How long has Cameron got?

[Bob England]

I have a foreign perspective as I only spend about three months of the year in UK although I keep up to date on UK politics through media both right and left wing.

 

Cameron is highly regarded abroad, Obama is considered weak, as is the French President, Mrs Merkel is highly respected.

 

Some experts feel that the UK is on the brink of overtaking all other Western economies (except US) but including Germany, due to current Tory economic policies. The feeling seems to be that whilst the Tories have had to adjust their policies to address the world situation, fundamentally they are right and will work.

 

Further it is recognized that living standards have fallen. If the Tories increase the Minimum Wage to the standard of the Living Wage, they will boost spending power, further improve the economy as long as they keep inflation under control.

 

The perception and indeed the expectation, in The US is that Milliband is a weak man, that Labour are a party in transition. This being the case, Cameron should win the next election and probably more easily than most believe possible.

[WeX]

I have a foreign perspective as I only spend about three months of the year in UK although I keep up to date on UK politics through media both right and left wing.

 

Cameron is highly regarded abroad, Obama is considered weak, as is the French President, Mrs Merkel is highly respected.

 

Some experts feel that the UK is on the brink of overtaking all other Western economies (except US) but including Germany, due to current Tory economic policies. The feeling seems to be that whilst the Tories have had to adjust their policies to address the world situation, fundamentally they are right and will work.

 

Further it is recognized that living standards have fallen. If the Tories increase the Minimum Wage to the standard of the Living Wage, they will boost spending power, further improve the economy as long as they keep inflation under control.

 

The perception and indeed the expectation, in The US is that Milliband is a weak man, that Labour are a party in transition. This being the case, Cameron should win the next election and probably more easily than most believe possible.

 

Spot on. Those who oppose this government seem susceptible to extreme navel gazing and think what they want is what will happen. The sad thing is, this means they do nothing to get what they want but prefer to simple moan and make questionable claims (that are 9/10 refuted by evidence) on places like here.

[I1L2T3]

That may be true but what was the alternative? Labour wanted to borrow more. The UK would be more like France if Labour was in power compared to were we are now as the fastest growing economy in the EU. London is the 6th largest French city by the population of French people who left France.

 

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Labour and the LibDems actually wanted to borrow less! Over the course of the parliament that is.

 

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I have a foreign perspective as I only spend about three months of the year in UK although I keep up to date on UK politics through media both right and left wing.

 

Cameron is highly regarded abroad, Obama is considered weak, as is the French President, Mrs Merkel is highly respected.

 

Some experts feel that the UK is on the brink of overtaking all other Western economies (except US) but including Germany, due to current Tory economic policies. The feeling seems to be that whilst the Tories have had to adjust their policies to address the world situation, fundamentally they are right and will work.

 

Further it is recognized that living standards have fallen. If the Tories increase the Minimum Wage to the standard of the Living Wage, they will boost spending power, further improve the economy as long as they keep inflation under control.

 

The perception and indeed the expectation, in The US is that Milliband is a weak man, that Labour are a party in transition. This being the case, Cameron should win the next election and probably more easily than most believe possible.

 

Where have you been living for the other 9 months? Planet Mars?

[WeX]

Where have you been living for the other 9 months? Planet Mars?

 

The only time frame we can compare is up to a year after the election. In this time Labour intended to borrow 18 billion more than the Tory party. After this time you cant compare as the labour spending was never tested. It could have gone up or down but we cant say for any certainty of either situation, thus the only evidence we have is the committed spending by both parties post election.

 

The only evidence we have is Labours borrowing grew exponentially from 2007 until they lost power.

 

Labour could have said they were going to give every child a free ipad and a unicorn if they won the election but if its never tested its impossible to give it any credibility.

[I1L2T3]

The only time frame we can compare is up to a year after the election. In this time Labour intended to borrow 18 billion more than the Tory party. After this time you cant compare as the labour spending was never tested. It could have gone up or down but we cant say for any certainty of either situation, thus the only evidence we have is the committed spending by both parties post election.

