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UKIP will not win anywhere near enough seats to become the opposition. I am not every sure they're contesting enough seats to make that possible. If UKIP get 5 seats they'll have done well. How do you translate 18% of the vote to that share?

Anyway.

YouGov/Sun poll has a slight improvement for the Tories:

But this should worry everyone:

The Times/YouGov Scotland poll:

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The two most overused words in the electioneering so far must be promise and guaranteed..and the least believable. :rolleyes:

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and two words that never get used YES/NO

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Lies Lies and more Lies they will never change

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http://news.sky.com/story/1463076/ma...-will-axe-fall

IF, the Tories get in again, they claim they will spend millions on the NHS, BUT they wont say where this will come from - Like Labour has said where they will get it from.

My assumption will be that Osborne will hit the Welfare budget again, and make several benefits harder to get.

Disability, Job seekers, and benefit that will FORCE people back into low paid jobs.

They wont increase Tax for the wealthy, as this will hit the donations that come from the rich.

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/05/36.jpg

http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co...bt-monger.html

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Yeah but that's labours fault apparently :rolleyes:

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To be fair the natural consequence of inheriting a large deficit in a struggling economy is that the debt will increase. I am not sure how the Tories could have stopped that when they come into office.

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if Labour had doubled debt in 5 years you would not hear last of it

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No but it wouldn't make it right in that case either.

The deficit adds the debt. A large deficit will mean you need to borrow more which will increase the debt. They inherited a pretty big deficit. That said they didn't cut it anywhere near as much as they said they would.The Conservatives seem to actually have reverted to what Labour's plans where had they won the election.

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and who Coursed the debt the bankers and who never got punished the bankers and who did get punished the poorest

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Er ... Yes, actually, if you inherit a budget that has a large structural deficit, then you will inevitably rack up large debts while you try to re-balance it.

But hey, someone posted a trite one-liner on the Internet, so it must be true.

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:confused: If that is the case, why did debt start rising in 2001/02? Did the banking crisis start back then?
Labour increased the debt from £316bn in 2000/01 to £1,101bn in 2010/11. That's a trebling of debt.
Public sector borrowing was slightly less in 2013/14(98.5bn) than in 2008/09(100.8bn).
As the table I found says:-

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and the tories DOUBLED the debt in 5 years despite all the cuts and the banking crisis made the debt much worse in 2007/08 that bankers fault no one elses so no labour didn't treble debt as banking crisis done most of it

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Labour seemed to have DOUBLED the debt BEFORE any banking crisis. £316.4bn in 2000/01 to £724.4bn in 2008/09. Labour borrowed £153.5bn in 2009/10. You can't cut that amount of borrowing "overnight".