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Originally Posted by Damien
I never said that the fact they didn't do more good was ok. I pointed that in the first few months of office they made a similar move to the one Osborne has made is all. Unless you expected that remark to go unchallenged, I don't see what's wrong with pointing it out.
Labour did do good as well as bad. This government is likely going to follow the same pattern. We can always complain that a government didn't do enough good and then point to good ideas and claim the previous government should have done it can't we?
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Nothing's wrong with pointing something out and nothing's wrong with replying is there?
I didn't and have never claimed New Labour did nothing right - I just asked why they didn't go further and put fiscal forecasting in the hands of an independent body outside of government influence. I reckon it's because they wanted to be able to dream up 'forecasts' which suited their spending plans. What do you think?...