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Balls: Osborne is offering Lucozade, but the economy needs real nourishment

June 15, 2012 12:54 pm

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  • Bill Lockhart

    Balls rejects the national/household debt analogy yet tries to draw a comparison between the economy and a patient drinking Lucozade. What a buffoon.
    What would Labour cut?

    • treborc1

       Welfare of course, or like labour in Wales close down a few hospitals to get the money to  keep others going. We are hearing in Wales that prescriptions are going, so will buss passes, if this is true and they are discussing it now, I suspect we could be having a very close election in 2015

    • aracataca

      Well they wouldn’t have cut the 50p rate like this shower of puffed up arrogant twats.

      • Just_Another_Voter

         You mean the top tax rate they cynically put up to 50p after realising they will lose the election and so set in place a political trap.

        Even at the moment the Tories have a top tax rate that is higher than that of the Labour party had for 12 and a half of their 13 years in power.

    • John Dore

      Tupac, Lucozade……. they’re all snake oil salesmen.

  • aracataca

    They are going to give billions to er ….the banks again. This won’t work. It’s a crisis of demand not credit or supply.

    • John Dore

      Its a disgrace.

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