According to figures from this article in the Times today.
Youth unemployment is higher than in 1997, as are inflation and interest rates.
Wow.
It looks like Ken Clarke's legacy is being wasted.
Mark Senior will no doubt be along to tell us how Gordon Brown has done any minute now.
That said consumer debt on credit cards seems to be dropping which is a good thing, as long as it does not happen to fast leading to an economic slow down.
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Mark, That didn't take long!
I did not say whether or not John Majors government was unfairly kicked out of office.
I also take great issue with the idea that the 1992 to 1997 goverment was the most corrupt. It wasn't. We have at Lloyd George and indeed this government competing very heavily for that acolade.
Lastly, what sort of economic indicator are you going to take as showing there are problems in the economy?
mark, the issue is govenrment is borrowing at a huge and increasing rate despite many years of solid growth, built on increased public spending and private debt. It simply can't go on, and when it stops someone is going to have to pay the money back.
On the corruption issue, perhaps you would care to name some cases of corruption?
Typical Labour response, quote that any tory decrease in taxation would be a reduction in schools or hospitals??
Well Mark, I can tell you now that hospitals are being closed here now, in the past 3 years and more planned for the next 1-2 years.
There are huge savings to be made in cutting quangos etc.
How many billions of pounds could be saved by not pusuing an illegal war. Just face the facts this labour goverment IS the most corrupt in over 50 years and is the most inept in over 50 years.
The only legacy that T Blair can look forward to is the knowledge that he has lead the most sleazy and incompetent bunch of fools to be in power in the 40 years that I have been voting. In God's name even the Wilson/Callaghan years were more honest than this lot.
Mark, the relative perception of corruption in the Major and Blair years is moving away from you.
This may have been done to death on PB, but not whilst I have been watching, so i would appreaciate some examples of "people lining their own pockets".
Yes you are not labour, you are Lib Dem, as I understand it.
I still ask what sort of economic indicator you would take as the sign of a problem?
Mark, as one Vince Cable says, he sets the estimate and marks the paper. I appreaciate you may not have much time for Vince, but if economic growth is so good, where are the tax receipts?
See:
http://aconservatives.blogspot.com/2006/12/pre-budget-report-early-comments.html
I also note that you have not mentioned one actual bit of Conervative corruption. List some.
Mark Senior said...
Jost type into google uk search conservative corruption major government - the 264,000 references would give you enough articles for this blog for the next 100 years .
8:04 PM, December 22, 2006
I've just tried this and most of the hits are about anything other than John Major's government. Of those that are the over riding theme is cash in brown envelopes. With the best will in the world coupled with a strong desire to wish the Hamiltons ill favour I still have trouble believing this. The complainant is a man who admits lying to gain control of his shop and his evidence is his secretary. Even if it is true, just what is the other corruption? David Mellor and Edwina Currie sleeping around? Not something that John Prescott or David Blunkett would do of course.
Nu labour have run the country for nine years and what has improved? My house is apparently worth £190,000 rather than the £9,000 it cost originally but I can't afford to move, two of my children have degrees coupled with massive debts, the pension pot has been raided by GB and is no longer big enough, we are over run with immigrants and I'm told that there are as many Poles here claiming benefits as are plumbing, we fight in two wars (one illegally) with an Army overstretched and ill equipped and that has to include Territorials to be able to function at all.
The current government are labour without any sense of social justice, they have power and have never exercised any principle whatsoever.
The only thing that you can be sure of with a labour government is that it will end in tears. It always does.
Thanks for the post Billy.
So what of it Mark, what other bits of corruption would you like to be considered apart from the Hamiltons?
What of Billy's house which is in practicle terms no more valuable to him as it was 20 years ago, but he can't afford to move.
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