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:facepalm: Think you need to take a chill pill before you burst a blood vessel. Voting on Thursday will be based on what people think each party will do over the next five years which, correct me if I'm wrong, is conjecture. As for lack of objectivity, give me a break.

You must be that contortionist that Pearson was on about the other day.

I'm not sure anyone is saying it is nothing to do with Labour, more that both parties were complicit, both in their actions when they were in power and their opposition when they weren't!

Doesn't matter whether you're a tory or not but do you think it would have been any different under Michael Howard?

I'm not saying what they did was in any way sensible but like I said, how many mortgages were 125% and how many of those actually went into arrears and were repossessed. Between 1992 and 1997 there were and average of 10,386,000 outstanding mortgages each year and over that period there were...

That may well be the case but the other poster was claiming the tax system actually encouraged divorce. In the case you highlight, if they are cohabiting then they should receive benefits on that basis. Are you suggesting that the total of the benefits they receive is more than if they were...

Surely the issue was not the UK market but the sub prime market in the US! The problem transferred across the Atlantic due to UK institutions purchasing toxic debt from the US institutions, probably with fully understanding the implications. I would be interested to see statistics to show how...

It's not quite true as national debt in 2010 was £760b and it is now expected to be £1.36t in 2015 (but near as damn it). http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_national_debt_chart.html

True, but it was his policies that probably prevented a run on the banks which, if it snowballed, would have been devastating.

Keep up at the back!!

That's a novel idea. I assumed all Tories purchase their properties with cash in hand and have never had to get a mortgage! They moved the goalposts. When they came in they said they would eradicate the deficit during the lifetime of the government. It was, I believe £170b in 2010 and most...