The reason we're in debt is because of record levels of investment into the NHS and education, which needed the money due to the way the Tories ran it prior 1997.
I also recall the Conservatives not telling Labour to stop spending - but to spend more!
@impressionsbysimon The Tories campaigned for a £35 billion withdrawal from the public services in 2005, at the 2006 budget Cameron warned too much was being spent.
Ask yourself this, was the investment worth it to take us to the verge of bankruptcy? Education, more people leave school now with no qualifications than ever before, 1/5th, discipline is at an all time low.
I have a serious question George. When u become chancellor, are you going to scrap the FSA and replace it with entirely different institutions? You said you were but I haven't heard much since. The FSA were set up by GB and I can tell u that I have personal experience of them; they have introduced too much red tape to no end whatsoever. I am considering voting for the conservatives to get labour out.
It sounds to me like you're going for the lesser of two evils. Sayin you trust Labour more than the Tories may be like a Jew saying "I trust that Stalin bloke more than Adolf Hitler". I mean what do you believe Labour will do? Are they not a party which has abandoned their egalitarian principles and settled for being the party of damage control?
I'm vehmently anti-Tory but how would raising VAT help "ordinary people"? Even if doing this didn'tharm ordinary people it is just another example of Blue Labour tinkering with a broken system. What are they going to do to really make sure this doesn't all happen again in ten years?
But how is Labour "starting to deal with the debt" when all they can think of doing is repairing the same institutions that got us into this mess instead of taking this not only as an oppotunity but as a harsh sign that we must shift our economic base away from finance?
@justtakeiteasy Well I do agree that Mr. Osbourne is somewhat eccentric (let's face it, the man has a boat...it's not very frugal :p) and for some people, that is a reason to vote the other way. I understand that, but your opinion about the economy and the way Labour's handling it is something else. Nobody can tell this for sure, but if borrowing goes up further, the pound may loose a lot of value, and then, the ordinary Briton will be hit hard. Everything from abroad will cost much more then
It looks like the two main parties have no clue about how to dig our way out of debt. Labour want to keep borrowing to provide for public services. Very admirable, only how will we pay it back if the economy is still geared towards finance and play money? The Tories are the same. They will cut public spending to "plug the hole" which sounds sensible enough but they are making no efforts to shift the economy off the same platform that caused this mess. Neither offer a viable long term solution.
He is most certainly not, at least Conservatives are honest enough to tell the people about the financial state of the government. Once the debt bubble bursts, it's going to be huge... I know you won't believe me, but I can only urge you to look at the facts
So, 'Flip my home 4 times Alistair Darling - so I can claim £23,000 a go' delivered a better one at the PBR? This liar offered nothing in his speech to reduce the debt mountain.
freetork, In true Labour style, you seem incapable of anwsering any of my points, all you do, is ask more questions.Again, please anwser this very simple question. Why was there nothing in the PBR to reduce the deficit. I can anwser it, it's simple: clueless. The Government has not got a clue. That was the day when 'flip my home 4 times Alistair Darling - so I can claim £23,000 a go' could have made a difference to Labours fortunes, instead, he offered nothing. Labour are not fit to govern.RIP.
You question something albertosaurus60says in one of his rants and he says "Here's another one."
albertosaurus60's method is to overwhelm with a barrage of pessimistic, out of perspective BULL to create a certain "impression." He gave the game away when he said to one poster: "If you click on Show More Comments (to read his posts) you will get the impression that.." etc.
freetork, please anwser some of my points, all you are doing - is showing Labour in their true colours: clueless. Here's another one, what is the objective of the mission in Afghanistan? What is the strategy? What is your escape strategy? Why has Gordon Brown committed Chinooks for 2013 - when he told the House - that troops would be leaving in 2011? Unless you can anwser any of these, you will be confined to that place in history. Labour are clueless or you can you prove me wrong? Anwsers only.
freetork, I gave you a beakdown on the interest rate analysis. It is clear that you do not understand, because you have'nt heard a Labour MP tell you. It's this reason that Labour are not fit for office, you prefer to wollow in made up fantasies from a man that has no integrity and no authority. Labour supporters like yourself - are blinkered from the reality of sound economic policy. Instead you endorse a 'flip my home 4 times Alistair Darling - so I can claim £23,000 a go' Labour are finished
"I gave you a beakdown on the interest rate analysis."
And I said: "If interest rates, overall, average more during Labours time in office than they did during the Conservatives time in office, post the statistics/chart/graph from a reliable source."
In true Labour fashion, instead of an anwser - we get another question. I have said it before and I'll say it again - you are clueless. If you can't anwser any of my points below - then what is the point? There is no point to Labour anymore.
Look at the Army of Conservatives in this video picking through every word that the Chancellor said and checking the facts. NOW post the text of Osborne disputing those IRREFUTABLE FACTS. No, all we get is him whining because an axe wasn't taken to the spending to support the economy at a time when the recovery is not yet secured.
freetork, what is going on with Gordon Brown, he seems to be making it up as he goes along. He told MP's in the House Of Commons that troops would be leaving in 2011, so why has he just announced Chinooks for Afghanistan for 2013. Is it, there's an election coming - and he's trying to buy more votes. One thing is true - he out of depth and he will confined to the history books as one of the worst Premiers in living memory. He's not fit to run Her Majesty's Government.
"Gordon Brown, he seems to be making it up as he goes along..."
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Unlike David Cameron, Gordon Brown doesn't hold press conferences to anounce urgent, new policies each time he reads the morning paper. He's an opportunist, and people like you are easy targets.
freetork, do you understand that when the Bank Of England sets its bank base rate, high street banks do not follow their advice. There are no banks offering what the Bank Of England base rate is. Banks will generally charge 2 or 3% above bank base or even more. And when the BOE did lower its rates - all the banks withdrew most of their tracker mortgages.
freetork, you were earlier quoting an MP when rates went up to 15% in the 90's. But Labours rate increases of today is equivalent to 24% in 91. I do not need to look this up. This fact, I can work things out for my self. Mortgages are 3 x higher today than in 91. Work it out, don't ask an MP, when they just make things up. Brown: We've ended boom and bust; We're best placed to lead the world out of recovery; Chinook helicopters for 2013 after telling the House - troops would be leaving in 2011?
"...rates went up to 15% in the 90's. But Labours rate increases of today is equivalent to 24% in 91. I do not need to look this up."
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You won't look it up because only YOU is saying it.
If interest rates, overall, average more during Labours time in office than they did during the Conservatives time in office, post the statistics/chart/graph from a reliable source.
freetork, your response, simply beggars belief. I do not need to ask an MP or watch the BBC. I have a mind of my own. I can work things out for myself and I do not need to look things up - when the anwser is staring you in the face. If you increase rates to 5.75%, then the bank will top this up by another 2 or 3%. Do you understand this. This then takes it over 8%. Mortgages are 3x higher than in 91. 3x8= 24%. That is the equivalent rate to that in 91. So are still with me?
freetork, I have explained to you in the clearest way possible, the interest rate analysis. I do not need to ask a MP, the same way - when I see that it is raining, I do not need to then watch the weather forcast on TV. I have spelled it out in the most simplest of terms, more than once. I know you don't get it - and sadly, you never will. Labour is run people - just like you.
freetork, there you go again, you do not understand basic economics, I can only put this down to you not being a home owner. I don't need to get references from an MP - I 've got a mind of my own. This is why the country is in such a state - when basic economics are not understood.
You mentioned a small business owner on Question Time complaining about getting no help from the Government. The Chancellor spelt out what this Government is doing to help business's and said that, during previous recessions they got no help and twice as many went under. What did Osborne have to say about that? NOTHING, because it's undeniable fact.
freetork, Brown at the despatch box said he was helping thousands of businesses in the recession. When a small businessman on BBC's Question Time said the government refused to help him - and he found out that only 16 businesses got help - and not thousands. Every week Gordon Brown just plucks figures out of thin air to produce as fact. It's a shame you are unable to anwser any of my questions, you only seem able to refer to what Labour dictates. Sorry, I can't join, I've got a mind of my own.
albertosaurus60.. You make unsubstatiated claims about interest rates, and when I *SHOW* you that the Conservatives cannot dispute the figures, you fly off on a tangent talking about a small businessman on Question Time.
freetork, I see you have written on the blog where you seem to be repeating what Labour MP's are saying. Labour loves people that need help in this area. Did you not understand the meaning of my interest rate analysis. Yes, the rates are low now, but they were at 5.75% plus add the 2.5% which is what the bank puts on top. And what have you got? 8.25%. Mortgages are 3 x higher now, than back in 91. So Labours claim to low rates- is a myth. 3x8.25% is around 25%. Proof that Labour caused downturn.
