Gordon Brown - gone!

[Matblack]

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

Serious question, where would you go? Mainland Europe & America are as ****ed as we are with Australia and NZ not too far behind, Japan's economy is struggling (as it has been for years) and even China is showing worrying signs of overheating. The only place I can think of is Canada and they have a rather strict immigration policy.

And with all that in mind, (global melt down) actually, and many people would probably want to burn me at the stake for this, Brown didn't do a bad job

MB

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Matblack

You know what? I don't mind being worse off to a certain extent, we haven't had too bad a time of it over the past few years really, not a when you compare it to the 70s and 80s, I understand that we've overspent and now the pain will come.

However what really really annoys me is that when the Tories are in then its the lower and middle earners that take the pain and the rich just get richer.


MB

I'm of the same mind (not surprisingly). I'm one of those people who would be happy to pay an extra penny in income tax - if I thought it was likely to benefit the country and/or those who need it.

I begrudge every penny I hand over to the Tories. They'd take the extra penny and give it to some businessman to buy carbon fibre seats for his yacht.

[Del Lardo]

Originally Posted by Matblack

And with all that in mind, (global melt down) actually, and many people would probably want to burn me at the stake for this, Brown didn't do a bad job

MB

I honestly don't know enough about economics to comment. It does amuse me when people say that the Tories will kill the economy as if they can predict what is going to happen with complicated market forces that lets face it are bloody difficult to predict. It may happen, it may not, but I doubt that very many of the people predicting either way are really qualified to comment.

[Matblack]

I expect the Tories to do a perfectly respectable job with the economy, as good as any other party, maybe even better.

MB

[Del Lardo]

Originally Posted by Stan_Lite

I begrudge every penny I hand over to the Tories. They'd take the extra penny and give it to some businessman to buy carbon fibre seats for his yacht.

I'd rather buy a businessman a carbon fibre seat than a single mum a pack of fags to smoke in front of her children

[Del Lardo]

Originally Posted by Matblack

I expect the Tories to do a perfectly respectable job with the economy, as good as any other party, maybe even better.

MB

I think I'm getting there now, so your concern is that in order to fix the economy they will screw low/middle earners rather than high earners?

[Will]

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

I'd rather buy a businessman a carbon fibre seat than a single mum a pack of fags to smoke in front of her children

Indeed.

[Will]

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

I think I'm getting there now, so your concern is that in order to fix the economy they will screw low/middle earners rather than high earners?

Then again no different to what Labour would have done anyway!

[Glaucus]

Originally Posted by Matblack

And with all that in mind, (global melt down) actually, and many people would probably want to burn me at the stake for this, Brown didn't do a bad job

MB

How?
you do not rise national debts at a time of boom.
Then I would disagree he did a good job with tackling it, but at least that part can be argued.
We should never been in this position in the first place.

[Aitch]

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

I'd rather buy a businessman a carbon fibre seat than a single mum a pack of fags to smoke in front of her children

I wouldn't lose sleep over that, duty on cigarettes represents one of the most regressive tax policies currently in existence. Albeit there are other arguments for taxing fags etc.

I'm with those concerned about the emphasis of Conservative cuts which I have no doubt will hit the less advantaged hardest. However, given that prior to the election campaign I had expected an outright win for 'call me Dave' I feel that a coalition with the LD, including key positions for Clegg & Cable, is the best outcome I could have hoped for. Now it's a case of seeing how it all plays put in practice