Winkies empty "promises"

[mondeoman]

I'm sure I heard on the news this morning that winky was promising that things would have turned the corner by Xmas.

here it is!

wonderful winky said:

My pledge to you is to make reform of the financial sector a reality and to see Britain’s economy return to growth by the turn of the year.

Has this man no understanding of hubris?

We've got two months and counting - or is he relying on the christmas sales to pull us out of an 18 month recession?

[-Pete-]

I doubt if PH servers' have enough capacity for 'Winkies empty promises?'

[AndrewW-G]

For once I hope he's right.............but I'd wager a decent christmas booze hamper on him being wrong........again..........for a change....the slack jawed one eye'd tt

[ineedagallardo]

AndrewW-G said:

....the slack jawed one eye'd tt

[Pesty]

people will go out and buy stoff for Christmas.

This will raise sales and he will claim to have saved us again (even though they will be lower than 2 years ago)

[mybrainhurts]

....Oh, god, I was joking, I didn't think the dour git would repeat it...

[mondeoman]

Pesty said:

people will go out and buy stoff for Christmas.

I bloody wont be !

[T89 Callan]

mondeoman said:

Pesty said:

people will go out and buy stoff for Christmas.

I bloody wont be !

Is 'Stoff' the big new toy for Xmas?

[motco]

This makes me suspicious that he might have organised this recent fall in growth (negatively) to be worse than it would have been without tampering in order to carry forward some turnover into the next quarter so that it will look like a miracle recovery - just as he predicted. Who hasn't artificially inflated their gas meter reading on the little card the reader leaves for you to put your own reading in when they know the price is going up before the next bill, so as to be having a 'lower' reading in the first bill under the new price? Same thing...

[jesusbuiltmycar]

IF we show psoitive growth in the last quarter and then show negaive growth in the first quarter of 2010 does that mean we are back in recession in time for the general election? Or aca Winky spin it taht we aren't in recession becasue 2 quarters of negative growth is required?

[Bing o]

motco said:

This makes me suspicious that he might have organised this recent fall in growth (negatively) to be worse than it would have been without tampering in order to carry forward some turnover into the next quarter so that it will look like a miracle recovery - just as he predicted. Who hasn't artificially inflated their gas meter reading on the little card the reader leaves for you to put your own reading in when they know the price is going up before the next bill, so as to be having a 'lower' reading in the first bill under the new price? Same thing...

Errm, no it's not - this is people's livelihoods we are talking about FFS.

[anonymous-user]

motco said:

This makes me suspicious that he might have organised this recent fall in growth (negatively) to be worse than it would have been without tampering in order to carry forward some turnover into the next quarter so that it will look like a miracle recovery - just as he predicted.

Except that he predicted we would be the first major european nation out of recession and we are now the only ones left in it. So whatever happens now he looks like a . So unlikely.

[motco]

Bing o said:

motco said:

This makes me suspicious that he might have organised this recent fall in growth (negatively) to be worse than it would have been without tampering in order to carry forward some turnover into the next quarter so that it will look like a miracle recovery - just as he predicted. Who hasn't artificially inflated their gas meter reading on the little card the reader leaves for you to put your own reading in when they know the price is going up before the next bill, so as to be having a 'lower' reading in the first bill under the new price? Same thing...

Errm, no it's not - this is people's livelihoods we are talking about FFS.

You seem not to realise that I meant that it's the same technique - obviously on a different scale, but it's manipulation of figures however you cut it up.

unrepentant. If the figures were going to be negative anyway, he might have decided to ask for 23 other offences to be taken into account, as it were, made it a bit worse to carry over the 'positive' element into next quarter.

Polticians really irritate me when they make positive statements that they cannot possibly support with a crystal ball - it's insulting to the intelligence of the voters.

[Rude-boy]

motco said:

Who hasn't artificially inflated their gas meter reading on the little card the reader leaves for you to put your own reading in when they know the price is going up before the next bill, so as to be having a 'lower' reading in the first bill under the new price? Same thing...

Err, not me. Not even ever thought of it and usually (before they started to manualy read it every time) they would have over estimated how much I have used.

That is because I am an honest person and expect (although not necessarily rely upon) others to treat me with the same integrity.

Something that this Government appears to consider an alien notion.

[motco]

Hoist with my own petard of hyperbole. Actually, I haven't either but it has crossed my mind I admit. I was trying to make a point but it seems to have become the main point - D'Oh! I am on 2006 prices on my gas by way of a fixed price deal 'til 2010 so it wouldn't benefit me. But, did Brown fix the figures...?

[Rude-boy]

motco said:

But, did Brown fix the figures...?

Fix them? No he's never fixed anything in his life.

Stitching though, he's good at that. Been stitching people up for years.

Seriously though he is has been rather good at inflicting Münchausen syndrome by proxy on the populace.