Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:17 pm  

cod'ead wrote:

Osborne DID create a recession.

He took an economy that was growing and turned that into contraction in only a few short months.

You bleat about the economy growing now and we are still not back to where we were before Osborne got his hands on the nation's money box

There has not been a recession since the Coalition has been in power. This is a fact.

Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:39 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

I considered it for a split second but then came to the conclusion that it was just more Blanchflower doom mongering left wing bile that I could not justify wasting my valuable time replying to in detail...

Fair enough. Thank you for at least admitting that you haven't the brain power to deal with serious subjects in detail and are not even bothering to make an effort.

Ajw71 wrote:

There has not been a recession since the Coalition has been in power. This is a fact.

Jesusfuckingwept.



And "Coalition" is not a proper noun, dear.

I do sometimes wonder if some people even went to school.

Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 4:51 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Fair enough. Thank you for at least admitting that you haven't the brain power to deal with serious subjects in detail and are not even bothering to make an effort.

Richard Littlejohn wrote about immigration once. That's a serious subject as well.

Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:09 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

Richard Littlejohn wrote about immigration once. That's a serious subject as well.

What was his opinion and did it tally with your own thoughts?

Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:27 pm  

They re-write history so soon after the events these days, it took the neo-nazis decades to emerge from hiding.

Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:38 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Fair enough. Thank you for at least admitting that you haven't the brain power to deal with serious subjects in detail and are not even bothering to make an effort.

Jesusfuckingwept.



And "Coalition" is not a proper noun, dear.

I do sometimes wonder if some people even went to school.

Getting past your grammar lesson while making up words for a moment, when was the recession after the one around 2008/9?

Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:46 pm  

BobbyD wrote:

Getting past your grammar lesson while making up words for a moment, when was the recession after the one around 2008/9?

The first of the most recent recessions kicked in in 2008, as a direct consequence of the actions of big finance. That's why it was a global recession.

However, by 2010, we (the UK) were moving out of it and into growth, albeit slowly.

Subsequently, as a direct consequence of the government's policies, we moved back into recession and away from growth.

These are facts.

Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:49 pm  

Ajw71 wrote:

Richard Littlejohn wrote about immigration once. That's a serious subject as well.

So little Ajw71 can't think of anything to say on his/her own, but to invoke Littlejohn.

Oh, how good that looks!

Not.

Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:50 pm  

cod'ead wrote: Economist David Blanchflower: Osborne has failed the very tests he set himself Even our right-wing muppets should be able to follow this Indeed he has, this is because politicians have a habit of making predictions based on nothing more than what sounds great at the minute. They never have the nous to understand that trying to predict what will happen when there's so many variables to take into account is a futile exercise. If you believed the left then you'd have expected to be sitting in a barren wasteland where the weak were being picked off by snipers to feed the rich, but that hasn't happened either. I've reached a conclusion that anyone who went to university and studied economics should really ask for their money back.

cod'ead wrote: Economist David Blanchflower: Osborne has failed the very tests he set himself Even our right-wing muppets should be able to follow this Indeed he has, this is because politicians have a habit of making predictions based on nothing more than what sounds great at the minute. They never have the nous to understand that trying to predict what will happen when there's so many variables to take into account is a futile exercise. If you believed the left then you'd have expected to be sitting in a barren wasteland where the weak were being picked off by snipers to feed the rich, but that hasn't happened either. I've reached a conclusion that anyone who went to university and studied economics should really ask for their money back.

Re: No More Arguments: Austerity is Working! : Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:54 pm  

Mintball wrote:

The first of the most recent recessions kicked in in 2008, as a direct consequence of the actions of big finance. That's why it was a global recession.

However, by 2010, we (the UK) were moving out of it and into growth, albeit slowly.

Subsequently, as a direct consequence of the government's policies, we moved back into recession and away from growth.

These are facts.

Seeing as a recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth and there has been not two such consecutive quarters of negative growth during the coalition's time in office you are quite simply, wrong.