Rishi's Recession

How can we be a Christian country when the majority of citizens are not Christians ?

The largest group in our society today are Non-believers, and their numbers are growing, with little more than one third of Christians been Anglicans, how can it be justified that our head of state is representative of The People if he officialy defends only the Church of England ( 12% of the population ).

Even the King himself believes it to be silly, he wants the wording of the Coronation ceremony to be altered to replace "Defender Of The Faith" with "Defender Of The Faiths".

His Government was proposing cuts in public spending that would be "deeper and tougher" than Margaret Thatcher's in the 1980s.

Of course he didn't get the chance to implement those cuts as he was booted out of office by the electorate.

The title of brown being the father of austerity ws bestowed due to his government leaving Camerons incoming coalition government the note about no money being left , later passed off as a bad joke (no one was laughing) and leaving the coalition to deal with his parties disastrous legacy with austerity measures.

As pacifico points out , browns then chancellor famously said if they won power  , they would have to cut further and deeper than Margaret thatcher did.

Ed balls later said the same thing a few years down the line that what darling has said....



Ed Balls: ‘Labour will keep all these cuts’ 


‘Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, has moved to challenge accusations that Labour is not credible on the economy by telling the public sector unions that he endorses George Osborne’s public sector pay freeze until the end of the parliament, and that he accepts every spending cut being imposed by the Conservatives.’ 

 www.counterfire.org/article/ed-balls-labour-will-keep-all-these-cuts/ 


 In their new book Fleeced! Matthew Elliott, CEO of the TaxPayers’ Alliance and David Craig, author and management consultant, expose the financial, fiscal and political crisis resulting from a decade spent under the stewardship of Gordon Brown. The book is a devastating indictment of Gordon Brown’s time as Chancellor and Prime Minister. The authors bring together for the first time figures of Government spending before and during the recession, and Government losses since the recession began and argue that the cost of Gordon Brown’s mishandling of the economy has hit an eye-watering £3 trillion 

 www.taxpayersalliance.com/new_book_reveals_the_total_cost_of_gordon_brown_s_mishandling_of_the_economy_as_3_trillion_or_3_000_000_000_000_znstusu_grifxvt6xfudhfqwuqo 

 Phil Taylor: Labour’s Austerity 1) How Brown’s Government planned £94 billion of cuts 

 These left-wing voices refuse to acknowledge that the Labour Party, under Gordon Brown and chancellor Alistair Darling, had already put in place a comprehensive austerity regime almost as tough as that carried through by the coalition. This piece lays out the details of that regime.

Labour has done a very good job of whitewashing its own record, and I have to say that the Conservatives have consistently failed to nail Labour on its own policies. For ten years, we have heard about austerity being a uniquely Tory vice, and not the consensus response to the 2008 financial crisis that it was at the time.

We need to be more honest in political debate

On any chart of the historical UK Budget, recessions clearly stand out due to the extra borrowing ( Budget Deficit ), as happens at a time of recession.

The sharp rise in borrowing can clearly be seen in the 1974 recession, caused in large part by the then World Oil Crisis.

In the 1980 recession, Margaret Thatcher borrowed more and our Budget Deficit rose

The recession of the early 1990s was deeper and more profound, the John Major government borrowed and our budget deficit rose sharply.

By far the worst recession in modern history was the one of 2008 / 2009, and if you recall many wondered if it would turn into another Great Depression. Borrowing once again rose to support the economy, just as it did in dozens of countries across the world.

To say that the situation with UK finances and the Budget Deficit in 2010 was caused by Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling is no different to me declaring that the EVEN LARGER BORROWING in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic was caused by Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.

The Budget Deficit of 2010 was as a direct result of circumstances beyond the control of the then government

The Budget Deficit of 2020 was also as a result of circumstances beyond the control of Boris Johnson and Sunak

I think running the economy of this country is similar to the way it is for running a business. If you step into any market with a product and you do it right but nothing about what you do is particularly skilful but makes reasonable sense, then you will just go bust. What you have to realise is to make your profit margins decent in a competitive market requires one to look at every tiniest aspect of the business and optimise each for value for money and each fix you do will give you a piddling return, but if you work day in and day out doing thousands of small improvements, each giving you  tiny percentage more money, the overall effect is good and then at some point it becomes masterful and you make it above your competition. We can argue all we like about the big issues, but I think the secret really is you have to improve everything and as fast as you can. I look at China and realise every tiniest thing in the operation they have is intelligently considered to work the best it can. There just isn't one thing you can put your finger on as a reason for their huge rise in GDP.

What with Believe in Christianity amongst
White British at all time low .

Are you having a laugh.

You only got to look at some people views on here where Christian vaules stand.