The Budget....

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I remember when Norman Lamont got his sums wrong and interst rates doubled to near 15% overnight, caused one or two folk a few sleepless nights.

So things under Maggie wern't always that great

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£497 worse off.

Bring back Maggie

Originally Posted by tinpants

BTW Reeder, how the feck do you feel qualified to comment on what Maggie did? You weren't even out of nappies when she was PM. I know she did some really daft stuff but she took 5hit off no-one and got this country back on its feet.

Shut the **** up and get back in your cage whoever the hell you are. I'm entitled to my own opinion aren't I? Is what you're saying that I'm not allowed to talk about anything before I was born? You know NOTHING of my levels of education so I just suggest you shut up.

reeder im not involved in this discussion to much, but i suggest you wind your neck in a bit as you dont have a clue about who your talking to (i do), being a computer comando will not end well for you
now thats just friendly advice

Everyone is entitled to an opinion of course but with all due respect reading/learning about something and actually living through it are polar opposites.
BTW Maggie is a bitch (ex coal miner)

so who's going to be to blame when the post office cut 20,000 jobs in the next 4 years?, oh i'm sure they will go on strike

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Originally Posted by Reeder

Keithd - Get out. Go away.

That is all

You haven't a clue have you?

Keithd is precisely correct in all he has written in this thread - so far.

There'll be opportunities to ruin that later of course.

Originally Posted by Quedos

The day the present day government ( whoever they are ) don't blame the one before is the day i will start to take politicians seriously.

I see what you're saying but the last thirteen sorry Labour years were a shining example of how not to run a country - and I don't just mean economically, we are the most watched country in Europe.

The handling of our money - it's not 'government' money it's ours, yours and mine - was simply inexcusably inept, wasteful, arrogant and clueless, Gordon Brown must have failed his maths 'O' level, there's no other way to account for the ridiculously hopeless way in which he handled the economy. I felt sorry for Darling, there was precisely nothing he could do to even start to repair the damage caused by more than a decade of incompetence and attempted vote buying - check out our level of public spending - even Keynes would blanche at that.

And what's worse is that the left STILL keep braying about public spending and denying that there's even a problem, that is simply incompatible with any understanding of the situation. Public spending encourages nothing economically, the only way to get us back in the black is make private industry spend - that's jobs and tax money paid that we'll ALL benefit from.

Harsh decisions need to be taken, shying away from that isn't an option.

I'm not going to wind my neck in at all and I'm not a computer commando. I'm not threatening anyone or doing anything wrong? I'm voicing my opinion as I would do in person. As I've said before, assault is illegal so if anyone actually does anything to me because of something I say to them in person then more fool them as they'll be the one suffering the consequences.

I made a jokey comment because I have an opinion of her that I am fully entitled to have whether I've lived through what she did or not... regardless no one should come on and start being a **** to me just because of that. I didn't offend anyone at all so where did his comment come from?!

Ridiculous.

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Originally Posted by Reeder

Ridiculous.

As is your over reaction.

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Originally Posted by Reeder

assault is illegal so if anyone actually does anything to me because of something I say to them in person then more fool them as they'll be the one suffering the consequences.

Are you suggesting fisticuffs will ensue as a result of this thread?