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| Labour's spending plans have been costed at twenty eight times than those of the Conservatives. 28 times and the conservatives are being accused on here of over egging the pudding. Jeez
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "Come on Sal, did you watch Johnson being interviewed by Marr (he's too frightened for a proper probing by Andrew Neil), the guy absolved himself for anything and everything that has happened over the last 10 years and wants to be judged only on the last 120 days ??
It's a bloody disgrace.
I've posted before about the deep cuts that the Tories have made, and they now expect the electorate to forget what has happened and be grateful for some promised increases in Education and police spending.
The "stunt" on nursing numbers would be embarrassing if some primary school kids had come up with them but, no, we've had the PM and most of his cabinet trying to justify how 30,000 extra nurses plus 20,000 currently employed would equal 50,000 new nurses ?? and money put aside for "feasibility studies" (seed money) will equal 40 new hospitals, despite funding not being in place and not being in their spending plans.
Every party exaggerates and makes wild spending plans in the run up to an election but, these jokers are pretending things are actually happening when the definitely are not.'"
What is Johnson supposed to say - he didn't decide the direction of travel under Cameron or May. Labour left the country with a huge financial hole - something had to be done. Do you honestly think any party would want to implement austerity - its a massive vote loser - it say much that they were prepared to do it. What would you have suggested? I don't hear Corbyn defending much of what Blair/Brown did - in fact he rebelled against most of it. I don't see how you blame Johnson for the mess that Brexit became under May or not scrapping Tuition fees under Cameron etc.
Building 40 more hospitals is a long term project over the next 20 years - seed money for scoping where a need has been identified seems perfectly sensible to me. Will they ever get built - more chance if the economy is thriving - even you can't see that under Labour.
Will there be 50,000 more nurses - will Labour build 100,000 council house - more chance of 50,000 more nurses. How many trees are they going to plant? - Labour are not credible on any subject you wish to cover - are they really going to find £85bn from the rich and corporations?. Corbyn heads up this lot so you cannot absolve him of any responsibility.
I will leave you will a couple of Churchill's quotes
"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity"
"you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it"
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "Do you honestly think any party would want to implement austerity - its a massive vote loser'"
[iShould[/i be a massive vote loser, but huge swathes of the public were conned into thinking we were 'all in it together' needed to 'balance the books', 'tighten the purse strings' and 'reduce the deficit', while at the same time, the disaster capitalists were cleaning up, and the rich got super rich.
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Quote: Sal Paradise "What is Johnson supposed to say - he didn't decide the direction of travel under Cameron or May. Labour left the country with a huge financial hole - something had to be done. Do you honestly think any party would want to implement austerity - its a massive vote loser - it say much that they were prepared to do it. What would you have suggested? I don't hear Corbyn defending much of what Blair/Brown did - in fact he rebelled against most of it. I don't see how you blame Johnson for the mess that Brexit became under May or not scrapping Tuition fees under Cameron etc.
Building 40 more hospitals is a long term project over the next 20 years - seed money for scoping where a need has been identified seems perfectly sensible to me. Will they ever get built - more chance if the economy is thriving - even you can't see that under Labour.
Will there be 50,000 more nurses - will Labour build 100,000 council house - more chance of 50,000 more nurses. How many trees are they going to plant? - Labour are not credible on any subject you wish to cover - are they really going to find £85bn from the rich and corporations?. Corbyn heads up this lot so you cannot absolve him of any responsibility.
I will leave you will a couple of Churchill's quotes
"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity"
"you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it"'"
Just to save me typing page after page, this is the interview with Marr fact checked, by the BBC (not by some bogus Tory twitter site):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50624056
When you've had time to skim through it, you can let us know at which point Boris actually told the truth, about anything
Whether it's him or Cummings or whoever else that is "controlling" their output, it's just wrong.
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Quote: Sal Paradise "What is Johnson supposed to say - he didn't decide the direction of travel under Cameron or May. Labour left the country with a huge financial hole - something had to be done. Do you honestly think any party would want to implement austerity - its a massive vote loser - it say much that they were prepared to do it. What would you have suggested? I don't hear Corbyn defending much of what Blair/Brown did - in fact he rebelled against most of it. I don't see how you blame Johnson for the mess that Brexit became under May or not scrapping Tuition fees under Cameron etc.
Building 40 more hospitals is a long term project over the next 20 years - seed money for scoping where a need has been identified seems perfectly sensible to me. Will they ever get built - more chance if the economy is thriving - even you can't see that under Labour.
Will there be 50,000 more nurses - will Labour build 100,000 council house - more chance of 50,000 more nurses. How many trees are they going to plant? - Labour are not credible on any subject you wish to cover - are they really going to find £85bn from the rich and corporations?. Corbyn heads up this lot so you cannot absolve him of any responsibility.
I will leave you will a couple of Churchill's quotes
"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity"
"you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it"'"
Just to save me typing page after page, this is the interview with Marr fact checked, by the BBC (not by some bogus Tory twitter site):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50624056
When you've had time to skim through it, you can let us know at which point Boris actually told the truth, about anything
Whether it's him or Cummings or whoever else that is "controlling" their output, it's just wrong.
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "Just to save me typing page after page, this is the interview with Marr fact checked, by the BBC (not by some bogus Tory twitter site):
ah yes, the famously not at all left wing BBC, what a credible source.
