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[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'. 

[Mesterh]

10 hours ago, Retired Climber said:

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'. 

 

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[coppice cutter]

12 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

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

Brown and Blair were certainly better Conservatives than the present lot.

[Sutton]

18 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

You’d think the economic experts of this parish would have the answers.

Reading the coquettishly teasing responses to yours suggest that their keeping their answers very firmly to themselves 🤣

Any normal person with a sense of fair play knows the answer to your question instinctively - as does you!

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