End of an era

For good or ill, either way the line has been drawn. A new beginning
beckons, let's hope it's at least no worse than the previous
administration.

#If there's a new way, I'll be the first in line,
#But it better work this time!

 

Given that the Tories have nothing left to sell, I can't help but think
they're going to feck things up just as badly as the outgoing
administration.

 

It's a nightmare gig considering what they've been left to sort out. No
doubt the short memories will kick in come the next election & people
will blame the Tories/LibDem for higher taxes & unemployment, whilst
forgetting who caused the mess in the first place. I'll be amazed if
Labour don't get back in next time.

 

It will take a special kind of idiot to **** things up more than
the outgoing bully.
The liberals will reign in the worst of the tory policies so we
could well end up with some common sense.

 

The mess is the budget deficit caused by bailing out the banks to stop
them going under, & the number of businesses that either have gone
under or are on the verge of doing so due to the difficulty in
borrowing money.

It was caused by the finance ministers who ignored all the signs &
failed to reel in the banks. Or in the case of the US, forced the banks
to give mortgages to people they didn't want to.

Yes, it was a global thing that started mainly in the States. But Brown
was very quick to take credit for persuading other countries to tackle
things in a certain way after the event. In which case he could equally
have used those powers to persuade them to prevent it in the first
place. But he didn't.

P.S. did you get my email?

 

Remind me - which party degregulated the banking industry?

 

Remind me - since when has what another party did in the past meant the
current government can't change it?

 

It's much easier to remove rules than it is to implement new ones.

 

Not to the lot that implemented a new law for *every* working day of
their government.

 

Well, it wasn't in a mess when GB walked into no 11 for the first
time, and it was when he walked out of No 10.

I don't think it unreasonable that the man who had his hands on the
reins of the nation's finances for 13 years should assume some
responsibility. Don't come back with " he wasn't chancellor all that
time", either. Darling was Orville to his Keith Harris. Only not as
good at sums.

He was ending boom and bust, don't forget, and employing prudence.

£90,000 Govt debt per household is a good start.

 

Someone's showing their age.

--
Veggie Dave
http://www.iq18films.co.uk

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim
that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

And the Tories would have done what, exactly? Lemme see - oh, I know -
done exactly the same thing. If the shoe had been on the other foot it
might even have been worse.
As for that slimy **** that's just been given his PM riband, he can ****
right off - from a dour Presbyterian to a self-seeking cockstick inside
one hour. Priceless.

Greedy fuckers, all of them.

 

According to a radio report I heard on Saturday evening, Osbourne was
all for letting the banks sink, rather than offering a rescue package.

I'm pretty convinced that would have fucked us up infinitely more than
anything Brown has done.

 

I read this somewhere today.

'Would you rather have a mortgage, or live debt free under a bridge'

Labour have got us a mortgage, the Conservatives will have us living
under a bridge.

 

**** me. I actually agree with you on that stuff.

 

'meet the new boss, same as the old boss'

 

CGT was the most complicated set of financial rules out there, yet they
managed to completely change those easily enough. Twice.

 

Maybe, who knows. Same for the Lib Dems, Greens etc etc. It wasn't up
to them though.

 

Of course you are, I wouldn't expect anything different.

 

At least he has at times made negative comments about organised religion.
Both he and his wife are about patronage and inherited wealth however. Hmmm