David Cameron: Politicians should be clear about what they got wrong on the economy

[Sergiusz1992]

I'm from Poland. The western "conservative" party's are not CONSERVATIVE. What kind of conservatism is that, when you accept abortion or homosexual marriages? That's very left-wing.

[butchd2010]

vote UKIP OR BNP TIME FOR REAL CHANGE NOT THE TORY AND LABOUR BULLSHIT AND GOD KNOWS WHO WOULD WANT LIB DOGS

[Jackdalad12345]

So easy to talk about the recession when you yourself are sitting in the lap of luxury in the first class carriage of a Virgin Pendalino.

[krzcowzgomoo]

Did looking out the window make anyone else motion sick?

[MrPaulanthony2007]

Conservative are hypocrites and snobs, I know them very well. I don't know outside London but here in London there are places where they are allowed to go only. I will never ever vote for Tories. The kind of change Cameron wants to bring is like Obama's change of which we don't hear anything now. Labour is gaining support once again. Check today's news.

[washheart]

not-again?! was da vid camera on, david?

[dudeseventy]

The Labour government (if you can call it that now), has taken one of the top financial countries in the world, close to bankruptcy. Bush, Blair, Brown... whatever... it sucks.

[STOPTHEEU]

Surely it should now be called the slave labour government.

David says that politicians should be clear about what they got wrong on the economy.

Should they also be clear on their policy about the EU? i.e Are they for or against?

[moadsh]

If you sir claim to be serious about running the country after winning a majority at the next election.

why in the previous 3 PM questions i have watched you have not directed ONE constructive question at gordon brown.

in what way is personally attacking the prime minister of our country ; ( yes Gordon Brown was in politics before the silver spoon slipped out of your prepubescent privately educated mouth )

by asking questions with the sole purpose of scoring political points.

[rickmanlaura]

To be fair on Mr Cameron, the leader of the opposition is only allowed to ask the PM 6 questions during PMQ's. Ofc, that's rather unlucky for David as i imagine he would love to ask Brown as "constructive question" as you so put it. However, i'm sure he's had bigger fish to fry during PMQ's than to please you by asking what you would deem to be "a constructive question". I think he uses his questions well, actually.

[STOPTHEEU]

Yes well now the EU has taken away punch and judy from Britain because it is "violant" they have recreated it in the houses of parlaiment!

[Alimantado91]

What a nice reasonable bloke. Just like Tony Blair. err

[Liquidfilms07]

I notice that Cameron is travelling first class. That will go on his expenses

[hombrerelents]

Surely you can't expect anyone as refined as Cameon to travel with the plebs surely?

He might catch a disease or something.

[condemned75]

Swine flu?

Still, not as bad as the bosses of GM and Ford going with caps in hand in the US to beg for a bail out, by flying there personal jets.

[GEORGIANGUSTIL]

first class-not bad :)

[zola253109]

Tory or Labour it doesn't matter. neither are offering anything different. they talk of change but all we'll get is the same old crap, where the rich bankers get bailed out whilst their victims get made homeless. it's time for a real change. shake up parliament next time around. i'm green myself but as long as it isn't the bnp or to a lesser extent ukip vote for outside of the big two and make a chance for a real change. there's no difference between brown and cameron.

[ajaaronjoe]

Bankers are WANKERS

Capitalism is NOT WORKING

[melinbolton]

here's one solution :)

[melinbolton]

........a camhook:)

[femmefi]

I've had an effing gutfull of NuLab n if they win the next election I'm leaving the bloody country.The end.

[hombrerelents]

Yeah, everyone threatened to do that in '97 as well.

You'll have to go a relatively undeveloped nation because most western countries are as bad, if not worse, than Britain for nanny/police type states.

[green500]

VOTE BNP

[pongowaring]

... if you have only one braincell.

[Elcristoph]

national socialism...no thank you...

[southwind224]

say what !

fsdfhoaslfna ... noway

[Judep22]

Go to petrolprices dot com and put your comments on the blog about the very soon petrol tax rise.

For God's sake take some action to get rid of this pack of liars and cheats, headed by a megalomaniac lunatic who doesn't even drive!

ENOUGH!!! GET RID OF GORDON BEFORE THE COUNTRY IS BANKRUPT.

NEW LABOUR DON@T GIVE A CR*P ABOUT YOU -

They just want your money and their power.

[simonsigns]

Go Dave - We Love You......

[femmefi]

redreader325- on ur comment regarding Gordon Brown he didn't c any of this coming nor did anybodyelse really so you can't lay all the blame at his door.However he had all those tax receipts,stamp duty etc,etc coming in, in the bucket loads and he didn't save any money ,surely thats a sackable offence !!!

[redleader325]

my wife has been selling new houses for a leading house builder for the last 15 years 3 years ago she was saying to allow someone to have a mortgage 6 times their salary was mad and a some stage the chickens will come home to roost.and it has she is not a financial wizard like our Gordon but even she could see the writing on the wall Brown has been a disaster

[femmefi]

I know what u mean(It escapes me how nobody in Government didn't c this coming) around 05 many of my friends were lending 6x annual salary and borrowing crazy amount on their credit cards,they thought I was making a bad move not doing the same I made my point that the bottom would fall out anytime soon it seemed clear to me lending had gone way,way out of hand.Common sense could have saved us possibly a Trillion pounds or so ,what a very costly mess this is and It could have been prevented.

[Nyxiz]

Don't vote Labour or Conservative.

