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Originally Posted by jfman
I think you’re doing the lads a disservice here Richard. I mean they aren’t actually running the country that’s the offshore corporate interests that are funding them, Russian oligarchs or possibly even the FSB. I mean Boris did meet with them without his security detail when he was foreign secretary.
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More absolute nonsense. The country is already 2 trillion in debt, a figure that has doubled under the Tories in nominal terms. Despite selling off almost everything worth selling in the last forty years we are still 2 trillion in debt because of failed neo-liberal economic policies. The Tory bribe of selling people their council houses and deregulating lending to push up prices is a one off windfall.
Future generations have no such windfall. Only the debt from previous generations extravagance and poor decision making.
Pray, tell, Old Boy, how and when should we pay the 2 trillion back? How do we fund it so we can stop squandering billions on interest payments?
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As usual
You complain about austerity, but also complain about adding to the public debt. Are you suggesting that in 2010 the spending taps should have been turned off by such a huge amount? That really would have been austerity. If the deficit levels inherited in 2010, had been continued, that would have added yet another £600bn to the debt.
The crash happened around 10 years into a Labour government.