General Election 2017 | Cabinet reshuffle: Hunt re-appointed Health Secretary for record third time
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I was having real doubts about my new tech start up - Magic Beans Inc. but this election has really gave me the push to carry on. But really it's sad how easily blaming the former Labour government trick works.
My dog ate mine so it's just as well.
Yep, they are "tellers" checking who's voted
Here's a passive aggressive tweet I saw about it earlier
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https://mobile.twitter.com/LiberalJames/status/872524897616101383/photo/1
You realise the size of the annual deficit is decreasing and decreasing from a high Labour induced position? Yes this does mean the total deficit is still increasing but at a slower rate than would otherwise be the case.
Tax cuts for the top 5% is not as black and white as it seems. Cuts to tax percentage at the top end can actually increase tax income. Rich people are financially free, thus if you make it cheaper to do business you will encourage businesses to the UK, hence the talk of cutting corporation tax.
Also, people are less likely to invest in complicated tax avoidance which costs a ton of cash to financial advisers and requires expensive maintenance.
As a simple example better to pay £10 tax and £10 financial advice/ restructuring than £25 tax, but at under £20 may as well pay the tax. Overly simplified, but you get the idea!
This is incorrect, It has actually gone down.
During an earlier discussion on the deficit, Colin provided the following graph:
Thanks. Just remove the mobile bitYep, they are "tellers" checking who's voted
Here's a passive aggressive tweet I saw about it earlier
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I think i can see us going through anotger GE in october. It is possible that nobody could get the numbers required to pass a budget
conversely though - re your last para, Tories (altho they are actually saying nothing) are hinting that they block the free movement OK & withdraw from ECHR, but then be told to piss off out of the single market in retaliation & calling that a negotiation (and the will of the people) despite the fact that no negotiating will have been done because it's all inevitable. Also they are claiming (by evasion) that something else might happen taht's different to this when it can't really.
I've still got the one from last year's referendum in my coat pocket. Dunno why. Don't think I check my pockets much.
Well that is not overly simplified at all! You do realise relatively modest growth from a high point is still better than massive growth from a low point. The UK has been in fairly decent shape in the tory reign. Unemployment is historically low.
Also, there is no question low growth will be impacted by brexit. The fact we have any growth is amazing when most businesses are considering leaving. Why do you think London house prices have stagnated. Brexit is terrible for business.
Truth is outcome is likely to be similar whoever does the negotiating! Controlling immigration is a big desire for brexit which doesn't complement free movement of labour so the whole thing is a bit of game playing marketing.
The defecit is decreasing but the government debt,which I believe he meant, is increasing:
http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/unitedkingdom
7 years since Tories took power. 10 years since the Financial Crisis.
- They have never ran a balanced budget
- The Bank of England have been quantitative easing since 2009, producing a bubble of growth.
- We sit at 90% Debt to GDP
If people believe that, they can swap sides quite easily away from Conservative = Best Brexit then, as you said I think.
But it does mean that Theresa saying Theresa will do best is rather disingenuous.
I'll still be pretty delighted if i lose by tie breaker. And shocked.
Thatch was all about boom and bust. Hate to say it but look at her borrowing record too. They are only tight on the poors purse strings.
The labour govt had to bail out reckless bankers, probably tory bankers too.
I don't think anyone should be rude to anyone else, but I don't like tellers at all. They normally present themselves as a required part of the process, at least at the polling stations I have visited. In my experience people are more likely to naively assume they are required to give their voter number to the teller rather than give them abuse or hostility for asking for it.
Plus that note claims they are 'part of the democratic process' which isn't at all true.
Brexit was a vote on whether we stay in or leave the EU. There was no vote on what that would mean. Carrying on exactly as we were only outside the EU would technically fulfill the requirement. If they wanted to be more specific they should have stated it in the vote.
Countries used to borrow money to fight wars, paying it back when the war was over. The Thatcher/Reagan era was the start of government borrowing at a time when there was no existential threat. It has continued ever since. Austerity is the right thing to do, but the reason for it is to cut the debt. What's happened, however, is that the Tories have slowed down the amount that the government is borrowing, while cutting vital services and making people suffer. And the debt has doubled. The country is, in reality, bankrupt.
At least we now know how crop circles are formed.
Austerity was a terrible thing to do. It's basically removing money from the economy, which surprisingly enough makes the economy weaker than it would otherwise be. This was a time to borrow to invest, you can pay off the debt once things are booming again.
Every argument that you make is over simplified nonsense. The last labour government ran modest deficits, nothing out of the ordinary. The global financial crisis caused by untamed capitalism, the type cheered for by the Tories, caused the big deficit.
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Fecking Tories
2006/7/8 are all less than any year since the Tories took office.
Why would they be turned away? If they registered to vote before the deadline surely they would be able to vote.
Not an election day without stories of people being turned away from voting. Hopefully it gets resolved quick sharpish.
Depends, it was Labour in 2010 too with a much smaller UKIP vote share. Sounds like a real swing constituency with no UKIP.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/results/constituency/d08.stm
*EDIT* just looked back to 2005 and 2001. Amazing how huge Labours vote used to be there compared to now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newca...rliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2000s
Labour had 1 bad year(2009) The Tories had 5 years after that where the deficit was higher than Labours's bad year. The last 2 years are not down to the Labour figures in the 3 years prior to 2009.
So much nostalgia for the Dem primary
And yet still a ton of cuts, imagine how bad it could be? Maybe you are looking at the wrong party to blame
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Genuine. Link to page it is on: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37489...f-jihadi-scum-we-need-more-f-you-im-millwall/
Labour for 98 years, I make it.
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Well yes and no, strength of position is also important so a stronger government will help, as takes away some of the noise from negotiation.
And also depends who you believe is a stronger candidate for negotiations.
Your assertion was that the deficit had increased over the past seven years.
I remember the debates quite well, and on no single occasion did the official Leave campaign promote what you advocate. I think you know full well that such a course as you suggest is designed to suit your personal agenda, more than it represents the spirit of the result.
The banking crisis required a bailout whoever was in power. That side of things can't be blamed either way, aside from the general lack of controls put in place pre crisis.
How about a referendum on the terms after the Brexit negotiation is complete then? Just to make sure the British people are getting what they actually wanted.
The last Labour government were in arguably the biggest boom cycle the world has seen with the boom of the Internet.