Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008
Will Labour go to the polls next ye and win?
The Independant: Michael Brown: The most irresponsible budget I have ever heard
Prepare for a general election next year – if not in the spring, certainly by the autumn. Alistair Darling's temporary tax giveaways (much of which – especially the VAT reductions – will be clawed back in 13 months time) has all the hallmarks of addressing the political rather than the economic cycle.
Every cabinet minister will be under orders never to mention the "election" word. But it is inconceivable that Gordon Brown will want to risk losing the short-term advantages given by this pre-Budget report, before unemployment rises relentlessly to three million by the end of 2009.
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1. fjcruiser said...
More spin. The crucial element in this buget is the public deficit will stand at a minimum of 8% next year and rising till 2016 ! the government has no intention to have us repay the debt until that time, it will give them the chance of another 4 years in government, with the motto "spend,spend,spend". Glad I am off to Dubai soon.
2. jack c said...
From the Who's "Who's next" 1971 Album - closing track "wont get fooled again"
We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!
I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
There's nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again
No, no!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
3. Matt_the_hat said...
1. fjcruiser - Glad I am off to Dubai soon.
My farther-in-law is in-charge of a company in Dubai - last week he laid off half the workforce - for non-white workers in Dubai that means they will be escorted to the airport and placed on a plane back to their home country - probably India. Underneath the laminate Dubai is not such a great place, but if you want to prostitute yourself (sexually or not) big tax-free bucks can be made there.
4. planning4acrash said...
Not from me, it prob won't do any good, but I'm voting with my conscience, I'm voting UKIP.
5. denzil said...
Sadly, it looks like the economic recovery plans put in place by Labour smell more like a case of the public picking up the tab for the cost of a popularity exercise and pre-election spin by Nu-Labour.
I'm hoping the voting public will see it for what it is when voting day comes around. Unfortunately the debt accumulated by that time, due to Labour's utter incompetence, coupled with possibly a period of tenure by potentially the worst chancellor in history, will be so big that we will be saddled with it whoever we vote in.
6. malct said...
jack c - wonderful
I hope it makes more sheople think and refuse to be sheople any longer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
here's a shorter one
why didn't we know the UK was going to run low on oil?
Because all the Oil Tanks are in the North Sea
and all the Dipsticks are in Westminster!