Honey, I shrunk the economy.

[THEFATBASTARD]

Do these clowns have any idea what they are doing?

[I am Rod Hull]

Do these clowns have any idea what they are doing?

They know full well what they are doing.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I think it's a cunning plan to stop us from hating them, and instead start feeling sorry for them because they're so rubbish

[Daggers]

I'm thinking it'll soon pick up...they've U-turned on everything else.

[MooseBreath]

It was always going to be negative this quarter. Extra bank holidays, dreadful weather. The Olympics will give it a boost next quarter, and after that hopefully the govt will be getting on with promised infrastructure projects which will boost the poorly performing construction industry.

[The Doctor]

Frankly, I love their excuses:

Previous government, wet weather, warm weather, the Queen. Just please don't blame us.

[Corky]

Wasn't this the film Rodney went to see in "Rodney Come Home?"

[Daggers]

It was always going to be negative this quarter. Extra bank holidays, dreadful weather. The Olympics will give it a boost next quarter, and after that hopefully the govt will be getting on with promised infrastructure projects which will boost the poorly performing construction industry.

[Master Fox]

I think the government must have been watching some post match Rob Kelly interviews recently. I lost count the amount of times I heard Cameron and Osbourne say 'we'll be redoubling our efforts' and promises of giving '110%' today. I'm completely confident they are the right type of people to run the country.

[THEFATBASTARD]

If a bit of bad weather and a bank holiday can put the economy this far off course..it must be in real s h i t e . they are quick to take credit when things go right,but failure is an orphan..

[Libertine Dream]

Well if we had a competent man as chancellor we might get somewhere. Instead we have somebody who makes Ed Milliband look good in his role

[I am Rod Hull]

Do these clowns have any idea what they are doing?

Politicians are monkeys on sticks, they have little control on the economy and haven`t had since the 70`s, Tiny Roland and James Goldsmith proved that.

Bankers run the shop.

[MooseBreath]

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Let's not pretend you have any qualification whatsoever to be talking about the economy. You literally know nothing at all about it, and like a bland sheep, you'll simply follow the herd in blaming whatever political party is in power at the time.

[Captain...]

Let's not pretend you have any qualification whatsoever to be talking about the economy. You literally know nothing at all about it, and like a bland sheep, you'll simply follow the herd in blaming whatever political party is in power at the time.

What qualifications do you have to talk about the economy? On what basis are you defending this Government, who took a recovering economy into a double dip recession or is it now triple? Or did we ever actually come out of recession? In the process have managed to cripple growth, cut public services across the board, and yet the deficit is more or less the same as it was under Labour and the debt is still growing.

Yes this is all Labour's fault, yes they got us into this mess by building up massive debts and high deficits, yes the crash was all their fault for de-regulating the banks, but what have the current Government actually done to get us out of this mess, other than make excuses?

[Bellend Sebastian]

Unlike the current chancellor, who has a degree in Modern History.

With my shitty Geography degree I should at least be minister for candyfloss or something

[Captain...]

I did economics a-level, and did some economics modules in my business degree, does that mean I am better qualified to run the economy than George Osbourne?

[Rincewind]

Well it makes you more qualified to know if he is talking shit or not.

[Bellend Sebastian]

I did economics a-level, and did some economics modules in my business degree, does that mean I am better qualified to run the economy than George Osbourne?

Well f**k me, I've just remembered that I've got an A level in economics too.

With our qualifications and Moosebreath's BTEC in Windmill Studies I think we're pretty much unstoppable

[Captain...]

Well f**k me, I've just remembered that I've got an A level in economics too.

With our qualifications and Moosebreath's BTEC in Windmill Studies I think we're pretty much unstoppable

So what's first on the bill?

I know instead of bleating on about tax avoidance, lets regulate all of the offshore tax havens that are under our jurisdiction, just a few examples:

Non-sovereign jurisdictions commonly labelled as tax havens include:

• Bermuda (United Kingdom)
  
• British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
  
• Campione d'Italia an Italian exclave (Italy)
  
• Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)
  
• The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey (United Kingdom)
  
• Delaware (United States)
  
• Florida (United States)
  
• The Isle of Man (United Kingdom)
  
• Jebel Ali Free Zone in the United Arab Emirates
  
• Labuan, a Malaysian island off Borneo
  
• Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands)
  
• Nevada (United States)
  
• Texas (United States)
  
• Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom)
  
• United States Virgin Islands (United States)
  
• Wyoming (United States)
  

Then start putting pressure on the other countries to close these tax loopholes.

Think of all the extra tax we have lost out on to our own jurisdictions, it is a nonsense.

[MooseBreath]

What qualifications do you have to talk about the economy? On what basis are you defending this Government, who took a recovering economy into a double dip recession or is it now triple? Or did we ever actually come out of recession? In the process have managed to cripple growth, cut public services across the board, and yet the deficit is more or less the same as it was under Labour and the debt is still growing.

Yes this is all Labour's fault, yes they got us into this mess by building up massive debts and high deficits, yes the crash was all their fault for de-regulating the banks, but what have the current Government actually done to get us out of this mess, other than make excuses?

I'm not defending the government. I'm just saying that given our current situation the drop was expected and that imminent growth is also expected. I didn't pass any judgement at all it was merely an observation. Daggers decided it was a funny and presumably wrong observation but typically offered no observation of his own other than allocating blind blame at whichever politician he feels is responsible for him having a shit life today.

Personally, I think the spending cuts are to blame for no growth buy they were necessary after Labour's wild gung-ho approach. They could have been left for a couple of years while the economy recovered from the separate recession, but the farcical nature of politics in this country means that if you want to stay in power and be given a fair chance at seeing things through, you need to time you popular and unpopular moves carefully so as not to piss too many people off too close to election time. That's why they rushed into the cuts and that's why we're back in recession. The good news is growth is on the way.

[Rincewind]

Not taking sides but it is normally good news for those not affected as much by cuts and so will give whatever steps are taken their full support because if they don't they may be hit instead.

Just a non-political thought. I do not have an economic degree by the way.

[MooseBreath]

my business degree

that explains a lot tbh

[Daggers]

What qualifications do you have to talk about the economy? On what basis are you defending this Government, who took a recovering economy into a double dip recession or is it now triple? Or did we ever actually come out of recession? In the process have managed to cripple growth, cut public services across the board, and yet the deficit is more or less the same as it was under Labour and the debt is still growing.

He knows how many empty burger wrappers he has to collect in the car park - there's been less recently and he's had to do more toilet duties in order to fill his time. He is a human economic barometer.

[Reynard Bleu]

Its not going well though is it. The time for blame has run out. Its the job of this Govenrnment to sort the mess out, notwithstanding weather, holidays, the Euro-Crisis, they need to be making more progress than this. There has to be some growth and they need to do more to get the banks to lend. Just about every initiative so far has just gone on the bottom line of the banks. I genuinely have no political affiliation or preference, but I know that the people who are getting the shitty end of the stick today are not the same people who directed the banks down loopy lane in the first place.

Side issue. British gas profits? No downturn here then. I'm struggling to pay my fuel bills yet these pirates are making 2 million a day.

[MooseBreath]

He knows how many empty burger wrappers he has to collect in the car park - there's been less recently and he's had to do more toilet duties in order to fill his time. He is a human economic barometer.

Hilarity is bringing the assumed crap job joke out for the 10th time in a month