Gordon Brown in public befuddlement

[mybrainhurts]

Winky was taking calls on Radio 2 yesterday.

Caller said the 2.5% VAT cut had been a pointless waste of money.

Winky said no...consumer spending was holding up well in the UK...

And the VAT cut has put £20 in your pocket...

The deluded fool thinks VAT is income tax.

Good job he isn't Chancellor of the Exchequer, eh...?

[rabw]

Consumer spending holding up.... yet car sales down 30-40%? Surely this cannot be.

Looks like 'The Lounge' is the new P&P, hopefully those other forums will quietly go away.

[RobDickinson]

rabw said:

Consumer spending holding up.... yet car sales down 30-40%? Surely this cannot be.

Yep - that'll be inflation.

Gives you some cash back but devalues your cash so you can only buy the same or less...

[Bushmaster]

Sorry, but this need to be in either the 'Politics & Economics' or the 'News and Current Affairs' forums. I have obviously alerted the mods.

[Puggit]

Bushmaster said:

Sorry, but this need to be in either the 'Politics & Economics' or the 'News and Current Affairs' forums. I have obviously alerted the mods.

Can't it be a 'quantum thread' and appear in both fora?

No?

Ok - how about reverting back to the old P+P then...

[mybrainhurts]

That went well...

All hail, hidey-hole forum...

[MM2200]

Gordon Brown is Gods way of restoring parity, after your friends across the pond had to put up with George Bush Jr for so many years.

Look, even the initials are the same!

[AndrewW-G]

MM2200 said:

Gordon Brown is Gods way of restoring parity, after your friends across the pond had to put up with George Bush Jr for so many years.

Look, even the initials are the same!

yep George W Bush - Gordon "Winky" Brown

[Jasandjules]

Bushmaster said:

Sorry, but this need to be in either the 'Politics & Economics' or the 'News and Current Affairs' forums. I have obviously alerted the mods.

I disagree. I have spent that extra £20 on my hobby therefore it is CLEARLY logical to place it under Hobbies. However, if the majority of posters have instead used that £20 to pay their mortgages then it must be listed under Houses.