nicely in their weekend Cotswolds retreats or their Notting Hill desres…in’t that right Dave?
ED balls is a Hunt!
he is just so unbelievably full of hot air. he has said absolutely nothing of consequence and just aimed broad attacks at osborne… genius…
have they got a gun at Mickey Clarke’s head in case he asks difficult questions….
Err???????????? That dossier? Did one Johann Hari help in it’s compilation by any chance?
“It started in america”?
Stunning stuff. We have the entire cabal of shadow ministers and the former government denying any involvement in and any knowledge of anything that occurred over the last thirteen years.
Nuthn’s ma fult ye un’stan!
Just ask Al about this report:
Growth in the last decade was largely fuelled by unsustainable borrowing that was deployed in spending that generated almost no growth whatsoever in the productive economy. This means we are now left with the debt but without the GDP producitivity that should have resulted (and without even the GDP that we borrowed against at the time, believing it to be sustainable and growing).
We borrowed on a vast scale to increase public sector employees and their wages, we borrowed on a vast scale to build houses, all these generated tax revenues, stamp duties and high street spending. It was all from borrowed money and there is no productive legacy from it now. But the borrowings remains.
And this is why the country is now facing an inescapable debt trap with catastrophic consequences.
http://www.tullettprebon.com/announcements/strategyinsights/notes/2010/SIN20110526.pdf
Brilliant article, but the government won’t change anything. At the heart of our problems is a phlisophical problem not economic; what should the role of government be? Unless we deal with this question, we won’t save ourselves. No government will reduce the real size of the state, and the people won’t vote to live within their means and stop expecting the government to take care of them.
It might be interesting to try and put living within your means to the electorate.
I am sure they see the government throwing money around at every opportunity as well as anyone.
Tell me, would an election slogan based around something like ‘It’s Your Money, That’s Why We Give It Back’ regarding tax cuts, be popular or not?
Slash spending and give every tax payer £2,000 which way would they jump, for tax cuts or ever more expensive ‘services’?
My money is on for the money, every time.
I thought the c. unts behind the wedding bollocks said it would provide a boost to the economy.
Fucking wankers.
It did wonders for the Chinese economy, knocking out all that souvenir tack.
Not to worry..the Olympics are guaranteed to boost the economy,,,I think but then again if we have the wrong kind of snow in January next year and it rains in July we could all be fucked
I thought Ali had snuffed it.
Another dream not fulfilled.
I don’t want that toerag down here.
No, but he’s sniffed it.
Feck off you Dingle Dumbo!!
I cant sell my barn for 175,000 Euro tokens
Says p a ul s t aines
Im fucking gutted
I can’t sell my car for 175,000 euros because it’s only worth 2,000 euros. Maybe you need to reduce your price. Where is it anyway?
LMAO how long has been trying to shift that house for now, must be a good two months or more now!
Even though clouds, as it were, line the horizon, and even though forecasts as not as rosy as some would hope for, yet we have recourse to Him who is with us always, – whose presence brings cheer and comfort to our souls, and whose smile is a radiant reminder of the greater love that no man but he can bring: I speak of course of our Lord and Saviour Anthony Bliar, QC, NBG and Leader of the Free World, and who even now struggles mightily to rid us of disease and pestilence, also crop failures, and speaking pof which the harvest of souls that we have in our churches dwindles by the week I don’t know why it’s so confusing but it is as though um …. We ….. must ….. um ….. I have to admit I’ve lost my thread.
Let us pray that Brother George Brown is in a position to pick up the pieces and that his erstwhile colleague Mr Mindsum can help.
Well we kept out of the Eurozone, and this allowed us to devalue, leading to growth and low employment…oh!
Where would we be now if we’d joined the Euro?
He’s one thought – the Irish and Greek bailouts would have cost British taxpayers a hell of a lot more than they actually have so far.
Good to see Adam Boulton giving Balls a tough interview. Makes a change for a telly interviewer to be on top of his brief.
Balls is a complete arse.
*Balls is a complete arse*………….hole.
When a labour MP speaks they either lie, deny, are hypocritical or are spiteful.
Labour MPs only know how to waste the taxpayers money.
http://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/statuses/95823836125216770/
Growth through Govt spending(“investment” Brown called it) is Potemkin growth.
The fictitious growth of the Brown/Blair years must be corrected by a similar number of no/low growth years for debts to be repaid. Mending Govt and personal balance sheets is a prerequisite for resumption of growth.
Balls should be strung up by his gonads for duping the BBC and the so called financial pundits with his “cut Vat” solution. Like appling elastoplast to a leg severed by a shark. Fuckwit expenses thief and gold guru.
If cutting VAT is the solution, why did Labour put it back up?
Now why didnt Dave just say this a year ago?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018407/George-Osborne-meetings-Rupert-Murdoch-regrets-hiring-Andy-Coulson.html
Cuz a year ago everything was going swimmingly well.
Because he’s an arrogant twat and unsuitable for high office, like most of the other fucking idiots in Westminster.
To mark the occasion of her funeral, I’m having an Amy Winehouse tribute day today.
I don’t own any of her records, but I’m going to sit in my flat and get absolutely wrecked
Headline from the Beeb:-
Tests claim few benefit claimants ‘unfit to work’
The staggering part of the story is that 75% of disability claim applicants were either found to be fit to work (without extra assistance!), or dropped out of the testing (for the obvious reason, no doubt).
That should cheer a few people up.
It has done it for me.
Blimey, are you really surprised?
What is it about that Mr E. Balls MP?
Whenever I see him on the television I have the overwhelming desire to punch his bloated face.
I do too.
How do you think I feel?
And me!
Who would have thought that the recovery would stall under a conservative government? Never saw that coming.
Who would have thought a Labour government would run out of other people’s money? We all saw that coming – now we’re having to pick up the bits.
“They were still booing him when we came on stage. ”
David St. Hubbins
“Sorry, there’s no money left.”
Liam Byrne.
We are anonymous, we are aware of the corruption in the world’s governments and their apathy for the human lives because of money.
we are aware of the governments’ attempt to cover on the news of the rebellions to keep us as slaves for the current system.
we are anonymous, we declare war on the corrupted system, join the plan to get your freedom and rights back. you are a human being, your life has value. we are anonymous, we are legion, expect us!
whatis-theplan(dot)org
Part of the reason a lot of shops close is because they sell shit stuff. Everyone sells the same stuff e.g. televisions, computers and phones. The market is bound to overload. My advice is make and sell something different FFS.
We also have the media spouting on about why doesn’t the govenment have plan B. The country is in a shit state, caused by Blair, Brown, Balls, Miliband et al. It will take a long time to get things back on track. The trouble is, the society we have created wants everything now and has had too much too soon. The Gordon Brown syndrome.
So to Ed Balls I would say you helped create a society that had too much too soon, without being able to afford it. So do us all a favour and shut the fuck up.
“My advice is make and sell something different…”
Gosh! Why did nobody think of that before?
The Flushing Toilet ? I always crap in a bag and toss it out the window
One for the ” Next questions To The PM”
Cameron ” We’ve tried plan B…. Blair Balls and Brown and look where we ended up”
It started in Mrs. Brown’s ( Snr) vagina
Hmmn, my nondescript post gets modded, but a post stating left-wing teenagers deserve a bullet in the head stays… strange world we live in.