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Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View PostIf your reaction is to ignore the point and criticise the reporter, you will be far from understanding.
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Originally posted by MrMark View PostDave's being a bit too loyal to his Oxford chum, and should quickly move to put someone of substance like Hague or even Davies in that position.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostI'm only 36 but I can clearly remember my brother having to study for his exams with light from candles, I can remember the 3 day week and rubbish not being collected for months.
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostA damning indictment of proposed Tory policy by the Grauniad. What a surprise. The bottom line is that all of these figures are slightly subjective, but the underlying principle is that it is a genuine attempt to make savings, a trend that any future government must be following. So what if the figures might be slightly out, the point is that they will still make a considerable contribution?
Of course the Guardian reported it. If your reaction is to ignore the point and criticise the reporter, you will be far from understanding.
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A damning indictment of proposed Tory policy by the Grauniad. What a surprise. The bottom line is that all of these figures are slightly subjective, but the underlying principle is that it is a genuine attempt to make savings, a trend that any future government must be following. So what if the figures might be slightly out, the point is that they will still make a considerable contribution?
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Originally posted by threaded View PostI've seen over the period of this government that whenever the opposition comes up with a number it is attacked by the government. The more vociferous the attack the more accurate the number turns out to be. I would, using this, therefore infer that the tories are probably the most correct.Last edited by Tarquin Farquhar; 12 October 2009, 08:16.
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Originally posted by MrMark View Post3 day week - Wasn't that under the Conservative government of 70-74 (Barber boom, miners strike etc)??
It would be wise at this moment in time for the politicians to remind themselves of how badly everything can go wrong if inflation starts to take hold.
In response to an incomes policy set by the government, industrial action by the coal-miners resulted in a shortage of electricity and therefore the three-day week was one of the measures implemented to conserve electricity.
The conservative party lost both general elections in 1974 and never forgave the coal-miners. We all know how that ended up.
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I've seen over the period of this government that whenever the opposition comes up with a number it is attacked by the government. The more vociferous the attack the more accurate the number turns out to be. I would, using this, therefore infer that the tories are probably the most correct.
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Although St Vincent is oft wheeled out on the BBC to provide the "alternative view" to a liebour policy, in a half hearted gesture at complying with its rules on impartiality, he is not without his cockups of gargantuan proportion.
Having said that, Ozzie is definitely not on the ball although his sentiments are sometimes in the right place.
The elephant in the room is that there is absolutely no way we can support the size of the public sector and welfare in its current form.
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Postit was Harold Wilson's Labour government that ended the three day week.
If so, then by any chance, did the same unions support Labour Govt that (once elected) "solved" the problem?
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Originally posted by MrMark View Post3 day week - Wasn't that under the Conservative government of 70-74 (Barber boom, miners strike etc)??
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Originally posted by AtW View PostBut even if Osborne becomes a light weight chancellor, so what if his cuts won't deliver as many savings? That's much better kind of mistake than having Brown and Co totally ****ing all up with huge debts that will be repaid for decades to come.
Saving less money than planned is nowhere as near as bad as spending more than planned.
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