Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Why should everybody have to afford one before Osborne and Cameron go?
I have not had a holiday for 3 years... so what?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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from the mail today.
The maelstrom in the financial markets and the chilling prospect of a double-dip recession present the greatest leadership challenge yet for David Cameron and his Chancellor George Osborne.
How the pair choose to respond will either make or break their Government. If they show mental strength and manage to navigate Britain through this storm, they will be credited with having saved the country from a moment of maximum danger.
However, if they fail they will go down in history as men who started promisingly by trying to reduce the national deficit but who were proved to be lightweights unable to see the job through.
Of course, the financial crisis that has enveloped the world over the past week was never in the script that Cameron and Osborne had prepared when they took office.
They had hoped that Britain would now be well on the way to full economic recovery, rather than bumping along the bottom with dismal growth (only 0.2 per cent in the second quarter of this year).
Cameron and Osborne's assumption had been that their austerity programme, designed to get our finances back in order, would mean a tough couple of years but then a period of healthy growth.
The Tories would then be rewarded by voters giving them an outright victory in the general election in 2015.
Indeed, Osborne bragged to close colleagues just a few months ago that the next election was already virtually 'in the bag' thanks to the deficiencies of Ed Miliband and a weak Labour opposition.
It is because of this that the Chancellor has been advocating that the Government takes a less rigorous economic policy than some people have been calling for in order to avoid jeopardising the Tories' electoral chances.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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BTW
Howard/Barry. Has the comment box on Barry's blog dropped off the page or am I missing something?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you're right tom. maybe barry doesn't want you answering back?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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mmmm what has happened?
Thanks for letting me know Tom - PaulB, help please.....
Howard - you know better than that.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"Blame it on Boland."?
I did think of going straight to the top, but thought:No, he'll be busy photographing gulls.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ye Barry, I appreciate that. A good title for his autobiography, nonetheless.
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Note now that the postbox also gone on the frontpage too. Clearly there has been a glitch in the system. Oh dear all round!
Keith Sansum1
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bloody tories lol they steal everything lol
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Brian Dixon
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barryw,youre lucky i havent had a holiday for the last 30 years.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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The missing postboxes have been returned. They werent half-inched by the Tories after all Keef...lol
My ace man at the coalface Chris Tutthill spotted the cause and fixed it in double quick time. Luckily Chris was about... so am very grateful to him as always. He keeps us all afloat.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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well at least thats summat we cant blame them for paulb lol
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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full circle now lol
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Osbourne has blamed the snow,Royal wedding and the previous government for no growth in the economy.What will be his excuse now and in the future? Is he able/capable to handle the job?
This Government has a no growth economy entering a global market plunge.Will the next Government constantly complain ( as this government has ) about the inheritance the `Coalition Government` have left them? Not holding breath.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Reg - You have to face the facts, the incompetent fools in the Labour government left our economy in an appalling state and, it being so fragile, the Office of Budget Responsibility has correctly identified the reasons you mention as having a negative impact. You give George Osborne too much credit saying that it was he who identified all those reasons.
If Osborne can be critisised for anything it is that he is not cutting public spending enough and is merely doing what is the minimum needed to prevent the UK's credit rating being downgraded.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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reg
please dont keep blaming the tories none of it is there fault lol
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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reg makes a valid point, come the next election the blues will be blaming the yellows for the state we are in, forgetting that the latter are a small part of the coalition.
the public are getting heartily fed up when they see a government minister on the box start the answer to any question with:
a)the last government etc etc
b) the legacy we were left with etc etc
