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Old 01-09-2022, 20:29   #1150
jfman
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Re: The energy crisis

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Originally Posted by Paul View Post
You would consider anything the government provides "inadequate" simply because they are conservative.

Still, i'll bite anyway, tell us what you consider is 'adequate', and how its going to be paid for.
Considering the exhaustive list of things Truss has ruled out it’s difficult to see how anything adequate is left over.

The obvious answer is it’s paid for the same way we pay for anything - more debt. No government of any colour for the last 40 years has meaningfully made any impact on the national debt, and none for the next 40 will tackle it either. The pretence that £2trn is sustainable but £2.5trn isn’t (figures vary over time) is just a myth to keep the proles in their place with their housekeeping economics.

FWIW I don’t think Starmer has any answers either.
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