Doesn't this just show how well Labour handled the international financial crisis?
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What Recession? We've never had it so good!
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we started a £230m build program in October.
Another one about the same size due to start on site at the end of 2012Them's some big sheds.
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I think there was little risk that anything Labour or the coalition could have done would have actually changed the shape and timing of the recovery.
The longer term shape of growth is more at stake.
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Well in my situation when i was out of work i was glad the interest rate went down so my small mortgage got smaller. Now Im in work im still glad the interest rate is still low.
Some of what he said may be correct, but I think its more to do with the way its been spun by the media and certainly some people hate torys whatever they say.
so your analysis is your fine so everyone else must just be moaning?
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It would have been a far less controversial statement to make about a year ago. Thats why its embarrassing for Dave for it to be heard now. That and someone from the 80's tory administration stating that the lucky-few-are-doing quite-nicely-thank-you. Building a firewall / collective amnesia between that kind of red-braces 80s tory and the cuddly new hug-a-polar-bear new tories of the noughties is exactly what Dave did to make the tories (very faintly) electable. Almost as soon as Dave was credited with having achieved it.... its all started to seep through again, and although he's very quick to cut others down for letting it happen, he's actually just as bad at doing it himself.
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Made me smile when I heard it.
I hope they spend the next 5 years coming out with similar ill placed and offensive gaffes.
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I'm not really sure why Cameron is so upset. Have you got any idea? I'm not feeling much confidence in the coallition!
It's a comment that is entirely sensible in my opinion, but with the rather knee-jerk stupid inflationary reactions coming from (amongst others) the red side of things, he's bound to try to distance himself from it. Although really he didn't, he said it was insensitive and inaccurate but let the guy keep his position, possibly because he agreed while having to appease the people.
I don't know of any optimistic contractors or architects and engineers.
I know of a few who are seeing a vast and sudden influx of work here in the UK, in the hundreds of million contracts. So busy they're now run off their feet after laying off a few staff to get through the tighter patch.
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You/we've never had it so good!
All you lazy maggots I step on you!
Cut all benefits ...
There I said it. David Cameron got no balls just because someone said something "insensitive" ... welcome to another round of political spin.
p/s: been told by dentist today to go private ... £550 for a crown and root treatment. There you go I am poorer.
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All you lazy maggots I step on you!
Cut all benefits
................................p/s: been told by dentist today to go private ... £550 for a crown and root treatment. There you go I am poorer.
Be sure to make those feelings known down at your local JobCentre.
It will probaly help you cut down on your dental bills.
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were you not thanking him for ignoring the welfare state and introducing you to the market economy ?
stoner
Some knee-jerks around seem to think the cuts are going to equate to the sacking of the entire public sector. 100,000 jobs = 0.33% of the workforce.
it is not 0.33% of the public sector though it is .33% of the ENTIRE workforce so far but you know that and wanted to overstate your case. It is still a small percentage but that is little comfort when you loose your job.
I am not sure your personal experiences are reflective of the enitre construction industry. I am sure you can find the stats to show the overall picture.
Re the comments some of what he says is true but when you consider the example of binners [and many others]last year it is an insesitive comment to make given the amount of pain some people have endured.Posted 1 year ago # -
Effects of the recession for me - redundancy from a £40k + perks job (although I took voluntary 3 months before they shut the doors)
Set up on my own and not had a day yet since January without work and turned over £80k in 11 months as a sole trader with no employees.
It may hit me over the next year though as I work on the roads.
Tied in to a 6% mortgage, but other than that, never had it so good.
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TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - Well done!
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trailmonkey - Member
Be sure to make those feelings known down at your local JobCentre.
It will probaly help you cut down on your dental bills.
I guess I will be toothless (well one tooth less) when I visit them so not sure if visiting them will help ... LOL!
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vat increse in jan may be a diffent story.
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In the good times under Labour, got made redundant twice, had to relocate to somewhere we could afford to live and wasted all my previous managerial experience having to do rubbish call centre jobs while studying part-time for a degree that was completely devalued by the huge numbers of zombies being encouraged to go to university so we could meet some stupid (originally Tory?) target.
Never mind, if the public sector unions agree the proposed civil service redundancy package, the third redundancy - when it comes - will just about pay off the mortgage.
In the meantime, we have enough to raise our family, have a comfortable lifestyle without any extravagances, so yeah, life is still pretty good.
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