[screammac]

even thos this is nothing to do with polertics. I would like to say to david how sorey i al to here about his recent lose. I my self have a diserbilty and now how hared it can be. going on to polerticks i find it diffcult to find work or geting on course becouse of peopil using my disabilty agents me and would like to know what david has planed to helpm peopil with disabilys and lerning differculties. ps hope you are feeling better and was upset when i hared what happend

[1940673]

We will never sort this country out if we continue along the path of electing people to run the country who are career politicians. , who for some reason think they have all the answers. They have never done it so what makes them think they can.

Until ministers are vetted, and given the jobs to those who are capable not because they went to uni with the leader, or is in the same club as him/her,then we will still be here in another 20 years. There should no place for sycophancy in politics.

[akgd08]

It always happens with a Labour government, The only reason they had 12 years of "Boom" was because John Major set it up for them. They couldn't run a bath! VOTE CONSERVATIVE in the European & UK Council Elections on 4th June 2009

[DAVIDCAMERONFORPM]

VOTE CONSERVATIVE

[butchd2010]

@DAVIDCAMERONFORPM well done and i guess you still think this when they have made the cuts so deep hospitals lose nurses wards close they have royaly fucked us VOTE UKIP OR BNP

[Andyc18]

David Cameron FTW! (It means For The Win incase anyone wasn't sure what it meant lol)

[beecees]

Listen I'm not blaming David Cameron, far from it. Its Brown who said 'the end of boom and bust' hohho sic! It has come home to haunt him and our wallets! Any one can skipper a boat in calm seas, but when the storm blows up that is the test of the mans metal, and its showing! He created the current financle structure, flogged our gold at the bottom of the market, and created all these PFIs et al. Its a fiasco, just like the last mob left this country in for Mrs T and the party to sort out.

[1940673]

Not only did he flog the gold off at bottom price he has flogged off everything else that wasnt bolted down. He alone has ruined the pensions of the uk population by removing the tax free status and that from a man with a tax payer funded inflation proofed final salary pension. He is below contempt

[chochokeira]

KGBfbiSECUpolitia,

Jade had a bad start in life and a very poor education, yet she's turned her life around. Ok, she betrayed her ignorance on big brother and in the remarks she made about Shilpa.

Jade's grown up and has shown great courage in the face of a terrible illness. She's raised enough money before she dies to support her boys and to pay for a good education for them. Jade also made a genuine apology to Shilpa - which Shilpa accepted in good grace. So I say Jade is lovely.

[TheDefunktPistol]

please don't be too practical when considering who to vote for. Do try and look past the opposition yeah?! Dont fall for it again.

[KGBfbiSECUpolitia]

my comment was IRONIC. Gordon as a PM, with UNI degrees+a Complete/Total mess-of-a-country on his hands,

shouldN't  worry ab."lovely" jade's "Virgin"/wedding night. Since when is she lovely? Since she allegedly naked said on 1st BigBro that her P***y/F***y is a kebab, or since she yelled like a racist pig @a civilised Asian actress in 2ndBB? I thought brit ppl themselves had called her a PIG after 1st BB. NOW she's a HEROine/RoleModel 4brits, like: druggie, alchie, loose, talentless kate moss

[chochokeira]

KGBfbiSECUpolitia,

I'm gutted and full of admiration for lovely Jade and her two boys too, just as I was for Sam and David Cameron and their children when they recently lost their lovely Ivan.

Nice of Brown to empathise with them, but that doesn't make him a good leader. People who've lost their jobs and pensions or who fear that they might do so are suffering because of Brown's inept handling of our economy. Brown should admit he's a failed, apologise ato UK - and call an election.

[beecees]

The severity of this crisis could not have been predicted, but you'd have to be blind not have noticed the storm clouds on the horizon. Anybody with an economic grounding would be aware of this decades expediential growth in borrowing & the financial markets. I despair as they just dont understand how to deal with the problem of a lack of credit that is the fundamentally caused by the banks not admitting to their bad debts (toxic) exposure. BC PS read The Great Crash 29 JK Galbraith

[Altxandr]

There is a classical capitalism, is virtual. There is a balance of interests. There is a system a counterbalance, to equalize virtual and additional money. For today not one circuit does not work..

[Altxandr]

Economy, as mathematics, physics, chemistry of a science exact. Also have the exact decisions. Now to us offer some variants of the decision. Some directions. The life will show and is very fast. As far as they are true

[chochokeira]

It was Gordon who drove UK's unstable house price boom. It was Gordon who got UK in vast debt. It was Gordon who failed to regulate UK bankers and who created the FSA farce. And it was Gordon who stimulated out of control migration which drove the house price bubble too.

This all happened on your watch, Gordon Brown. However, the thousands of us losing our jobs and facing misery thanks to you have one crumb of comfort;

We're taking you with us.

Come 2010, Gordon, you are sacked!

[wqlfie]

We are also losing our income we who have been frugal and saved and went without the cars and holidays Now we have to use the savings just to Live, while everyone that went on Gordon Clowns spending spree are still able to "live it up".

[chochokeira]

Wqlfie, you are right. Brown is making hard working people who have been frugal suffer for the recklesssness of our government and of a profligate minority. It's savers who are being made to pay for the banking bail out, while those who borrowed recklessly are being compensated.

[chochokeira]

You are so right, David Cameron. Gordon Brown's absurd claim that this is all the fault of American Bankers' , nothing to do with Gordon, gov are just b*****t.

What Gordon's really saying is: "It isn't my fault, a big boy dun it and run'd away"

Well, it is your fault, Gordon, you weasling plonker, because you are so bl**dy inept! UK's economy is in a far worse position than the economies of so many others countries' - and solely thanks to you.

[SmoothCrunchie]

It was a good speach he did in Birmingham.

[ayrtonaiko]

Well done David. Now it is Gordon's turn...

[mitchking2006]

Some chance! Brown is in denial but will be shaken out of it very roughly at the next election!