Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:52 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

Is this the best the Lefties can do?

Quoting from The Grauniad and left wing authors?

Hilarious!

As opposed to opinion polls?

Come back when you've finally experienced a term under a tory-led government as an adult

Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:55 pm  

Oh dear.

Let's look at the impartiality of the author shall we?

"Before joining the TUC I had a fairly varied career taking in the Bank of England, fund management, the Labour Party and an international trade union confederation".

Yes, very impartial.......

Is this the best the people who only see what they want to see can do?

Quoting from The Grauniad and left wing authors?

Hilarious![/quote]

Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:20 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

...Labour on the other hand should be condemned for wasting money in the way in which they did.

I'd be interested to know which aspects of Labour's spending you saw as "wasting money" and does your view include bailing out the banks as being wasteful?

Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 4:28 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

I'd be interested to know which aspects of Labour's spending you saw as "wasting money" and does your view include bailing out the banks as being wasteful?

Same here. I'll get comfortable for the response.

Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:03 pm  

Sure.

Would you like me to start with £20bn (See how easy it is DaveO?) on implementing an NHS IT system that is "questionable" to say the least.

Or maybe selling off our gold reserves for c. $270 an ounce (current price more than $1000 dollars, money wasted around £7bn).

Perhaps the £3bn ovepaid in benefits in 2008/09 (Source DWP: Fraud and error in the benefits system)

Or even maybe giving away the rebate to the EU that Thatcher won for the UK. - say £7bn p.a.


No, actually I think I will cite the fact that the UK debt interest is forecast to double by 2015 to around £70bn, directly as a result of Labours spending.

Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:29 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

Sure.

Would you like me to start with £20bn (See how easy it is DaveO?) on implementing an NHS IT system that is "questionable" to say the least.

Or maybe selling off our gold reserves for c. $270 an ounce (current price more than $1000 dollars, money wasted around £7bn).

Perhaps the £3bn ovepaid in benefits in 2008/09 (Source DWP: Fraud and error in the benefits system)

Or even maybe giving away the rebate to the EU that Thatcher won for the UK. - say £7bn p.a.

No, actually I think I will cite the fact that the UK debt interest is forecast to double by 2015 to around £70bn, directly as a result of Labours spending.

Is that it?

Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:59 pm  

Even Osborne's previous supporters are now turning on the financial iliterate

Even Osborne's previous supporters are now turning on the financial iliterate

Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:01 pm  

ID Cards, Defence was a big one.

Massively overspent, shambles really.

Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:07 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

Or maybe selling off our gold reserves for c. $270 an ounce (current price more than $1000 dollars, money wasted around £7bn).

Todays price is irrelevant, we sold some of the wifes broken jewellery 18 months ago but I don't beat myself up today because I would have got more for it now.

Perhaps the £3bn ovepaid in benefits in 2008/09 (Source DWP: Fraud and error in the benefits system)

What was the overpayment in 2010/11 ?
How much was fraud and how much was error ?
If it was fraud are you blaming a government for its fraudulent citizens and if it was error are you blaming a government for its inept civil service (they don't bring their own with them you know)

Or even maybe giving away the rebate to the EU that Thatcher won for the UK. - say £7bn p.a.

You're estimating it at £7bn pa, have you polled someone for that figure, or is it related to fact in any way - and in what way was it "given away", I mean literally, did someone stand on a street corner and hand out £7bn every year to passers-by and if so where is this street corner ?

No, actually I think I will cite the fact that the UK debt interest is forecast to double by 2015 to around £70bn, directly as a result of Labours spending.

This fact of yours, where is it, invented or polled again ?

Re: Coalition to break? : Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:50 pm  

XBrettKennyX wrote:

Or maybe selling off our gold reserves for c. $270 an ounce (current price more than $1000 dollars, money wasted around £7bn).

Strange, we never hear the right wing moan about the selling of of BT, British Gas, Electricity and the rail network, all at bargain basement prices.

XBrettKennyX wrote:

Perhaps the £3bn ovepaid in benefits in 2008/09 (Source DWP: Fraud and error in the benefits system)

I wonder what the total of unclaimed benefits come to at the moment, or the total of un-collected taxes from Vodaphone and the like...

XBrettKennyX wrote:

No, actually I think I will cite the fact that the UK debt interest is forecast to double by 2015 to around £70bn, directly as a result of Labours spending on propping up failed casino banking operations. A large proportion of which we can get back unless the current government doesn't flog it off cheap to its cronies

Aye.