Official: There was no double-dip recession - Page 4

peanut · 04-09-2013, 12:22

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Originally Posted by Osem

Sorry you're not happy about good news in the economy after so many years of gloom but it seems to me you've just done what you said you can't be bothered to do anymore.

Is that a separate question? If there's good news then yeah I think I should be happy shouldn't I? (Not that I've noticed anything personally). Or are you going to tell me differently again? Am I supposed to kiss Dave's arse now? And condemn Labour as evil doers.. Would that make it all the better for you?

Why do you bait everyone that doesn't vote the way you do and then laugh at them when anything happens? What do you really expect as a reply?

This is getting to a point where it's getting quite silly to me. Like I said it's much easier to let you just get on with it than to get involved.

Osem · 04-09-2013, 12:35

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Is that a separate question? If there's good news then yeah I think I should be happy shouldn't I? (Not that I've noticed anything personally). Or are you going to tell me differently again? Am I supposed to kiss Dave's arse now? And condemn Labour as evil doers.. Would that make it all the better for you?

Why do you bait everyone that doesn't vote the way you do and then laugh at them when anything happens? What do you really expect as a reply?

This is getting to a point where it's getting quite silly to me. Like I said it's much easier to let you just get on with it than to get involved.

Not really no. If you are a Labour supporter good luck with that. I just wondered if you were happy about good news from the OECD since you bothered to post in a thread you've now stated twice that you can no longer be bothered to post in.

If you want to kiss Dave's bum that's up to you and it makes no difference to me since I'm not a Tory member, supporter or even a particular Cameron fan. I'm just glad that after so much doom and gloom as a result of failed economic policy, we seem to be getting some good news at last. If HMG has got it right I don't care who they are, my main concern is that they appear to be putting right what went wrong under the last lot.

peanut · 04-09-2013, 12:38

Or just maybe not many people are as excitable about this kind of news as you are. The baiting doesn't help though.

Osem · 04-09-2013, 12:41

Then they're perfectly free to stay away from this thread. After all if they don't read threads such as this they can't be baited can they? On the other hand if they dispute the facts and are able to explain why/how then they can add to the debate.

Osem · 13-11-2013, 13:07

Oh dear more bad news on the economy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24926512

For Messrs Miliband & Balls that is.

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Bank of England governor Mark Carney says the UK recovery has "taken hold" and unemployment will fall sooner than it had forecast.

The comments came in the Bank's latest quarterly inflation report, which raised the forecast for UK economic growth this year and next.

Mr Carney has said the Bank will not consider raising interest rates until the jobless rate falls to 7% or below.

On Wednesday, the UK unemployment rate was reported at 7.6%, down from 7.8%.

Growth for this year is forecast to be 1.6%, up from 1.4% previously thought, and for next year, annual growth is expected to be 2.8%, rather than the 2.5% it predicted in August

Doug P · 13-11-2013, 13:10

Thank God they didn't try Balls' Plan B....

Osem · 13-11-2013, 13:15

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Originally Posted by Doug P

Thank God they didn't try Balls' Plan B....

Oh you can be sure Labour have lots of plans - the trouble is they're all the same and involve spending and borrowing far too much...

I must say I'm more than a little concerned about the housing market and can see the makings of a growing bubble in certain areas if not nationally. I hope someone has a plan to deal with what's going to happen when interest rates start to rise.

**Maggy** · 13-11-2013, 13:18

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Originally Posted by Osem

Oh you can be sure Labour have lots of plans - the trouble is they're all the same and involve spending and borrowing far too much...

I must say I'm more than a little concerned about the housing market and can see the makings of a growing bubble in certain areas if not nationally. I hope someone has a plan to deal with what's going to happen when interest rates start to rise.

Yes I'm going to save more.

Osem · 13-11-2013, 13:21

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

Yes I'm going to save more.

Yes, it'd be nice if savers were at least rewarded for doing so. Borrowers have been doing very nicely thank you. Some say that debt. is the only 'asset' worth having these days...

13-11-2013, 16:27

unless wages start to rise then that housing bubble the government just created will go bang very soon

Osem · 13-11-2013, 16:54

I'm hoping for a slowish hisssss....

13-11-2013, 16:56

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Originally Posted by Osem

I'm hoping for a slowish hisssss....

the problem as i see it is that people are getting subsidised mortgages on low wages ,the cot of living is rising and shows no signs of dropping so unless people start getting higher wages then they will be stuck with mortgages they cannot afford .....sound kinda familiar

Osem · 13-11-2013, 17:02

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Originally Posted by martyh

the problem as i see it is that people are getting subsidised mortgages on low wages ,the cot of living is rising and shows no signs of dropping so unless people start getting higher wages then they will be stuck with mortgages they cannot afford .....sound kinda familiar

Yes it does ring a distant bell.

Can't think why though...

Sirius · 13-11-2013, 17:11

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Originally Posted by Doug P

Thank God they didn't try Balls' Plan B....

It would have just been a complete Ball's up

downquark1 · 14-11-2013, 14:04

The difference was so small that is was always a toss up between dip and flat line. And the difference has little real meaning except as political capital.