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And we'd save the vast sums of money we pump in and don't get back. One less net contributor to fund the Eurogravytrain.

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Indeed it was and one clue as to why that happened is because Tony Blair and the rest of the Labour party decided to use Thatcherite policies ,when he used his own policies after his second election win that's when it all started going downhill

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Shock horror ... The last Labour government ran a surplus for five years after inheriting a growing economy bequeathed to them by Tory policy, and after adhering to Tory spending plans for at least half that period.

Afterwards, of course, all bets were off, and Brown became adept at excusing borrowing for almost any purpose as "investment".

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started going downhill after the illegal Iraq war

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I just wish the various parties would stop telling us how much more they're going to throw at the NHS and focus a bit more on ensuring the money they do spend isn't wasted. We all know there's massive mismanagement within the NHS but nobody seems very keen to tackle it and anyone who does gets accused of wanting cuts.

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Looks like the Right to Bribe plans haven't gone down too well. You can fool people into thinking that we must run a budget surplus by 2017, but not that privatising what social housing we have left so that it can be added to private stock and funded with landlord benefit then forcing local authorities to pick up the tab for the discounts is a good plan.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2015/04/18.png

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Shock :shocked:

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More money then sense obviously....

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http://news.sky.com/story/1466365/ex...ves-1m-to-ukip

Howabout this for a kick in the nuts for Cameron and Miliband, But it goes to show you that there are rich people that will stand up for the weak and vulnerable people of this great country

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It will be interesting to see whether people are happy that profits from the health lottery are being donated to UKIP.....

Like almost all newspapers, sales of his titles are in freefall, so it will be difficult to establish negative reaction there.

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I think the money will be worth more than the endorsement. There are spending limits though, it might have come a bit too late.

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Yet more cartoons from the Times site, love the first one.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multim...oo_889179c.jpg

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multim...14_887955c.jpg

Don't remember posting this one, but might well have done. Here it is again anyway.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multim...15_884396c.jpg

Full credit for the cartoons posted go to Peter Brookes and Morten Morland.

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I think the debate tonight was superb. To me yet again Sturgeon wont it for me at the way, she took on Miliband.

I can see a coalition between Labour and Sturgeon. Its pretty obvious that it will be another two parties in power. As the way Ed and Nicola were arguing with each other.
Brilliant

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It was pretty good. Miliband did do well although I suspect they'll all be happy. No one did badly.

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What did you think of the bit where Milliaband said he wouldn't enter into a coalition with the SNP?