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AIBU?

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Original poster

To think that all Labour supporters must be a bit bloody thick?

207 replies

massivemammaries · 08/10/2010 23:35

I don't understand it ........ Every one I have heard moans on about being worse off under the Coalition ... why do they all think the money to bail us out of Browns' catastrophic fuck up should come from somebody else? don't they get it? we all have to pay now.

And why oh why would anybody in their right mind want Labour in again after what they have done to our country??

I am at a loss

OP posts:
earlymorningwaking · 08/10/2010 23:54

I am new here, but my goodness you (OP) are rude.
Looking forward to responses. I haven't the energy.

colditz · 08/10/2010 23:54

www.owen.org/blog/326

Makes no odds what you think about us - Neil Kinnock clearly wasn't thick, because he was right. I wish he was still speaking for the Labour party today.

usualsuspect · 08/10/2010 23:56

YABU and I cba to tell you why

LadyWellian · 08/10/2010 23:57

gaelicsheep GB was a bit of a victim of his own hubris - 'I have abolished boom and bust', should have mended the roof while the sun was shining, realised the money from the 3G licences was a one-off, etc, etc.

But massivemammaries YABVU. You wait until you see the rest of this iceberg - it's got Thatcher written all the way thought it.

Hedgeblunder · 08/10/2010 23:57

I just want to make it clear I'm not a supporter of any party now. It's just panto villains and completely empty promises, j have no fucking dea whoto vote for any more

I really won't be suprised if the only thing thatsves us from a double dip is Christmas

Iggi999 · 08/10/2010 23:58

I think I would like to invite everyone on this thread round to mine for a party. Grin
Except the OP, obviously.

HalfTermHero · 09/10/2010 00:00

Got the Stella, taxi on the way, lol.

usualsuspect · 09/10/2010 00:01

all round to iggis ....

Iggi999 · 09/10/2010 00:02

Great, door's on the snib.
Phew.

HumphreyCobbler · 09/10/2010 00:05

well, clearly we would be better placed to see out this crisis if we had not spent and spent and spent, even though we had no money in the bank.

130 odd million a day we spend on the interest on our national debt. I find that figure truly and deeply shocking. So yes, if you don't think that Gordon Brown had anything to do with this mess then you are indeed oversimplifying. I am not a monkey because I think this.

As for the OP - I don't really approve of such inflammatory language, but often wish I was uncivilised to say such things when people accuse me of voting Tory because I am selfish and a c£$t (both of have happened here many times). Courtesy offered to an opinion opposite to your own seems often unknown to the ill informed Labour voter, just as horrid racism seems endemic to the ill informed tory voter.

FWIW I will be hard hit by the cuts.

Labour were going to cut too, five percent less and over a longer period of time, but they were planning to cut. The cuts need to happen because were were profligate when times were good and carried on borrowing money.

LadyWellian · 09/10/2010 00:10

Hedgeblunder I feel your pain. Compulsory voting with a 'none of the above' option, anyone?

mamatomany · 09/10/2010 00:12

Labour or should i say GB had the banks by the short and curlies, he should have made them pay us back before they ever paid another penny in bonus.

We need that money back in the coffers.

Can anyone tell me why this wasn't written into the loan agreement or why it cannot be added now ?

huddspur · 09/10/2010 00:48

YANBU, the Government spends more money on the interest on the debt than it does on schools or defence. The budget deficit is approximately 12% of GDP, the highest in the EU. The longer we have this deficit then the more money the Government will have to spend servicing the debt. Cuts must be made everywhere and no-one will be immune to the impacts of them but they are necessary to avoid national bankrupcy and a bail out from the IMF. If that were to happen then the austerity measures forced upon as a condition of the bail out would be far more severe than the coalitions.

This seems to be beyond Labour supporters and a lot of other people who seem to under the illusion that you can keep borrowing money and never have to pay it back.

usualsuspect · 09/10/2010 00:50

I blame the swimming pools

Elmarjerita · 09/10/2010 00:50

Yabu and fucking rude

People can vote for whoever they choose to

Its called a democracy Hmm

Original poster
massivemammaries · 09/10/2010 08:28

didn't say you couldn't choose to vote for them - just said you were stupid for doing so

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BelleDameSansMerci · 09/10/2010 08:37

How very generous of you mm.

Now, do run along and educate yourself about the realities of this and previous recessions.

Bucharest · 09/10/2010 08:44

MM- careful with the apostrophes sweetie, it's always so embarassing to call other people thick whilst demonstrably showing your own, erm, thickness in public.

Unless of course you think Sarah Brown also had something to do with the global recession?

duckyfuzz · 09/10/2010 08:48

OP how do you account for all the other countries in dire financial straits, many of which had rw leadership?

onceamai · 09/10/2010 08:52

The opinions of those who can't give them without swearing don't count. In generally agree with massive for various reasons. Two being the NHS and Education into which the last labour government pumped millions and millions. My experience of both services is that they have declined since 1997. Further I don't think Brown/Blair handled the economy well and for all those how have complained about trident, etc., Blair led this country into a war illegally. I have never voted labour and never shall vote labour and that I am entitled to do in a democracy.

ballstoit · 09/10/2010 08:52

If you want to see someone stupid, look at someone who voted Lib Dem like me. Sucked into Nick's nice guy act which was swiftly chucked at the thought of power.

However, to the OP YABU, why would I want to vote for smuggy-smuggison and his party.

If cuts are needed why do they have to be justified by calling millions of people, whose circumstances vary hugely, scroungers? Why does he promise to maintain NHS funding and remove 18 week maximum waits within weeks of being in power? (But not realise that patients still have the right to treatment within 18 weeks because of the NHS constitution Confused. Why does he not chase down his crony tax avoiding chums who, incidentally, cost the country a hell of a lot more than the 'scroungers'?

But no, you're right, it's the Labour voties that are stupid Biscuit.

ItWasADarkAndStormyNight · 09/10/2010 08:54

Great posts itsgrimupnorth
Cba with you mm

ModreB · 09/10/2010 08:58

Because, you politically and economically illiterate idiot, it was not the Labour Government that got us into the mess we are in, it was the bankers and the USA economic system that imploded, thus having a knock on effect on the financial systems of the whole of the world economy.

Do you also think that the (similar) economic crisis in Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Eire, et al, are also the fault of the British Labour Government?

For gods sake, if you feel the need to comment at least educate yourself in the subject.

pigletmania · 09/10/2010 09:03

Either that or they have very short memories

Rollmops · 09/10/2010 09:05

"Yabu and fucking rude" - give me strength, oooeerr, Miss!

YANBU, however, your OP is somewhat crass.Hmm

Huddspur, you are wasting your breath, sadly, this too will go in circles until done to death and yet labourites will refuse to see the validity of your argument.

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