Economy Safe In Osbornes Hands ?

[mikey4444]

Government borrowing worst October figure in six years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34877455

Osbornes been in Office as a Tory Chancellor for over 5 years, so why is he still not able to make the books add up ?

[youngmafbog]

//Osborne is one of the most incompetent chancellors in living memory//

Forgotten Bottler so soon? And other free spending labour chancellors?

Now I dont like Osborne, but your pushing it a bit with that statement.

[bazwillrun]

ToraToraTora

[Svejk]

Looking at mikey's pre-election forecasts, we'd best get used to this government, they're going to be there for a very long time.

[naomi24]

Bouncer, it's quite curious really. You never actually add anything to any discussion. Go on - join in - tell us why you think Labour did so much better. Were you happy for Gordon Brown to sell the family gold at knock down prices, or to rifle pension pots, or to burden the low paid with higher taxes? Tell us what was good about that?

[Canary42]

Remember Osborne couldn't answer the question "What is 7 x 8" at the last electioneering - that should have warned us all what a dunce he is.

[naomi24]

Canary, perhaps you'd like to answer the question I put to Bouncer at 23:32?

[viv41]

mikey, I agree with everything you say about this vile government, BUT Corbyn for PM?? Not too sure about that. UKIP fore me next time, I think !

[ToraToraTora]

naomi, Bouncer/Farrier is using the whole braincell to think of another new name to sulk behind after the election in 2020, of course, first he'll spend 2019 crowing about how the Tories will lose!

[mikey4444]

Viv...who you vote for next is, of course, up to you but UKIP ? What would be the point of voting for a Party that will never win an Election ?

They started off this year with 2 MP's, both borrowed from the Tories and managed to end up with 1 MP after the Election. Their current Leader has shown himself completely and utterly incapable of winning a seat himself, no matter how hard he tries and I have to give him some credit...he has tried, lots and lots of times !

So...again I would ask...why UKIP ?

[Zacs-Master]

'What would be the point of voting for a Party that will never win an Election ? '

You will be asking yourself that in 2019 Mikey.

[TTG]

Stop sending 12 billion down a black hole otherwise known as foreign "aid".

[mikey4444]

Rubbish Zacs !.......Labour will win at some point in the future, and UKIP never, ever will ! Is 1997 such a distant memory ?

[ToraToraTora]

....and the other 12 billion, to our EU enemies.

[ToraToraTora]

"....Labour will win at some point in the future," - yes but there is an awful lot of future out there mikey me old china. Are you sure I can't tempt you to become a "brown ale" Tory? I'll get them in at my local Con Club!

[mikey4444]

TTT.......I take it that a Brown Ale Tory is the counterpoint of a Champagne Socialist then ! I am a Real Ale Socialist, so I am not sure where that leaves me !

[Zacs-Master]

I didn't say 'at some point'. I said 2019.

[mikey4444]

Unless something entirely unexpected happens, nobody will win or lose in 2019 Zacs....perhaps the year after !

[Zacs-Master]

Stop being pedantic. 2019 is when the election build up will begin. Do you really think Laboir will have a potentially viable opposition by then?