The whole programme should have been taken up with this, so we could get to the truth of the matter.
But that would never do for Labour/BBC

The coping classes & low earners would find their cash flow helped thus boosting demand and helping those who need it meaning that one gets economic and social liberalism at the same time.

Interest rates are now 3% and it might not be prudent to lower them much more meaning that fiscal policy might have to be active as part of a recession beating policy. They have fallen by 2% very quickly and another 2% off is surely the most that can be cut from the price of money. 1% has not worked in Japan as monetary policy while important is not the only solution – rather a partial remedy.

The effect of a bigger personal allowance could be a holding operation thus shoring up GDP until the effects of lower base rates fully filter through into the economy.

Mortgage regulation , the red tape driving up building industry costs and our planning laws all need streamlining to get the property market going again.

Surely it is commonsense to give people some of their cash back in tax relief so that they can service debt better or save money in the banks ? If the banks need more capital then rather than buy bank shares lower taxes will possibly aid the bankers by getting them some more funds . It strikes me that more economic liberalism and not less (i.e. tax cuts not banks being state run )could help solve this ?

Pledging to slash the cost of QUANGO's by 60% over six years with a view to balancing the budget might be an idea as by hiving them off , axing them or merging them to that extent you could save £60 billion eventually . By replacing Job Seekers Allowance & Incapacity Benefit with one payment designed to curtail economic inactivity the public sector job shedding that my plan involves need not add to unemployment overall if others where got back to work & if smaller government was boosting GDP and thus employment levels ( as in Eire ).

A big tax cut now partially funded by less bank subsidy and a hatchet to Brown's client state would minimize the recession in the short term while in the long run a recovery would not be threatened by economic instability ( caused by vast public borrowing driving up interest rates as investors demanded a better return before lending to the Treasury ).

That's right, lets have a go at Mrs Thatchers Gov't and forget Gordon Brown has been running the economy since 1997 (and still is as PM.)

Lets go back to the days of waiting for up to six months for a basic landline telephone and all the other disasterous policies of "old" Labour.

And another thing, why should I be responsible for the credit agreement contract that I signed for (as an adult with human rights,) when I took the cash for an extension to the house, but instead, blew it on a new car and a holiday.

He'll say 'tax cuts for hardworking families' but I bet he means higher tax-credit benefit payments, paid for by a few pence on my Christmas whisky and my 0% threshold rising a lot slower than the 5% CPI figure.

David Cameron showed his mettle throughout Channel 4's overtly aggressive interview after the Tory Conference. He's done likewise in Parliamentary debates. Brown's ignored his 1p tax cut and VAT freeze proposals to assist small businesses. Brown hitched a ride on Cameron's NICE proposals.

Brown's focus is appeasing voters as opposed to long term proposals to rectify the historic, financial disasters he created.
He's grown used to raiding pension funds and leeching off taxpayers to fund lucrative 'closed shop privatization of Britain'.

Nulabor in truth loathes democracy; the first government to waste billions of taxpayers hard earned money on manipulative/brainwashing TV mockumentaries and 24/7 IT monitoring spyware. British citizens are the most 'spied upon' in the EU.

Really, I thought fatty P from Hull would be a shoe in for that one.
By the way, if he really was suffering from bulemia, wasn't he just a tad oversized?

Acorn: "Just how much debt can our government take on before the bond markets and those that insure holders of those bonds start to think things are starting to get; err; just a little bit tricky over in dear old UK."

This is called Stress testing, Gordon has so much confidence in the strength of the british economy after ten years as chancellor and who knows how long as PM but it seems like ten years already. He is sure he can test it to destruction !* :-0

Amanda: "What came next, I’ve forgotten? What do we need to swallow to catch the spider?"

In that case we have already swollowed a fly, next, I think a bird. But it is probably long past that stage, the old lady didn't ever get past a horse did she? I wonder if she lived in Threadneedle street?

Johnny Norfolk: "I just wish the Tory party was on the attack about all this. "

If they are not Mr Norfolk, what is the Tory party for?

Johnny Norfolk: "Our Tory party is far to timid."

Yes they are. So they are not on the attack!