What are you even talking about what was reinstated and what was reversed? Investment banks were still operating with customers money rather than their own. The housing bubble , one of the biggest contributors to the crash, was also started by Thatchers right to buy. You just keep waffling soundbites with no substance or any shed of proof. Are you Boris Johnson?
After things like Barings Bank and the ERM mess a lot of regulations were put in place, and a lot of those were then removed by Brown.What are you even talking about what was reinstated and what was reversed? Investment banks were still operating with customers money rather than their own. The housing bubble , one of the biggest contributors to the crash, was also started by Thatchers right to buy. You just keep waffling soundbites with no substance or any shed of proof. Are you Boris Johnson?
I told you to educate yourself with the "Big Bang" as you seem to have no clue especially since you're in the finance industry
It's a simplified version of the one on the ONS's own website (Chapter 4, figure 4). The absolute figures in Grib's chart are wrong, but then it seems so are yours. The 9.1bn figure is from 1997-98. The 1996-97 figure is listed as £27.7bn. In terms of %gdp net borrowing was still lower than that inherited from the the Major government as late as 2007-08. Here's the chart:
It's a simplified version of the one on the ONS's own website (Chapter 4, figure 4). The absolute figures in Grib's chart are wrong, but then it seems so are yours. The 9.1bn figure is from 1997-98. The 1996-97 figure is listed as £27.7bn. In terms of %gdp net borrowing was still lower than that inherited from the the Major government as late as 2007-08. Here's the chart:
You can download the xls spreadsheet yourself if you want (This is a directly downloadable link).
Yes lets leave it there because clearly you don't know your arse from your elbow considering you haven't brought a single regulatory safeguard that was removed by Brown.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ries-do-not-care-about-poor-people-or-the-nhs
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Good thing the Greens and Plaid Cymru decided not to field candidates so there was only one remain candidate.
Much as it pains Labour to admit if they're polling like that it's hard to justify them standing in some seats considering any election is basically going to be a Remain/Brexit referendum at this point. Especially if they don't want the Lib Dems to prevent them from winning lots of key seats that'll otherwise go to the Tories. Obviously by-elections are unpredictable and it's not one you'd expect Labour to win but those results are utterly pitiful for a party that wants to even campaign for an election on the basis of forming a government.
I really don’t know when the penny will drop for Labour that at this point people no longer give a shit about any other issues other than Brexit and that nothing else can be achieved until that’s out of the way.
And I can't se a credible policy that the likes of mogg or bone would back that the dup or ken Clarke / hammond would go with
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It's just a shame that those feckers on the Labour Leave side seem quite happy to line up behind the government like loyal little Tories so far. Makes the maths more complicated. Although I still think there's enough discontent actual Tories to make up the numbers.
As you said they're not expected to win it and will have barely campaigned especially given it's not a GE campaign. It's not been won since the 70s.
All that tells me is that Tories will form a majority government with TBP and DUP next election with a no deal mandate. Labour’s lukewarm, soft Brexit stance means they’ll neither finish first (and therefore will not be given a chance to form a coalition) nor will they have enough allies to form a government.
Should have done by a much bigger margin? What? A pro-Brexit constituency, a 20 point Tory lead in 2017. Overturned. But somehow a failure?
It's not a failure. It should have been a bigger margin because the main opponent was the same guy who was unseated by a petition of 19% of the constituents for submitting false expenses. It kinda shows the weakness of the other parties with the Conservatives fielding any old shit and still making it a close contest. It's ridiculously frustrating to see.
I really don’t know when the penny will drop for Labour that at this point people no longer give a shit about any other issues other than Brexit and that nothing else can be achieved until that’s out of the way.
I’ve done a full 360 on Corbyn and think he absolutely needs to go if there’s any chance of stopping a Conservative government. Considering the state of the country the opposition should have been miles ahead but it has been failed by its leadership of both Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn. If only David had won we wouldn’t need to be talking about Conservatives, Corbyn or indeed fecking Brexit
You probably think I made a mistake but I was hugely critical after the referendum and wanted him gone, then warmed to him during the election and fully supported after, and now after 2 years of shambles I'm back to where I started.
That's a shame. I really wish Labour was more appealing to people who 'no longer give a shit about any other issues other than Brexit'.
It's not difficuilt to see that his country is gridlocked. It's no longer 2017 when the Brexit process had barely started and Labour can ignore it and press the social issues. As hugely important as they are people are completely fatigued with Brexit now and want it over and done with. There's absolutely nothing that can be achieved until that is out of the way. You can't invest in services, people and the economy until you free up funds that are constantly being set aside for Brexit. They will never win a general election if they don't adress the main sticking point of Brexit. They can bang on about social inequality and everything else that is wrong with this country as much as they want, people have Brexit on the brain and they've no chance of changing that unless they fully address it!
Despite their polling percentage, the Brexit Party are forecast to win exactly 0 seats. Looking at polling percentages is basically meaningless in terms of who will hold power after the next election.
What are you even on about? No one is saying the issues this country is facing are not important, just that Brexit is far more important than all of them and closesly tied to anything that comes afterwards depending on which way it will go. You must be Corbyn in disguise if you don't recognise that Brexit is the stumbling block that must be removed in order to move on.
That's some turn around. Maybe not 360, but you're half way there at least.
No one is saying the issues this country is facing are not important, people just no longer give a shit about any of them other than Brexit. Got it.
Do people care about being able to pay their bills each month? Sure. Do people care about their kids getting a good education? Sure. Do people think about these things at a moment when their house is on fire? No, and that's the effect Brexit is having at the moment.
The single biggest British political event of my lifetime was Yvette Cooper and then the Tories deciding that disabled people like the one I loved more than anybody on the face of this earth, needed to be demonised and punished for being unable to work.
And? As if the majority of voters don't vote for the party and the politics instead of the actual MP.
That is Corbyn in a nutshell. He is is totally ambivalent about Brexit. He cares more about the social issues and injustices. Nothing wrong with that but, as per your post he doesn't appear to be able to join the dots.
And do you know what is going to happen? They will continue to do that with more and more people and if we don't get rid of them.
I don't get it, surely it's 180, not 360
That's some turn around. Maybe not 360, but you're half way there at least.
But surely the argument it's a seat they weren't going to win isn't really relevant if they have decided to stand there? If they were so unconvinced at even making a respectable crack at it, they'd have been as well standing aside for the Lib Dems. I get that it wasn't a target seat but a party for aspiring for government shouldn't be seeing their vote cut by a third in any seat they're standing for.
There are more benefits to standing for a seat than just winning it. Labour won't stand aside from seats without very good reason.
If by getting rid of them you mean whitewashing their records on such issues to give them rapturous receptions (i.e. Soubry, Grieve and Woke Jo Johnson) then absolutely. Look at the reaction people bringing up how Jo Swinson actually votes got.
You're not going to get Labour to stand aside on seats in England, Wales & Ireland any time soon. No matter how small a chance they have of winning. Pretty sure the Tories are the same.
Labour need a kick up the arse then. This Tory government needs to be toppled before anything else positive can be achieved, and if that requires some tactical voting then that should be a no brainer. Especially as the other parties would reciprocate and help Labour win seats they might otherwise lose.