Mr. Austin (Lab): "..millions of home owners have benefited from record low
interest rates, which is in stark contrast to
what has happened in previous recessions when interest rates soared to? 10 per cent. for four years and 15 per cent. for a year..."
Grant Shapps (Con): "I am intervening because the Minister seems to be trying to paint a picture that suggests that, for all sorts of reasons, it does not matter that just six families are being helped.. blah, blah.."
The truth is not always wriiten, newspapers and politicians all bear testament to this. If you squeeze household incomes by using interest rates as your cash generator, in the end, you will get into trouble - as did the Tories back in the 90's. I do not need to read what is so obvious. Labour have this habit of telling you what they want you to hear and not what is really happening. The BBC and the government refused to accept we were even in rececssion for over 6 months. Everybody knew we were.
To freetork, you are member of a soon to be, evicted Labour party, quite possibly heading, not just a wipeout - but near extinction. Perhaps, you should be looking at some safe sanctuaries so you can rebuild this once working-class party, which, sadly, only represents the many Labour millionaires still claiming £400 a month on food. And lets not forget - your commander in chief - a man that emptied the nations pension pots to feed his greedy swash-buckling 21st century pirates. RIP.
Wake up freetork, the reccession has ended for every nation except this one. Do you remember what Gordona Brown kept repeating: We have ended boom and bust; We are best placed the lead the world out of recovery; We will halve the budget deficit in 4 years? This is pie in the sky politics - from a party - where policies are dreamt up in disneyland. Gordon Brown might as well be the Pied Piper - because Labour supporters are unable see that their captain is really are pirate stealing their money.
What a joke! Labour's debt crisis!!? Talk about passing the buck? I wonder if Dave will support the idea of Thatcher having a state funeral since he obviously would love to distance himself from her policies.
To freetork, here you again quoting people that on not living in the real world. Fact: worst budget deficit in history; Fact: Brown made it law to halve the deficit - but Darling offered nothing in hisPBR;Fact: car manufacturing at a standstill on the verge of collapse; Fact: The most corrupt government ever in the history of Parliament; Fact: house price collapse; Fact: house repossossions at their highest ever; Fact: sky high petrol and energy prices: Fact: 8 million unemployed=Labour failure
"Fact: house repossossions at their highest ever.. Fact: 8 million unemployed."
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Fact: YOU'RE spreading LIES.
Even at the tail end of this GLOBAL recession, the number of homes being repossessed is half what it was during the two BRITISH recessions that the Conservatives gave us. Neither is unemployment likely to reach the levels it did during those two recessions. You see, the Conservative Government THEN believed in "smaller government."
Unemployment is already on par with the 1980's. Please wake up and realise that Brown and Cameron are working within the same framework, just tinkering around and falling out on how best to do this. A vote for either of them is just a vote for more of the same with a slightly different flavour.
To freetork, I read with dismay that you are quoting what government ministers are saying. And not what is really happening. Either you have been in a coma for the last 12 years or you like being told what to do and when to say it. By repeating Alan Johnsons comments about pensioner poverty - you are ridiculing yourself. This very man said Jacqui Smith never made any money from her sisters bedroom, what planet are you on? Theres a Meerkat ad on TV - and it personifies Labour Luvvies: 'Simple'.
Conservatives protecting business? When lending to small businesses is at an all time low while bankers are still treated as a special case and a competition test for Tesco (butcher of the highstreet) is seen as not needed by the Tories? What a load of rubbish! The Tories don't care about businesses, they care about monopolies with the power to overthrow a state, just the same as Labour do.
Labour/Tory bail out the banks together. Nothing will change under Cameron. We'll still have a 'leader' who is running scared of bankers threatening to move elsewhere if we don't fork out for their bonuses. Blue Labour will not bring about the fundamental amendments needed to the economy, nor will rangerling over unemployment figures in a consumer dominated economy.
Mrs. May: "We have set out proposals to end the couple penalty by increasing the working tax credit for couples."
Yvette Cooper: Will the right hon. Lady tell me how she proposes to pay for that measure?"
Mrs. May: "The Secretary of State knows full well how we will pay for the proposal— [Interruption.] Oh yes she does, because we set it out at the time— [Interruption.] "
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I'd rather be governed by Monty Python than the Conservative Party.
Mrs. May: "The approach must focus on the root causes of poverty... worklessness"
Yvette Cooper: "...will she now commit her party to supporting the additional £5 billion to help the unemployed get back into work as part of the fiscal stimulus, or not? Yes or no?"
Mrs. May: "The right hon. Lady makes such a thing of this £5 billion.. "
Mrs. May: "It will take determined work by local government... and, crucially, the voluntary sector."
John Mason: "I wonder whether she and her party will commit to giving extra resources to the voluntary sector.. to carry out these duties."
Mrs. May: One of the most important things that we can do for the voluntary sector is free it up to get on with the job that it wants to do. It often finds itself hard pressed by Government diktats.. It is all very well Labour Members laughing."
Yvette Cooper: " I will give way to any Conservative Front Bencher who can tell me now that they will support the £5 billion additional investment to help young people to get back into work."
Mr. Charles Walker (Con) rose— "I just want to get back to serious politics.. why is it that over the past 10 years child obesity rates have rocketed?"
"1 million of those pensioners who were in abject poverty at the end of the 1990s have now been taken out of poverty. Thanks to.. a combination of pension credit, the winter fuel allowance, good increases in the state pension, free travel and free TV licences .."
Theresa May (Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) rose, but didn't challenge ANYTHING that the Home Secretary had just said. There was just ONE pension rise in 18 years of Conservative Party rule.
If anyone votes Labour back into power then they are simply burying their head in the econmic mire that is labour. Brown and his cohorts do not have the interests of this country at heart - this can be seen in the way that they kowtow to Europe - the biggest beaurocracy that man has ever created What about the vulnerable in our society - gangster Brown raided the Pension Funds and took £5billion a year which means many more pensioners are on the breadline. Get em out before they destroy us
"How do overall trends in poverty and inequality compare with those observed under the last period of Conservative government between 1979 and 1997? As the figure below shows, income inequality rose substantially during the 1980s, dwarfing the small increase under Labour to date... the record on youth unemployment was no better, and on poverty and inequality considerably worse, in the Thatcher and Major administrations than under Blair and Brown."
It seems to me that the idiots who are posting this nonsence did not live through the 70's when the last long serv ing Labour Government bankrupted the country. It took all of the time the Conservatives were in government to finally make it a 'Great Britain' again. Oh how they soon forget!
"It seems to me that the idiots who are posting this nonsence did not live through the 70's..."
They may have lived through the two BRITISH recessions that the last Conservative government gave us. Even at the tail end of a GLOBAL recession, the number of businessess going under, and the number of home repossessions is HALF what it was during those two British recessions. Unemployment is nowhere near the level it reached during those two British recessions.
Mianly because Gordon fiddled the figures..again. 1 in 7 out of work is hardly 'nowhere near the level it reached during those two British recessions.'
I've seen MANY charts on unemployment from different sources. They ALL show that the Conservative record on unemployment is FAR worse than Labours'. They use the SAME method of compiling the figures for each and every year.
Very disappointed at the content and language used in these posts, I would have hoped that the reaction of intelligent voters would be to listen carefully, digest the information given and comment in a fair and honest manner without any swearing, I had hoped that the information we are being given and the videos we can watch from the House of Commons etc would lead to the General Public having a bigger say in how the country is run. could you do the job in such difficult times ?
Oh i fully agree, but we do need some moral base for people to work from. I am not religious at all, ,my friends are, and there kids are truly good people, not like these lot at parliment. --- To many hidden agendas
Tory wanker + labour wanker = Westminster politically correct arseholes who only serve the wants of the immigrants who think white Britain is a free lunch.
You politicians are all a bunch of useless selfserving arseholes.
