Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
He must have thought the cuts weren't deep enough unless he is trying to soften his image for the "out" campaign.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
jumped before he was pushed more likely howard.
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,074
Far too nice and honourable a man to get mixed up in politics.
Unwilling to face up to economic facts of UK plc and make the difficult and often unpopular choices which might stop us becoming a basket case like Italy and Greece.
Unfortunately we need politicians who will tell us how it is, rather than what we'd all like to hear and carry on giving us stuff we can't afford however much we'd 'like' it, running an ongoing defecit and building up National Debt as a millstone round the neck of future generations.
Remember the interest alone on the National Debt (£ 26.817 for each person in the UK) is costing us over £50 billion a year. Imagine what we could do and afford if it did not exist with an almost extra £1000 to play with for each man, woman,transgender and child in the UK.
Delayed gratification is found experimentally to be more prevalent in more intelligent children and is the reason the 'middle classes' do so well financially (e.g. poor buy Henry vaccuum at BrightHouse to get it 'now' for £260 (APR 99.9%), you borrow neighbours and save and buy from Amazon for £104, and I, being tight get one from British Heart Foundation for £45)
As a nation we act like a thick toddler who wants the sweetie now rather than having two if he/she can hang on for five minutes! (see Stanford marshmallow experiment)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The wheels seem to be coming off of the wagon now with the latest cabinet minister resigning. Prior to last May Cameron and Osborne claimed that the coalition with the Lib Dems was holding back the tories from taking the country forward, out of debt and making work pay whilst ensuring the genuinely disabled were looked after. The massive splits over cuts to welfare and differences on the benefits or otherwise of being in the EU have left the top two looking isolated and even the whips with our own Charlie are unlikely to pull the party together.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
I think they'll both be out of a job by the summer, if not sooner.
Arte et Marte