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| Quote: IR80 "ah yes, the famously not at all left wing BBC, what a credible source.'"
Which source would be credible to you? Which source would you believe?
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "Just to save me typing page after page, this is the interview with Marr fact checked, by the BBC (not by some bogus Tory twitter site):
I am not defending Johnson all I am saying is Labour is as bad if not worse and you have to attribute the direction of travel to it leader - you somehow think he is an honest broker - he cannot be excluded from all the lies the Labour party is telling. As you say it is just wrong, but you seem to either defend or ignore these Labour lies.
In the last week they have jumped on two policies - WASPI and today train costs - neither of which were in their manifesto neither of which have been costed - where does it stop? If Labour continue we wont be taxes they will be rewarding us for working - its bonkers even Stevie Wonder can see that - why can't you?
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| Quote: Sal Paradise "I am not defending Johnson all I am saying is Labour is as bad if not worse and you have to attribute the direction of travel to it leader - you somehow think he is an honest broker - he cannot be excluded from all the lies the Labour party is telling. As you say it is just wrong, but you seem to either defend or ignore these Labour lies.
In the last week they have jumped on two policies - WASPI and today train costs - neither of which were in their manifesto neither of which have been costed - where does it stop? If Labour continue we wont be taxes they will be rewarding us for working - its bonkers even Stevie Wonder can see that - why can't you?'"
Labour wont win but, if/when the Tories win, we will be heading for a no deal Brexit at the end of 2020 which, may be ok if you are Farage or, on the right of the Tory Party but, this would be the worst of all outcomes.
Of course, the EU will be blamed, the Tories and Boris in particular are exceptional at blaming others for their own problems but, this wont change where we are heading.
The only way that this wont be the case is, if the EU cave in during the negotiations and that just wont happen.
Oh yes and the UK will be in recession at that point, bringing further austerity, rising crime etc, etc - you know, like we've seen over the past 10 years.
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "
Of course, the EU will be blamed, the Tories and Boris in particular are exceptional at blaming others for their own problems but, this wont change where we are heading.
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This is one of the great ironies. The Conservative party demand everyone in the country take personal responsibility for each individual's actions and the consequences arising from them.
But as soon as it comes to the party owning their record, the disaster of Brexit and the tragic state of our public services they point fingers all over the place. It's never their fault.
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| Quote: The Ghost of '99 "This is one of the great ironies. The Conservative party demand everyone in the country take personal responsibility for each individual's actions and the consequences arising from them.
But as soon as it comes to the party owning their record, the disaster of Brexit and the tragic state of our public services they point fingers all over the place. It's never their fault.'"
I think you are correct - nobody to blame but May and her team - she really screwed things up - she was out negotiated, easily done when you don't have any conviction in what you are trying to achieve.
You can't blame Boris for what he inherited in respect of Brexit - it was a complete car crash. Add to that a parliament that had 70% remainers including a host of Tories and you have an almost impossible task of achieving anything but a very soft Brexit.
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| Johnson was part of the car crash. They had the numbers to get the deal through but failed because of Johnson and the ERG.
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| Quote: wrencat1873 "Labour wont win but, if/when the Tories win, we will be heading for a no deal Brexit at the end of 2020 which, may be ok if you are Farage or, on the right of the Tory Party but, this would be the worst of all outcomes.
Of course, the EU will be blamed, the Tories and Boris in particular are exceptional at blaming others for their own problems but, this wont change where we are heading.
The only way that this wont be the case is, if the EU cave in during the negotiations and that just wont happen.
Oh yes and the UK will be in recession at that point, bringing further austerity, rising crime etc, etc - you know, like we've seen over the past 10 years.'"
I don't share your negativity - maybe because I think we are a pretty innovative nation and business will always find a way. Nobody including the EU want a no deal Brexit and a solution will be found provided the Tories have sufficient majority to control parliament.
If Labour get in there will be some huge problems - as a nation we are heavily reliant on individual debt - even a small rise in interest rates combined with higher personal taxation will see a huge issue in the housing market - people simply will not be able to pay their mortgages. It isn't possible to fund all the give-aways that Labour propose by just taxing the rich and companies. It will impact ordinary people earning especially low earners.
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| Quote: Scarlet Pimpernell "Johnson was part of the car crash. They had the numbers to get the deal through but failed because of Johnson and the ERG.'"
The only time it came close - the third time Johnson voted for it - just remind me how many Labour MPs voted against it, they had vowed to support the result of the referendum?
Given the circumstances of the deal negotiations I doubt anyone could have done anything better - it had disaster written all over it. Boris' deal is just the best of a really bad job.
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| Johnson deal is the same with one exception, May would not condone a border in Ireland unfortunately Johnson is quite happy to do so and even lie about its impact.
I note Johnson in lieu of the interview with Andrew Neil he is to be interviewed by Philip Schofield.
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| Quote: Scarlet Pimpernell "Johnson deal is the same with one exception, May would not condone a border in Ireland unfortunately Johnson is quite happy to do so and even lie about its impact.
I note Johnson in lieu of the interview with Andrew Neil he is to be interviewed by Philip Schofield.'"
Might as well be Gordon the Gopher, then they can speak nonsense to each other
Gordon "squeaks"
Johnson "yes, I know but, lets just look at the last 120 days"
Gordon "squeak"
Johnson babbles on and on and on with his pre rehed sound bites. ![CRAZY d040.gif](images/smilies//d040.gif)
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