RichB Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 blahblah Americas fault... blah blah out of our control....blah blah....whole worlds ******ed....blah blah ... tractor production up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarks Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 I thought I'd just kick start the debate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarks Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Mods : Merge with RichB's thread if necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chichi Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Our inflations fine. Ignore that food fuel and outside inflation. Nowt to do with us. We borrow less than ever before. Conservatives fault in the past blah blah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 He's going to write a letter to the BOE to make sure inflation stays at 2%. Sounds like an order to get Merv to start hiking rates then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yaakov Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 he's either lying or delusional. Well placed to weather the storm?!?? WTF is he on about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgenieuk Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 To provide certainty, the chancellor said he is writing to the governor of the Bank of England to keep a 2% target on inflation. Well at least he hasn't abandoned it altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgenieuk Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 What is going on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7291841.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moo Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 So far... Well, he's not actually said anything yet. As far as I can see, he's made a bet with someone over how many times he can say the words "global" and "world". Apparently he's writing to Merv to say "nothing's changed". One improvement over previous years - he's not adding a supernumary 's' to plural billion amounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmarks Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 I've never seen as many as 786 users here before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgenieuk Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 From what I have seen so far, it seems like he is planning to sail full ahead stright into the eye of the storm. That is probably the best solution, get through it and take the battering. Better than sailing round it and still ending up bu**ered. The only thing I doubt is his ability. We need someone with more expereice and staying power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpjh Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Apparently everything is ok, because we are better positioned than other countries. Ah so if everything goes to pot worldwide its alright because we won't be the wrost off... oh dear oh dear oh dear. It would appear he doesn't actually have anything encouraging to say about the UK finances but instead is using teh old brown tactic of conveying how we are doing better than others (because we screwed up a bit less than them) In reality the dodging of bullets was so well handled by brown. He would cherry pick from other economies finding who did the worst in a particular area and then compare it to ours. Unfortunately the definition of a vibrant economy is that you are better than the rest of your peers, not that you are not the worst of the bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timil Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 It wasnae us it woz other bigger boys frae America, Japan and Asia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgenieuk Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Borrowing next year will rise to £43bn, some 2.9% of national income, Mr Darling said. It will fall to 1.3% by 2012/13. In his DREAMS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikthe20 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Pretty sick of him comparing this government to the previous Tory one - it was over 11 years ago! Straws being clutched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgenieuk Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 For environmental reasons, fuel duty will rise by 0.5p per litre in real terms. He said he was postponing the 2p increase in fuel duty until October this year. So that will be a REAL increase in tax then. Netting him how much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hard-up Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 This is great, I'd been so keen to know about all this things that happened before 1997. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgenieuk Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Mr Darling said an extra £2bn will be spent on troops in the frontline, including £900m on military equipment. As I am sure his wife has said to him many times: "FFS man, just pull out!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott666 Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 "There will be no return to the inflation rates of the early 1990s," Mr Darling said. ....."because we will be returning to the inflation rates of the 70's" he added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Hatred Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 To provide certainty, the chancellor said he is writing to the governor of the Bank of England to keep a 2% target on inflation. £10 says this will not be through higher interest rates, it will be through pay cuts. You hear me, you Labour-voting public sector robots? Pay cuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomberbrown Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 I'm not generally a violent man, but am I the only one that feels like marching down Whitehall, bursting into the House of Commons and kicking that w@nker Darling's f@#king face in? :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgenieuk Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 From April 2010, all long term recipients of incapacity benefit will attend work capacity programmes. Most of them should be attending JAIL for THEFT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthe~ Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Well at least he hasn't abandoned it altogether. Nope, but the letter will probably ask them to include house prices. :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stethetaff Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Me and a colleague listening in work - he has had to go for a walk as can't listen to the constrant flow of lies and bullshiit anymore. Its gone beyond a joke now, this lot are simply lying lying lying. BAST A R D S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redgenieuk Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 Spending in government departments must be matched by reform, Mr Darling said. you would have thought after 10 years of this in every speach we'd at least have managed some reform by now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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