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So explain this gaping hole you kyghurt knitters
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Sorry couldn't resist it, however to be serious now:
A 'ghastly' £4.3 billionleap in the borrowing for January when it was expected that a surplus of £2.8 billion for January, a generally good month for the Government due to tax revenue coming in.
Looks like we are heading for more than 13% of GDP if this continues.
Why is Gordon re arranging the deck chairs whilst the country sinks. Apart from a few pinko nutters no one believes him now.
This is not the Daily mail nor the Tories or Lib dems, just hard fact so I'd like to hear anyinteresting spin from the resident muselei munchers.
A 'ghastly' £4.3 billionleap in the borrowing for January when it was expected that a surplus of £2.8 billion for January, a generally good month for the Government due to tax revenue coming in.
Looks like we are heading for more than 13% of GDP if this continues.
Why is Gordon re arranging the deck chairs whilst the country sinks. Apart from a few pinko nutters no one believes him now.
This is not the Daily mail nor the Tories or Lib dems, just hard fact so I'd like to hear anyinteresting spin from the resident muselei munchers.
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On a purely dietary note: I know plenty of Tory voters ( and the one Conservative MP of my acquaintance) who eat muesli and yoghurt .Are they secret 'pinkos' ? Or is the extent of your political understanding limited to speculation about what the electorate has for breakfast ?
David Cameron looks exactly the kind of man who eats both and Gordon Brown exactly the kind of man who doesn't eat either (but that's my speculation)
David Cameron looks exactly the kind of man who eats both and Gordon Brown exactly the kind of man who doesn't eat either (but that's my speculation)
'Noo Labour'? It shows how Blair succeeded, that we now think of 'noo/new' Labour as just 'Labour' and 'old Labour' as historically distant as the Whigs or the Levellers. In 1996 a friend of mine disturbed a Conservative selection commitee by saying that her one problem was that she now found herself to the left of Tony Blair. The remark had a lot more than a grain of truth in it. (She was selected,too, so the committee must have been resigned to the sudden reality of it !) No pinkos for Blair. They could go off and found their own party.
To answer your question.
The figures are not good, but hardly surprising. They are the worse January figures since records began in 1993 and the first time tax receipts have fallen in that month. But we have just had a year of recession (which was preceded by 10 years of solid growth). It seems pretty obvious the tax receipts would go down.
Who exactly expected a £2.8billion surplus? The Government's borrowing figures are still on track, so not the treasury. Or the £2.8billion was forecast before the recession hit, and will have been revised down. Not good, but just what you would expect.
Finally to say our economy is in worse shape than Greece (which all the Tory papers are saying) is like comparing the your local cornershop to a Tesco Superstore. The scale just does not compare.
The figures are not good, but hardly surprising. They are the worse January figures since records began in 1993 and the first time tax receipts have fallen in that month. But we have just had a year of recession (which was preceded by 10 years of solid growth). It seems pretty obvious the tax receipts would go down.
Who exactly expected a £2.8billion surplus? The Government's borrowing figures are still on track, so not the treasury. Or the £2.8billion was forecast before the recession hit, and will have been revised down. Not good, but just what you would expect.
Finally to say our economy is in worse shape than Greece (which all the Tory papers are saying) is like comparing the your local cornershop to a Tesco Superstore. The scale just does not compare.
I'm a bit too old for this text-speak. What on earth does "P8ssed" mean? I believe that "CUL8R" is spoken as "See you later", so the 8 would seem to be pronounced as "ate". But "patessed"?
If the 8 was just a typo for the letter 'i' below it, I still don't understand..."Yes I was drunk (British) or annoyed (American) because I have a life." Can that be it?
If the 8 was just a typo for the letter 'i' below it, I still don't understand..."Yes I was drunk (British) or annoyed (American) because I have a life." Can that be it?
I actually referred to the fact that 'i' was below '8' myself, Fred, but I have never before seen '8' deliberately used as a substitute for 'i'. But, having thus substituted it, I failed to see what Youngmafbog's resulting sentence actually MEANT. That's why I said text-speak is beyond me.
I myself have been in the state described a multitude of times during a longish life - and hope for many more! - and there was a corresponding multitude of reasons for my condition, but I never woke up the following morning saying to myself, "I was piddled last night because I have a life." I just don't get the connection. If just "being alive" was a reason for drunkenness, surely one ought to be drunk at all times.
I myself have been in the state described a multitude of times during a longish life - and hope for many more! - and there was a corresponding multitude of reasons for my condition, but I never woke up the following morning saying to myself, "I was piddled last night because I have a life." I just don't get the connection. If just "being alive" was a reason for drunkenness, surely one ought to be drunk at all times.
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