Reply to: Gordon Brown – you’re steering into ruin

[Bagpuss]

The first comment following the article :-

"If your car has started to skid out of control because of too much acceleration, pulling the steering wheel in the opposite direction is exactly what you do.

Jez, Chipping Norton,
"

Obvioulsly a bogus Jezza who likes crashing

[BrilloPad]

I love following this debate but I'm lost. Given that Jez is wrong, what point are we making here, that Gordon Brown is right?

Nope. That Nigel Lawson should have asked Jeremy Clarkson before writing the article.

[Doggy Styles]

The first comment following the article :-

"If your car has started to skid out of control because of too much acceleration, pulling the steering wheel in the opposite direction is exactly what you do.

Jez, Chipping Norton,
"

I love following this debate but I'm lost. Given that Jez is wrong, what point are we making here, that Gordon Brown is right?

[Purple Dalek]

The first comment following the article :-

"If your car has started to skid out of control because of too much acceleration, pulling the steering wheel in the opposite direction is exactly what you do.

Jez, Chipping Norton,
"

And if you burst a tire at the same time will that give you a deflationary death spiral?

IGMC

[BrilloPad]

The first comment following the article :-

"If your car has started to skid out of control because of too much acceleration, pulling the steering wheel in the opposite direction is exactly what you do.

Jez, Chipping Norton,
"

[d000hg]

As Jeremy Clarkson will tell you, if your car has started to skid out of control, the most dangerous thing to do is to pull the steering wheel violently in the opposite direction.

Because of course, a simple mechanical device and a national economy, tightly linked to the global economy, are very similar and should be governed by the same rules.

He's obviously not just trying to get a good first sentence.

[d000hg]

Reduce VAT a bit, that'll do it gordon!

That 2.5% drop is going to make a massive difference to the end consumer at a time where sales are knocking 25% off! It's that extra 2.5% that'll get them out and shopping again, the mans a genius.

It's also rather cleverly introducing an unavoidable cost to all businesses as they hire contractors to delete all those hard coded 17.5s and replace them with a 15.

We're so lucky to have such an intellectual giant at the forefront of our economy to help steer us through these financially turbulent times that are a global problem and came from america that we are well placed to weather with all our hard working families.

And I take it you're basing this on what shop owners are saying? Or on your own views as someone with no understanding of retail selling? 2.5% is a lot.

[BrilloPad]

Uranium-tipped

But it will be fine in the short term - enough to get GB re-elected.

[Doggy Styles]

He's throwing on fireworks soaked in petrol.

Uranium-tipped

[BoredBloke]

Water or paraffin?

He's throwing on fireworks soaked in petrol.

[Scotchpie]

He's throwing buckets of water on a blaze in a fireworks factory hoping to put it out.

Water or paraffin?

[SantaClaus]

Very interesting post.

I personally am hoping that Gordon Brown screws up big time. And this looks like the perfect opportunity.

He's throwing buckets of water on a blaze in a fireworks factory hoping to put it out.

[Purple Dalek]

Careful! If it turns out to be the right policy, we'll never get rid of him!

How can it be? The markets run on sentiment. If the sentiment is against him, then it will fail.

[OwlHoot]

People get the government they deserve.

I don't recall raping any nuns back in 1997.

[swamp]

Will the Flat Rate VAT level be adjusted, or will the Treasury use it as a sneaky way to make us contractors pay more tax?