I think we should lock the doors of parliment, create a national voting system on a day to day running of the country. 1) Do you want to be part of EU, Er why hell No, 2) should we throw open the doors to every scumbag who wants to come here and live of US, -- You get the twist. We should have a tax card to show which services I AM using and pay accordingly. It would soon cut through the waste
Can I Say it or am I going to be branded racist, but within the next 100 years EU including the UK will be an ISLAMIC State, look at the figures past 50 years. Dont forget saying ISLAMIC is not being racist because its a way of life and not a Race. We have been sold out, NO Politician espeialy from either of these parties will sort it out.
Can I say or am I going to be branded a douchebag, but within the next 100 years EU including the faroe islands will be a underpants over their trousers state, look at the figures in the past 50 years.
Ah go and look at the figures, or does the truth offend. This is a CHRISTIAN COUNTRY, with CHRISTIAN VALUES, People are not OPRESSED here t least we can argue and have opinions.
same old same old political meandering with this same old same old boring self serving politicians who work to get as much as they can from the very hard working mass. shame and shame again. One day you will all be helpless
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1 thing i hate about conservatives is they love to say/do the complete opposite of what labour do and shout it from the roof top making it seem like were doomed. but you never hear them say anything when they support what labour do, politics is generally just shit people vote for a political change give England a dictatorship for a few years so there will be no one moaning about decisions so we can actually get decisions done because i hate you the general public
i agree he changes his stuff every minute if labour say there doing it. labour doesn't want to do to many cuts and then conservative looking all noble with the "we're not hiding thing from you" clause and people fall for it every politician is the same, i feel sorry for gordon brown allways getting twine at, ohhhh my son never got a card from you when he was kiled in 2006. my response to that is "well 1. send a letter to tony blair, 2.Why havn't you said sooner because all your doing is twning"
Here Here, Its because the people who pull the strings are not the government. WHY does any President, Prime minister, EU President have a meeting with the Bildebergs Group, Shows who are realy in control.
Isn't it great that the Conservative Party actually allows all comments on its videos?
If you look at any Labour ones the comments are all filtered so only positive ones are allowed through! It's pretty hilarious, but not a surprise, that our government is opposed to freedom of speech!
lol and you have been brain washed to beliving there is no freedom of speech in england well this very instant i'm watching question time, i can go to the government now chain myself you a railing and protest and i will only get a slap on the wrist, you try protesting in italy compared to england or go China.
Of course I am aware that Britain is a free and liberal nation where one can express his opinion and I too watched Question Time.
I was obviously being somewhat hyperbolic in my claim that Labour is against free speech. However, my point still stands that it is rather pathetic that the UK's party of government feels the need to censor comments on its videos especially as the entire success of the internet is based around freedom of speech!!!
The Conservatives caused these wretched years of Labour when they allowed John Major and Lamont to play cat and mouse with peoples mortgages triggering a Labour landslide.
Ken Clarke should have been thrown out of the Tory party for his part in the Black Wednesday fiasco which handed power to Labour .
Labour have taxed real manufacturing jobs to death to pay for all the Government waste on hordes of non-jobbers and benefit claimants.
The last years of the conservative government up to the '97 election were a mess and a change was needed. However, labour have since wrecked this country; socially, economically and politically. One thing is certain it will take decades to repair the damage they have done.
There is no scientific consensus on man made global warming. The whole carbon con is there to introduce carbon taxes and further regulate peoples lives. Research climategate. The Copenhagen treaty this December is designed to create a world government and global carbon taxes. This is all one of many frauds being used to help the globalist agenda. Research the new world order.
Obama---------- Dont make me laugh, another puppet of the banking elite. He has lied, lied, he says one thing and does the opposite---- mmmmm seems like an international pattern arrising here
Another bit of political point scoring from the conervatives. George osborne continues to show he has no idea whatsoever on running the country's financial system. That money you complain about was used to save the financial system that you can still talk about.
Obama won the American people's vote not by the usuall and mostly blaitant point scoring at EVERY opportunity but by running a fair and transparent campaign.
Haha had to hire Battersea power station, ITS THAT BIG. Hilarious, at least the Tories are finally thinking. Politics is a waste of your time. The Pre/Post/ Give a Monkeys Budget is really not the issue at hand. Lets get some decent Copenhagen coverage.
This report by George Osborne is a constructive attempt to highlight the enormity of the debt which this Government has foisted on us all.
They have adopted a Capitalist policy regime WITHOUT having the good grace to apply the brakes when a free-running policy would create, rather than solve, problems. E.g. Unrestrained lending and resultant house price inflation. Their solution was then to tax the estates of those owning the over-valued houses!
agreed, banks greed got us into this mess, should have capped it at 4 times your wages for mortgages, that way having direct link with actual earnings. Some / many people just do not have the self control with credit
Thanks for the response. However, my real point was that Gordon Brown, when he was Chancellor, took on the role of 'Controller of Borrowing/Lending' from the Bank of England and then did nothing about the unrestrained lending that has prevailed in recent times.
The Banks were virtually having money printed for them to lower interest rates. If interest rates are being cut by such a method then either house prices have to rise or risky loans need to be made. This economic crisis is the government's fault.
Research the Bildeberg Group, The Rothchilds and the links wit the Tri lateral commission, all interlinked, US, UK, EU governments all in the same bag, and you all think you have a choice. The powers that run the show will not be losing money, to the contrary, the downturn was carefully planned, ---- sort of reset the economy and for the people at the bottom to pick up the tab.
This world has now an hidden agenda, world government, world army, whatever happens the only people who are going to payy for this mess is the Taxpayer. You politicians have been caught with your hand in the till, take a few bob for the milk, not a wad full of notes for the plasma TV. Its about time we had someone with proper BALLS, who can get this country by the throat and shake out all the deadwood, (after we get rid of this PC brigade) ITS A FREE COUNTRY WE ALL HAVE RIGHT OF OPINION.
If you want to lead our Great Nation show some moral strength and stand up to the politically correct minorities who want to turn the uk into a afrotaliban state. This country is ours. The white british people do not need to apologise for existing. Stop pandering to the minorities and for Gods sake get rid of that vile statue of terrorist mandela. What next are you going to condone? A statue honering the 7/7 bombers? After all using the freedom fighter logic they to are like mandela.
So you lot in westminster think that tax and spend will solve our problems. The UK is nmow in danger of being religated to the status of a third world $hithole! What are you guys thinking? You are supposed to be leading our nation not squandering its future Taxing bankers at 50% is cheep politics. Wait until they start leaving, what then another british industry lost If you want to lead our country do a proper longterm job not your short term pc vision
The budget is absolutely disgraceful. We are being run my a blind despotic scot who is spending all our tax trying to keep crap Scottish banks alive. However, I am very concerned that the Tories have not spelt out what they are going to do either to sort this mess out.
Gaunty, The blind fool does not spend our money, he gives most of it away. 700m to Pakistan, 825m to India. And then he gives millions away in benefits for lazy arse bastards to sit on their ass or to mothers who just get preggers for a living. The Tories will not spell out what they will do because Brown takes the idea and uses it. Look at inheritance tax. Tory said they up it Brown did.
This budget is terrible for people, I think that the labour party have made it so if or when the conservatives come into power it will look as if they are ruining the country
Maybe I'm wrong but I can't help but feel no matter who takes over in the next General Election will have to make cuts and raise taxes to recoup the costs Labour have gotten us into. However what angers me is the fact we pay V.A.T on many things, taxes on fuel, alcohol and cigarettes amongst many other things yet we're still in a b**ody mess.
Can we please have a promise on electoral reform. Labour talked about it before but once in Government did nothing. Our current system undermines our democracy.
surely if you borrow you will have to pay it back, the more you borrow the higher the interest, so the bigger the repayment, I thought that was common knowlege, obviously not to Labour
Services, why cant we have a local voting system on services. (In business, If a Bus had only 1 passenger would you keep the route, obviously not, so why does the govenent run the system with that mentality. THE FEW CANT ANY LONGER PAY FOR THE MANY)
Its like Curries and Dixons, competitors owned by the same group. Its about time we backed away from Europe and looked after our own. We need a True UK interests Party
Whoever gets back in, will not do enough to sort out the mess. The government is by far to overbloted with civil servants. How much govenment do we need ?. Why bail out banks., When my business needed help where are they then (Shafted comes to mind) .World Governments are in the hands of the Bilderbergs, New EU president is a Bilderberg, Any Primeminister is in the pocket of the Bilderbergs.
These politicians pretend to be care about us the public but they're really only motivated by their own lust for power. I can't trust anything they say anymore - it's just an act.
