Gordon's Modesty About British Economy
Gordon yesterday boasted that
"Britain has enjoyed the longest postwar period of continuous growth. And the Treasury forecast is that growth — sustained under this Government for a record 38 quarters — will continue into its 39th and 40th quarters and beyond"
A strange and uncharacteristically modest boast from the Chancellor about Britain's national achievement, since Britain has actually enjoyed 56 quarters of continuous economic growth. Indeed he predicted as much as in the March 2005 budget when he boasted
"Today I can report economic growth for the 50th consecutive quarter. The budget forecast is continued growth in quarters 51, 52, 53 and 54."
So why only boast of 38 quarters this time? Could it be because as Guido pointed out last time he made this claim that the growth included 5 years of Tory economic management post-1992 which laid the foundations for this historic achivement. Could it be that he wants to forget that inconvenient fact and claim all the credit for himself?As Guido said after his March 2005 budget -
An excellent record going back 12 1/2 years to the autumn of 1992. Guido remembers September 1992 well, the economy was unshackled from the sado-monetarism of shadowing the Bundesbank and White Wednesday began our long unbroken boom...
Lamont sang Non Je Ne Regrette Rien in the bath after he exited us from the ERM madness, but Gordon Brown described the ERM as applying 'socialist planning' to the economy rather than 'relying on market forces'. He told the parliamentary Labour party 'We can fight the speculators if we join the ERM'. Gordon was a fan of the ERM and the Labour party was enthusiastic for Britain to remain shackled to it.
Guido remembers 1992 well, he was a humble ticket clerk / trainee derivativist studying for his dealing exams at George Soros' brokers. We did rather well that year, and so has Britain since it rejected Gordon's once cherished "socialist planning".
106 comments:
It is indeed infuriating to watch the Scottish twat claim credit for the healthy economy left him by the Tories which he has done his best to screw up. But you can't actually blame him for it. What's really annoying is how often the Beeb and others let him get away with it.
Never mind Gordo my wife wants to know which brand of nail varnish dave uses?
She says he has "such pretty hands".
Will he be advertising it on he Party site or will he be opening a factory?
Have you read the Guardian lately? I wonder how much it costs Brown to rent the whole staff, and how many kneepads they go through in a week.
Gordo is just an old fashioned command and control economy freak, who misses the old Comecon, which was his model.
You got to admire the mendacity and spin in his speeches.
Oh for someone to be able to rip his economic theories apart and tell the real truth.
The RPI figures we now know are fudged to hide the truth, so how can we believe the rest of the economic claptrap that Gordo spouted?
Answers on the back of a stamp.
And, couldn't he have washed his hair yesterday morning, how gross.
Gordon Brown takes self-congratulation to a new level. All this yet he's fudged his golden rule several times now, divorced Prudence many years ago and chucked billions of our money at the NHS without safeguards to ensure efficient and wise spending. The only good thing he's done was making the Bank of England independent, in other words, like a Farepak saver he put the money out of his hands. And if the economy has grown, remember Britain has an economic framework that's vastly superior to Europe, but we're barely ahead. We should have been enjoying US-style growth levels, instead tax as a % of GDP is lower in Germany these days and his drive to increase productivity has been an utter failure. It's time the media realises that he's a clunking fist, slowly grinding down the UK economy. As for politics, he's spent the past decade sniping at Blair - yet too weak to show any leadership - whilst agreeing in cabinet to everything Blair wanted, such as funding the Iraq war, no questions asked. And who was in charge of the last Labour election campaign and therefore, party fundraising?
Which month has 28 days? Errr..all of them, actually. The question's misleading of course, like all good jokes, and our dear Chancellor it would seem.
p.s. Just a thought, wonder if Tony will be asking Gordie to get him a good price on the Congressional Medal when he finally gets around to scooping it up - Broon's acute nose for the gold market, as deomonstrated a couple of years back, could prove useful.
Well that wasn't very funny was it?
An economic lecture from Guido and some nostalgia for the time when he had a real job.
I remember 1992 well, my leasing company had gone bust, both girlfriends had left me ,my car was repossed and I was left with nothing more than a huge mortgage, a jack russell and cider for company.
Im not bitter.
I bet you wore braces and hair gel didnt you Guido?
