What's going on in London?

[gaelic cowboy]

agreed, these economic illiterates just don't understand that even with the election deficit plans from all three parties we are still on a trajectory to see a national debt of 400% of GDP by 2040.

While one cant argue with the the finely constructed PDF to be honest I have this nagging feeling the I.B.S. are pulling a bit of Disco Stu here "Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... AAY!"

Surely by 2040 the economy will have grown again plus wont inflation have eaten the debt to some extent.

[Slyspy]

According to the BBC only 201 people were arrested in connection with the protests at the weekend, and 149 of those were charged. 138 of these were for aggravated trespass, members of the organisation which occupied Fortnum and Mason. Oh no!

[Furunculus]

While one cant argue with the the finely constructed PDF to be honest I have this nagging feeling the I.B.S. are pulling a bit of Disco Stu here "Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... AAY!"

Surely by 2040 the economy will have grown again plus wont inflation have eaten the debt to some extent.

true it is only a projection, but it is based on the published deficit reduction plans, what might things be like with McBroon still at the helm, with his cyclops vision myopically fixed somewhere other than the approaching iceberg!

Ugh, sometimes the Org really looks like a seeping pore of reactionary chauvinists.

I went to the rally on saturday, I didn't go on the march. I watched people file into Hyde park for an hour or so, saw a bunch of teenage "anarchists" run off -as I later found out, to watch/partake in the sack of and Fortnum and Mason. Marching I saw nurses, teachers, physiotherapists, lecturers as well as the general public sector unionists -and this was only from their banners.

I'm in a strange situation caught between a desire to show support for public services and the patent lack of a political alternative to these cuts. Even the last Tory government used a 1:1 ratio of taxation to cuts to balance the national budget, where are the taxes in Osbourne's equation? Probably at about 1:4... You don't expect the Tories to care about people who can't afford to go private, but that is at least meant to be Labour's bread and butter. The Labour party is failing to stand up and provide an alternative.

As to the "Anarchists", they are children who have no right to carry a flag carried for real causes in history. 200 people were arrested out of up to 400,000 attending the rally, yet these idiots get the headlines -undermining the message of the massively overwhelming majority.

And then the dregs of society on here carp about their own family being comfortable when clearly, if they weren't -or more importantly they could see past their own navel, they might give a solitary crap.

and yet spending is rising in cash terms, which even in real terms will only be a ~5% cut by 2015.......