What needs to be hammered home each and every time a Conservative politician speaks about the debt crisis is the simple fact that Labour has always left the economy in a worse state than it was when they inherited it, without exception.
This, as every thinking person knows, is because socialists have a warped view of the world and what makes it go round.
hear-hear I remember when wilson got in and the chancellor (Michael Foot) stood on the steps of No 11 waving a cheque book and said The miners have a blank cheque from me, and the result was the eventual ruination of the mining industry
I agree the BBC has been terribly biased and acting as the propaganda mouthpiece of the government. Their role as the nation's independent broadcaster has long been lost and I would not be unhappy to see it chopped to bits and sold to pay the damage that it helped to create by distorted reporting.
There is a clear way out of this mess - and that requires us to do two things: 1. We must reduce unecessary expenditure and eliminate waste. 2. We need a drive for growth, and as a nation we need to trade ourselves out of this hole.
My own small business got into a similar mess about 7 years ago. It was not difficult to find areas where we were wasting money. Imagine how much the state machine wastes every single day - and yet Labour look the other way. They will drive us to penury.....
They didn't look the other way, they made it happen, Gordon deliberately created a third of a million non-jobs with guaranteed pensions which we must pay for, i could go on and on
I think you won't recover purely on supply side production increase because there's no demand, and more importantly - there's no demand anywhere in the world (because this recession is global)!
businesses are closing factories and firing people - why would new businesses invest right now?
this all supply side economics business is a myth. it's been exploited over and over in the US with great success.
Bush ran on compassionate conservatism and supply side economics - look where it got us...
GEORGE OSBORNE has the nerve to bring up the problems that HIS friends have caused - HE is and always will be the PROBLEM if he could see further than his next dinner he would probably think - the poor are the problem, if we could get rid of the poor we would be ok!
Introducing a two child per household rule, those on benefits will not be given support after child number two, no child will be born without a father on the birth certificate introduce forensic birthing police. There is no excuse for the overpopulation and expansion of the lower class- and all socio-economic problems they bring- sex education is free to all! Stop gas, electric and water companies from raising prices. . Why am I paying for the council workers pensions?
"If you are earning more than £20,000 then Labour is out to get you". Wow, I'm a student and this sounds incredibly encouraging! Work hard and you get what you deserve? Why? What is the point? If people who are lazy and lacking in class, don't turn up to lectures etc, get off better than I do. Why should I bother?
This man is such a liar, no better than Labour whatsoever.
ProtestantsRUs 9 months ago
THE TORIES HAVE JUST LET VODAFONE OFF WITH £6 BILLION IN TAXES!!!!
For more info check out Private Eye article "BRITAIN’S £6BN VODAFONE BILL"
This is tax evasion and corruption at the highest levels!!
andlookmore 1 year ago
UPPER CLASS TORY WANKER
pardeepsinghk 1 year ago
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not bad for a man who is going to inherit £56 million what about we are all in this together
xladydaf 2 years ago
The reason we're in debt is because of record levels of investment into the NHS and education, which needed the money due to the way the Tories ran it prior 1997.
I also recall the Conservatives not telling Labour to stop spending - but to spend more!
impressionsbysimon 2 years ago 4
@impressionsbysimon The Tories campaigned for a £35 billion withdrawal from the public services in 2005, at the 2006 budget Cameron warned too much was being spent.
Ask yourself this, was the investment worth it to take us to the verge of bankruptcy? Education, more people leave school now with no qualifications than ever before, 1/5th, discipline is at an all time low.
kkwillsaveus 1 year ago
I have a serious question George. When u become chancellor, are you going to scrap the FSA and replace it with entirely different institutions? You said you were but I haven't heard much since. The FSA were set up by GB and I can tell u that I have personal experience of them; they have introduced too much red tape to no end whatsoever. I am considering voting for the conservatives to get labour out.
tramtrackharry 2 years ago
George Osbourne is just as BAD as David Cameron,sleezy and deceitful,all about MONEY,POWER,AND MORE MONEY.
People are forgetting that the TORIES also had their HANDS IN THE POT!
The BNP will gain SEATS in Parliment and rightly so!
OurPaulie4591 2 years ago
Get stuffed you Rothschild puppet, people are sick of this right/left bullshit. No more banker bailouts and get out the Eu you bought puppet
mulefa 2 years ago
It sounds to me like you're going for the lesser of two evils. Sayin you trust Labour more than the Tories may be like a Jew saying "I trust that Stalin bloke more than Adolf Hitler". I mean what do you believe Labour will do? Are they not a party which has abandoned their egalitarian principles and settled for being the party of damage control?
zola253109 2 years ago
I'm not trying to be provocative here but you seem to be putting alot of faith in the unknown.
zola253109 2 years ago
I'm vehmently anti-Tory but how would raising VAT help "ordinary people"? Even if doing this didn'tharm ordinary people it is just another example of Blue Labour tinkering with a broken system. What are they going to do to really make sure this doesn't all happen again in ten years?
zola253109 2 years ago
But how is Labour "starting to deal with the debt" when all they can think of doing is repairing the same institutions that got us into this mess instead of taking this not only as an oppotunity but as a harsh sign that we must shift our economic base away from finance?
zola253109 2 years ago
@justtakeiteasy Well I do agree that Mr. Osbourne is somewhat eccentric (let's face it, the man has a boat...it's not very frugal :p) and for some people, that is a reason to vote the other way. I understand that, but your opinion about the economy and the way Labour's handling it is something else. Nobody can tell this for sure, but if borrowing goes up further, the pound may loose a lot of value, and then, the ordinary Briton will be hit hard. Everything from abroad will cost much more then
autofreak7 2 years ago
It looks like the two main parties have no clue about how to dig our way out of debt. Labour want to keep borrowing to provide for public services. Very admirable, only how will we pay it back if the economy is still geared towards finance and play money? The Tories are the same. They will cut public spending to "plug the hole" which sounds sensible enough but they are making no efforts to shift the economy off the same platform that caused this mess. Neither offer a viable long term solution.
zola253109 2 years ago
He is most certainly not, at least Conservatives are honest enough to tell the people about the financial state of the government. Once the debt bubble bursts, it's going to be huge... I know you won't believe me, but I can only urge you to look at the facts
autofreak7 2 years ago
Watch "Cameron's Change" to find out what Cameron and his clowns will do 2010-2014
VOTE FOR THOSE WHO CARE
VOTE LABOUR
NewLabour1 2 years ago
So, 'Flip my home 4 times Alistair Darling - so I can claim £23,000 a go' delivered a better one at the PBR? This liar offered nothing in his speech to reduce the debt mountain.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago 2
Osbourne delivered the poorest speech of them all at the conference...
IamTheRealSolidSnerk 2 years ago
freetork, In true Labour style, you seem incapable of anwsering any of my points, all you do, is ask more questions.Again, please anwser this very simple question. Why was there nothing in the PBR to reduce the deficit. I can anwser it, it's simple: clueless. The Government has not got a clue. That was the day when 'flip my home 4 times Alistair Darling - so I can claim £23,000 a go' could have made a difference to Labours fortunes, instead, he offered nothing. Labour are not fit to govern.RIP.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
"That was the day when.. Alistair Darling.. could have made a difference to Labours fortunes."
It would have been wrong to put getting votes above the interests of the country. That's the Conservative way.
freatork1 2 years ago
You question something albertosaurus60says in one of his rants and he says "Here's another one."
albertosaurus60's method is to overwhelm with a barrage of pessimistic, out of perspective BULL to create a certain "impression." He gave the game away when he said to one poster: "If you click on Show More Comments (to read his posts) you will get the impression that.." etc.
freatork1 2 years ago
freetork, please anwser some of my points, all you are doing - is showing Labour in their true colours: clueless. Here's another one, what is the objective of the mission in Afghanistan? What is the strategy? What is your escape strategy? Why has Gordon Brown committed Chinooks for 2013 - when he told the House - that troops would be leaving in 2011? Unless you can anwser any of these, you will be confined to that place in history. Labour are clueless or you can you prove me wrong? Anwsers only.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
freetork, I gave you a beakdown on the interest rate analysis. It is clear that you do not understand, because you have'nt heard a Labour MP tell you. It's this reason that Labour are not fit for office, you prefer to wollow in made up fantasies from a man that has no integrity and no authority. Labour supporters like yourself - are blinkered from the reality of sound economic policy. Instead you endorse a 'flip my home 4 times Alistair Darling - so I can claim £23,000 a go' Labour are finished
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
"I gave you a beakdown on the interest rate analysis."
