[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Angua

Neither Labour or the Conservatives look at finance properly. What should happen is during the good times, taxes should go up and be invested for the bad times, so that taxes can be cut to help people in the lean times.

Instead, taxes are cut when people have spare, and raised when people are short.

Meanwhile, how many years should a government be in power before they stop blaming their predecessors?

Indeed how long out of power does a government have to be.

As we all know the mantra 30+ years on is still "It's all Thatchers Fault"