ED Millaband is a mentalist?

[DominicJ]

But what would he say?

He can say "its affordable, the tories are just cutting it because they hate teachers", and no doubt the teachers will love him for it.

But the government can turn around and say what I just wrote.
Teachers will no doubt hate it, but will anyone else?

I've been listening to the radio a lot the past few days, everyones opff work and even I need *some* human contact.
Teachers werent doing well.

One complained it would cost her £5000 a year. Some people have pensions worth not much more than £5000 a year.

One complained she was going to use the money she lost to pay for private education for grand children (possibly not a teacher?)

One complained "I live in fear about opaying my mortgage", well so do the rest of us. I've got to find £10k before I can remortgage!

The vast majority of the UK lost its pension in 1997 when Brown changed the rules and started taxing them.
They arent going to care that the Teachers are now facing the exact same problems.

[Ludwig]

For once, I agree with most of what Dominic says.

Labour supporters will do all sorts of mental convolutions to explain why cuts "aren't necessary", and signally fail to explain where the money is going to come from to sustain the current levels of spending. Ah... "growth", I suppose.

And as Dominic points out, the public sector aren't the only ones worried about paying their mortgages.

I do sympathise with the strikers, but anyone who is PO-aware and vaguely economically literate should be able to accept that there is no solution to our economic woes that won't be very, very painful indeed.

I know what it's like to be worried about money and I know that one's instinctive first response to not having enough of it is, "It's not fair."

And I know it's easy for me to write this from a position of being in employment.

But are we talking about personal, emotional reactions here, or economic reality?

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[ujoni08]

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[JavaScriptDonkey]

Oh I agree with DJ, it's just that I am amazed Balls didn't lie about it.

[Totally_Baffled]

He's exactly the right man at the moment - I expect a new leader to be in place 12 months before the next election though.

Agreed.

What is your view on the next leader?

Anyone but that smug git Ed Balls - whether he turns out to be right or wrong the bloke comes across as total and utter ****!