And I said: "If interest rates, overall, average more during Labours time in office than they did during the Conservatives time in office, post the statistics/chart/graph from a reliable source."
So, the ball is in your court.
freatork1 2 years ago
In true Labour fashion, instead of an anwser - we get another question. I have said it before and I'll say it again - you are clueless. If you can't anwser any of my points below - then what is the point? There is no point to Labour anymore.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
The debate with Labour is pointless, because as you can see from the responses below, it's clueless.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
"The debate with Labour is pointless.."
Look at the Army of Conservatives in this video picking through every word that the Chancellor said and checking the facts. NOW post the text of Osborne disputing those IRREFUTABLE FACTS. No, all we get is him whining because an axe wasn't taken to the spending to support the economy at a time when the recovery is not yet secured.
freatork1 2 years ago
and he will be confined to the history books
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
he's out of his depth
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
freetork, what is going on with Gordon Brown, he seems to be making it up as he goes along. He told MP's in the House Of Commons that troops would be leaving in 2011, so why has he just announced Chinooks for Afghanistan for 2013. Is it, there's an election coming - and he's trying to buy more votes. One thing is true - he out of depth and he will confined to the history books as one of the worst Premiers in living memory. He's not fit to run Her Majesty's Government.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
"Gordon Brown, he seems to be making it up as he goes along..."
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Unlike David Cameron, Gordon Brown doesn't hold press conferences to anounce urgent, new policies each time he reads the morning paper. He's an opportunist, and people like you are easy targets.
freatork1 2 years ago
freetork, do you understand that when the Bank Of England sets its bank base rate, high street banks do not follow their advice. There are no banks offering what the Bank Of England base rate is. Banks will generally charge 2 or 3% above bank base or even more. And when the BOE did lower its rates - all the banks withdrew most of their tracker mortgages.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
freetork, you were earlier quoting an MP when rates went up to 15% in the 90's. But Labours rate increases of today is equivalent to 24% in 91. I do not need to look this up. This fact, I can work things out for my self. Mortgages are 3 x higher today than in 91. Work it out, don't ask an MP, when they just make things up. Brown: We've ended boom and bust; We're best placed to lead the world out of recovery; Chinook helicopters for 2013 after telling the House - troops would be leaving in 2011?
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
"...rates went up to 15% in the 90's. But Labours rate increases of today is equivalent to 24% in 91. I do not need to look this up."
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You won't look it up because only YOU is saying it.
If interest rates, overall, average more during Labours time in office than they did during the Conservatives time in office, post the statistics/chart/graph from a reliable source.
freatork1 2 years ago
freetork, your response, simply beggars belief. I do not need to ask an MP or watch the BBC. I have a mind of my own. I can work things out for myself and I do not need to look things up - when the anwser is staring you in the face. If you increase rates to 5.75%, then the bank will top this up by another 2 or 3%. Do you understand this. This then takes it over 8%. Mortgages are 3x higher than in 91. 3x8= 24%. That is the equivalent rate to that in 91. So are still with me?
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
Labour is run by people just like you.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
freetork, I have explained to you in the clearest way possible, the interest rate analysis. I do not need to ask a MP, the same way - when I see that it is raining, I do not need to then watch the weather forcast on TV. I have spelled it out in the most simplest of terms, more than once. I know you don't get it - and sadly, you never will. Labour is run people - just like you.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
freetork, there you go again, you do not understand basic economics, I can only put this down to you not being a home owner. I don't need to get references from an MP - I 've got a mind of my own. This is why the country is in such a state - when basic economics are not understood.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
"I've got a mind of my own."
From where you make up your "OWN" figures.
You mentioned a small business owner on Question Time complaining about getting no help from the Government. The Chancellor spelt out what this Government is doing to help business's and said that, during previous recessions they got no help and twice as many went under. What did Osborne have to say about that? NOTHING, because it's undeniable fact.
freatork1 2 years ago
freetork, Brown at the despatch box said he was helping thousands of businesses in the recession. When a small businessman on BBC's Question Time said the government refused to help him - and he found out that only 16 businesses got help - and not thousands. Every week Gordon Brown just plucks figures out of thin air to produce as fact. It's a shame you are unable to anwser any of my questions, you only seem able to refer to what Labour dictates. Sorry, I can't join, I've got a mind of my own.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
albertosaurus60.. You make unsubstatiated claims about interest rates, and when I *SHOW* you that the Conservatives cannot dispute the figures, you fly off on a tangent talking about a small businessman on Question Time.
freatork1 2 years ago
freetork, I see you have written on the blog where you seem to be repeating what Labour MP's are saying. Labour loves people that need help in this area. Did you not understand the meaning of my interest rate analysis. Yes, the rates are low now, but they were at 5.75% plus add the 2.5% which is what the bank puts on top. And what have you got? 8.25%. Mortgages are 3 x higher now, than back in 91. So Labours claim to low rates- is a myth. 3x8.25% is around 25%. Proof that Labour caused downturn.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
Hansard.
Mr. Austin (Lab): "..millions of home owners have benefited from record low
interest rates, which is in stark contrast to
what has happened in previous recessions when interest rates soared to? 10 per cent. for four years and 15 per cent. for a year..."
Grant Shapps (Con): "I am intervening because the Minister seems to be trying to paint a picture that suggests that, for all sorts of reasons, it does not matter that just six families are being helped.. blah, blah.."
freatork1 2 years ago
George Osborne needed a building the size of the Battersea Power Station to be able work a projector.
freatork1 2 years ago
The truth is not always wriiten, newspapers and politicians all bear testament to this. If you squeeze household incomes by using interest rates as your cash generator, in the end, you will get into trouble - as did the Tories back in the 90's. I do not need to read what is so obvious. Labour have this habit of telling you what they want you to hear and not what is really happening. The BBC and the government refused to accept we were even in rececssion for over 6 months. Everybody knew we were.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
"The truth is not always wriiten.."
I do read your posts, you know.
freatork1 2 years ago
hi
search youtube for Zitgiest Bank part 1
it will explain what caused the economic problem in america and in the UK
hyylo 2 years ago
To freetork, you are member of a soon to be, evicted Labour party, quite possibly heading, not just a wipeout - but near extinction. Perhaps, you should be looking at some safe sanctuaries so you can rebuild this once working-class party, which, sadly, only represents the many Labour millionaires still claiming £400 a month on food. And lets not forget - your commander in chief - a man that emptied the nations pension pots to feed his greedy swash-buckling 21st century pirates. RIP.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
Wake up freetork, the reccession has ended for every nation except this one. Do you remember what Gordona Brown kept repeating: We have ended boom and bust; We are best placed the lead the world out of recovery; We will halve the budget deficit in 4 years? This is pie in the sky politics - from a party - where policies are dreamt up in disneyland. Gordon Brown might as well be the Pied Piper - because Labour supporters are unable see that their captain is really are pirate stealing their money.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
What a joke! Labour's debt crisis!!? Talk about passing the buck? I wonder if Dave will support the idea of Thatcher having a state funeral since he obviously would love to distance himself from her policies.
zola253109 2 years ago
To freetork, here you again quoting people that on not living in the real world. Fact: worst budget deficit in history; Fact: Brown made it law to halve the deficit - but Darling offered nothing in hisPBR;Fact: car manufacturing at a standstill on the verge of collapse; Fact: The most corrupt government ever in the history of Parliament; Fact: house price collapse; Fact: house repossossions at their highest ever; Fact: sky high petrol and energy prices: Fact: 8 million unemployed=Labour failure
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
"Fact: house repossossions at their highest ever.. Fact: 8 million unemployed."
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Fact: YOU'RE spreading LIES.
