The EU debate - Part III

Did I say that?
I said "Do you want to reduce the national debt or increase it?"
The only options must be increase, decrease or stay the same.
Don't you understand that?

 

Everyone understands that.

You asked that question in reply to me pointing out that austerity was **** and wasn't intended to reduce the debt. It hasn't and won't.
If your question had nothing to do with that, then why ask it?

 

You are a mental midget with the I.Q. if a fence post.
Don't you understand that?

 

You win us nicking van Dijk off you in the summer.

 

He'll be way out of your price range by then.

 

We'll swap you a £30m midfielder for him. Hardly used.

 

The Tories seemed determined to increase it dramatically whilst wittering on about austerity. Now they've got a couple of new soundbites in JAMs and Brexit means Brexit. Even as a Tory I think they've done a **** job.

 

Will someone tell this daft **** that under the Tories austerity measures, they've actually managed to increase the National debt by £600BN - which is nearly double what Labour added to it from '97 until '09 - which included the bail outs in '08.

 

I was trying to find out whether you wanted to increase or reduce the national debt. I get the impression you don't want to answer though. That says a lot.

 

Why would anyone want to increase the national debt? You'd want to reduce it, ideally.

 

Someone put him out of his misery ffs, he's digging himself a pit here, this will be funny

 

This man is teeth grindingly thick. No wonder Kustard looks up to him.

 

Show him these figures mate;

Here's the Govt debt over time figures;

1997 -£348 bn
1998 -£358 bn
1999 -£357 bn
2000 -£345 bn
2001 -£316 bn
2002 -£323 bn
2003 -£355 bn
2004 -£394 bn
2005 -£449 bn
2006 -£492 bn
2007 -£529 bn
2008 -£561 bn
2009 -£769 bn
2010 -£1004 bn
2011 -£1149 bn
2012 -£1242 bn
2013 -£1352 bn
2014 -£1459 bn
2015 -£1546 bn
2016 -£1590 bn

 

I'm sure that he's seen those figures, Tobes. He's an accountant, after all.
The bigger the number, the smaller the debt, right?

 

He adds up with the aid of a calculator for cabbies and window cleaners in a garage in Mitcham and thinks he's Warren Buffett, the dumb ****.

 

All You Can Eat Buffet might be closer to the mark.

 

And he'll make it a tax deductible business lunch

 

so then you have to make tough decisions
it's easy for people to say that you should tax the rich more
if you try to tax the risk it reduces the tax income because rich people leave the country or work less hard
there's more to be done in chasing people for tax they owe but it wouldn't make a lot of difference to the overall figures

 

It depends!
If you have a good investment opportunity it usually pays to borrow money to make it happen faster. If your current spending is higher than your income, covering that through debt is rarely a good idea. The current Govt is ideologically adverse to the former and so lacking in competence that the latter is occurring.

 

The Tories you are devoted to have increased the national debt significantly. Clearly you're too ****ing stupid to understand that you're arguing against yourself