Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 9:05 am  

cod'ead wrote: I do hope someone is keeping count of all these u-turns Someone must've heard me: 32 policy reversals in two years That's an average of one every three weeks

cod'ead wrote: I do hope someone is keeping count of all these u-turns Someone must've heard me: 32 policy reversals in two years That's an average of one every three weeks

Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 9:36 am  

So which way are they pointing now?

Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 9:38 am  

cod'ead wrote: Someone must've heard me: 32 policy reversals in two years That's an average of one every three weeks This is the caring, sharing, listening 'we are all in it together' party you know.

cod'ead wrote: Someone must've heard me: 32 policy reversals in two years That's an average of one every three weeks This is the caring, sharing, listening 'we are all in it together' party you know.

Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 9:39 am  

Scooter Nik's political premonition of the day:


In about two years time, when the elections start coming round again, and we've still got this massive budget deficit and are still in recession, the Conservatives will turn round an point at these abandonments of Treasury policy, and will blame the public not willing to pay their taxes for the state of affairs.

Nothing in politics is done without an ulterior motive.

Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 9:42 am  

Victor Chandler offering 15/2 on Cameron not being PM by Christmas Day 2012


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Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 10:12 am  

cod'ead wrote: Someone must've heard me: 32 policy reversals in two years That's an average of one every three weeks Should be re-branded the Cumurun's Cunsurvutuve U-turn Purty.

cod'ead wrote: Someone must've heard me: 32 policy reversals in two years That's an average of one every three weeks Should be re-branded the Cumurun's Cunsurvutuve U-turn Purty.

Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 11:32 am  

Personally I think they should rebrand to:
Cameron's United New Tory Society

Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 11:35 am  

cod'ead wrote: And another I do hope someone is keeping count of all these u-turns and better still, adding up the cost of not thinking things through in the first place. We've surely never had a more shambolic bunch of misfits in charge of the country? Jim Callaghan & clowns circa 1979 maybe ?

cod'ead wrote: And another I do hope someone is keeping count of all these u-turns and better still, adding up the cost of not thinking things through in the first place. We've surely never had a more shambolic bunch of misfits in charge of the country? Jim Callaghan & clowns circa 1979 maybe ?

Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 11:55 am  

sanjunien wrote:

Jim Callaghan & clowns circa 1979 maybe ?

He managed to avoid a costly (in human and monetary terms) war with Argentina by using intelligence he received wisely, rather than using it to boost his poll rating.

Maybe he should have done a Thatcher and used a war as a means to win in 1979.

Re: Budget U-Turn : Wed May 30, 2012 4:35 pm  

rover49 wrote:

He managed to avoid a costly (in human and monetary terms) war with Argentina by using intelligence he received wisely, rather than using it to boost his poll rating.

Maybe he should have done a Thatcher and used a war as a means to win in 1979.

NOTHING and I mean NOTHING would have boosted his ratings after the 'Winter of Discontent' - it gets to fine state of affairs when even the gravediggers go on strike FFS !!!

it was a terrible time to be living through, especially with the coldest winter since '63 - the UK needed change

the saddest thing of all was that Lord Jim somehow refused to go to the polls in the autumn of 1978 when he would have won hands down and Thatcherism and all the evils that went with it, including the terrible waste of life in the South Atlantic wouldn't have happened - just imagine he , single handedly could have prevented Thatcherism ? What a useless welsh git he was !