The consecutive growth may have started under the Tories but the Tories can hardly claim credit for it, having (a) caused the recession in the first place, (b) only seen the growth start after their economic policy had collapsed on Black Wednesday.
Hair reminds me of Cameron Diaz' quiff in Something About Mary, the bit where she meets Ben Stiller, who'd just finished waxing the dolphin.
Gordo's hair?
Done at Michaeljohn - very expensive Mayfair salon. (£100 kind of place).
Sums Gordon up.
Money spent: huge.
Result: crap.
Could it be that attaining growth for 5 years after Black Wednesday hardly required much skill? Could it be that sustaining that growth for a further decade is quite an achievement? Could it be that Guido is a clueless Tory Tosser and should stick to gossip?
We all know Brown has been quite crap at his job....but where are those who will pillory him for his failure...the press and broadcast media are mute to the point of subjectiveness....maybe thats how the Third Reich got started...
Funny the Tories were never able to build on the economic foundations that they laid in the past by having a sustained 10 year period of growth - remember how how the blitzkrieg of 1979/83 (and earlier periods for those with longer memories) was meant to lay the basis for future economic growth - didn't happen did it?
The thing that you lot cannot stand is that it is possible to grow the economy in a sustained fashion while spending more on public spending and treating people properly - whether you like it not this has happened while all your heroes (e.g Thatcher, Hayek, Milton Friedman) said it was impossible and the antichrist Keynes said it was necessary.
Guido, read the quote again.
Britain has enjoyed the longest postwar period of continuous growth. And the Treasury forecast is that growth — sustained under this Government for a record 38 quarters — will continue into its 39th and 40th quarters and beyond"
Britain has enjoyed the longest period of postwar growth. Full stop, new sentence.
The reason he uses the 38 quarters figure is because it is the period "sustained under this Government". So 56 quarters of growth is a record, as is 38 quarters under one Government.
Well anon 11:39, that was a witty contribution...!
Incidentally, Hayek said nothing of the sort.
Help! Help! We're being over-run by overly-serious socialists who actually believe the tripe they peddle!
10 years of growth in the economy managed by that master of accounting!
SHOW ME THE MONEY, that lovely surplus that anyone prudent would have tucked away in a UKplc saving account for a rainy day (cough Brown premiership)!
How can anybody look as crap as Gordon does in two grands worth of suit and a £100 haircut?
I also would like to know how you can avoid washing your hair if you shower every morning , answer probably is that the dirty scumbag doesnt shower everyday , probably just rinses his bell end under the tap while shaving and has a wipe under his armpits and up his crack with a mouldy flannel.I bet he fucking loves it when Blair uses his bathroom
"Go on tony wash your face with the flannel"
The thing that you lot cannot stand is that it is possible to grow the economy in a sustained fashion while spending more on public spending and treating people properly
Treating people properly, ZaNu Labour, your aving a larf mate. There has never been a government in the history of this Island nation that has had greater disdain, lack of empathy and complete loathing for the people it claims to represent. They wish to control our every fart.
More public spending is a really silly way to measure a government's actions. Where's the Beef? what does the final consumer think? Output is what you measure not input.
Keynes was an idiot. Milton Keynes is a fitting tribute to that idiocy.
Debt is future wealth foregone to spend now, government debt is your childrens future wealth foregone for your benefit. I hope your children can foregive you for all the cheques you have written in their name.
'Gordo is just an old fashioned command and control economy freak, who misses the old Comecon which was his model.'
So what's old-fashioned about Comecon? Gordo can't do command and control because he's run out of oil. OK, he can do freak.
Davetheslave - maybe so.
But Gordo was just as much of a supporter of the ERM as anyone, wasn't he?
And even I could keep growth going for 10 years with house prices rising 10% a year whilst growing public debt...
But never mind about all that.
When's the (supposed) dirt coming out about gay Gordo, schizo Gordo and so on?
Come on Guido!
Peter, ummm your flannels may be something to avoid in the future.....do you think he washed after wot ever he did with his willy, lol
Peter Hitchens - sounds a vaguely obsessive-compulsive morning ritual to me, a quick wipeoff on the bedroom curtains would be more that adequate.
