Boris burrow

[Whorty]

Might of voted labour if they had put up a decent centrist team, promising no tax rises.

McDonnell as chancellor, as hard to imagine would have been even worse than Sunnak. In 2006, McDonnell said that "Marx, Lenin and Trotsky" were his "most significant" intellectual influences.

Top rate of Income tax, Inheritance Tax, CGT would be 50%+ now, and corptax atleast 35% under McDonnell.

He would have had the cover to do all the above in order to pay for his Covid bailout bill which would have even higher than Sunaks.

The £20 a week uplift to benefits that Tories have done, would have been £200 a week under Corybn and McDonnel.

Project Fear

HTH

[OwlHoot]

It was and then someone pointed out the Irish Sea isn't all that calm and we have a tunnelling machine left over somewhere. ...

It'll be a damned site less calm if Boris's diggers set off the million tons of munitions dumped in Beaufort's Dyke!

[mattster]

Please, please, please, vote out these clowns that have bankrupted this country. These Tories have done in a few short years what it takes Labour decades to do.

At least when Labour do it, we tend to see something for our tax money. I think the only period in my lifetime where we saw sustained, proper investment in the NHS were the Blair/Brown years. The Tories give us the worst of both; high taxes and cuts to public services, with the current tax burden in the UK being the highest since the 70's, apparently.

[vetran]

It'll be a damned site less calm if Boris's diggers set off the million tons of munitions dumped in Beaufort's Dyke!

Another challenge to the project, when they told Boris to think big they didn't understand his ability to go completely out of his gourd.

Build some flaming houses, fix death-race motorways, do the important bits on hS2, get broadband acceptable in rural areas and start businesses outside the south east.

[d000hg]

Please, please, please, vote out these clowns that have bankrupted this country. These Tories have done in a few short years what it takes Labour decades to do.

Eh? When has any party been in power for multiple decades?

[vetran]

Eh? When has any party been in power for multiple decades?

1812 - 1830 - Conservatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...sh_governments

Though Labour managed to run out of money in 13 years. You ae underselling them.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...neral-election




The Tories are trying to hit two decades looks like they might.

They will hit the money wall soon but I can't actually blame them for the pandemic.

[Eirikur]

Independent Scotland, Unified Ireland and the EU will be grateful to Boris for paying for their tunnel

[AtW]

Though Labour managed to run out of money in 13 years.

Poor buggers did not think of printing money via "independent" BoE buying Govt gilts, total suckers - thank God we've got proper fiscal con-servatives running the country (into the ground).

[vetran]

Poor buggers did not think of printing money via "independent" BoE buying Govt gilts, total suckers - thank God we've got proper fiscal con-servatives running the country (into the ground).

Again underselling the New Lie.

https://www.theguardian.com/business...-crash-2009-qe

Bank of England continues on money-printing path it set out on in 2009

QE increase of £100bn shows Bank’s answer to all economic problems is still to print cash

The Bank of England’s decision to increase quantitative easing by £100bn at its June meeting to support the economy through the coronavirus crisis follows a well-trodden path.

Ever since the central bank began to print money and inject it into the financial system after the 2008 financial crash, its answer to any and all economic problems has been to print a bit more.

Interest rates have moved up and down a little over the last 10 years, but in such a narrow range – from a high of 0.75% in 2018 and 2019 to the current 0.1% – that it has had only a limited impact.
Bank of England boosts bond-buying programme by £100bn - as it happened

Quantitative easing on the other hand has expanded from £200bn in 2009 to £745bn today.

[AtW]

Again underselling the New Lie.

Do I need to plot UK debt vs who was in charge in the last 10 years?