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Originally Posted by Turret_Monster

I never absorb any of the figures bandied about by Ed Balls. Whenerver I see him, all I can concentrate on are the eyes... The mad staring eyes...

.. with a dangerous back-stabbing snidey agenda too.

Although, Show me a politican that hasn't.

He's a proven plotter and a devious cunt' the 'Project Volvo' revelation proved that. He'll sit at Ed's side until it suits him and then he'll be disposed of.

The interesting point is; will it be prior to the 2015 general election to enhance Labour's likely landslide on the back of Dave's failure to convince the great unwashed that it'll take more than one term to clear-up Blair/Brown's mess or will he risk Ed getting in and having then to stage a messy Coup d'état a year in?

PS. ITV news is just a trashy celeb-inspired magazine program. t's only saving grace is Julie Etchingham, who is worthy of some serious bed time.

Local government workers are funded from both the public sector and the private sector. They are funded by a combination of local taxation, central government grant and by fee's for services provided.

For example to name a couple, when you want to build an extension on your house, you pay a fee to the planning department and another fee to the building regulations department. Traffic engineers are largely funded by outside sources. When a new housing estate or an industrial estate is built, they will often be asked to plan and supervise the new road system for that project and the upgrading of existing systems. Fee's are paid for a whole range of things that are not funded by taxation or central government.

It works both ways though. A lot of the private sector is now funded by the public sector. Privatisation of local government since the 1980's means that the chances are the bloke picking up litter in the street, emptying your dustbin or running your local swimming pool works for a private company.

Originally Posted by Fox-and-horses

Double dip recession is a meaningless word from the politicians lexicon of meaningless crap.

Jargonistic, yes. Meaningless, no. Double-dip recessions are rare and have their own insidious effects on business confidence, particularly as they are indicative of slow recovery, transient policies to mask recession, or worse of all, no recovery at all and the prospect of sustained stagnation.

Originally Posted by Victorian_Major

Jargonistic, yes. Meaningless, no. Double-dip recessions are rare and have their own insidious effects on business confidence, particularly as they are indicative of slow recovery, transient policies to mask recession, or worse of all, no recovery at all and the prospect of sustained stagnation.

DD recession sounds like a word invented by Vince Cable.

Originally Posted by rgjbloke

Local government workers are funded from both the public sector and the private sector. They are funded by a combination of local taxation, central government grant and by fee's for services provided.

For example to name a couple, when you want to build an extension on your house, you pay a fee to the planning department and another fee to the building regulations department. Traffic engineers are largely funded by outside sources. When a new housing estate or an industrial estate is built, they will often be asked to plan and supervise the new road system for that project and the upgrading of existing systems. Fee's are paid for a whole range of things that are not funded by taxation or central government.

It works both ways though. A lot of the private sector is now funded by the public sector. Privatisation of local government since the 1980's means that the chances are the bloke picking up litter in the street, emptying your dustbin or running your local swimming pool works for a private company.

Surly these fees are just more stealth taxes?

Originally Posted by scoobydont

Surly these fees are just more stealth taxes?

Well they are optional. if you want lots of things in the private sector, you have to pay for them. What's the difference?

Originally Posted by Fox-and-horses

DD recession sounds like a word invented by Vince Cable.

So we are imagining it then?

Originally Posted by Victorian_Major

So we are imagining it then?

A better expression to describe the apparent recovery of the economy is 'the dead cat bounce'.