If you deduct the growth in debt from the growth in spending, does the picture look quite the same? Thought not.
next ,gordo will claiming credit for the hosuing boom-sorry bubble
anonymong no. 1 at 11.06am, f*** off with your bigotted racism. Brown is certainly a twat, but it is no more to do with his Scottishness than your twat response is to do with your Englishness.
I would like to complain about the discrimination on this thread.
People are having a go at Scottish people but no has had a go at the Welsh.
I am feeling left out and discriminated against.
A dousing with the vinegar sponge suits most people I know - also cures crabs and ends unwanted pregnancies.
I hear he dances round the Treasury singing.
English taxes for the Scots.
English taxes for the Scots.
See yoo stupid English.
English taxes for the Scots.
Guido - you were entirely drunk for the whole of 1992 - I don't think you can remembering it properly - maybe you mean 1982 - was there a war on in your memory -think carefully was it boats or tanks covered in sand? If the former I am right.
mutleythedog at 12.50. Judging by Gordon's picture above, it looks as if he has just sucked on the vinegar sponge.
Anonymous said...
Guido, read the quote again.
"Britain has enjoyed the longest postwar period of continuous growth...."
Any western country could have achieved many years of "growth" if they inflated their money supply by 14.5% pa, borrowed increasing billions every year to finance a huge,expanding public sector, and had an army of shopaholic consumers engaged in a 9 year long spending frenzy on cheap, easily available credit.
The problem is that boom turns to bust and the over-extended one the UK has been indulging in for the past few years is heading for the mother of all meltdowns. It's already started as the rapidly rising figures for bad debt, bankruptcies, home repossesions, and IVA's all indicate.
Brown and New Labour have spent the next ten years GDP and no doubt, it will be upto the Tories, once again, to sort the mess out after the next election.
Maybe he's just down to the vinegar strokes.
Peter Hitchins: ugh, thanks for those lovely images, I was just about to have my dinner!
Like Peter Hitchins @ 11.25, I can remember the nightmare of running a small business in 1992.
Now running another small business, and I can tell you there is a definate downturn this year. Same for other small business people I know. Not scientific I know, but the signs are worrying. Wish I had had the foresight to get a nice public sector job instead.
Oh happy days. Soros. Quantum Fund. Kids education and housing all sorted. Thanks George and Tudor Jones.
Mr H you were not into computer leasing were you. B+C? Paper millionaire to fuckall thanks to dodgy accounting policies.
Brown's budget. This cunt took over a ship with tide and wind at back where it remains. Growth has fuckall to do with him. Ww inflation at a low thanks to Friedman (decd)You stupid Labour tossers cheering this performance for which your children and grandchildren will pay. Question :why is the stockmarkert up less than 5% since May 1997. What does it tell us. Brown is TAX and SPEND. We are getting nothing for it except public sector inflation. A chill financial breeze will drift from across the Atlantic in 2007. All the leveraged consumers will take a beating. Politicos no probs - another world. Fuck the lot of you.
Maybe we should not bother...just let labour run the country into the ground ....an interesting exercise in 'I told you so'....
Ha - an interesting dilemma for the Tories - Do they win the next election and take the heat when the bust comes? Or do they throw it and wait for the next boom cycle - then claim the credit?
As Cameron was part of Norman Lamont's team back in those dark days of 1992, perhaps he too can claim some credit for Britain's growth record!?!
Guido Faux said...
Ha - an interesting dilemma for the Tories - Do they win the next election and take the heat when the bust comes? Or do they throw it and wait for the next boom cycle - then claim the credit?
Dear God, NO! We have to get these New Labour swine out ASAP! particularly when/if Brown takes over as leader as I fear he will be far worse even than Blair.
That's why for all the criticism of Cameron (and he's far from being my cup of tea) everyone who detests New Labour has to get behind him to ensure that Brown and co are routed at the next election. So much damage has been done to the country already but far more will take place if we don't start cleaning out the Augean Stables soon.
guido faux - if it was my call. Lose the next election. NuLab and variants then unelectable for rest of century. 1979 revisited plus.
Brown's Enron accounting.
CPS analysis of UK PS Debt is 103% of GDP when contigent liabilities of PFI Public and Local Gov pensions and Network Rail added. This equates to £53470 per household. Prudent Chancelloer my fucking arse. This man makes Dr Savundra look a Frank Field of probity.
