The chairman of the OBR has written to the PM stressing the “uncertain” effect of government policy, after Dave said he had their backing that zero growth was not his fault. Worth noting how Labour paint the OBR as a bunch of jokers when they disagree with their message, but the second Cameron gets a slap they have nothing but praise…
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
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Welcome to the UK cesspit. I’m so glad my life is being enriched by multi-culturalism and criminal migrants.
That’s just as well, because there’ll be a few hundred thousand more of them from December 31st,
A few hundred thousand?
Is this the new UKIP figure? Was 4 million last week.
For the avoidance of doubt, I think it is important to point out that every forecast published by the OBR since the June 2010 Budget has incorporated the widely held assumption that tax increases and spending cuts reduce economic growth in the short term
Communial outside loos cant you feel the enrichment comming on, third world shithole we are becoming.
How dare you say such wacist wubbish, West Indian Nurses cweated the NHS an iffit wasnt for the gweat things the black people of this Huntwee did for you pale honkeys you’d still be walking awound in unenwiched aweas in complete safety. Innit bro.
I just don’t care anymore.
I’m sick to the back teeth of MPs & have given up being outraged, as it’s bad for my blood pressure.
With you all the way – and the worst thing is that some people still persist in the demonisation of the “other party” regardless of the issue – Guido’s bit in red above being a case in point. They are all the same the whole f’in lot of them. And the tribal support of one party above another merely gives strength to a lost cause. It is a race to the bottom.
Growth is so tiny, tiny, tiny . . .
Not even Viagra can help droopy Daves growth problem.
Just out of interest, are we allowed to say anything bad about mass immigration or feminism yet?
What about a wave of immigration by massive feminists?
You are a wacist unless you have thick lips curly hair and a tea towel on your head.
It is quite clear now that the Coalition is incapable of cutting public spending and the net national debt
A default should be imagined in a few years time
Probably by Blinky or some other raving loon
But other European countries will need the same
So there will be company
Europe increasingly ressembles Latin America before liberalisation
You wacist basturd
If you don’t cut Government spending
The markets will kill you
If you do cut, growth will decline and debt will rise
The markets will kill you
There’s always the Magic Money Tree.
The Bankers Bonus Tax will pay for EVERYTHING…oh bugger I forgot the EU have just capped them….that’s that idea fucked then
Is the magic money tree the same one that Ed Miliband’s father brought with him all those years ago.
F**k the markets then.
Except every government, “left” or right is a slave to them.
Not to worry, if I don’t understand the letter then the voters probably won’t either.
Unfortunately voters don’t seem to understand that they either stick with your policy and have 7 years of austerity and falling living standards or go for Labour and have 10 years of uncontrolled immigration; rising unemployment and interest rates and that the job that Labour started under Blair/ Brown will be completed
Sorry, that went right over my head I’m afraid. Bloody hard stuff this economics. Did Mod Hist you know. You’re agreeing with us though right? Good man.
We agree with OBR, no we don’t, yes we do, no we don’t, yes we do, no we don’t, yes we do, no we don’t, yes we do…………………………………….
The OBR are a bit late off the mark. It was revealed a while back that the IMF screwed up the fiscal multiplier when advising European countries to go down the austerity path.
Whether that miscalculation was genuine error or deliberate sabotage, likely we will never know.
http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2013/01/09/the-errors-of-austerity-the-blanchard-prescription/
So thats where it went you ba…..d balls
Nick Clegg says you can’t trust those lying tories
David Cameron says you can’t trust those lying libdems
they are both right and the world knows that ‘labour’ and ‘truth’ are antonyms
OBR – old brown what?
So, the OBR is just trotting out “widely held assumptions”. Impressive, not! And as usual, Balls gets in a dig about “deep cuts” when of course we all know there hasn’t actually been a cut in Government spending.
But the siren call is now that they should have not raised taxes and kept the deficit the same by borrowing yet more.
I thought that all this austerity was about cutting a few thousand quangos no one would miss because they had never heard of them.
The reality is my library is shut my bin has not been emptied and I have to wait two more years for my pension . Rioters ran amok outside my house without a policeman or soldier or armoured tank in sight.
I pay a lot of money in my taxes and think I am entitled to a better performance than this.
Didn’t you know ? Quangoes have been designated an endangered species and are protected from cuts by EU law.