OT Government caugth fiddling deficit figures

[harryagain]

Deficit is twice as big as government admits.

[Nightjar]

It is a discussion about accounting systems. When I was studying economics, as an exercise, we used different models and were able to prove both that the national debt did not exist and that it was twice what government figures showed.

Colin Bignell

[stuart noble]

Maybe you should take a stab at GW

[newshound]

I was just going to say that too!

[Nightjar]

The IPCC have already proved themselves the masters at fudging those figures.

Colin Bignell

[Brian Gaff]

They have always massaged figures with obtuse non real world weighting. I mean look at the unemployment figures. Yes more people have jobs but fewer people have jobs that pay well enough to live on as they tend to be part time or shared jobs. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

Sadly those one owes money to, will not except the lower figure.

Brian

[Cursitor Doom]

So what? Inflation's about 3 times higher than the "official figures" so I take anything and everything the government claims with a pinch of salt; especially if it's to do with climate change!