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That said off to a Michelin star place tonight called MB. The only one in the canaries apparently.
Would not disagree normally, but to many makes them look life they are making it up as they go along.
That said off to a Michelin star place tonight called MB. The only one in the canaries apparently.
Whilst I agree, there have been many publicised U-turns, that is clear. However, 'austerity' is definitely a hard sell and that appears to be going forward, and to be fair, that has to be the mother of all 'sales'.
Well yes, that's utopia.
But serious question, which would you rather have.
I won't bother listing the brick Labour policies that were rammed down ALL of our throats.
I just don't think u-turns are necessarily a bad thing. A u-turn smells of democracy.
Exactly.
Southstand, you're running the risk of attempting to defend the indefensible.
Government is there to govern; not - as parklane suggests - make it up as they go along. That's incredibly weak and doesn't inspire confidence at all. It's not about "democracy" - it's about having a plan; a strategy, one born out of intelligence and sound thought - or at least you'd hope. If said strategy and plan is so easily manipulated by the media and public opinion, then it doesn't exactly give rise to there being much faith, thought or conviction in the policies which are being drawn-up, does it?
That's poor government; amateurish and flaky, open to out-manoeuvre. Too many backtracks and U-turns, and the public and/or otherwise disaffected groups will know that all they need do is kick up a bit of a fuss, and the policy will be changed. How could you possibly interpret THAT as strong government?
Being in government is about having the conviction and bottle to make tough decisions - and then sticking to them; trying to please everyone, all of the time, just isn't going to work. You have to accept that in life you're always going to have winners and losers, and it's about how you sell that message which counts.
Thus far, all this government has shown is that, when confronted with a difficult sell, it merely changes tact. That's unbelievably poor and, as I said, were this selective in a corporate environment, they'd have - democratically mind - been asked to kindly clear their desks.
Has your holiday been crap or something ?? youve posted nearly as much as Arcspace does in a day since youve been there...
Its good you wont do that, because it is not relevant. A discussion on what the current government is doing shouldnt involve labour. And you always blame Labour for everything that happened while they were in power, so you cant start defending this government by saying labour would be doing worse... judging by what is happening now it would be more appropriate to start discussing how much worse the tories would have done in the 'good years'.
I wonder if they were really considering the facts whether they'd be ordering the F35 at all, B or C. Both seem inadequate to the task. As you say, the facts presumably come from the MoD, to whom an accurate estimate of costs seems an entirely alien concept (the carriers were to cost ?ú2.8b to begin with, we're up to about 6bn already...), so if (when) they come up with another set of numbers for this, do we change path again?But the JSF decision will save billions and well have two QE2 class carriers rather than one. That is an example of the right decision even though it cost money. I'd add it's the 100,000 clowns at the MoD that let the government down as they changed their recommendations. As someone quite famous said, 'when the facts change I change my mind, what do you do sir'?
We wouldn't of had any debt to start with if the Tories governed from 97-2010.
Why? look at the people they had in the party at the time and I dont think there has ever been a more stupid set of tories.
The whole of europe and america is stuggling, but those idiots would have had the uk debt free ? is that what you are asking me to believe ?
Lol. Australia has massive mining interests keeping the economy moving. Stimulus has nowt to do with it. We are a long fudging way from surplus. Try 192 billion deficit in 2010. Even getting near to break even is a wild dream. Compared to all other spending the UKs lack of austerity is a relative Stimulus. The cuts are a myth