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Originally Posted by Flyboy
Well bully for you, however most people in the real world, couldn't afford to buy that new plasma televison set, the new car, fridge, dishwasher or washing machine. They decided to save their money to pay for food and clothing later.
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Food isn't VAT rated. A number of people I know did the same, it's common sense.
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
But Osborne is still spending, the debt is still climbing with little prospect of it getting any better. Osborne's plans are simply not working.
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The cuts hadn't started as of December last year. It appears some want it both ways, they want to blame austerity for the bad figure and inform that the austerity isn't working. In case you hadn't noticed the mere prospect of cuts has churned various parts of the population into a frothing, protesting rage, though they sadly appear not as interested in where the money would come from to avoid them.
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 LOL, okay then, the real loss should be -0.475% |
I missed the word 'the' out. I'll take it as a compliment that you had nothing but a pithy response. A simple acceptance that you were wrong about your inaccurate comment that weather was a 'red herring' would suffice
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Originally Posted by Flyboy
But they have had a long time now to come up with a workable solution and haven't. It is getting worse. It kind of reminds of a Roman Emperor who ignored the smoke coming from the city.
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Indeed they have, those words are wasted on me as you are entirely preaching to the converted.
Perhaps you'd care to address those comments to the UK Uncut crew instead, or the Liberal Democrats, or indeed 'the left' in general. They are, after all, the ones who tax excessively and overspend traditionally, in the name of being fair and progressive. We are just enjoying the worst of both worlds right now, austerity, 'progressiveness', and a total lack of direction. Tory-lite without the capitalism friendly policies as they would offend the progressives and socialists.