Even at the tail end of this GLOBAL recession, the number of homes being repossessed is half what it was during the two BRITISH recessions that the Conservatives gave us. Neither is unemployment likely to reach the levels it did during those two recessions. You see, the Conservative Government THEN believed in "smaller government."
freatork1 2 years ago
Unemployment is already on par with the 1980's. Please wake up and realise that Brown and Cameron are working within the same framework, just tinkering around and falling out on how best to do this. A vote for either of them is just a vote for more of the same with a slightly different flavour.
zola253109 2 years ago
To freetork, I read with dismay that you are quoting what government ministers are saying. And not what is really happening. Either you have been in a coma for the last 12 years or you like being told what to do and when to say it. By repeating Alan Johnsons comments about pensioner poverty - you are ridiculing yourself. This very man said Jacqui Smith never made any money from her sisters bedroom, what planet are you on? Theres a Meerkat ad on TV - and it personifies Labour Luvvies: 'Simple'.
albertosaurus60 2 years ago
Conservatives protecting business? When lending to small businesses is at an all time low while bankers are still treated as a special case and a competition test for Tesco (butcher of the highstreet) is seen as not needed by the Tories? What a load of rubbish! The Tories don't care about businesses, they care about monopolies with the power to overthrow a state, just the same as Labour do.
zola253109 2 years ago
Labour/Tory bail out the banks together. Nothing will change under Cameron. We'll still have a 'leader' who is running scared of bankers threatening to move elsewhere if we don't fork out for their bonuses. Blue Labour will not bring about the fundamental amendments needed to the economy, nor will rangerling over unemployment figures in a consumer dominated economy.
zola253109 2 years ago
We'll swap one fiddler, for another, politicians, only believe in one thing, how it effects them, do you know I am totally bored with the lot of them
auntiebar 2 years ago
Osborne: "Or people can choose our route,.. expect everyone to share the burden, but protect the lowest paid."
Public sector workers will share the burden with a pay freeze, while the wealthy will share the burden by having their inheritence-tax cut.
freatork1 2 years ago
No, hopefully many of those public sector workers will be fired. And Labour's inheritence tax policy is..? Oh yeah, exactly the same.
gregorioallegri 2 years ago
"Labour's inheritence tax policy is.. exactly the same."
No it ISN'T.
freatork1 2 years ago
Mrs. May: "We have set out proposals to end the couple penalty by increasing the working tax credit for couples."
Yvette Cooper: Will the right hon. Lady tell me how she proposes to pay for that measure?"
Mrs. May: "The Secretary of State knows full well how we will pay for the proposal— [Interruption.] Oh yes she does, because we set it out at the time— [Interruption.] "
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I'd rather be governed by Monty Python than the Conservative Party.
freatork1 2 years ago
Mrs. May: "The approach must focus on the root causes of poverty... worklessness"
Yvette Cooper: "...will she now commit her party to supporting the additional £5 billion to help the unemployed get back into work as part of the fiscal stimulus, or not? Yes or no?"
Mrs. May: "The right hon. Lady makes such a thing of this £5 billion.. "
freatork1 2 years ago
Mrs. May: "It will take determined work by local government... and, crucially, the voluntary sector."
John Mason: "I wonder whether she and her party will commit to giving extra resources to the voluntary sector.. to carry out these duties."
Mrs. May: One of the most important things that we can do for the voluntary sector is free it up to get on with the job that it wants to do. It often finds itself hard pressed by Government diktats.. It is all very well Labour Members laughing."
freatork1 2 years ago
Yvette Cooper: " I will give way to any Conservative Front Bencher who can tell me now that they will support the £5 billion additional investment to help young people to get back into work."
Mr. Charles Walker (Con) rose— "I just want to get back to serious politics.. why is it that over the past 10 years child obesity rates have rocketed?"
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Uh?
freatork1 2 years ago
Alan Johnson
"1 million of those pensioners who were in abject poverty at the end of the 1990s have now been taken out of poverty. Thanks to.. a combination of pension credit, the winter fuel allowance, good increases in the state pension, free travel and free TV licences .."
Theresa May (Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) rose, but didn't challenge ANYTHING that the Home Secretary had just said. There was just ONE pension rise in 18 years of Conservative Party rule.
freatork1 2 years ago
...in addition to tax exemptions for pensioners.
gregorioallegri 2 years ago
If anyone votes Labour back into power then they are simply burying their head in the econmic mire that is labour. Brown and his cohorts do not have the interests of this country at heart - this can be seen in the way that they kowtow to Europe - the biggest beaurocracy that man has ever created What about the vulnerable in our society - gangster Brown raided the Pension Funds and took £5billion a year which means many more pensioners are on the breadline. Get em out before they destroy us
joanneshubby 2 years ago
"Brown and his cohorts do not have the interests of this country at heart."
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Alan Johnson:
"Since 1997, more than 1.7 million children have been lifted out of absolute poverty."
Theresa May:
"..perhaps he would like to tell the House whether this Government are going to reach their target of halving child poverty by 2010."
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There's good news there. But Theresa May is more concerned with branding this success as a failure, for political gain.
freatork1 2 years ago
And how did they get those people out of 'poverty' (measured by an arbitrary line Labour themselves set)? They gave them benefits.
gregorioallegri 2 years ago
Institute for Fiscal Studies:
"How do overall trends in poverty and inequality compare with those observed under the last period of Conservative government between 1979 and 1997? As the figure below shows, income inequality rose substantially during the 1980s, dwarfing the small increase under Labour to date... the record on youth unemployment was no better, and on poverty and inequality considerably worse, in the Thatcher and Major administrations than under Blair and Brown."
freatork1 2 years ago
And we care about inequality why exactly?
gregorioallegri 2 years ago
It seems to me that the idiots who are posting this nonsence did not live through the 70's when the last long serv ing Labour Government bankrupted the country. It took all of the time the Conservatives were in government to finally make it a 'Great Britain' again. Oh how they soon forget!
yogabeats 2 years ago 2
"It seems to me that the idiots who are posting this nonsence did not live through the 70's..."
They may have lived through the two BRITISH recessions that the last Conservative government gave us. Even at the tail end of a GLOBAL recession, the number of businessess going under, and the number of home repossessions is HALF what it was during those two British recessions. Unemployment is nowhere near the level it reached during those two British recessions.
freatork1 2 years ago
Mianly because Gordon fiddled the figures..again. 1 in 7 out of work is hardly 'nowhere near the level it reached during those two British recessions.'
gregorioallegri 2 years ago
"Gordon fiddled the figures..."
I've seen MANY charts on unemployment from different sources. They ALL show that the Conservative record on unemployment is FAR worse than Labours'. They use the SAME method of compiling the figures for each and every year.
freatork1 2 years ago
Name me some.
gregorioallegri 2 years ago
Search "Unemployment trends since the 1970s"
freatork1 2 years ago
Out with the brain dead, yogurt knitting, politicaly correct, self serving, corrupt lefties
bigonemicky 2 years ago
Very disappointed at the content and language used in these posts, I would have hoped that the reaction of intelligent voters would be to listen carefully, digest the information given and comment in a fair and honest manner without any swearing, I had hoped that the information we are being given and the videos we can watch from the House of Commons etc would lead to the General Public having a bigger say in how the country is run. could you do the job in such difficult times ?
Kejjp 2 years ago 2
who is that sex-ee spunk givin' it some figures to DC at 1:30? He's got my vote he is HOT
brekfastnewz 2 years ago
i really couldnt give a shit if its labour or conservatives. either way we all get screwed.
PLUS ME!!!
ThePhilion777 2 years ago 2
Anybody heard the news, maggies dead
jimmypage88889 2 years ago
Fuck off Osbourne you smug little shit head.
Figgy12 2 years ago
George Osborne is an absolute numpty.
shabbby 2 years ago
RICHLE religion is a crutch for the weak. No one cares.
TelioSunnyman 2 years ago
Oh i fully agree, but we do need some moral base for people to work from. I am not religious at all, ,my friends are, and there kids are truly good people, not like these lot at parliment. --- To many hidden agendas
RICHLES01 2 years ago
I can confirm I am that Russian Aluminium Tycoon.
harryj79 2 years ago
I can confirm that he does indeed work for a Russian Aluminium Tycoon.
vidinf4eice 2 years ago 2
Doesnt he work for a Russian Aluminium Tycoon
j3parrots 2 years ago 3
most politicians r crooks
theoneali 2 years ago
The only difference is they're wearing blue ties.
richehhhh 2 years ago
Tory wanker + labour wanker = Westminster politically correct arseholes who only serve the wants of the immigrants who think white Britain is a free lunch.
You politicians are all a bunch of useless selfserving arseholes.
arsezania 2 years ago
We dont want to be in the EU, --- waste of space and time
RICHLES01 2 years ago 2
I think we should lock the doors of parliment, create a national voting system on a day to day running of the country. 1) Do you want to be part of EU, Er why hell No, 2) should we throw open the doors to every scumbag who wants to come here and live of US, -- You get the twist. We should have a tax card to show which services I AM using and pay accordingly. It would soon cut through the waste
RICHLES01 2 years ago 2
Can I Say it or am I going to be branded racist, but within the next 100 years EU including the UK will be an ISLAMIC State, look at the figures past 50 years. Dont forget saying ISLAMIC is not being racist because its a way of life and not a Race. We have been sold out, NO Politician espeialy from either of these parties will sort it out.
