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Jeremy Corbyn

SocketRocket said:
You are a Mathematician I believe, surely you can understand if a Government inherits a National Defecit of £150 Billion per year then the National Debt is going to increase massively even if you cut it progressively by two thirds over seven years. It amuses me how people like yourself say that the Tories haven't even removed the deficit on one hand and then complain about the methods they have been forced to take to reduce State spending on the other. Would you be happier with their performance by completely removing the deficit by applying massively more cuts to spending, somehow I think not, you would still be whinging about austerity. If you want to see the deficit and national debt increase out of control then just put Corbyn and his crew into government, the country will be in the same state as Greece after a term of office, how do you think Greece got it's self into such a state of debt?
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I am no mathematician but I seem to recall the last Tory Chancellor vowed to straighten up the economy within 3 years, which then changed to 5 years and now it is 10 years.
Perhaps it is just the Tories Chancellors who struggle with the maths.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
I am no mathematician but I seem to recall the last Tory Chancellor vowed to straighten up the economy within 3 years, which then changed to 5 years and now it is 10 years.
Perhaps it is just the Tories Chancellors who struggle with the maths.
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So how much more austerity would you like to see? He could have done it but every time his Government tried to cut State Spending people like you started howling how horrible they were being.
 
SocketRocket said:
So how much more austerity would you like to see? He could have done it but every time his Government tried to cut State Spending people like you started howling how horrible they were being.
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Osborne was the Chancellor for all the time and the Tories were in power. They knew what they told the electorate they had to do to balance the books and clear the deficit - what went wrong? Were there sums wrong to start with? Did they make the wrong assumptions? Were the assumptions they made at the outset valid but things went wrong on their watch? Or did they know all along that they'd never clear the deficit but knew that they wouldn't get away with all the cuts unless they had an acceptable objective?

Whatever it was it was all on the Tories watch; they had complete control.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Osborne was the Chancellor for all the time and the Tories were in power. They knew what they told the electorate they had to do to balance the books and clear the deficit - what went wrong? Were there sums wrong to start with? Did they make the wrong assumptions? Were the assumptions they made at the outset valid but things went wrong on their watch? Or did they know all along that they'd never clear the deficit but knew that they wouldn't get away with all the cuts unless they had an acceptable objective?

Whatever it was it was all on the Tories watch; they had complete control.
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I can only repeat. They wanted to do more but were thwarted by the howls of people like you calling them nasty. How do you think the deficit could be cleared, they have removed two thirds of it by the way?
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Osborne was the Chancellor for all the time and the Tories were in power. They knew what they told the electorate they had to do to balance the books and clear the deficit - what went wrong? Were there sums wrong to start with? Did they make the wrong assumptions? Were the assumptions they made at the outset valid but things went wrong on their watch? Or did they know all along that they'd never clear the deficit but knew that they wouldn't get away with all the cuts unless they had an acceptable objective?

Whatever it was it was all on the Tories watch; they had complete control.
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They inherited a runaway train or a rudderless supertanker with, in their first term, a crew member(Libdems) who had significant control on how much the wheel was turned.

I can think of two budgets that had U-turns in them as they wouldn't have got through Parliament.

Lets not forget, the Labour option at that time was to borrow more and spend their way out of debt. Greece tried that business model!
 
Hobbit said:
They inherited a runaway train or a rudderless supertanker with, in their first term, a crew member(Libdems) who had significant control on how much the wheel was turned.

I can think of two budgets that had U-turns in them as they wouldn't have got through Parliament.

Lets not forget, the Labour option at that time was to borrow more and spend their way out of debt. Greece tried that business model!
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So austerity under the Tories would have been much more severe if they were not in partnership with the LibDems.
Sobering thought.
 
Hobbit said:
They inherited a runaway train or a rudderless supertanker with, in their first term, a crew member(Libdems) who had significant control on how much the wheel was turned.

I can think of two budgets that had U-turns in them as they wouldn't have got through Parliament.

Lets not forget, the Labour option at that time was to borrow more and spend their way out of debt. Greece tried that business model!
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Very good point and well made.
 
I saw her latest Sky News interview, good grief what a hopeless inept clueless moronic display she showed the viewing audience. Doesn't matter which way you intend to vote but having her as a potential Home Secretary doesn't bare thinking about, if labour do win, then surely they cannot keep her in her current role.
 
Khamelion said:
I saw her latest Sky News interview, good grief what a hopeless inept clueless moronic display she showed the viewing audience. Doesn't matter which way you intend to vote but having her as a potential Home Secretary doesn't bare thinking about, if labour do win, then surely they cannot keep her in her current role.
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And yet she was JC's choice as Home Sec. Just shows his judgement is seriously flawed and this will have affected his chances of winning.
 
And to then blatantly lie about her being "ill". He should have stood up and said words like, good God who knew she was that bad? I've fired her and she will NEVER get anywhere near the front benches again.
 
Khamelion said:
I saw her latest Sky News interview, good grief what a hopeless inept clueless moronic display she showed the viewing audience. Doesn't matter which way you intend to vote but having her as a potential Home Secretary doesn't bare thinking about, if labour do win, then surely they cannot keep her in her current role.
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I agree that interview was a disgrace and as it was the last interview before it was announced, maybe, just maybe we should show a little compassion.

Doesn't excuse her previous inept displays though.
 
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