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[Del Boy]

http://www.parkers.co.uk/News/News/Fuel-prices-to-rise-10plitre-in-April/

I just want to say, I think the conservative are a complete and utter bunch of w*nkers and I despise them with a passion 

[omegabsw]

Somethings gotta give somewhere otherwise we are heading for trouble

[PhilRich]

Unless the Government puts up the price of lpg I reckon Teilo & his ilk are in for a massive increase in business!

[Omega_Dan]

Fed up of hearing this news. Its just taking us for mugs and it wont be long before we have no choice but to drive an economical car

[PhilRich]

Somethings gotta give somewhere otherwise we are heading for trouble

Still, if we all take to the streets & call for the downfall of the Government at least they haven't got any many planes left to attack us with!

[Del Boy]

Somethings gotta give somewhere otherwise we are heading for trouble

Still, if we all take to the streets & call for the downfall of the Government at least they haven't got any many planes left to attack us with!

It's funny because it's true 

[TheBoy]

Every man, woman and child in the UK needs to pay £2,300 extra in tax annually to even the deficit (the annual overspend).

Every man, woman and child in the UK needs to pay £23,000 NOW to cancel the nation debt (has to be now, due to interest payments on it).

So, thats £23k now, and £2.3k extra per year.



I hope that puts things into perspective, as people seem to think all these cuts are unnecessary, and seem to think that the state the UK is in is 100% purely down to the banks, rather than the gross mismanagement of public finances over the past decade and a half. Its that gross mismanagement that we are now having to pay for. And we will pay the price 

[bigegg]

our best hope now is twelve months of rampant inflation like we he had in the 70's - easiest way to do that is significantly increase costs to local businesses, say by doubling the cost of transport.

Then the national debt might still be 23k per person.
but that would only be a weeks wage.

 

[Webby the Bear]

Every man, woman and child in the UK needs to pay £2,300 extra in tax annually to even the deficit (the annual overspend).

Every man, woman and child in the UK needs to pay £23,000 NOW to cancel the nation debt (has to be now, due to interest payments on it).

So, thats £23k now, and £2.3k extra per year.



I hope that puts things into perspective, as people seem to think all these cuts are unnecessary, and seem to think that the state the UK is in is 100% purely down to the banks, rather than the gross mismanagement of public finances over the past decade and a half. Its that gross mismanagement that we are now having to pay for. And we will pay the price   

spot on. labours mess being cleared up by the tory's. it stings but its necasary.

[TheBoy]

our best hope now is twelve months of rampant inflation like we he had in the 70's - easiest way to do that is significantly increase costs to local businesses, say by doubling the cost of transport.

Then the national debt might still be 23k per person.
but that would only be a weeks wage.

 

Nice idea, but the costs of running country go up as well, so the deficit is not addressed (though debt would be less (in value terms)

[bigegg]

depends how much of the deficit is servicing the debt. 23k at 10% interest = 2300 deficit

 

[TheBoy]

depends how much of the deficit is servicing the debt. 23k at 10% interest = 2300 deficit

 

Alledgedly, we are paying around 1% on many of our loans, though I know some short term panic loans were 24%

[bigegg]

looks like most gilts are around 5%-6%, so could account for 1/2 the deficit

http://swapratesonline.com/current-uk-gilt-rates.html

any way, I'm sure the government are doing the best they can for us, given the circumstances.

  :-/

[omegabsw]

I would rather have the blues in power then anybody else at the moment. What labour have.managed to do to the country in their 11 years in charge is shocking, immigration and getting votes from ethnic minorities. even down to selling off the gold reserves.

We had no other option, we don't need a left wing liberal goverment at the moment, that's for sure.

[bigegg]

I would rather have the blues in power then anybody else at the moment. What labour have.managed to do to the country in their 11 years in charge is shocking, immigration and getting votes from ethnic minorities. even down to selling off the gold reserves.

We had no other option, we don't need a left wing liberal goverment at the moment, that's for sure.

That's probably how the germans felt in 1933...

but fwiw, I agree

Labour MPs traditionally come from working class backgrounds.

Liberals come from arty farty guardian reading treehugging quiche eating (etc...) backgrounds.

tories are business owning, share dealing, estate agent types.

to my mind, tories are really the only choice to get the country back on course.
plus they'll not be bothered by morals.