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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Maybe so, but is that so surprising after the Covid pandemic and the energy crisis? All that money provided to citizens under the furlough scheme and the energy price caps for example had to be paid back somehow.
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Those have barely moved the dial on national debt as a percentage of GDP, OB. Failure to admit that a decade of flawed, crippling austerity acted as a noose around the neck of the country will only see future governments consigned to make the same mistakes.