howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#2
That is obvious, paying out benefits and all the usual legacy of excessive spending by the State left by Gordon Brown - the deficit (the excess of spending over income) will not be cleared for 4 years or more.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#3
a lot more than 4 years barry, despite the election talk of clearing it in one parliament.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
#4
Coming up to a trillion over the next few decades to pay for alternative energy. Yeah that's really going to bring down the deficit. I see David Willetts has jumped the shark with his latest trip to the Antarctica. And they call him two brains?
Two short planks more like.
Oh and let's not forget HS2 another government wheeze. That's helping is it not?
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#5
there you go then,
usual drab barryw answer.
if we are to blame benefits as barryw would like to, this has gone on a lot longer than the past few years
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#6
catch 22 situation,cut jobs and then pay out benifits with no goverment income [taxes],or spend money to create jobs and gather taxes.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#7
2.67 unemployed a price worth paying?
rising each month
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