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If we vote this idiot in, im emigrating
His policies are bipartisan - So emigrate anyway ...
Whatever will the country do without you?
Whatever will the country do without you?
Procure testing machines from other manufacturers?
Ed Balls
If we vote this idiot in, im emigrating
I bet you don't.
[i]I bet you don't.[/i]
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[i]If we vote this idiot in[/i]
unless I'm very much mistaken people have already voted him in.
It's just his colleagues who failed to convince the electorate to vote for them in sufficient numbers in other seats?
We'll all be worried sick if you go, please don't
Ed Balls Evette Cooper
I'd rather live somewere with a more stable economy, like Zimbabwe.
If we vote this idiot in, im emigrating
I will think about it very seriously. I left from 2009 to 2012
Gangham Style 😯
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If we vote this idiot in, im emigrating
We did, so bye, do let us know you you get on in Zimbabwe.
Horrid man - Labour need to get rid of Ed and Ed as soon as possible.
I will think about it very seriously.
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Is he more or less loathsome that his opposite number George????
With both the Millibands and the Balls the Labour party got the duff one. Ed's brother is a senior exec at PIMCO the world's largest bond fund, makes about £5m a year.
[i]Ed's brother is a senior exec at PIMCO the world's largest bond fund, makes about £5m a year. [/i]
Actually, I'd put bond fund managers below politicians in the 'pecking order of people who deserve public scorn' so I can't see that as being a criteria for made a success of his life.
Maybe Ed Balls could have earned the same as his brother in another job but chose politics because he wants to do more than be seen as someone who 'makes about £5m a year'?
Is he more or less loathsome that his opposite number George????
More or less as loathsome as his opposite number. Why would Balls be much different when he has gone to such great pains to emphasis that there are very little differences between himself and Osborne? He gives me no reason to doubt him.
[i]"Last year, I set out how we will deal with the very difficult fiscal situation we will inherit in 2015. We won’t be able to reverse all the spending cuts and tax rises that the Tories have pushed through. We will have to govern with less money, which means the next Labour government will have to make cuts too".[/i]
- Ed Balls
NB: For [i]"We won’t be able to reverse all the spending cuts"[/i] read [i]"We won’t be reversing the spending cuts"[/i] which is what he really means, but he needs to maintain this pretense that there are some vague differences, however small, between Conservative Party Tories and Labour Party Tories.
Ed's brother is a senior exec at PIMCO the world's largest bond fund, makes about £5m a year.
Just the sort of person a party which purports to represent ordinary working people should have as their leader/chancellor.
I bet you don't.
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If we vote this idiot in, i'm emigrating
Got a bit lost on this. Which idiot? Balls, Osborne, Farage...
Can I deduce that to stop much of the STW collective emigrating we need a lib-dem party with Clegg in power? Or did I miss something?
Can't be any worse than Gideon, who has single handed prolonged and en deepened the 2008 recession and then announces it as something we should all thank him for....
who has single handed prolonged and en deepened the 2008 recession
he what now?
ohhhh, you going to do the whole "only London is out of recession, but the rest of the country is eating coal..." thing arent you 😉
PS: And it's "George" to you sunshine.
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Yes Stoner nice graph, it clearly shows how Osborne inherited a growing economy which he then proceeded to **** up before finally returning it vaguely to the state it was when he first became Chancellor.
Well done Osborne.
Is he more or less loathsome that his opposite number George????
Would you like us to remove your left leg or your right leg?
Learning to count: 1, 2, 3!
[quote=footflaps said]Can't be any worse than Gideon, who has single handed prolonged and en deepened the 2008 recession and then announces it as something we should all thank him for....
Damaging your share portfolio ? 🙂
You're right Stoner, he's a demi-God, slowest recovery since 1930! I assume that keeping the country in recession is good yes?
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Damaging your share portfolio
Sadly yes, although it seems to be picking up a bit in recent times...
Hmm...choosing between Balls and Osborne is like being asked to chose between two particularly foul and offensive piles of excrement, which you'll be forced to place on your coffee table for the next five years.
But wait...there are other loathsome idiots to choose from across the political spectrum.
Why do people dislike George Osborne so much?
Why do think that Ed Balls is an "idiot" and dislike him so much that you are considering emigrating because of him?
Since you brought up the issue of disliking people.
edward2000 - MemberIf we vote this idiot in, im emigrating
The Balls are my favorite comedians ... 😆
It's like watching an episode of the "Office" ...
They are so desperate to be the next PM they will do whatever it takes to increase their profiles.
😯
I don't like Osbourne and I do not think the Tories are doing a perfect job, but that metric is disingenuous.footflaps - Member
slowest recovery since 1930!
