Thread: Election 2019, Week 1
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Old 03-11-2019, 10:53   #169
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Re: Election 2019, Week 1
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy View Post
What utter bovine excrement, we are coming out of austerity because it failed, they told us we had to do it to live within our means and reduce the national debt, neither of which the Tories managed, they missed the targets they themselves set on deficit reduction and added half a trillion to the national debt, for what, to punish the poor and hurt the vulnerable, the tories and their acolytes would have us believe that Labour were over spending but the percentage against gdp is the same now as it was pre banking crisis, what does that say about their stewardship, tells me they're either incompetent or deliberately targeting the weakest, poorest and most vulnerable in our society, so in the latter's case austerity might not have failed, they're not called the nasty party for nothing.
The Conservatives brought austerity to an end because they managed to achieve the position where they could start to bring down the nation's debt. The half a trillion added to that debt was what was funding the deficit created by Labour. The deficit could not be left as it was - I assume you understand that.
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