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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit
Tony Blair did not exactly inherit a booming economy from Major did he this economy has been boom and bust in repeated patterns over and over again
you do all of course realise that a party loses an election because something is going wrong so both parties are equally unable to develop a working system
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But I thought Brown had sorted out the boom and bust thing? Mr Prudence told us that again and again didn't he?
Bliar and Brown inherited an economy in far better shape than this one was in 2010 and they didn't have to contend with the EU imploding too and having to help bail out other countries. It really isn't difficult to spend money, even money you don't have. It's popular amongst swathes of the electorate too. Couple spend, spend, spend with lies and spin and you have a recipe for a long stay in govt. and, as a bonus, a massive problem for the next incumbents to deal with. Buy now, pay tomorrow... We can and should argue about the rights and wrongs of specific policies and how far austerity measures should be taken but I admire this govt. for at least acknowledging what needs to be done and trying to deal with it by taking tough decisions which are unpopular. If Blair, or Miliband for that matter, was at the helm now they'd be lying through their teeth to win the next election, promising all sorts of goodies and delaying the inevitable pain just to get re-elected. They'd be whiter than white, have no plans to raises taxes, no intention of introducing tuition fees and every intention of spending more on the NHS, schools, welfare blah, blah blah. There'd be no losers except the rich, the bankers and the toffs who'd be made to squeal.* In opposition now, all you get from the architects of this present mess is denial of their huge failures, silence about their plans (if they have have any) and a pretence that somehow there'll be no pain for 'ordinary people' if/when they get back in power. After all the lies and spin, the fact that some people are still naive and/or desperate enough to believe this BS is quite staggering. One the one hand they can't bring themselves to accept what went wrong during 13 years of a secure Labour majority in parliament but on the other are quite happy to jump on the failure of the ConDems to sort it all out pain free after 3 years of shakey coalition and massive turmoil in Europe and the US which, as little as 5 years ago was unthinkable.
*Odd how the rich gort richer and the poor poorer under Labour but don't worry about that mere detail... lol