"So let me be straightforward with you: pay discipline is essential to prevent inflation, to maintain growth and create more jobs, and so we will never return to the Conservative policies of boom and bust ever again."Got that? Pay discipline in teh public services, in other words not giving out inflation busting rises is needed to prevent a "return to the Conservative policies of boom and bust". Ergo, public sector pay indiscipline, and inflation busting public sector pay rises by the Conservatives is what caused his favoruite meme soundbite, "boom and bust".
Anyone see something odd there? Apparently, according to Brown, the Consevrative Party precided over inflation busting payrises for the public sector and effcetively cow-towed to Union demands. This make me wonder whether he's either (a) under hte influence of LSD after having tea spiked, or (b) rewriting history to suit his requirements, also known as doublethink.
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"Ergo, public sector pay indiscipline, and inflation busting public sector pay rises by the Conservatives is what caused his favoruite meme soundbite, "boom and bust"
Are you serious? How on earth do you get that from what he said?
He clearly meant that an inability to "maintain growth and create more jobs" would mean a return to boom and bust.
I think the point Brown was making that it's Labour who do the inflationary booms (like the current one) and the Conservatives who have to sort out the mess when Labour chancellors without the slightest inkling of numbers or economics screw it up.
Why was the PM giving a speech on public sector pay, isn't that usually the Chancellor's job?
Are you serious? How on earth do you get that from what he said?
Well it's not difficult if you read what he said, rather than saying what you think he meant.
Does this new-found pay discipline also apply to MPs' salaries, perks and pensions?
Why was the PM giving a speech on public sector pay, isn't that usually the Chancellor's job?
To pinch a good line from Sir WInston, "an empty taxi pulled up outside the Treasury, and Alistair Darling got out"
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