dodgy jock fiddling the numbers yet again!

[v8 westy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4695823.stm

iron chancellor my arse!

if the figures dont meet the targets, fiddle the figures until they do!

the budget is a bloody joke! how any sane, thinking person can vote for these lying incompetents is beyond comprehension?

[mybrainhurts]

Chancer of the Exchequer.....

[foster3jd]

So with the economy faultering under New Labour, he opts to take further advantage of the post-Tory economic boom that he inherited!

Prudence, my arse!

[Prudence]

If you think I'm touching your arse, you've got another think coming.....

[Numptie]

v8 westy said:

dodgy jock

Settle !!!

[Numptie]

... and go clean yer windas ...

(profile pic refers)

[Numptie]

mybrainhurts said:

Chancer of the Exchequer.....

Ha ha .. how very clever (shakes head).

[mojocvh]

Quote--By effectively moving the goalposts, he will be more confident that he will be able to meet his fiscal rules - at a time when their breach would have damaged his chances of succeeding Mr Blair.

Mr Brown has also effectively postponed for several years making any tough decisions about raising taxes or cutting spending, which might have been necessary if he had been in danger of breaching his borrowing rule.

However, he may have won a Pyrrhic victory if his actions reduce the Labour government's hard-won credibility in financial markets.


Sums it up really, incompetence on a grand scale.

But no doubt a couple of slots on breakfast time TV will ensure that he is seen as a "good" chancelor.

MoJo.

[scared but happy]

He always was useless. He idea of prudence is tax everything and borrow more money. I think he needs to 'consolidate his debts' perhaps by phoning one of those numbers off the telly. Usless tool! Nevermind stick him and his baybee on some chat show and let him bask in his own smugness.

[apache]

Why, has he asked Ocean Finance for a quote or summat?

[Cotty]

mojocvh said:

Quote--By effectively moving the goalposts, he will be more confident that he will be able to meet his fiscal rules - at a time when their breach would have damaged his chances of succeeding Mr Blair.

If he does succeed Blair is there anyway we can get him out of office, I dont want this idiot running the country and dont want to wait for the next election.

Sensible options would be nice but anything involving flame throwers will be taken into consideration

[vetteheadracer]

:Golden Brown said:

Mr Brown said the change was driven purely by revised economic data.

in other words I f@cked up so I am changing the rules.

[JagLover]

The situation is even worse than it looks.

The government is running a fair size deficit after years of unbroken economic growth. What would happen in the event of a recession?

[Tuna]

Prudence said:

If you think I'm touching your arse, you've got another think coming.....

Great. Now I'm annoyed at Gordon Brown and I've got Siouxie and the Banshees singing in my head.

[mybrainhurts]

Numptie said:

mybrainhurts said: Chancer of the Exchequer..... Ha ha .. how very clever (shakes head).

Credit for that goes to Professor John Brignell at www.numberwatch.co.uk

A better site you'll be hrd pressed to find....go to number of the month and select a month

[scared but happy]

JagLover said:

The situation is even worse than it looks. The government is running a fair size deficit after years of unbroken economic growth. What would happen in the event of a recession?

Everyone would loose their house and vote for another party - same as last time.