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[pmeas] 03/2/2003 16:56

were seeing it again today though and on the forex which says to me he ftse the place to be and it will reduce the GDP in time to come with the inflow of foreign investment.Watch this space.

[franceys] 03/2/2003 15:23

pmeas
The relative performances of Dow v. FTSE is not one of Brown's strongest points: last week the performance of the FTSE versus Dow was at a 26 year LOW!!

Lots of RustyBrownie points for that magnificent performance by our prize idiot of a chancellor.

[jl202] 03/2/2003 14:40

"Make him wriggle and squirm with shame before consigning him to the dustbin of spent useless Chancellors." lol

pmeas - inflation? What makes you think that? Your clutching at straws for reasons to compliment old gordon if you think that is his reasoning; he doesn't have the balls to pump and dump pfi - besides when the contractors double their prices the gov. is the guarantor! I'm afraid you're talking Gordonspeak,,

[pmeas] 01/2/2003 14:16

Browns purse strings are a match for the tightest of any woman,spend and borrow like crazy when you Know inflations at your door with the pfi contracts with a ten year period these contacts will be the ruination of the construction boom.

[franceys] 01/2/2003 10:11

The difficult decision for Brown to make right now is whether actually to ASK for a change of scenery - to the Foreign Office for example, before his phoney house of Old Socialism cards collapses on him, a collapse as even he must now realise is inevitable.

However the enormous worry for him must be that any such replacement in the No.2 slot could be by a real competitor such as David Blunkett.

Now DB (as opposed to GB) would be strongly electable by a lot of non-Labour people in this country.

[jonc] 01/2/2003 08:44

No make him stay at No11.

He is not going to get off the hook that easily.

Make him wriggle and squirm with shame before consigning him to the dustbin of spent useless Chancellors.

[ashtongray] 31/1/2003 20:13

This might be a good time for Gordon to move from No.11 to No.10, if only Tony would take the hint?

[pmeas] 31/1/2003 19:46

Watch and learn my son

[gain] 31/1/2003 15:00

excuse me Mr Brown you wouldn't happen to play cricket would you? there's a vacancy waiting for you in the England team, you'll feel at home there.

[pmeas] 30/1/2003 21:39

JL202 any chance of another graph do v ftse please.

[pmeas] 03/12/2002 08:49

cheers jl202

[jl202] 02/12/2002 09:54

Forsaken, did not pick up your post back there, will look into it,,

[franceys] 02/12/2002 09:14

Brown is in in fact charge of one of the most crooked Treasury teams of all time.
They don't just deal in a few brown paper Harrods packets of used fivers, but in millions and billions of pounds. The off-balance sheet accounting of the PFI scandal as conducted by Labour ministers would put all businesspeople straight into jail. It is estimated that the total public borrowing increase if the accounting were honest (no chance with Brown) would be in the region of 100bn!!

Brown has relied upon the lie that the ONS (Office of National Statistics) was advised by the chief of the civil service accounting that the PFI funding was correctly to be placed off balance sheet. In fact a leaked letter over the week end has shown this to be untrue.

The question now is whether the head of the ONS, a formerly totally trusted organisation, is now in Labour's pocket and therefore will alter figures fraudulently in Labour's favour (as Patience Wheatcroft, economics editor of The Times clearly thinks) or whether it was genuinely mislead. I doubt that there are many takers for the "genuinely mislead".

[pmeas] 28/11/2002 09:49

as long as me gran gets her 107.00 packet i aint bothered

[mightymicro] 27/11/2002 22:40

So much for the reduction in the national debt. El Gordo wants to borrow his way into a third labour term and the PM's job for himself (Blair will fold his tent as the first two-term labour PM before the sh*t hits the fan).

Bunch of chancers.

MM

[pmeas] 27/11/2002 17:42

personality aint everything boys,

[ashtongray] 27/11/2002 16:39

Exactly. I also experienced an anomaly in the space-time continuum after about 3.30pm, as a result of which I cannot remember exactly what I was doing when Gordon spoke.

[dontknowitall] 27/11/2002 16:27

I was listening to him in the car earlier this afternoon.

Fatal.

I fell asleep and woke up in the ditch.

[ashtongray] 27/11/2002 16:22

Well he does seem to have command of his numbers, but I think the central strategy of the chancellor is to bore us all to death. What WOULD he be like as PM? EEK.

[ashtongray] 10/10/2002 23:15

samples123

I agree the chancellor has carved out more room for himself by the reductions in the national debt since 1997, and I applaud that. But I also hope that all that effort to reduce debt and the debt service that went with it (also a big item) will not be negated by policies that result in it shooting up again, because in that case, what was the point of the self imposed 2 year spending straitjacket which followed the 1997 election?

[samples123] 10/10/2002 13:06

Ashtongray

your comments on the public finances

The obvious question is what would happen if growth turns out to be much lower than expected. The March 2001 Budget looked at what might happen if GDP growth were 1 per cent lower than assumed, and estimated that net borrowing might be roughly £5 billion higher than planned in the first year and roughly £2 billion higher than planned in the second year. This could be easily accommodated within the Chancellor's fiscal rules. Indeed, the scope to allow public borrowing to rise even further to offset a major external economic shock such as a global recession is considerable. Latest figures show that public debt as a share of GDP in September was just over 31 per cent, well below the Chancellor's sustainable debt ceiling of 40 per cent of GDP.