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StephenDolan wrote:'A quick recap of the main points

1) Britain is on track to blow past its budget forecasts for this year, despite cutting its borrowing in October by 25%.

The UK has now borrowed £48.6bn since April 2016, down from £54.2bn a year ago, but already close to the £55bn target for this current financial year (to March 2017).

Economists believe it could overshoot the target by £10bn or more, underlining the weak state of the public finances.

The better news is that October’s deficit fell to £4.8bn, from £6.4bn a year ago, thanks to a rise in corporation tax receipts.'

That's from the G business live blog.

The BBC news app has

Government borrowing falls on record October tax take - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38062164" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Inspiral Carpets drummer Craig Gill dies aged 44 (Manchester Evening News)

citizenJA wrote:

StephenDolan wrote:'A quick recap of the main points

1) Britain is on track to blow past its budget forecasts for this year, despite cutting its borrowing in October by 25%.

The UK has now borrowed £48.6bn since April 2016, down from £54.2bn a year ago, but already close to the £55bn target for this current financial year (to March 2017).

Economists believe it could overshoot the target by £10bn or more, underlining the weak state of the public finances.

The better news is that October’s deficit fell to £4.8bn, from £6.4bn a year ago, thanks to a rise in corporation tax receipts.'

That's from the G business live blog.

The BBC news app has

Government borrowing falls on record October tax take - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38062164" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What has Tory government spent this money on?

"It speaks volumes about government priorities that the Treasury briefed journalists ahead of Wednesday’s autumn statement
that an extra £1.3bn would be spent on roads. Yet we have been kept in the dark over any rescue package for the tottering
social care system, on which the chances of the NHS getting through the winter so critically depend."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... e-save-nhs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

StephenDolan wrote:

citizenJA wrote:

StephenDolan wrote:'A quick recap of the main points

1) Britain is on track to blow past its budget forecasts for this year, despite cutting its borrowing in October by 25%.

The UK has now borrowed £48.6bn since April 2016, down from £54.2bn a year ago, but already close to the £55bn target for this current financial year (to March 2017).

Economists believe it could overshoot the target by £10bn or more, underlining the weak state of the public finances.

The better news is that October’s deficit fell to £4.8bn, from £6.4bn a year ago, thanks to a rise in corporation tax receipts.'

That's from the G business live blog.

The BBC news app has

Government borrowing falls on record October tax take - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38062164" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What has Tory government spent this money on?

Clearing up Labour's mess of course, silly.

adam wrote:

yahyah wrote:Polling is ok then ? Aren't we supposed to ''learn to ignore it'' ?
Someone forgot to send that memo to the Labour party.

''Labour hires ad firm and pollsters to 'get ready' for snap election ''
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/j ... _hp_ref=uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I honestly and straightforwardly do not understand why anybody would pay any much attention to opinion polls, given that in virtually every way that matters in recent years they have been so hopeless. It doesn't matter that pollsters might have got the national vote share in the US more or less right, they were astronomically wrong in the state by state polls that actually mattered.

I'm not having a go at you at all, YahYah. I just genuinely don't know why anyone would be bothered with them, they're hopeless.

citizenJA wrote:

StephenDolan wrote:

citizenJA wrote: What has Tory government spent this money on?

Clearing up Labour's mess of course, silly.

You're a good friend here, StephenDolan, and I'm glad to see your posts always. I know, of course, you're joking.
I've seen on threads elsewhere liars are still claiming this junk and expecting to be believed. People are bombarded
with disreputable information and terrifying current events. Critical thinking skills go right the hell out the window when
under chronic anxiety. I look into the faces of national leadership and they're saying things they know are a lie but count
on no one calling them out right then and there about their lies. It's a sickening feeling. These are people with power.

StephenDolan wrote:As an aside, does unparliamentary behaviour apply to MPs addressing, talking about MPs in the Commons only?

tinybgoat wrote:re: Greggzit.
It almost kind of makes sense,
Greggzit, in this country opened the door, starting a transatlantic trend resulting in the meteoric rise of an unstoppable Trump.

yahyah wrote:Polling is ok then ? Aren't we supposed to ''learn to ignore it'' ?
Someone forgot to send that memo to the Labour party.

''Labour hires ad firm and pollsters to 'get ready' for snap election ''
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/j ... _hp_ref=uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA wrote:"Do you approve the text of the constitutional bill concerning "Dispositions for the surmounting of perfect bicameralism, the reduction of the number of Members of Parliament, the reduction of institutional operating costs, the abolition of CNEL and the revision of Title V of Part II of the Constitution," which was approved by Parliament and published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 88, on April 15, 2016?"


Hope that makes sense.

Nigel Farage has accused Downing Street of putting its dislike of him ahead of the national interest . . . (BBC News website)

PorFavor wrote:

Nigel Farage has accused Downing Street of putting its dislike of him ahead of the national interest . . . (BBC News website)

I think I would, too, on reflection.

yahyah wrote:Harry's wedding and first sprog ?

yahyah wrote:Harry's wedding and first sprog ?

citizenJA wrote:

HindleA wrote:"Do you approve the text of the constitutional bill concerning "Dispositions for the surmounting of perfect bicameralism, the reduction of the number of Members of Parliament, the reduction of institutional operating costs, the abolition of CNEL and the revision of Title V of Part II of the Constitution," which was approved by Parliament and published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 88, on April 15, 2016?"


Hope that makes sense.

The Italians are always doing something fun and interesting.

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... CMP=twt_gu



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