PM confused on deficit and debt
Stuart Swann, in his comments about Labour's "economic illiteracy" ("Get off backs of the industrious", Mailbox, February 16) fails to note that they are in good company.
No less than the Prime Minister himself has just been ticked off in writing by the UK Statistics Agency for repeatedly confusing national deficit and national debt.
The argument about the bedrooms benefit cuts is largely a distraction.
Perhaps if the wealthy stopped dodging their tax responsibilities, both individually and corporately, then such pettifogging intrusions into people's bedrooms would be unnecessary.
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Mr Swann also does his part in perpetuating the myth that Gordon Brown left a "deep economic mire".
In fact, Brown drew wide admiration for his leading role internationally in responding to the biggest private sector failure in our lifetimes.
He also began the task of rebuilding the economy, since trashed over the past two-and-a-half years by the destruction of jobs and the resulting choking off of demand on the high street.
That's the real "economic lunacy" and must result in a policy reversal which has made a bad situation worse.
Chris Lymn, Oadby.
Dogs are not to blame for fouling, it is their owners.
With children, you teach them to take litter home to the bin. So I take it these people have a home where everything is just thrown down?
The fault is their upbringing. I am 74 and have had dogs all my life and not one has ever fouled out on a walk.
They go in their own toilet area in the garden.
This training does not take long. It is easier with pups but about three weeks for an older dog.
Some owners are too lazy to put the time in.
I take my dog and grandson to our park in Ratby and see people let their dogs go free in the long grass and turn their backs until they have done their business.
There are bins at both entrances to the park for dog dirt, plus warning stencils on the path.
Valerie Pegg, Ratby.
5 Comments
by amoros11
Sunday, February 24 2013, 9:07PM
“Disingenuous , what me, GJ , but Brown was a poor PM and now it appears not a very good chancellor either, brilliant you say, how does that correspond with the final legacy of a bankrupt economy and squandered public fiancés, the record doesn't lie .But this is not just about finance , Brown's inability to work with Blair and people around him , created the situation of a chancellor and PM who we unable to trust one another, the biggest feud in political history, hardly conducive to governmental man- management”
by graydjames
Sunday, February 24 2013, 4:57PM
“@ Bapcav You're at it again. How many times do you have to be told that virutally every letter sent to the Mercury is published. Every time there is a left leaning letter published you throw a wobbly deliberately ignoring all the right wing ones, which seem to me to predominate.
Also, there is absolutely no question that right wing views dominate the web site - many of them shockingly racist and bordering on facist in their extremity.
@ Amoros your comment is disingenuous. Jack Straw was talking about the job of Prime Minister. I don't think there are many labour supporters. let alone Tories, who think that Gordon Brown was a good Prime Minister. But he was a brilliant Chancellor and his action over the credit crunch was widely lauded and no amount of bluster can deny that. His action over the credit crunch, whatever his title at the time, has nothing whatever to do with his success or lack of as a Prime Minister.”
by Graham_LE8
Sunday, February 24 2013, 9:11AM
“C'mon bapcav, we need left wing rubbish to balance the right wing rubbish - just like we need balanced comments on the success (or otherwise) of multi-cultural Leicester, the shenanigans of the council or that other local favorite, Keith Vaz...”
by bapcav
Saturday, February 23 2013, 8:58PM
“More left-wing rubbish on the Letters Page. Time for a change of Letters editor, I think.”
by amoros11
Saturday, February 23 2013, 3:08PM
“A crippling budget defect that occurred on Labour's watch , but the letter offers little financial accountability on their part as the previous inhabitants.Only political denial and deflection onto the party that that inherited the problem, who are backed by the city regulators. On economic illiteracy, Labour left a bankrupt economy is 1979 and again in 2010 after taking over a healthy Tory economy in 1997.
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According to this letter from Chris Lymn, Gordon Brown was a financial success, so why did Jack Straw recently state the following ""The tragedy was that we realised, but so did Gordon, that this job - for which he'd become obsessed and devoted his life - was a job that he couldn't properly do. "He just lacked the fundamental qualities to do it."
"Jack Straw”