Tory plan for emergency budget revealed
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The Tory leader insisted the financial package would be needed to 'get the economy moving again'.
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The Conservatives would hold an "emergency budget" within 50 days of winning a general election, David Cameron said today.
The Tory leader insisted the financial package would be needed to tackle the soaring public deficit and "get the economy moving again".
Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has already indicated his intention of setting out a Budget early in a new Government.
However, Mr Cameron gave a firmer idea of timing by telling the BBC's Andrew Marr Show it would happen within 50 days of the poll - which must be held by June.
"If we won the election, we would have an emergency budget," he said.
"An emergency budget that, yes, would be about getting the deficit under control and having a credible plan...
"But it should also be a budget that goes for growth, that gets the economy moving again."
Chancellor Alistair Darling said Mr Cameron was being "two faced".
"He says he wants growth but he has opposed our action to help the economy. He has called for cuts now, at the worst possible time since they would choke off the recovery," Mr Darling said.
"As I have said before, we have a choice: a decade of low growth and low employment which is what David Cameron's policies would bring, or securing jobs through higher growth for the future which our policies are designed to do."
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On the other hand, if the boat is sinking it is equally unwise to dawdle over baling out the water; similiter if a house is burning down- time is of the essence
how can Darling talk about growth when our economy has had a minus 5.9% hit
this year. Sorry Darling but even the most die-hard labour man knows you've
messed up. You've believe everything globalisation has said, even when it's
caning your back side and making you beg for money.
There's a time when someone should say globalisation has been bad for us,
but will Cameron stand up to these financial thugs ?
If Cameron is serious he can do that tomorrow; we could have the election in January and the emergency budget in March.
How about it?
both are not interested for the people.
they are working for themselves.
Thought not.
Sigh...
Why such surprise at the 50 day budget? With the mess that Glorious Global Gordo has made of the
economy then the quicker we get an alternative budget in place the better. As far as this government
is concerned everything is in control, it's just that they need to borrow too much money to keep
in "THEIR" control.
GGG do the country a favour RESIGN and DO IT QUICKLY.
Ultimately, there are two main issues that should be the subject of the next election, and growth is an important though indirect part of these. They are who coughs-up the £850bn and what this means for the majority of Britain's population and the second is what is being done to stop the same financial disaster from happening again. A deep and sustained recession would give the Conservatives an excuse to introduce some much loved policies: namely cutting back on publically delivered services (not spending as rising unemployement will require additional funding from falling taxrevenues and, anyway, the money will be merely transferred to privately run organisations). This is only a suspicion, based upon former right-wing policies used by the Bush administration. Whereas growth would remove the raisons d' etat for these policies, amongst the populous who would otherwise be hostile to the policy; privatization is hardly popular after the experience of recent decades! Indeed it is private (even individual) unregulated greed that brought this financial disaster upon us. The 'rub' (to borrow from Shakespeare) is that it is likely to be the tax revenues transfered from publically delivered services to private organisations that will help to fund their recent losses. Hence Conservative policy to talk up the recession and their plans to extend its depth and length with a quick emergency budget. To some extent it is to difficult see how they can loose as should their policy work they would be able to say - see how bad Labour did in power.
Remember is was not wayward public service provision that got us into this mess; but, rather, unregulated greed and its its support by today's political classes.
eg So many jobs were being lost weekly under Thatcher and Major that ITN made a Friday night programme of the latest casualties. Then look at the last ten years. Who is ridiculous now?
In his support for this war, has he really taken on board the pain, suffering as well as the cost of supporting such a war? Is this an event that has been happening somewhere else, outside of his personal reality, comprehension. understanding & feeling?
Martin Breschinski