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Originally Posted by Osem
True. Putting the mess right is their responsibility but they can't be blamed for its creation any more than the last lot can be excused. What's needed now is constructive consensus - not point scoring. This crisis is as serious as a major war and bringing down the govt. only to replace them with those who got us into this mess would, IMHO, spell very big trouble indeed.
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Well the last lot can't be exclusively blamed for the mess either considering this was a recession that hit a lot of the developed world. The Conservatives were just as happy to blame them then as Labour are now. No one is going to buy calls for a truce on point scoring whilst proclaiming that the current government cannot be blamed and the last lot cannot be excused.
Labour were to blame for not taking steps to reduce the debt before the recession making the situation worse. The Conservatives are currently to blame for failing to deliver on their objectives to deliver growth back to the UK, they have been in power for two years now, how long can they keep blaming the previous government? That said the current government is dealing with a sluggish economy, the Euro-Zone crisis, and a country which has a large portion of it's economic output delivered by one of the sectors which was badly hit by the succession of crises that have occurred over the last few years. So it's perhaps understandable why we're having trouble.
However, I can't really buy the demands for people to understand the complexity of the job the current government has been given whilst continue to peddle the notion that the previous government were not also presented with a massive problem and no clear way to deal with it.