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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
I suspect that was more because we were wondering just how incompetent the government could get in that it inherited a growing economy and made the easy cuts, investment and capital expenditure, leaving the economy pretty much stagnant.
Yeah, shame the deficit grew prodigiously while George, with one eye always on 2015, ran the economy for political not economic ends. Now it's politically expedient to invest, it's good to bribe the electorate without pleading national poverty, it's happening.
What we're getting now is some of the recovery this government's policies stalled by 3 years.
You didn't seriously buy that stuff about how we would've become Greece if not for cuts, did you?
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By 'we' you mean you or the majority of the electorate? When the majority of people don't even bother to vote because they're fed up with the system I don't suppose ONS pontifications mean that much. You could be entirely right about what might have happened if, but that doesn't alter the reality that people don't tend to vote for long pain whether it's long term or short term when there's an opposition which promises more for less. The political colour of the promises is irrelevant to all except those who vote for the same party no matter what. At least I can go to bed knowing 2 things - I will vote and it won't be for the party I voted for last time.