[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The recession was global, it affected literally every single western nation. It was quite obviously not caused by any one government. And as much ad the Tories would live to take credit for the now (apparently) stronger economy... Again, the issue has been global and it's been a gradual global recovery. if anything, they've arguably held it back from being as strong a recovery as it could have been.

Yes the recession was global, but Labour undoubtedly compounded the problem by the hopelessly mismanaged cluster-******* (look it up) they allude to as "the economy". Even Labour themselves admit that they messed up and added to the problems, but some of their supporters continue to be in denial and absolve Labour of all responsibility of their mishandling the economy with the cry "it was a global recession"... and that's kind of scary.

Gordon Brown, economist extraordinaire, sold our entire gold reserves at the lowest price Gold had been for decades. Just one instance of their total ineptitude... I could go on but you'd probably gloss over it. Ed Miliband, the man who shafted his own brother to get his job, was instrumental in Brown's Treasury, and now he's in charge of the whole party. Either he's learned an awful lot in three years, or Labour will drag us into the same spiral that's been recurring for decades: Labour get in and spend the money leaving the economy in ruins, Tories take over and the economy improves, Labour get in again and spends all the money... etc. etc. etc.

[anne666]

I am in my sixties and there has never been a Labour Government which has left power without creating an economic disaster. Of course the last one was the most monumental. It gets worse every time so God knows what they will do next.

[anne666]

Originally Posted by Livia

Yes the recession was global, but Labour undoubtedly compounded the problem by the hopelessly mismanaged cluster-******* (look it up) they allude to as "the economy". Even Labour themselves admit that they messed up and added to the problems, but some of their supporters continue to be in denial and absolve Labour of all responsibility of their mishandling the economy with the cry "it was a global recession"... and that's kind of scary.

Gordon Brown, economist extraordinaire, sold our entire gold reserves at the lowest price Gold had been for decades. Just one instance of their total ineptitude... I could go on but you'd probably gloss over it. Ed Miliband, the man who shafted his own brother to get his job, was instrumental in Brown's Treasury, and now he's in charge of the whole party. Either he's learned an awful lot in three years, or Labour will drag us into the same spiral that's been recurring for decades: Labour get in and spend the money leaving the economy in ruins, Tories take over and the economy improves, Labour get in again and spends all the money... etc. etc. etc.

This, sorry you'd already covered what I've just said.