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Comprehensive Spending Review and Autumn Statement

SwingsitlikeHogan

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On Thursday...this will be interesting

Looking forward to hearing Georgie Boy tell us that the pledge of a £10Bn surplus by 2020 (that is driving the austerity programme) is no longer essential or quite so critical to the economic welfare of the UK. And that magically he has been able to put in place measures that will avoid UK economic meltdown and armageddon without it.

Or maybe he'll eat humble pie and say that they got it wrong.

Should be good.
 
Does it actually matter what he says? He could reveal that he has single handedly eliminated IS, discovered a new free fuel to replace petrol and that each family in the UK will get a magic rainbow unicorn that farts out 10 pound notes and some on here would still complain. I can see the responses now....."IS didn't get a fair trial, what about the poor oil companies losing all their revenue and why can't the unicorns fart out 20 pound notes".
 
ColchesterFC said:
Does it actually matter what he says? He could reveal that he has single handedly eliminated IS, discovered a new free fuel to replace petrol and that each family in the UK will get a magic rainbow unicorn that farts out 10 pound notes and some on here would still complain. I can see the responses now....."IS didn't get a fair trial, what about the poor oil companies losing all their revenue and why can't the unicorns fart out 20 pound notes".
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Distressingly on-point. You're absolutely right. Never before have we had an opposition so disposed to pre-judging and dismissing every action of a government. It is pessimistic, ineffectual politics at its worst.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
On Thursday...this will be interesting

Looking forward to hearing Georgie Boy tell us that the pledge of a £10Bn surplus by 2020 (that is driving the austerity programme) is no longer essential or quite so critical to the economic welfare of the UK. And that magically he has been able to put in place measures that will avoid UK economic meltdown and armageddon without it.

Or maybe he'll eat humble pie and say that they got it wrong.

Should be good.
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You might want to set your alarm for Wednesday if you don't want to miss it...
 
Rooter said:
Talk to me!! I want one!!
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No problem. All you need to do is send me your bank details, and your credit card details and I will send you your unicorn. As a show of faith I have added a recently taken photograph of the unicorn in the wild so that you know the offer is genuine........

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P.S. Sorry Phil but I promise to get back on track really, really soon.
 
ColchesterFC said:
No problem. All you need to do is send me your bank details, and your credit card details and I will send you your unicorn. As a show of faith I have added a recently taken photograph of the unicorn in the wild so that you know the offer is genuine........

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Put me down for 2, will get you the cash as soon as the Crown Prince of Nigeria deposits the £2.3m in my account like he promised.
 
Astraeus said:
Distressingly on-point. You're absolutely right. Never before have we had an opposition so disposed to pre-judging and dismissing every action of a government. It is pessimistic, ineffectual politics at its worst.
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You have got to be kidding.

Osborne is on an ideological crusade to reduce the size of government, when all the world's sensible economists are telling him it is strangling the economy. And promising a 7 day NHS to prevent some probably unavoidable deaths when they can't even pay for the current version.

The future of the NHS, the welfare state and the economy under Osborne is cause for plenty of pessimism.
 
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