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AND HERE WE GO - THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTION THREAD

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PNWokingham said:
Lots more money for the NHS, Police, infrastructure and many other departments. A decade on from 10% budget defecits caused by the largesse of the last labour government at exactly the wrong time in the economic cycle is now largely behind us - so an investment led policy agenda is on the cards - doesn't sound very right-wing to me!
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10 years of winding down public services, forcing a weak economy through a Brexit muddle .. yeah great management. Have they chased down the tax issues, no they just want to look after themselves.
Their manifesto promised nothing positive just more poor management and constant negative propaganda about the competition.. when you have to banter, you’ve no game.
 
harpo_72 said:
10 years of winding down public services, forcing a weak economy through a Brexit muddle .. yeah great management. Have they chased down the tax issues, no they just want to look after themselves.
Their manifesto promised nothing positive just more poor management and constant negative propaganda about the competition.. when you have to banter, you’ve no game.
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When you are borrowing 1oobn a year more than you are earning do you carry on thinking that others will finance your defecit or do you institute logical economic policies and try and balance the books? Talk about a tough job but it was the only choice - a hard one but necessary. If people think there was any other way they are mad
 
PNWokingham said:
There is far more tha Brexit about the election. If i were the biggest supporting remainer ever i would not vote Labour in a million in a million years as the country will bbankrupt within one parliamentary term if these loonatics ever get the keys to number 10. All this talk of hard right torries being hard right is utter rubbish - they are pretty central - it is labbour that have moved the spectrum so far to the left that some of Corbyn's favourite left dictators in Latam will be looking over the atlantic with envy!!!
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There is for some but not for a lot of others
 
PNWokingham said:
When you are borrowing 1oobn a year more than you are earning do you carry on thinking that others will finance your defecit or do you institute logical economic policies and try and balance the books? Talk about a tough job but it was the only choice - a hard one but necessary. If people think there was any other way they are mad
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all well and good but what about the 70 billion in tax cuts given out by the torys in that time... i suppose they were necassary too?
 
patricks148 said:
all well and good but what about the 70 billion in tax cuts given out by the torys in that time... i suppose they were necassary too?
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Its necessary to make work worthwhile so people will do it and pay tax so the Government can fund things. To redistribute wealth you have to earn it first.
 
Old Skier said:
We can all moan about who benefits from this and that but for a party to pledge an unfunded £54 billion hit on the public purse could be described as just a tad reckless.
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we can, but when you are being told, we need to tighten our belts, cuts are needed, we are all in this together.. etc...how does it look when you give significant tax cuts to the wealthy.
 
Old Skier said:
We can all moan about who benefits from this and that but for a party to pledge an unfunded £54 billion hit on the public purse could be described as just a tad reckless.
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The £70billion is a fact, the waspi money is a pledge, is it really comparable?
Was the 21,000 Police cuts justifiable against £70Billion in tax breaks
 
pauldj42 said:
The £70billion is a fact, the waspi money is a pledge, is it really comparable?
Was the 21,000 Police cuts justifiable against £70Billion in tax breaks
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At least they can pay the £58m with the money they're recouping by ending the married allowance, which they're embarrassed to talk about.

Jeez, roll on the 13th Dec so that we can end the willy waving competition.
 
pauldj42 said:
The £70billion is a fact, the waspi money is a pledge, is it really comparable?
Was the 21,000 Police cuts justifiable against £70Billion in tax breaks
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Mate it wasn't a pledge it came out of the hat the day after BJ was tackled about it during the leaders debate. There were no costing s for it in the "grey book" as proven in the AN interview yesterday.
 
Hobbit said:
At least they can pay the £58m with the money they're recouping by ending the married allowance, which they're embarrassed to talk about.

Jeez, roll on the 13th Dec so that we can end the willy waving competition.
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Unfortunately Bri, all I’m seeing from others is the Labour scare stories to avoid discussing the facts of the last 9 years.
 
pauldj42 said:
The £70billion is a fact, the waspi money is a pledge, is it really comparable?
Was the 21,000 Police cuts justifiable against £70Billion in tax breaks
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but it was needed paul so those who got the cut in tax could pay more:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

it was to stimulate the economy.... a great way to stimulate it by sticking up VAT 5%
 
patricks148 said:
all well and good but what about the 70 billion in tax cuts given out by the torys in that time... i suppose they were necassary too?[/QUOTE

and cutting taxes is bad why? It leeds to more fiscal receipts and thus a bigger economy, as has been proven many times (first article i found below) - and hence why the fairy-tale Corbyn/McDonnell bad-joke agenda will inevitably lead to the brunt of the extra being financed by the bulk of the population as investors desert the country, inovation dries up etc etc!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikepa...uts-increase-government-revenue/#630180e34bf2
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Old Skier said:
So you judge all those that might support the Torys on a handful of MPs. Does that make all Labour supporters Marxist or should we try and be a little sensible about this.
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Good point so why do you and the other Tory fan boys keep tarring all the labour MP’s?
 
Old Skier said:
Mate it wasn't a pledge it came out of the hat the day after BJ was tackled about it during the leaders debate. There were no costing s for it in the "grey book" as proven in the AN interview yesterday.
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If they don’t win the election it’s hot air! The £70billion in tax breaks are facts.
Try defending that rather than using something which may not happen.
 
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