Dr Crackers "ahem* are you refering to Atlantic??? hahah
I wasnt, however , I applied the same principle to printing presses, greater residuals therefore easier to amortise a big fuck off extended balloon payment.
B&C going down screwed all that up for me in 1990 so i had to adopt other cunning tactics , by 1992 it was getting to be impossible to secure lines of credit , hence me with the dog and bottle of cheap cider.
Brown's debt fuelled boom economy is heading for the rocks. If he doesn't get Blair's job soon it'll be too late for him:
Britain's debt bubble to burst in 2008 -experts say.....
http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=allBreakingNews&storyID=2006-12-07T123644Z_01_L06306910_RTRIDST_0_FINANCIAL-DEBT.XML
@Crackers
Hmm - yes but what if the boom cycle keeps extending? Disinflation due to globalisation has been keeping economic conditions benign up till now - that could continue.
Then a future chancellor could afford to keep borrowing at relatively low rates - and keep the public sector party going.
So Peter, do you have a new dog now...and re-joined the ranks of the taxpayers?
The dog is dead and I have a fresh tax bill sat on my desk .
I now buy and sell data ,bad debt data. The Rate of IVAs is doubling every year as it is now a comercial market driven by companies that offer debt management services and the average IVA is worth £2500 to whoever handles it, I sell the debt mangement co's marketing info i.e. lists of people up shit creek
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Mr Brown may until now have been well able to conceal all the UnEmployment
eg we send ~400,000 students to University, giving a rolling university population of ~1.2 million
eg how many are in unproductive state employment
Is anyone able to supply the real rate of unEmployment ?
What will happen when the Housing Market collapses and the borrowing money runs out
...What will happen when the Housing Market collapses and the borrowing money runs out
Next year you mean (it's already started in the US)
Guido Faux said...
@Crackers
Hmm - yes but what if the boom cycle keeps extending? Disinflation due to globalisation has been keeping economic conditions benign up till now - that could continue....
Meanwhile the value of sterling collapses on the FX and we begin importing hyperinflation, the economy folds leading to stagflation resulting in financial ruin.
There's no easy way out of Brown's mess I'm afraid much as some people try to convince us otherwise.
up shit creek without a paddle...sounds like a Brown job...
If the economy's doing so well, how come I can't afford a shoe-box in Tower Hamlets?
Its because you take size 10s...
Are you being feet sizeist?
Mr H sorry to hear about Atlantic domino effect.Atlantic fucked up a lot of things for a lot of good people.
Guido faux - yes the cycle can run. China has been 'exporting' disinflation for 5+ years. There will come a point when this will reverse. In meantime borrowings on property to fund enhanced lifestyles is a dangerous game. I am not an economist yet fear the 9% drop in US house prices, collapse of US$ is going to be exported worldwide. Hope I am wrong but my instinct says an almighty hangover on the way. BTW shops are empty - what can this mean. I had better shut the fuck up as a reprimand from Fawkes is in the offing.Fuck the lot of Brown Balls and Treasury Team.
Ahem yes quite right - screw everyone and myself - ok Fawkes?
>> next ,gordo will claiming credit for the hosuing boom-sorry bubble
I prefer the term "crash in housing affordability". Apart from the chancellor, no-one gains from increased prices. He gets stamp duty on new buys, he gets to extort VAT on MEW.
The country is certainly worse off with unnafordable shelter.
Ed, I see you are a sheep...does that make you Welsh as well?
> Disinflation due to globalisation has been keeping economic conditions benign up till now - that could continue.
Unlikely. Especially now China has woken up to the fact they have a potentially worthless pile of US paper.
they could wipe their arse with it...so it still has some value...I had an ancient aunt that used to cut up the Radio Times to use...God knows what her nether regions looked like...
I am certainly not fucking Welsh! I just can't stand people who judge a man on the colour of his boots...
ummm...not your bootees..but you horiscope....bahhhhh
lol@hedgy
I read somewhere that it's more economical to wipe your arse with $10 in zimbabwe, since it costs more per sheet of bog roll.
anticitizenone:
but if they start dumping $US then what they are left with becomes even more worthless (so to speak). So they're stuffed.
stuffed chinese not on a roll....
gives you terrible wind as well as amazing fiscal deficits
i see hedgy, hadn't actually looked at my profile before!
i wear brown shoes like the cad i am.
