Lefties try to justify out of control public sector spending (29Oct09)

This clip shows Jacqui Smith trying to justify the out of control public sector spending. Then ex-BBC reporter John Sergeant shows how much of a lefty he is, critisising anyone that thinks that economy smashing schemes like record breaking borrowing and Quantitative Easing as being bad, when they are economy smashing disasters waiting to happen to the UK economy, just as it has been to any other country that's ever tried it.

Recorded BBC Question Time, 29 October 2009.

Category:

News & Politics

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• jacqui
• smith
• john
• sergeant
• new
• labour
• justify
• uk
• out
• of
• control
• public
• sector
• spending
• record
• borrowing
• quantitative
• easing
• qe
• breaking
• debt
• recession
• depression

[anyfekinnamewilldo]

They can't keep squeezing the efficient bits of the economy to subsidise the dysfunctional bureaucracy of the state. It is simply unsustainable in the long term.

If gov't were a business it would have gone bust yrs ago..the don't listen to customers, provide a shitty service and runs up a massive deficit. What a joke.

[CRAPCANNONS]

Why have the people put themselves in a position where they depend entirely on the state to save them?

Save them from what, exactly?

The state has proved itself time and time again to be entirely incompetent and indifferent to the needs of people.

Changing abusers won't make the abuse go away. You can't expect different results from the same system. The system has to change.

Leave the abusive relationship. Time to break up.

[FrogKillr]

Why isn't Jacqui Smith in jail?

[GoldenbanjoDJ]

The typical leftist approach - THROW MONEY AT IT

No matter how efficient the recipient, we should give everyone loads and loads of borrowed money - that way we pump money that we don't even have into useless schemes

The benefit system is the prime example. The majority of the people on the dole are some of the most wasteful and useless people in Britain. Immigrants do more to help the economy than them - yet they are the very FIRST to get OUR money shoved into their pockets

[d1bx4pp]

John Sergeant is a fool. I think it was Portillo who said that he had tried and tried again to explain to Sergeant why a tax cut can lead to an increase in revenue.

You may disagree with the Laffer curve but if you can't even grasp the argument I'm not sure you have any place as a political commenter.

[macsm]

This is a political discussion, but are all the panel members in politics? Or is this not a politically centered discussion (well, party-centric). The round-center format has a very communal feeling to it, very different from formats in the states (to me). Just curious,

[FiftyOneDegreesNorth]

When the shit hits the fan when the next recession comes which will be bigger than the last one, will be funny seeing the faces of these idiot politicians, sadly I think the Government response will be more borrowing and printing money. Shame most people in the UK aren't smart enough to understand whats happening...