-- As Soon As Possible

[venator]

Ed's operators - Mr McLuskey or Ms Sturgeon have come up with a real goodie - any ideas what it means when he says we shall balance the books / eliminate the deficit as soon as possible.

I wish to announce that I shall walk to the moon as soon as possible

Almost as good as the hackneyed adword "up to" All that means is "not more than"

I intend to give everyone on Answerbank up to £1000000 each
Anyone forming a queue?

Or would you rather wait until Ed / Len / Nicola eliminate the deficit?

This should have been in the jokes section, but it's not funny.

[anneasquith]

should this op have been in the joke section ? :)

[TWR]

1st, Sell the H.P. to the highest bidder.
2nd, Get rid of the Sleepy Squad that sit around & do nothing,
3rd, Get rid of the Hangers on connected to the Royal Family & let them work for their vast Wages or let the Queen pay them,
4th Lower the MPs wage / Ex pences / Cars / Air Fairs / Train Fairs, & shut their restaurant & let them pay like the rest of us,
5th Is there any need for the P.M + his mob to fly all over the world while we have the Internet?
6th Get rid of Chequers the boys club, why do we need it?
7th No limit on when this comes about, do it over the week end as the do with fuel, every vehicle that comes in from abroad no-matter what port of entry a £20 toll, & that's cheap when you come to the fact that the 44tonners contribute to the damage to the UK Roads.
8th Amazon / Google & the likes, WILL PAY their tax.
9th The Energy Companies, let them pay on the greedy profits.
10th The BIG BOYS that flash their cash in the face of the British Public, Comp Directors that damage & loose Millions, loose their hand outs & not be allowed to walk into another high roller big pay job.

There are a lot more ways.

[venator]

Disappointing response to a serious point about poliyicians' weasel words.

Anne - you didn't read down to the last line of my post.

TWR - you seem to be responding to something completely different.

[jno]

since you only seem to be talking about opposition parties, it's hard to take this as a "serious point". Exempting Tories from your comments means it's just another party political broadcast.

[TWR]

It refered to Balance the books, I think I have given the answer, if not, Oh Well.