Ah, bless the Tories! So sweet and now, so cuddly and cute.
Poor Georgey boy got rather a roasting yesterday, didn't he? Rather unpleasant wanting the amateur being beaten to death with the clunking fist.
Well, ask the British people if they give a shit about whether its 50 quarters or 38, and ask them who would make a better PM, Brown or Cameron. Betfair giving v. good value on Labour at the moment... I've spotted potential for our future funding.
nothing about shoes....only that you are a sheep.....
still a Hush Puppy man, wot ever next...
You appear to be psychotic bhown...
Chinese accumulating $ much as Japanese did in 1980-91. Renminbi held down but a point arrives when revaluation(a la yen)takes place. China then exports inflation and shit hits fan as US interest rates rise causing stagflation. Our interest rates rise. Then the defaults and property crash. Hold cash and within five years you can buy Blair's pad for £1,5m and a row of houses in Haselmere for less that £1m. Gold will run and run. Brown will top himself.
Tory predictions revealed: -
1997 - "Labour will fuck up the economy - that silly socialist will pay for this"
2000 - "dot com boom unsustainable - that silly socialist will pay for the bubble he created"
2003 - "housing boom over soon especially with war in Iraq - that silly socialist will pay for the bubble he created"
2005 - "oil prices too high, going to cause inflation with higher interest rates popping the housing bubble - that silly socialist will pay for the bubble he created"
Ad infinitum.
all looks quite accurate to me...do you do substances bhown?
WMD? Dodgy dossier? 45 minute warning? Please go back to labour home or the sith institute and stop boring everyone.
Does the Sith institute actually instruct liitle Brownite ciphers like bhown how to bore like their master?
Brown fucks their mind then sends them out into the street...the lucky ones just walk with a limp...lucky little siths
anon 4:51 - yes, we are taught the essentials of bore at the special Brownite college I attended. We are also taught how to win elections, a secret not unlike alchemy that the Tories seem incapable of doing. Not that Labour have mastered alchemy - for the record.
not have Labour mastered telling the truth yet either...silly little sith...
Bhownaggree, there is now over £1tn of unsecured debt in the UK. Any moron could run a "successful" economy with that much debt, the problems will come when all that debt has to be repaid.
We can all look forward to paying the cost of Gordon's PFI hospitals for the next thirty years and before paying the pensions of Gordon's new public sector army after that!
"Not that Labour have mastered alchemy- for the record "
No , everything Labour touches turns to shit, kind of an anti-midas touch.
- yes - the Merdas touch.
bhownaggree said...
Ah, bless the Tories! So sweet and now, so cuddly and cute.
Poor Georgey boy got rather a roasting yesterday, didn't he? Rather unpleasant wanting the amateur being beaten to death with the clunking fist.....
You sad, desperate little zaNULAB apparatchik. I agree pervert Brown would *like* to FIST Osborne but he certainly hasn't come anywhere near it so far. Yesterday it was Gay Gordon who got the roasting by Osborne.
In fact young Osborne is making a habit of getting the better of Brown though at least yesterday Brown didn't have a complete tantrum and throw things at him though his twitching, gurning, and muttering through Osborne's speech showed him up for the screwed-up loser he is.
Face it fuckwit, Brown is a creep and a weirdo and is going to lose you the next election big time.
After that he can leave his fag hag and stop pretending he's straight.
Bhownagree
You are obviously a person with learning difficulties so heres a quick lesson in economics that even a cunt like you could grasp.
If an individual with a clean credit file so wishes they can easily land themselves a few hundred grands worth of credit cards and personal loans and lead the life of Riley then when the banks come asking for the cash back they can just as easily tell the banks to go fuck themselves and unless they have put the cash into an easily recoverable asset the bank is fucked.
Unfortunately for us Gordon has been leading the socialist life of Riley having applied for loans and credit cards in our collective names, he has then pissed all that money up the wall, unlike individuals we cant tell "the bank" to go fuck themselves,
The one eyed sweaty unwashed cunt has destroyed the pensions of millions and lumbered us all with decades of debt.
