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Topic History of: Cameron's excellent speech at the G20 in Mexico Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Solihull Exile
You need both growth and debt reduction,never easy even in boom years.
In The Know
DJones wrote: the question voters will ask is "what was all the pain for?
To get rid of some ... if not all ... of LABOUR'S DEBT !
Did you see the prog on Greece? (still on iPlayer, I think).
That's REAL pain ! Some people have had NO wages for 6/8 months now.
(and what happens when you dont pay your debts !)
DJones
In The Know wrote: Jill, as you probably DIDNT hear the speech ....
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This is my fourth G20.
So as we meet to talk about the steps the world must take, let me start by being absolutely clear about what Britain has done to restore its economic strength.
We have acted swiftly, setting out a credible and steady plan to restore confidence in our public finances.
In two years we have cut the deficit by over a quarter.
"The Chancellor once hoped to go to the election boasting that he had "balanced the books" and cleaned up "the mess" left by Labour. Now, with 2015 borrowing likely to exceed even the OBR's recent forecast of £75bn (4.3 per cent), the question voters will ask is "what was all the pain for?""
In The Know
Largely agree, JK - the real problem with democracy is that ALL governments are forced (by the system) into short-term thinking ... getting re-elected at the next election is all that matters.
Consequently no long-term though goes into it.
ImproperGanda
Not Big Bent-Media backing Big Bent-Wall Street, but big straight Frankfurt should boss Big Money.
Since Brit Finch voiced one of ex-Ukrainian Chayeksky's many immortal lines about Corporatism beating Liberalism, "You are television incarnate...indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality" "I'm mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore" in the prophetic 1976 "NETWORK", it was true then and even moreso now.
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