Dorset Boy
Active Member
Why is it terrible news for some? Though it could be.
Mind you, it's still an £11.6 bn shortfall according to the headline.
Just because something is lower than expected doesn't necessarily mean it is good.
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Why is it terrible news for some? Though it could be.
Mind you, it's still an £11.6 bn shortfall according to the headline.
Just because something is lower than expected doesn't necessarily mean it is good.
bobzmyunkle
Veteran
Terrible news for some?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...urnham-gorton-denton-byelection-b2905487.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...urnham-gorton-denton-byelection-b2905487.html
briantrumpet
Shaman
You might like to reflect why the laugh reactions to my comment.
Dorset Boy
Active Member
You were trying to be a smartarse obviously. Without fully understanding the context of the borrowing figure.
briantrumpet
Shaman
Strangely enough, I didn't think you'd find it amusing, given it doesn't match your predictions of economic doom at the time of the Budget and Reeves's incompetence.
Dorset Boy
Active Member
Brian, lower than expected, doesn't mean it's not a worryingly high figure.
Reeves entered No11 talking about the need for economic growth to rescue the UK economy which I am sure we can agree on as being needed.
Now just what has she done in her budgets to stimulate that growth? On balance her budgets have had a negative effect. And the serial leaks and U-turns in the build up to her last budget had a seriously negative impact.
And I never predicted economic doom, just that she wouldn't achieve the growth we need with her policies.
This.
As one of the doom merchants on here I'm pleasantly surprised that borrowing last month is below that which was predicted, but one swallow doesn't make a Summer so let's see where we are at the next election. Everything Reeves and the Labour front bench has done so far has been anti business and anti growth and there are plenty of other metrics we could judge her on rather than one month's borrowing figures. Believe it or not Brian I don't want the economy to fail, it's just that everything this government does leads me to think that it will.
TailWindHome
Active Member
The Conservative legislation gave immunity to the IRA so they could give soldiers immunity.
It was condemned by every political party in NI and every victims representative group.
I understand that NI doesn't matter to anyone here, some quite obnoxious in declaring their disinterest, but I think we should agree that UK State Forces shouldn't be given immunity for murder of UK citizens.
It was condemned by every political party in NI and every victims representative group.
I understand that NI doesn't matter to anyone here, some quite obnoxious in declaring their disinterest, but I think we should agree that UK State Forces shouldn't be given immunity for murder of UK citizens.
TailWindHome
Active Member
Oh uh
