Osbourne has not caused the double dip. The media has constanly talked down the economy..
destroying confidence. Other nations, such as the US, have actively spent more money and they're even more buggered than we are.
Also, all these cuts didn't affect the Tories poll rating until the omnishambles, and then pretty much all the polling drop was caused by the potential for tax rises which is what most of the public hate more than cuts.
lastly, employment is slowly on the up, so this must be some dip, eh?
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:38, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Freefair - you're a bright lad
I'd suggest that you look up the WPA.

In summary, it was a very effective effort by FDR to inject public sector money into the US in the '30's. Unfortuately it was pissed up the wall in many states by your sort of abrogated government.

The states that used it properly used it well. A lot of our chemical products still come from Louisiana as a result of Huey P Long investing wisely.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:52, Reply)

Interstinly, just yesterday I was researching into the New Deal, and then in watched..
the Keynes episode of Masters of Money. I may lean to the monetarist side, but by god he was a great man.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:54, Reply)

I've said it before and I'll say it again..
My maths teacher did BSc Maths and Economics at Leeds in the late 80's to early 90s. I Wonder If you knew him?
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Tue 18 Sep 2012, 20:58, Reply)

His/her name?
If I don't know them. Lighty might.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 21:02, Reply)

We can't have another FDR
There's a whole lot of reasons but the main one is that we simply don't have a flexible enough system, unconstrained by dogma, to accept that degree of expansion.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 21:01, Reply)

Fuck off, we're the worst performing of the G8

(PsychoChomp, Tue 18 Sep 2012, 21:12, Reply)