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[eggsarascal]

40 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Figure of speech eggs ffs, of course it doesn’t bloody work if you are so far in the shit as a nation you have to borrow money to fund a I believe 2 billion costing caused by said tax cut. 

Yes, I know that, will you answer the question, has it been done before, if so, by who?

[Mesterh]

9 hours ago, Retired Climber said:

Good or bad depends on your perspective. It was actually a good idea for the economy, but he's had to realise the plebs won't have it due to their blinkered, lack of understanding of economics. Unfortunately, in politics, making the right decision isn't as important as making the popular decision. He had two choices, educate a massive chunk of the population, or give in and think of something less difficult for the masses to understand.

So do you think he made a u-turn based on public opinion? I thought it was more likely to be the mp's, investors and economists who voiced their opinion against the tax cut that made him back track. I don't know though so I'm willing to be educated. 

[Steve Bullman]

3 minutes ago, Mesterh said:

So do you think he made a u-turn based on public opinion? I thought it was more likely to be the mp's, investors and economists who voiced their opinion against the tax cut that made him back track. I don't know though so I'm willing to be educated. 

Whatever the reason, it’s set a pretty bad precedent so early in truss’s leadership 

[lurch_917]

3 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Whatever the reason, it’s set a pretty bad precedent so early in truss’s leadership 

well when it was Borris we knew it was proberbly a lie but when he got it right we all said good job . now they are changing faster than the British weather. and saying it was planned yeh ok can you at least put some lipstick on as i like to be kissed before i get fooked.

[GarethM]

Couldn't be worse than anything Gordon brown did, deliver a budget headline and you have to spend a week reading the blurb to find out how hard you were being gently romanced from behind!.

[Puffingbilly413]

9 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Couldn't be worse than anything Gordon brown did, deliver a budget headline and you have to spend a week reading the blurb to find out how hard you were being gently romanced from behind!.

Seem to remember selling off a load of the country's gold reserves for bobbins was one of his best ones.

[GarethM]

He probably thought it had an expiration date 

[eggsarascal]

Brown and Blair, wank as they were, does anyone believe the present lot are better?

[GarethM]

What was it Churchill said, democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.

[Retired Climber]

2 hours ago, Mesterh said:

So do you think he made a u-turn based on public opinion? I thought it was more likely to be the mp's, investors and economists who voiced their opinion against the tax cut that made him back track. I don't know though so I'm willing to be educated. 

You write as if those reasons are mutually exclusive. There are plenty of grey areas between the two seemingly opposite reasons. 

Yes. I think he knows it was a good move for the economy (long term), but can't work out a way to sell it to the electorate 'en masse'.