Austerity programme going well

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Bank's King says 'pessimistic' about worsening economy

Excluding financial interventions such as bank bailouts, it borrowed £17.9bn, compared with £15.2bn in May 2011.

Maybe the government could try cutting the beaurocrats?

[DimPrawn]

You actually believe there's an austerity programme?

[TimberWolf]

As long as they can keep house prices high and bankers rich everything will be fine.

[BrilloPad]

You actually believe there's an austerity programme?

[DimPrawn]

As long as they can keep house prices high and bankers rich everything will be fine.

WHS.

[petergriffin]

Cutting HB for the under 25ers will almost certainly solve the problem.

[Bunk]

Does anybody think this lot are doing everything arse about face? They seem to be making a lot of noise and publicity about the unpopular headline-grabbing policies while quietly doing nothing, whereas they should be telling everyone everything is fine, no cuts etc while sneakily doing a hatchet job. It's like they don't want to get re-elected.

[BrilloPad]

Cutting HB for the under 25ers will almost certainly solve the problem.

Give youngsters less independence - what muppets.

They need to reduce housing costs. Firstly stop mortgage costs being offset against rental income. Then tax rental income. Starting at 10% and increasing at 5% a year until house prices are 3 times income.

Does anybody think this lot are doing everything arse about face? They seem to be making a lot of noise and publicity about the unpopular headline-grabbing policies while quietly doing nothing, whereas they should be telling everyone everything is fine, no cuts etc while sneakily doing a hatchet job. It's like they don't want to get re-elected.

+1. I don't understand why though.

[Robinho]

The government are preaching about austerity - which is destroying confidence - and at the same time, they're not actually cutting. Really is daft.

Or What Bunk Said

[BlasterBates]

In fact they've increased spending so it's the opposite of austerity.

Hey.....you know what it reallly means. This is "Party time" Britain.




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