Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

Manuel.

Try self-education.

Then you can set your own pace.

Starter.

Maudling 1962 and the wreckage he left.

Don't bother with his business dealings.

you two, pinky and perky, are truly priceless ....... never mind; you just carry on if it keeps you amused

perhaps bill and ben would be more apposite

Oh belt up bird brain.. and that's an insult to wild life.

Stan evidently wants to go back to the days of Jim Callaghan, the winter of discontent and the double digit inflation. Happy days.

oh that was the conservatives fault as well; didn't you know?

Have a look at the mess left by the con artists in 1962 and the little note Maudling left behind him.

Mind he might have been more interest in his other affairs.

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ah yes, and in what a terrible state the banks were in 1841 too, with a heavy suicide rate particularly among the wool weavers

now who can we blame for that?

and we mustn't forget that last outbreak of plague in england between 1906 and 1918, nor that massive asian flu epidemic in 1957/58

surely we can blame some gov't (in)action for both of those?

You don't have to go as far back as 1962 for a losing party to leave a note..
It happened in 2010 when Labour got kicked out for
the desertion and betrayal of the indigenous working people.....

Typical "Con" Party dreamers... Even their so called "super Mac" Macmillan warned about selling off the family silver under Thatcher.

.. Once a Tory always a Tory.

Stan is just a buffoon.

Almost every time the Conservatives have left office they have left the economy in very good shape. Over the following years Labour's tax and spend and then borrow and spend has put us in bad shape.

8 former US Treasury Secretaries said it would be in America's interest if Brits voted to remain in the EU. That's nice. Never mind the interests of we Brits.
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Don't you just love that self interested two-faced liar Clegg, according to him if we LEAVE it would jeapardise the very existence of the UK.
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He is right in terms of Scotland leaving the UK.

That's got to seal it then, a double whammy, no tax to the €uroballs, and no tax subsidies to the jocks.


Clear winner!

Obama is pushing the TTIP talks and the investor court which would arbitrate disputes between companies and governments. Some see it as a way to claw back consumer protection rights in favour of corporate interest. German judges have declared the proposed court as illegal but I daresay they have as much power as our lot.
There are possible impacts to the NHS in that procurement rules may force it to contract out services or spin them off as mutuals.
Another issue where too little is known about the full implications.

Maudling 1964,

He served at the Treasury and when the Tory government fell in 1964 he was made private secretary to James Callaghan, the incoming Labour chancellor. When Callaghan arrived he found a note from Reggie Maudling, his Tory predecessor. It read: "Good luck old cock. Sorry to leave it in such a mess." Much the same sentiment but written in a more beguiling way than the letter left by Labour's Liam Byrne for his coalition successor last month saying there was no money.


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2010 was after a world economic crash.
In the period 2008-2010 the UK was recovering slightly.

After 2010, when Labour lost the election and your Georgie Boy took over the economy turned down again until a U-turn on economic policy was taken.

Biscuit tin economics was not working.

Get the facts right.

Have a look at treasury economic figures.

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The Present con party consists of 4 at least, fragmented self-interested groups who corruptly use political expense money to pervert the course of the last GE election.

I think Cameron and Crosby knew what they were doing and are liars and should be prosecuted.

The morality of the present con party stinks.

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C+P to the "Talk to yourself" thread.

Of course, most people in blighty haven't even heard of this deal. (TTIP)

And with Dave negotiating it, it's got to be a loser for joe public.



http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-usa-trade-idUSKCN0XI0AT