An End to Boom and Bust

[evenflow]

[svm]

And the award for stating the fking obvious goes to....

[B17NNS]

Nice graph, would be even better if it showed the drop before Thatcher.

[ApexJimi]

So going by that, we've not quite plumbed the depths of 2003/4 yet.....

[Zod]

im and heebeegeebeediddledeedee will be along in a minute to explain why this is wrong and the Tories would only make things worse.

[Zod]

the funniest thing is the 1987 "crash". Just look at that blip compared to what Brown has wrought.

[Zod]

on trend the FTSE should be somewhere around 6000.

[s,one]

So the Tories got out just in time!

[schmalex]

I read somewhere today that Gordo is truly losing his marbles. Alledgedly, he soiled himself yesterday during a cabinet meeting or something

[toppstuff]

This should be in every newspaper and posted on billboards and the side of buses.

Anything to wake people up.

[Ordinary Bloke]

toppstuff said:

This should be in every newspaper and posted on billboards and the side of buses.

Anything to wake people up.

The graph, or evidence that GB soiled himself?

[JonRB]

schmalex said:

I read somewhere today that Gordo is truly losing his marbles. Alledgedly, he soiled himself yesterday during a cabinet meeting or something

I'm sure he'd argue that he had, in fact, made an unscheduled improvement of himself by getting rid of waste and increasing output.

[svm]

JonRB said:

schmalex said:

I read somewhere today that Gordo is truly losing his marbles. Alledgedly, he soiled himself yesterday during a cabinet meeting or something

I'm sure he'd argue that he had, in fact, made an unscheduled improvement of himself by getting rid of waste and increasing output.

[groucho]

schmalex said:

I read somewhere today that Gordo is truly losing his marbles. Alledgedly, he soiled himself yesterday during a cabinet meeting or something

What's wrong with that? I do it all the time.

[moles]

What happened in 03/04 I cant remember anything that caused a crash?.

[schmalex]

groucho said:

schmalex said:

I read somewhere today that Gordo is truly losing his marbles. Alledgedly, he soiled himself yesterday during a cabinet meeting or something

What's wrong with that? I do it all the time.

To be fair, so do I (last time was a particularly unfortunate incident involving a queue on the M3, my old Z3 & a new pair of trousers going straight in the bin when I finally got home). But neither you or I pretend to ruin run the country

[rabw]

moles said:

What happened in 03/04 I cant remember anything that caused a crash?.

.com? IIRC the GDP graphs the government show you include house prices too, so that 'crash' just looks like a slowing down whereas in reality we were a little in recession there too.

[evenflow]

schmalex said:

I read somewhere today that Gordo is truly losing his marbles. Alledgedly, he soiled himself yesterday during a cabinet meeting or something

Where?

I would LOVE this to be true.

[moles]

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Edited by moles on Thursday 29th January 19:54

[glazbagun]

Zod said:

the funniest thing is the 1987 "crash". Just look at that blip compared to what Brown has wrought.

Isnt it about the same, relatively? Or dont FTSE points work like that?