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Dec 10 2012, 08:57 PM
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QUOTE (Bill Kenikabs @ Dec 9 2012, 09:01 AM) my wife like to see the xmas lights it brightens up her day knowing that she has mad some other people and children happy and as she pays the leccy bill i do not mind because she is happy. we have been doing this for some years now and we are pleased that it gets noticed I know a few years ago people complained about the man on the A4 putting his lights up during a recession but we are happy doing this and like I said it makes some people happy then why not I like the lights Bill - I drive past them twice a day and they are the most impressive ones I've seen in Newbury. There are a few more appearing, like the ones near the Racecourse Road / Greenham Road mini-roundabout - complete with santa climbing a ladder, but haven't seen any up to your standards yet.
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Dec 10 2012, 11:19 PM
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QUOTE (Spider @ Dec 10 2012, 09:56 PM) We are in a recession and what we spend on Christmas lights shouldn't be an issue. Personally I think they are ok. Questions marks should be raised on those that have lavish decorations up in times of Austerity. Hats off to our council for their lack of spending on such trivia trinkets. More should be spent on the poor and those that haven't got a home to go to. Higher taxes would solve that problem. Like it did in the late 70s.
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Dec 11 2012, 09:00 AM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Dec 10 2012, 11:19 PM) Like it did in the late 70s. Indeed, I can remember Denis Healey as Chancellor (1974-79) and a top rate of tax of 83%! Many wealthy people simply left the UK to work overseas. Then him having to go cap in hand to the IMF for a bailout as the UK was just about bankrupt under Labour.
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Dec 11 2012, 09:07 AM
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QUOTE (Newbelly @ Dec 11 2012, 09:00 AM) Indeed, I can remember Denis Healey as Chancellor (1974-79) and a top rate of tax of 83%! Many wealthy people simply left the UK to work overseas. Then him having to go cap in hand to the IMF for a bailout as the UK was just about bankrupt under Labour. As usual
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Dec 11 2012, 09:18 AM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Dec 11 2012, 09:07 AM) As usual Can you jog my memory? When was the triple recession under Labour?
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Dec 11 2012, 09:35 AM
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QUOTE (Jayjay @ Dec 11 2012, 09:18 AM) Can you jog my memory? When was the triple recession under Labour? Well, right now. I do not blame the last Labour government for the global banking crisis, but the length and depth of our current economic problems is their legacy to me and my children. This is the hangover - and it wouldn't matter who was in power at the moment. Back on topic - the lights in Aborfield village are pretty, although I haven't been for a couple of years.
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Dec 11 2012, 12:30 PM
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QUOTE (Newbelly @ Dec 11 2012, 09:00 AM) Indeed, I can remember Denis Healey as Chancellor (1974-79) and a top rate of tax of 83%! Many wealthy people simply left the UK to work overseas. Then him having to go cap in hand to the IMF for a bailout as the UK was just about bankrupt under Labour. Would that be the Healy about whom one newspaper wrote: "As Chancellor, in 1974 he inherited an even worse picture. Oil prices had quintupled overnight (before Britain had any of her own). The world economy was in turmoil, Britain was on a three-day week and on the edge of hyper-inflation.
All of these problems had to be faced by a minority Labour Government, in the face of a Labour Party haunted by memories of past "betrayal" and congenitally opposed to spending cuts imposed by foreign bankers. (Denis Healey envied Gordon Brown for his inheritance of a benign economy and a docile party).
As Chancellor, he faced down five years of uninterrupted economic and political crisis. For good or ill, he made more policy decisions and introduced more economic measures and packages than any previous Chancellor. At the end of his term, the British economy was intact and out of debt, inflation contained, unemployment falling each month (without the aid of statistical manipulations) and living standards improving, especially for poor and disabled people."Funny how the old memory goes isn't it?
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Dec 11 2012, 12:57 PM
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QUOTE (Jayjay @ Dec 11 2012, 09:18 AM) Can you jog my memory? When was the triple recession under Labour? I can't help it if you can't remember that labour always leave us broke!
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Dec 11 2012, 01:08 PM
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QUOTE (Squelchy @ Dec 11 2012, 12:30 PM) Funny how the old memory goes isn't it? I was around at the time and remember inflation at 26% in 1975 and the Winter of Discontent in 1978/79 when the country was absolutely paralysed with industrial unrest; even the dead were affected - their corpses stored in warehouses! Funny how the old memory goes. I had forgotten it was so great a time. "The strategy proposed by the chancellor is bound to be seen by the Labour movement and the whole country as a policy of despair, representing an admission of failure of our economic policy." Tony Benn - 1975
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Dec 11 2012, 01:34 PM
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QUOTE (Squelchy @ Dec 11 2012, 12:30 PM) Would that be the Healy about whom one newspaper wrote:
"As Chancellor, in 1974 he inherited an even worse picture. Oil prices had quintupled overnight (before Britain had any of her own). The world economy was in turmoil, Britain was on a three-day week and on the edge of hyper-inflation.
All of these problems had to be faced by a minority Labour Government, in the face of a Labour Party haunted by memories of past "betrayal" and congenitally opposed to spending cuts imposed by foreign bankers. (Denis Healey envied Gordon Brown for his inheritance of a benign economy and a docile party).
As Chancellor, he faced down five years of uninterrupted economic and political crisis. For good or ill, he made more policy decisions and introduced more economic measures and packages than any previous Chancellor. At the end of his term, the British economy was intact and out of debt, inflation contained, unemployment falling each month (without the aid of statistical manipulations) and living standards improving, especially for poor and disabled people."
Funny how the old memory goes isn't it? The argument was that taxing the rich would raise more money. The indication is that it wouldn't (as a percent of GDP) necessarily. In 78/79 tax receipts as a percentage of GDP had dropped to 33%. When the Tories got into power, tax receipts went through the roof, peaking at 38% GDP. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/20...x-receipts-1963
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Dec 11 2012, 02:35 PM
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QUOTE (Newbelly @ Dec 11 2012, 01:08 PM) Funny how the old memory goes. I had forgotten it was so great a time. a.k.a. "My memory's perfect don't confuse me with the facts"This may help: Tory Tax
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Dec 11 2012, 03:06 PM
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QUOTE (Rusty Bullet @ Dec 11 2012, 02:35 PM) a.k.a. "My memory's perfect don't confuse me with the facts"This may help: Tory TaxGood old Maggie, a Porche in every garage and the poor where they belonged. The good old days.
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Dec 14 2012, 02:46 PM
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QUOTE (Squelchy @ Dec 11 2012, 01:30 PM) Would that be the Healy about whom one newspaper wrote:
At the end of his term, the British economy was intact and out of debt....
Funny how the old memory goes isn't it? What?!? You cut and paste "the British economy was intact and out of debt" - in 1979....Really? Not according to the figures I see. Try some reputable sources of information such as www.parliament.uk. UK national debt in 1979 was around 45% of GDP.
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Dec 14 2012, 04:50 PM
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QUOTE (pbonnay @ Dec 14 2012, 02:46 PM) What?!You cut and paste "the British economy was intact and out of debt" - in 1979....Really? Not according to the figures I see. Try some reputable sources of information such as www.parliament.uk. UK national debt in 1979 was around 45% of GDP. Please put a link up to the www.parliament.uk. you quote. Meantime, Data Macro GDPand Compared
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Dec 14 2012, 06:05 PM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Dec 11 2012, 12:57 PM) I can't help it if you can't remember that labour always leave us broke! I can't help it if you read posts incorrectly. I said I could not remember a triple recession under a Labour government.
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