PMQ's

[DodgyAgent]

Get the economy growing is the best way to start, then over time streamlining the public sector etc. Wholesale slashes all over the place just as you emerge from a recession is not the way to go. There is a bit of a false dichotomy with the Tories they think it's either deep cuts or keep borrowing huge amounts.

All well and good but where does the money come from to sustain the losses, particularly as the UK economy is not growing? Trees?

[russell]

All well and good but where does the money come from to sustain the losses, particularly as the UK economy is not growing? Trees?

It's a bit late now, if they hadn't cut so hard the country would be growing. They blew it.

[GreenLabel]

It's a bit late now, if they hadn't cut so hard the country would be growing. They blew it.

What utter crap. Spending in April - September 2011, for example, was higher than in the same months of 2010.

[The_Equalizer]

It's a bit late now, if they hadn't cut so hard the country would be growing. They blew it.

From what I understand there hasn't been any cut in spending, they have just cut down on the increase in spending.

[TimberWolf]

From what I understand there hasn't been any cut in spending, they have just cut down on the increase in spending.

They haven't cut the cut in spending as fast as they pretended they were going to though. The debt mountain grows and will be a problem for the next government to deal with in the unlikely event that events don't catch up with them before that time.

[swamp]

According to Bloomberg, the UK budget deficit fell from 7.7 billion last year to 6.5 billion this year, excluding support for banks. Does not sound like much of a budget cut.

These 'cuts' are like one of those dippy minimum wage credit-card shopaholics who has started spending money in House of Fraser instead of Harvey Nichols. Labour want the UK to carry on shopping in Knightsbridge's finest while 'growth' gets us out of trouble. But the only growth that Labour achieved was in net immigration.

[DodgyAgent]

Get the economy growing is the best way to start, then over time streamlining the public sector etc. Wholesale slashes all over the place just as you emerge from a recession is not the way to go. There is a bit of a false dichotomy with the Tories they think it's either deep cuts or keep borrowing huge amounts.

and how do you get the economy going when you have no money to "invest"?

[Doggy Styles]

and how do you get the economy going when you have no money to "invest"?

This was similar to my question but russ doesn't seem to understand the concept. No point in debating it any further.