No recession since the 1930's saw anything like the credit contraction - it was called the "Credit Crunch" or "Global Financial Crisis" for good reason. It was, most economists agree, a once in 100 years disaster.
The UK is now doing better than any near comparable western economies and it has its pain, mostly behind it, unlike for example, poor old Austria, who only last week had to declare shareholder haircut on 'bad bank' Heta which now sees the province of Carinthia bankrupt.
No recession since the 1930's saw anything like the credit contraction - it was called the "Credit Crunch" or "Global Financial Crisis" for good reason.
Well that's not what Osborne refers to it as, he and the present government refers to it as "the mess that the last Labour government created". Who should we believe?
And if really was that bad how come it only took 5 quarters for Labour to get the economy out of recession when it took 16 quarters in the 1930s? And why didn't unemployment levels climb higher than they did ? Even the recessions of the 80s and 90s had higher unemployment. In fact the Tories managed to push unemployment up to 1930s levels in the 1980s.
It was, most economists agree, a once in 100 years disaster.
Who are these economists? "Most" economist don't know what will happen in ten years time, and most didn't predict this last recession. Where's the evidence that something like this couldn't happen again in 15 years time, for example?
EDIT : And btw this is bollocks : [i]"The UK is now doing better than any near comparable western economies"[/i].
Off the top of my head Poland is doing better, and there are others. What would be more truthful would be for the Tories to say : [i]"The UK is now doing better than any other economy except for the ones that we don't want to be compared with".[/i]
They're all idiots, but only idiot I'd vote for is Boris. Prime Minister Boris will be more fun than the current muppets.
No recession since the 1930's saw anything like the credit contraction - it was called the "Credit Crunch" or "Global Financial Crisis" for good reason. It was, most economists agree, a once in 100 years disaster.
Err, you do realise that the very thing you're describing is described by the tories as something the labour party caused with their profligate public spending and their failure to 'fix the roof when the sun was shining'. They can't have it both ways.
Ed's brother is a senior exec at PIMCO the world's largest bond fund, makes about £5m a year.
Just the sort of person a party which purports to represent ordinary working people should have as their leader/chancellor.
Ernie, I never thought I'd agree with you, ever.
I wouldn't get too alarmed, it's probably just a freak occurrence.
The UK's certainly outgrowing some competitor economies this year. How many has it outgrown over the last 5? We're supposed to be excited because our real GDP hit 103% to Germany's 104 and France's 101 but that ignores that they both returned to growth in 2010 whereas we returned to growth in 2013. Our stronger current performance is nowhere close to balancing that out.
and it has its pain, mostly behind it,
Its behind us! And just like a pantomime, the pain you refer to is yet to be properly felt by the proles until after the next election, according to Gideon.
The UK's certainly outgrowing some competitor economies this year. How many has it outgrown over the last 5? We're supposed to be excited because our real GDP hit 103% to Germany's 104 and France's 101 but that ignores that they both returned to growth in 2010 whereas we returned to growth in 2013. Our stronger current performance is nowhere close to balancing that out.
Nail. On. Head. We aren't outgrowing, we are merely catching up.
The above two comments are factually incorrect! Look at th UKs GDP figures and since the 2008 financial crisis, the UKs growth turns positive towards the end of 2009
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/gdp-growth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10613201
Northwind/el-bent can you cite your sources?
edward-Mine is from the OECD and uses real GDP measured against 2008. I think yours is nominal GDP? You can use the comparative tool in your link to use like-for-like datasets and it shows the same thing- the UK's current high growth is offset by our slower growth in the recent past.
Single year trends at work...
Interesting, have you got the link?
Maybe I'm just immature, but I've always thought Balls was a cock. Then re-reading that sentence just makes me s****.
This one ?
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ernie_lynch has said it all for me…
“We'll stick with austerity, but you can trust us, because we're people like you, mate.”
No, you are people like them.
The UK's certainly outgrowing some competitor economies this year. How many has it outgrown over the last 5? We're supposed to be excited because our real GDP hit 103% to Germany's 104 and France's 101 but that ignores that they both returned to growth in 2010 whereas we returned to growth in 2013. Our stronger current performance is nowhere close to balancing that out.
Just imagine what their growth could have been has they not shackled themselves to basket cases like Greece, Spain and Italy!
I dont think it would have mattered which party was in power for the last five years, you cant put a rizla between them when it comes to the economy, that comparison to other countries is pointless as we were more exposed to the banking crash as our economy is more dependent on the sector.
problem is the country is too london centric, the regions need incentives to attract business from the uk and the world. in my view.
but i cant stand Balls.