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Old 17-07-2008, 22:22   #1
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Brown on the ropes?

According to the BBC TV news a collapse in revenues and all sorts of financial pressures from overseas means that Brown is now trying to relax the Treasury's financial rules on borrowing as a proportion of GDP. Wasn't it Brown who kept reminding us all that he was the prudent Chancellor and he'd broken the cycle of boom and bust??
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According to the BBC TV news a collapse in revenues and all sorts of financial pressures from overseas means that Brown is now trying to relax the Treasury's financial rules on borrowing as a proportion of GDP. Wasn't it Brown who kept reminding us all that he was the prudent Chancellor and he'd broken the cycle of boom and bust??
he has a short memory os.
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Old 18-07-2008, 00:56   #3
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Re: Brown on the ropes??

Things are bad. Yesterday I saw a large lorry belonging to a big garden maintenance company, it was loaded up with old freezers and other scrap.
At this rate we will see the travellers protesting.
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he has a short memory os.
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Ah-ha! I saw what you did there!
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Old 18-07-2008, 07:03   #5
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Re: Brown on the ropes??

Well if we let a unelected idiot run the country what do people expect.


Back to the other Labour policy.

Buy your way to an election with bribes funded by borrowing, Now that the Labour i remember.

Will the last company to go bust please turn of the lights and the clocking on clock.
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Old 18-07-2008, 10:54   #6
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As i predicted brownshirt is going to trash this country ready for his election defeat and then labour will bleat on for the next twenty years about evil tory's again. Same old same old and brownshirt was just the same as every labour moron we have had in power just took a bit longer for it to come out and be obvious.
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And just in case anyone is thinking that we are over the worst.
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Start gathering the firewood now, high energy prices together with the expected coldest winter for years will bring things to a head very soon now.
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Yes, forget winters though, I'm afraid we may be in for an Ice Age of Discontent.
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Old 18-07-2008, 12:04   #9
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Trouble for us all in the UK is i don't think any of this is registering with brownshirt on any sort of meaningful level. He is like a rabbit stuck in car headlights constanty telling us he is the man to get us through this but not actually doing anything. I don't even think people dying through fear of using energy which is going to be a problem if the winter is as severe as predicted will sting him into any action. All we get no matter what the problem are the same old platitudes of "i'm the man to get us through these difficult times" if i hear that once more i will want to kill the useless prat.
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I don't think it's a case of Brown on the ropes but more a case of New Labour on the ropes as he is simply the person charged with implementing their policies.

Even if he was a more charismatic leader New Labour would still have the same policies that are ruining the country.

Politicians are completely out of touch with the bulk of the electorate and are more interested in their own lifestyle.

Guy Fawkes had the right idea about Parliament as it has become the home for self-seeking politicians.

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I don't think it's a case of Brown on the ropes but more a case of New Labour on the ropes as he is simply the person charged with implementing their policies.

Even if he was a more charismatic leader New Labour would still have the same policies that are ruining the country.

Politicians are completely out of touch with the bulk of the electorate and are more interested in their own lifestyle.

Guy Fawkes had the right idea about Parliament as it has become the home for self-seeking politicians.

Roll on November 5th!!

Certainly the party is in disarray but Brown is more culpable than anyone since he was Chancellor for so long and presided directly over the country's financial affairs, refusing to heed the warning signs and constantly claiming he'd singlehandedly ended the cycle of boom and bust.
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Certainly the party is in disarray but Brown is more culpable than anyone since he was Chancellor for so long and presided directly over the country's financial affairs, refusing to heed the warning signs and constantly claiming he'd singlehandedly ended the cycle of boom and bust.
That's true. All I am saying is that replacing Brown won't improve matters as it is the policies, the spin and their general way of working that is the problem.
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Old 18-07-2008, 16:31   #13
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I understand what your saying NTL but who was the biggest influence in policy implementation of this labour government from the day they got in one gordon brownshirt. As we all know now he was quite quick to throw his weight around as chancellor to get a policy in or to get something thrown out and for that reason he has a lot more responsibility then would normally apply. Thats also why he squirms so much now when reminded of his record the man is useless as a PM and we can all see now (though some of us saw it a while ago) he wasn't all that good as a chancellor either. He has no one else to blame and if he even conceded that i would have a lot more respect for him but thats never going to happen.
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I understand what your saying NTL but who was the biggest influence in policy implementation of this labour government from the day they got in one Gordon Brownshirt. As we all know now he was quite quick to throw his weight around as chancellor to get a policy in or to get something thrown out and for that reason he has a lot more responsibility then would normally apply. That's also why he squirms so much now when reminded of his record the man is useless as a PM and we can all see now (though some of us saw it a while ago) he wasn't all that good as a chancellor either. He has no one else to blame and if he even conceded that i would have a lot more respect for him but that's never going to happen.
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Old 18-07-2008, 17:04   #15
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Careful Sirius we said that last time and looked what happened never underestimate the goldfishlike attention span of your average british voter m8 it comes back to bite you.
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