RICHLES01 2 years ago
Can I say or am I going to be branded a douchebag, but within the next 100 years EU including the faroe islands will be a underpants over their trousers state, look at the figures in the past 50 years.
TelioSunnyman 2 years ago
Ah go and look at the figures, or does the truth offend. This is a CHRISTIAN COUNTRY, with CHRISTIAN VALUES, People are not OPRESSED here t least we can argue and have opinions.
RICHLES01 2 years ago 3
all i hear is blah blag blah blah, you're talking buzzcocks.
antoireland09 2 years ago 2
same old same old political meandering with this same old same old boring self serving politicians who work to get as much as they can from the very hard working mass. shame and shame again. One day you will all be helpless
mellbluemerle1 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
1 thing i hate about conservatives is they love to say/do the complete opposite of what labour do and shout it from the roof top making it seem like were doomed. but you never hear them say anything when they support what labour do, politics is generally just shit people vote for a political change give England a dictatorship for a few years so there will be no one moaning about decisions so we can actually get decisions done because i hate you the general public
thatwassolastweek1 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
He reminds me of Dick Dasterdly (with special emphasis on the Dick).
He has the shifty eyes of a cartoon character when he doesn't know the camera's on him.
P.S. Fuck the Tories.
YouKnowWhereThisEnds 2 years ago
Osbourne is Muttley!
The pair of them are shifty crooks that think we - the general public - cannot see through their smarm.
oursilly 2 years ago
Still think Camerons our man, not a wishy washy moron like Gordon Brown Pants
RICHLES01 2 years ago
"wishy washy"?
Cameron can't even decide if he's pro-EU or not, or pro-foxhunting or not.
He and Georgie are going to privatise everything and screw students and the working class into the ground.
YouKnowWhereThisEnds 2 years ago
i agree he changes his stuff every minute if labour say there doing it. labour doesn't want to do to many cuts and then conservative looking all noble with the "we're not hiding thing from you" clause and people fall for it every politician is the same, i feel sorry for gordon brown allways getting twine at, ohhhh my son never got a card from you when he was kiled in 2006. my response to that is "well 1. send a letter to tony blair, 2.Why havn't you said sooner because all your doing is twning"
thatwassolastweek1 2 years ago
labour have just screwed all classes into the ground
jambocolvi 2 years ago
this bunch of thugs should have seen it coming but even so you wont get my vote unless you guarantee a referendum on whether we stay in europe
jambocolvi 2 years ago
Here Here, Its because the people who pull the strings are not the government. WHY does any President, Prime minister, EU President have a meeting with the Bildebergs Group, Shows who are realy in control.
RICHLES01 2 years ago
Isn't it great that the Conservative Party actually allows all comments on its videos?
If you look at any Labour ones the comments are all filtered so only positive ones are allowed through! It's pretty hilarious, but not a surprise, that our government is opposed to freedom of speech!
instantface 2 years ago
lol and you have been brain washed to beliving there is no freedom of speech in england well this very instant i'm watching question time, i can go to the government now chain myself you a railing and protest and i will only get a slap on the wrist, you try protesting in italy compared to england or go China.
thatwassolastweek1 2 years ago
Of course I am aware that Britain is a free and liberal nation where one can express his opinion and I too watched Question Time.
I was obviously being somewhat hyperbolic in my claim that Labour is against free speech. However, my point still stands that it is rather pathetic that the UK's party of government feels the need to censor comments on its videos especially as the entire success of the internet is based around freedom of speech!!!
instantface 2 years ago
@instantface
It's true that they allow comments, but my comments on another video from this channel were later deleted. They do censor comments!
pinochet222 2 years ago
The Tories have deleted many user comments!
oursilly 2 years ago
ONE BIG SCAM ---- WHY DID WE NOT GET THE EU VOTE, should be called back door politics., and then pretend we have a say.
RICHLES01 2 years ago
To late now, its a signed and done deal now, nothing the cons can do.
Goolz 2 years ago 2
"Labour debt We had to hire a building the size of Battersey power station in order to project it"
That is the most riduculously pathetic attempt at party propoganda I've ever heard. Honestly. It's like something from Brasseye.
JoshuaUK 2 years ago
haha yer mays well say conservatives will save the world by blowing kisses to the lower classes wallets and we all know thats not going to happen
thatwassolastweek1 2 years ago
The Conservatives caused these wretched years of Labour when they allowed John Major and Lamont to play cat and mouse with peoples mortgages triggering a Labour landslide.
Ken Clarke should have been thrown out of the Tory party for his part in the Black Wednesday fiasco which handed power to Labour .
Labour have taxed real manufacturing jobs to death to pay for all the Government waste on hordes of non-jobbers and benefit claimants.
makedoandmend2 2 years ago
The last years of the conservative government up to the '97 election were a mess and a change was needed. However, labour have since wrecked this country; socially, economically and politically. One thing is certain it will take decades to repair the damage they have done.
vvtliphil 2 years ago 5
I could not agree more Labour have go us into a bloody mess.
makedoandmend2 2 years ago
They could of just used a smaller font.
Seanod123 2 years ago 3
"We had to hire a building the size of Battersey power station in order to project it"
Umm, yeah OK. Sheesh.
fizzer401 2 years ago
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There is no scientific consensus on man made global warming. The whole carbon con is there to introduce carbon taxes and further regulate peoples lives. Research climategate. The Copenhagen treaty this December is designed to create a world government and global carbon taxes. This is all one of many frauds being used to help the globalist agenda. Research the new world order.
boogaloo80 2 years ago
UK prime minister is middle management now we have a Euro president.
Thanks for helping to allow the people a vote on that one.
SuperWeetam 2 years ago
who else is pissing themselves at a politicians attempt at being 'down wit da kidz'? hahahahaha
thereturnofda111 2 years ago
bird in pink behind him needs a seeing to.
Other than that... did not listen.
tit. the media gods have given your party the election just stfu and get on with it, no one cares.
You aren't doing it for us, you are doing it for you.
OdesuneOSE 2 years ago 3
We've had one lot of bunglers,here come the next!
rockthegorilla 2 years ago
If you want some insight into the world monetary system google zeitheistDOTcom, go for part 2. Explains all-------
RICHLES01 2 years ago
Obama---------- Dont make me laugh, another puppet of the banking elite. He has lied, lied, he says one thing and does the opposite---- mmmmm seems like an international pattern arrising here
RICHLES01 2 years ago
The budget that never was...
We have a major problem and nothing major is being done..
Raising money without squeezing the economy is not that hard to achieve...However there is a worrying lack of consensus..
Of all the financial "gurus" to speak recently I believe David Blanchflower talks the most sense..
brokenbriton 2 years ago
Another bit of political point scoring from the conervatives. George osborne continues to show he has no idea whatsoever on running the country's financial system. That money you complain about was used to save the financial system that you can still talk about.
Obama won the American people's vote not by the usuall and mostly blaitant point scoring at EVERY opportunity but by running a fair and transparent campaign.
If these guys get into power, God bless us all.
warrenoc 2 years ago
Haha had to hire Battersea power station, ITS THAT BIG. Hilarious, at least the Tories are finally thinking. Politics is a waste of your time. The Pre/Post/ Give a Monkeys Budget is really not the issue at hand. Lets get some decent Copenhagen coverage.
FeelThatChairNow 2 years ago
The silly Battersea power station metaphor bit also made me laugh. Did they ever think of using smaller font!? :P
Rhoddersproductions 2 years ago 2
Interesting views. I must say.
ConwyValleyHero 2 years ago
You may thumbs me down, but go and investigate it yourselves, the links are all there if you look
RICHLES01 2 years ago
Next they are going to tell us to take the swine flue jab because it works ---- Oh no im just being daft
RICHLES01 2 years ago 3
This report by George Osborne is a constructive attempt to highlight the enormity of the debt which this Government has foisted on us all.
They have adopted a Capitalist policy regime WITHOUT having the good grace to apply the brakes when a free-running policy would create, rather than solve, problems. E.g. Unrestrained lending and resultant house price inflation. Their solution was then to tax the estates of those owning the over-valued houses!