 

Let's put it this way - Osborne is borrowing way more than was ever intended. The plan has not worked. The deficit should have been all but eliminated by next year. It hasn't been and he's asking for 4 more years. It is that simple.

[Bob England]

Let's put it this way - Osborne is borrowing way more than was ever intended. The plan has not worked. The deficit should have been all but eliminated by next year. It hasn't been and he's asking for 4 more years. It is that simple.

 

 

 

Im afraid it is not that simple, one advantage of not being out of the country and not aligned to either party is that you tend to take a wider view than clearly you are capable of doing.

 

The chaos Obama and Cameron inherited from the right wing Bush and the left wing Brown meant that the elections they won were not good ones to win.

 

They were both saddled with further damage limitation before going forward with policies that would put things right. Obamas problem is that he was saddled with an intransigent, dogmatic, senate whose only real policy is to block and undermine Obamas policies.

 

Cameron has had the advantage of Liberal support but had a worse problem to deal with in that the commitments made under the Labour regime, coupled with the fact that Labour had totally relied on the financial services industries to underwrite their profligacy whilst abandoning manufacturing and any endeavor outside London.

 

Cameron has done a superb job in driving down government expenditure, re invigorating exports and manufacturing industries albeit to foreign customers themselves under financial duress.

 

So that is what seems to be the case from across the pond.

[WeX]

Im afraid it is not that simple, one advantage of not being out of the country and not aligned to either party is that you tend to take a wider view than clearly you are capable of doing.

 

The chaos Obama and Cameron inherited from the right wing Bush and the left wing Brown meant that the elections they won were not good ones to win.

 

They were both saddled with further damage limitation before going forward with policies that would put things right. Obamas problem is that he was saddled with an intransigent, dogmatic, senate whose only real policy is to block and undermine Obamas policies.

 

Cameron has had the advantage of Liberal support but had a worse problem to deal with in that the commitments made under the Labour regime, coupled with the fact that Labour had totally relied on the financial services industries to underwrite their profligacy whilst abandoning manufacturing and any endeavor outside London.

 

Cameron has done a superb job in driving down government expenditure, re invigorating exports and manufacturing industries albeit to foreign customers themselves under financial duress.

 

So that is what seems to be the case from across the pond.

 

Watch out, if you say anything positive about the current government you are immediately a tory-boy toff and will be attacked by the left who will quickly move onto personal attacks.

[Super Hans]

He overturned the hefty lefty liberal dummycrats decision not to allow pubs to open late during the World Cup without a license.

 

See, David Cameron loves the common man.

[Oh Carol]

Watch out, if you say anything positive about the current government you are immediately a tory-boy toff and will be attacked by the left who will quickly move onto personal attacks.

Especially if you tell the truth!

[lizmachin]

I have a foreign perspective as I only spend about three months of the year in UK although I keep up to date on UK politics through media both right and left wing.

 

Cameron is highly regarded abroad, Obama is considered weak, as is the French President, Mrs Merkel is highly respected.

 

Some experts feel that the UK is on the brink of overtaking all other Western economies (except US) but including Germany, due to current Tory economic policies. The feeling seems to be that whilst the Tories have had to adjust their policies to address the world situation, fundamentally they are right and will work.

 

Further it is recognized that living standards have fallen. If the Tories increase the Minimum Wage to the standard of the Living Wage, they will boost spending power, further improve the economy as long as they keep inflation under control.

 

The perception and indeed the expectation, in The US is that Milliband is a weak man, that Labour are a party in transition. This being the case, Cameron should win the next election and probably more easily than most believe possible.

That is pretty much how we see it too. Our media seems to make rather more of the crippling of the UK economy between 2007 and 2009 which occurred under the watchful eye of those who complain the rescue is taking longer than planned. I think most of Europe would be please to have an economy performing like the UK.

Certainly our government is expecting to be working with Cameron beyond 2015.