When to increase tax, or cut services. Or I remember what I was thinking on the bus on the way home.

[johnny9fingers]

The IMF, who previously have suggested a wonderful thing to do with a Banking tax or twain, have weighed into the political debate inadvertently.

www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/apr/21/western-economies-too-weak-for-spending-cuts-imf-warns

So according to the IMF, who would have to be called in to bail us out should things go tits-up in the way of Greece (which according to Professor Joseph Stiglitz is hugely unlikely) our economy is too weak to start the cuts/tax rises until 2011. Which is what both Labour and the Lib-Dems say.

Gawd bless the Tories, hey.

I'm sorry to all you folk who want change for its own sake: but from my limited economic understanding, Brown and Darling are making more sense than the rest of 'em. Of course, we'll vote in the disaster of the Tories nevertheless.

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[mister-bitters.livejournal.com]

Please correct my ignorance regarding the Torries, as Brithish politics still eludes me on a regular basis, but aren't they a "conservative" party. More so than Labour, that is. Mind you, my use of conservative is heavily tainted by the nuts on my side of the pond, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean quite the same thing. I know Brown has kind of made a mess of things, but given that he was handed a mess from Blair I can't really figure out what is going on in Britain.

If the Torries are similar to our own Republicans, I can't wait to see what a mess they make of things while they are "fixing" things. It seems insane to me that we continue to let these pigs drive us further down the road to ruin.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

The Tories, or Conservative Party, or to use the official title "The Conservative and Unionist Party", are the large centre-right party equivalent of the Republican Party. But they're trying to rebrand themselves as an all-embracing class-crossing party of change under the leadership of David Cameron.

However, as I've blogged about over the past couple of years, they've made choices I find frankly stupid and quite scary.

For instance, to appease a hard rump of Euro-sceptics, they withdrew from the right-of-centre European coalition in the EU Parliament, and allied themselves with a bunch of homophobes and SS apologists.

They have called for immediate spending cuts; which is at variance with the economic predictions of the very body they've invoked as a spectre hanging over the results of the present government's policies.

I don't mind a chap, or a party being posh, but I don't like being led by folk who place ideology above what appears to be good sense.

Basically, they appear to be economic eejits who pander to homophobic quasi-racists to appear tough on Europe.

Not good political choices, IMHO.

[winterlion.livejournal.com]

in other words, they're heading in the political direction of Adam Susan and his "Norsefire" party.

ok I'm having a spot of fun with mythologies - but I'm not terribly fond of the "conservative" type parties.

The article you posted about really is quite interesting and - while I've nothing else to add at this time - it's making me think RE: how nations are running budgets.