> No I will not vote unless there is someone worth voting for You may not have meant it but you definitely wrote 'never have and never will'. To say now 'well I might' is a u-turn the chuckle brothers would be proud of.
> Was it not Gordon Brown and his Tonyness whose "light touch" promoted this. In hindsight they were all too soft on them, pretty sure Maggie and Majors' deregulation didn't help either. > Also remember that banks are public companies. They must make profits If you > don't like one. change bank Does that mean that they must make profits fraudulently? They must lie and make stuff up just to make money? They must invent securities and lend sub-prime mortgages just to turn a coin? My bank has so far turned out to be pretty clean so changing it won't stop the financial malaise. Your 'change bank' approach won't alter anything for customers of Barclays or HSBC so why would it change anything for customers of Yorkshire Bank, for instance? And who would Yorkshire Bank customers move to? HSBC? RBS? Barclays? How would that change anything? > > and the current lot are still doing it - The deficit myth is the > > grossest lie ever enforced upon the people and it has been sold by > > exploiting people's economic illiteracy. > > Bollocks. Labour mismanaged and based their spending on optimistic forecasts. > More Daily Express sensationalism. Try looking at the facts and figures not the juvenile deficit narratives and sound bites:- Public Sector Net Debt as % GDP 1997 - 42% 2002 - 29% 2007 - 37% 2013 - 71% Public Sector Net Borrowing as % GDP 1997 - 3.9% 2002 - 0% 2007 - 2.1% 2013 - 11% It's Gideon that's mismanaging the economy based on over-optimistic forecasts and his belief in the confidence fairy. Gideon economics are those of Mr Micawber. If Labour are guilty of overspending it was spent on health and education, two things which the Condems are slashing spending in now. The coalition exaggerated the necessity to tackle the deficit in the short term possibly to use austerity as justification for a smaller state to gain lower taxes but more likely to paint Labour as a party that cannot be trusted with the country's finances again and thus win the next election out of fear. _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