Typical socialist, a thick cunt.
Robert Harris' article is worth returning to:
"Autistic Brown loses the plot"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2350740,00.html
Much hilarity :
"At the height of the Watergate crisis in the 1970s, two of America’s leading conservatives, William F Buckley and Barry Goldwater, were discussing the political situation. Surveying the headlines about burglary, bugging, pay-offs and impeachment, Goldwater remarked that if he had been shown the front pages 10 years ago, even without knowing the context he would immediately have said, “Dick Nixon is president.”
In much the same way, if an acute observer of Labour party politics had been shown last week’s headlines a decade ago — “Labour paralysed as the poison spreads”, “Blair clings to the wreckage”, “Clarke attack on Brown ‘the deluded control freak’ ” — he would have said at once, “Ah yes, this must be the moment when Gordon Brown attempts a smooth and orderly transfer of power within the government.”
I'm glad the Tory bank managers who comprise this board have read, "Economics for Dummies", it makes a refreshing change to hear such refined argument rather than, well, the dull monotone of the economists that rate Brown.
I must say, it is such a pity that the economy will grow again this year, it rather goes against the spirit of the arguments presented here. Silly economy.
Now why don't you all bring up the top Totty on your PC screens and expell that anger - or as your leader would say, bring out the inner tosser.
The Labour party "steers" the Titanic around Icebergs by holding magnets near to the compass, and telling themselves they're not going to crash.
With 16% ex nihilo money creation you'd expect to see the measure of economy "growth" up.
There's another interesting piece here on Brown by Simon Jenkins though Jenkins is wrong to call Brown a Thatcherite (perhaps he's being tongue-in-cheek)
A more accurate description of Brown would be a spiv, a thief, a liar, a traitor, a pervert, a weirdo, and someone who, when the economic shit hits the fan, will go down as the worst Chancellor in history.
Here's Jenkin's piece:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2361002,00.html
Anon 5:24pm - It was indeed a great piece:
"Brown who was ranting and demented. At one point he apparently threatened Blair with a second, third and even a fourth “wave” of resignations, for all the world like Osama Bin Laden ordering up cells of suicide bombers from his cave in Tora Bora. It is a measure of Blair’s enfeeblement that he did not simply sack him on the spot, tell him to go to hell and challenge him for the leadership if he dared."
Black Wednesday? It worked like this. In the late 1980s Euro fanatics knew Maggie wouldn't sign up for the ERM, so Lawson was secret shadowing the DM, saddling us with the wrong interest rates. When the Poll Tax was blown up out of proportion, they took Maggie out, sensing their chance to get on the Euro train.
Major was the Euro patsy and took us into the ERM which bad, but at the wrong rate which was worse. Brown, of course supported the move and the rate. (Remember the FT dredged up the 'real' cost of Black Wednesday before the 2005 election via FOI for its mates in Labour. The story died when it was revealed that the cost was much lower than expected and Brown was on record as being in favour).
Anyway, Lamont is rumoured to have been against the ERM adventure all along, hence his joy when it went wrong. The Tories blew up after this, simply because a EuroFanatic cabal had caused a big recession (sticking to the wrong rates) and then smashed up the Tory reputation for the economy (exit from the ERM). Unforgivable, considering how the country had been turned around since 1979.
Who'd like to name the cabal who executed the biggest political fuck-up of modern times...
"As it is he has shown the most appalling political ineptitude and has reduced the Labour government to a farcical grotesquerie without precedent in living memory"
Robert Harris' devastating execration of Brown.
Whats wrong with being Scottish?
Come up here and say that to my face, you tedious English cunt.
Brown is a wanker btw - I will be voting SNP to get those English pricks away from our oil.... morris dancing poofs the lot of ya
You're welcome to what's left of "your oil" and in exchange we English will stop subsidising you with public sector jobs and welfare benefits which make up over 75% of spending in the Featherbedded Republic of Scotland .
Sounds fair to me, you'll have to find alternative ways of funding your buckie, temazepam, and smack habits.
And you can have your scumbag New Labour MP's back.
David Boothroyd said...
The consecutive growth may have started under the Tories but the Tories can hardly claim credit for it, having (a) caused the recession in the first place, (b) only seen the growth start after their economic policy had collapsed on Black Wednesday.