They couldn't run a whelk stall!
warrjm 2 years ago 2
agreed, banks greed got us into this mess, should have capped it at 4 times your wages for mortgages, that way having direct link with actual earnings. Some / many people just do not have the self control with credit
RICHLES01 2 years ago 2
Thanks for the response. However, my real point was that Gordon Brown, when he was Chancellor, took on the role of 'Controller of Borrowing/Lending' from the Bank of England and then did nothing about the unrestrained lending that has prevailed in recent times.
warrjm 2 years ago
The Banks were virtually having money printed for them to lower interest rates. If interest rates are being cut by such a method then either house prices have to rise or risky loans need to be made. This economic crisis is the government's fault.
WhyCantIVote 2 years ago
Research the Bildeberg Group, The Rothchilds and the links wit the Tri lateral commission, all interlinked, US, UK, EU governments all in the same bag, and you all think you have a choice. The powers that run the show will not be losing money, to the contrary, the downturn was carefully planned, ---- sort of reset the economy and for the people at the bottom to pick up the tab.
RICHLES01 2 years ago 2
This world has now an hidden agenda, world government, world army, whatever happens the only people who are going to payy for this mess is the Taxpayer. You politicians have been caught with your hand in the till, take a few bob for the milk, not a wad full of notes for the plasma TV. Its about time we had someone with proper BALLS, who can get this country by the throat and shake out all the deadwood, (after we get rid of this PC brigade) ITS A FREE COUNTRY WE ALL HAVE RIGHT OF OPINION.
RICHLES01 2 years ago 2
Yeah plasma TVs and dirty vids
jambocolvi 2 years ago
If you want to lead our Great Nation show some moral strength and stand up to the politically correct minorities who want to turn the uk into a afrotaliban state. This country is ours. The white british people do not need to apologise for existing. Stop pandering to the minorities and for Gods sake get rid of that vile statue of terrorist mandela. What next are you going to condone? A statue honering the 7/7 bombers? After all using the freedom fighter logic they to are like mandela.
Wake up!
arsezania 2 years ago
well well look what the cat dragged in :)
So you lot in westminster think that tax and spend will solve our problems. The UK is nmow in danger of being religated to the status of a third world $hithole! What are you guys thinking? You are supposed to be leading our nation not squandering its future Taxing bankers at 50% is cheep politics. Wait until they start leaving, what then another british industry lost If you want to lead our country do a proper longterm job not your short term pc vision
arsezania 2 years ago
The budget is absolutely disgraceful. We are being run my a blind despotic scot who is spending all our tax trying to keep crap Scottish banks alive. However, I am very concerned that the Tories have not spelt out what they are going to do either to sort this mess out.
Gaunty43 2 years ago
Gaunty, The blind fool does not spend our money, he gives most of it away. 700m to Pakistan, 825m to India. And then he gives millions away in benefits for lazy arse bastards to sit on their ass or to mothers who just get preggers for a living. The Tories will not spell out what they will do because Brown takes the idea and uses it. Look at inheritance tax. Tory said they up it Brown did.
pallett316 2 years ago
This budget is terrible for people, I think that the labour party have made it so if or when the conservatives come into power it will look as if they are ruining the country
Typical labour as per usual.
footballfan929 2 years ago 3
Maybe I'm wrong but I can't help but feel no matter who takes over in the next General Election will have to make cuts and raise taxes to recoup the costs Labour have gotten us into. However what angers me is the fact we pay V.A.T on many things, taxes on fuel, alcohol and cigarettes amongst many other things yet we're still in a b**ody mess.
nsheldrake25 2 years ago
nb; Vote Conservative ASAP
PGillard 2 years ago
Blimey! A bunch of toffs shuffling paper.
vidinf4eice 2 years ago
Can we please have a promise on electoral reform. Labour talked about it before but once in Government did nothing. Our current system undermines our democracy.
botin054 2 years ago
surely if you borrow you will have to pay it back, the more you borrow the higher the interest, so the bigger the repayment, I thought that was common knowlege, obviously not to Labour
dylanmatusevics 2 years ago
Services, why cant we have a local voting system on services. (In business, If a Bus had only 1 passenger would you keep the route, obviously not, so why does the govenent run the system with that mentality. THE FEW CANT ANY LONGER PAY FOR THE MANY)
RICHLES01 2 years ago
Its like Curries and Dixons, competitors owned by the same group. Its about time we backed away from Europe and looked after our own. We need a True UK interests Party
RICHLES01 2 years ago
Whoever gets back in, will not do enough to sort out the mess. The government is by far to overbloted with civil servants. How much govenment do we need ?. Why bail out banks., When my business needed help where are they then (Shafted comes to mind) .World Governments are in the hands of the Bilderbergs, New EU president is a Bilderberg, Any Primeminister is in the pocket of the Bilderbergs.
RICHLES01 2 years ago
These politicians pretend to be care about us the public but they're really only motivated by their own lust for power. I can't trust anything they say anymore - it's just an act.
mychar111 2 years ago
What needs to be hammered home each and every time a Conservative politician speaks about the debt crisis is the simple fact that Labour has always left the economy in a worse state than it was when they inherited it, without exception.
This, as every thinking person knows, is because socialists have a warped view of the world and what makes it go round.
mackeg1 2 years ago
hear-hear I remember when wilson got in and the chancellor (Michael Foot) stood on the steps of No 11 waving a cheque book and said The miners have a blank cheque from me, and the result was the eventual ruination of the mining industry
jambocolvi 2 years ago
I agree the BBC has been terribly biased and acting as the propaganda mouthpiece of the government. Their role as the nation's independent broadcaster has long been lost and I would not be unhappy to see it chopped to bits and sold to pay the damage that it helped to create by distorted reporting.
NEWMICROMAN 2 years ago
I wonder what the BBCs attitude would be if they had to fight for their market share as a PLC and not as a featherbedded jobs for the boys club
jambocolvi 2 years ago
There is a clear way out of this mess - and that requires us to do two things: 1. We must reduce unecessary expenditure and eliminate waste. 2. We need a drive for growth, and as a nation we need to trade ourselves out of this hole.
My own small business got into a similar mess about 7 years ago. It was not difficult to find areas where we were wasting money. Imagine how much the state machine wastes every single day - and yet Labour look the other way. They will drive us to penury.....
MarcusEdwardius 2 years ago
They didn't look the other way, they made it happen, Gordon deliberately created a third of a million non-jobs with guaranteed pensions which we must pay for, i could go on and on
jambocolvi 2 years ago
I think you won't recover purely on supply side production increase because there's no demand, and more importantly - there's no demand anywhere in the world (because this recession is global)!
businesses are closing factories and firing people - why would new businesses invest right now?
this all supply side economics business is a myth. it's been exploited over and over in the US with great success.
Bush ran on compassionate conservatism and supply side economics - look where it got us...
pinochet222 2 years ago
GEORGE OSBORNE has the nerve to bring up the problems that HIS friends have caused - HE is and always will be the PROBLEM if he could see further than his next dinner he would probably think - the poor are the problem, if we could get rid of the poor we would be ok!
billyconnearly 2 years ago
It's Labour who've spent us £1,000,000,000,000 into debt not the bankers.
Dimwit.
theredraven 2 years ago
You need a lot more noughts than that
jambocolvi 2 years ago
Introducing a two child per household rule, those on benefits will not be given support after child number two, no child will be born without a father on the birth certificate introduce forensic birthing police. There is no excuse for the overpopulation and expansion of the lower class- and all socio-economic problems they bring- sex education is free to all! Stop gas, electric and water companies from raising prices. . Why am I paying for the council workers pensions?
BodaciousBabe100 2 years ago 4
Labour are determined to leave nothing behind them.
They will try and heap the blame on the Conservatives after their scorched earth retreat.
They are a disgrace to Britain, and her people.
Nothing short of Traitors to our Country
sidensvans67 2 years ago 2
"If you are earning more than £20,000 then Labour is out to get you". Wow, I'm a student and this sounds incredibly encouraging! Work hard and you get what you deserve? Why? What is the point? If people who are lazy and lacking in class, don't turn up to lectures etc, get off better than I do. Why should I bother?
Einy7 2 years ago
this is the british business party, right? so naturally, they want to cut services instead of increasing taxes.
then I presume you have been paying out of your pocket for your entire education and never in your life relied on the government and its programs?
pinochet222 2 years ago