Good for Labour

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I think you'll find being a liar isn't an exclusively Tory trait.

No, indeed. But there are some things that the Nasty Party is decisively better at.

[Mich the Tester]

Funny how different recessions have happened under different ruling parties, but every one has happened about 10 years after a weak and venal Tory government. It takes a little while for their assorted wrongdoings to work through the economy.

10 years in which their successors can prepare the country's finances by controlling public spending and running a surplus, which is precisely what Gordon didn't do.

[Spacecadet]

Funny how different recessions have happened under different ruling parties, but every one has happened about 10 years after a weak and venal Tory government. It takes a little while for their assorted wrongdoings to work through the economy.

This was a Labour bust, not a Tory bust, Gordo cleared that confusion up already

[shaunbhoy]

Funny how different recessions have happened under different ruling parties, but every one has happened about 10 years after a weak and venal Tory government. It takes a little while for their assorted wrongdoings to work through the economy.

Even funnier how they always happen UNDER a Labour Government too eh?
However, now that Flash Gordon has saved the world, there will be no more boom and bust. Just bust from now on!

[The Wikir Man]

I don’t care if the tories are a bunch of liars as long as they can balance the books.

Do you care if they are a bunch of liars and can't balance the books?

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Even funnier how they always happen UNDER a Labour Government too eh?

Ah, but they don't. Tories claim that they do, but in this too they are perpetrating terminological and other inexactitudes.

For example, when Major made the mistake of beating Kinnock, he spoiled the chance of having the Thatcher-Major recession labelled the Kinnock recession, as it would have been if Kinnock had been elected just in time to suffer from it.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Do you care if they are a bunch of liars and can't balance the books?

That is more to the point.

However, the Tories might win, so I suggest that all the Tories here start brushing up on how they are going to claim that things are better and it is the Tories who did it.

The reality will be that things will be worse but the Tories' incompetence will be such that it would be unfair really to pin any blame on them.

[Mich the Tester]

Do you care if they are a bunch of liars and can't balance the books?

yes

[shaunbhoy]

Ah, but they don't. Tories claim that they do, but in this too they are perpetrating terminological and other inexactitudes.

So after 13 years of running up colossal debts, and selling off the family silver(or gold to be more exact), it will all be the Tories fault if we are not out of recession by next year then?


When were you hypnotized?

[DiscoStu]

Funny how different recessions have happened under different ruling parties, but every one has happened about 10 years after a weak and venal Tory government. It takes a little while for their assorted wrongdoings to work through the economy.

Yes, it's nothing to do with the billions upon billions upon billions that Gordo's pissed away in the name of "investment" on our massively bloated public sector