You fucking idiot...look at the OECD figures that showed a fucking world recession in the late eighties..and the fucking Tories caused it all did they, you stupid cunt?
Anonymous said...
Whats wrong with being Scottish?
Come up here and say that to my face, you tedious English cunt.
Brown is a wanker btw - I will be voting SNP to get those English pricks away from our oil.... morris dancing poofs the lot of ya
Your oil you stupid cunt? I'm a jock living in Wales and proud not be up there with all the fucking losers who think oil is the answer to all their woes when the truth is that lazy drunken bum cunts is the problem.
Shitgun et al, can we have a bit less of the c word - it rather lowers the tone of Guido's blog from puerile sniggering to vicious brawling.
Oh, and Shitgun, your stupid animated wanker avatar is exceedingly tiresome - can you change it to something else or at least get rid of the awfully distracting animation please? We all know you're a wanker by now, so please do give us a break from advertising the fact.
For all those who self-indulgently slag off Cameron, the stark choice at the next election is between Brown and Cameron.
Do you really want another 4/5 year electoral term of New Labour rule...... under Brown!!?
Think about it.
Blue Labour it is(n't) then...
the boy cameron said...
Blue Labour it is(n't) then...
Five more years of New Labour under Brown or a Cameron led Government..... which would you prefer?
Fed up said...
Shitgun et al, can we have a bit less of the c word - it rather lowers the tone of Guido's blog from puerile sniggering to vicious brawling.
Fuck off you cunt. I suppose you;ll be having a little triangular cucumber sandwiches for dinner tomorrow served on the arse of a 16 year old boy?
Oh, and Shitgun, your stupid animated wanker avatar is exceedingly tiresome - can you change it to something else or at least get rid of the awfully distracting animation please? We all know you're a wanker by now, so please do give us a break from advertising the fact.
Go fuck yourself tosser.
There are no words that can describe the destruction of Britain, and everything it stands for, over the last 9 years. Brown invites ridicule from anyone with a basic grasp of maths/economics and will go down in history as a ludicrous muppet who spent 10 yrs in oppostion and then 10 yrs fleecing the country. Gordom waits 20 years fo literally 15 minutes of fame.
shitgun said: "Fuck off you cunt. I suppose you;ll be having a little triangular cucumber sandwiches for dinner tomorrow served on the arse of a 16 year old boy?"
What a depraved mind you have. My condolences to your family.
shitgun said: "Go fuck yourself tosser"
Oh, and what an educated 'man' you are too! My, my. Your mother must be proud of you.
Keep your silly wanker logo - then we can all see you coming, fnar, fnar!
Did he say anything about Cement Output ? I was hoping he might have given figures for Oil Output and Electricity Output...............these Five Year Plans are the best thing since Leonid died..............
I think Brown should wear his Hero of Socialist Labour award
morning assorted fluffs...
"I must say, it is such a pity that the economy will grow again this year, it rather goes against the spirit of the arguments presented here. Silly economy."
Any fool can grow the economy by borrowing - but who pays?
GB has a neat scam going to enable him to borrow cheaply at our expense:
1) Introduce ultra-long term bonds (50-year index-linked)
2) Introduce the Pension Protection Fund to monitor pension fund deficits. The PPF has the power to impose fines on funds with overly-large deficits.
3) Funds are thereby forced to close funding gaps by purchasing securities with a guaranteed return e.g. the aforementioned 50-year bonds.
4) Fund demand for bonds creates a vicious cycle whereby decreasing yields causes larger Fund deficits, further increasing demand for bonds to plug the gap.
5) et voila - Darth Brown gets to borrow for 50 years at under 0.5%.
bell said...
....spent 10 yrs in oppostion and then 10 yrs fleecing the country. Gordom waits 20 years fo literally 15 minutes of fame.
Brown's nemesis is still to come. I hope he is elected leader and then we can watch as his profligate spending and gross economic mismanagement of recent years lead this country into the worse recession for years and the public and the media subject this crooked charlatan to the ridicule and hatred he so richly deserves.
I wonder how Brown's grossly inflated but fragile ego will cope with all of that.
Perhaps he'll do the decent thing?