Ahem, coincidence? Archie had knowledge about the latest atrocity hours before it happened. Explain yourself ****o.
This is one of the points that annoys me the most, from its sure stupidity. Labour left a big deficit. The Tories either had to completely rape the state or remain in deficit. The Tories chose to remain in deficit and grow the national debt. One of the biggest complaints from the left is austerity - one of the biggest complaints from the left is now growing national debt. One relates to the other, pick a side you paceless ****s.
Tories promised they'd fix it all in a few years and failed completely, even with their austerity and corporation tax cuts.
Yeah because they were useless ****s who couldn't perform miracles with the material they had to work with. That's not even the point - it's comparing UK debt from Labour in 2010 vs Tories in 2017 - and not acknowledging that growing debt was caused by either not enough austerity - or a lack of a magic growth plan which no **** would have ever pulled off.
No, they prove that debt has got bigger - and they say nothing about who would have made it less bigger. During the entire period Labour were arguing to spend more, not less. So this is a stick that you are trying to beat the Tories with, which doesn't stand up to any sort of honest analysis. Btw I'm cheering against the Tories here, but just don't like genuinely illiterate arguments from the enemy of my enemy.
Osborne claimed that thanks to their austerity the deficit would be eliminated by 2015. It's not. Austerity hasn't worked. The figures prove it. We can't tell what they would have been if Labour was in power as they weren't in power. How you would want that data to be come up with baffles me.
£1 in 2010 vs £1 in 2017 these comparisons dont seem to account for that either, agree with mick I could have bought 10 packs of onion rings with a pound in 2010, in 2017 I can only buy 6
The deficit has grown to the extent it has as a direct result of the deflationary effects of austerity. Letting the air out of a deflating balloon does not help it to fly. Christine Lagarde sees this, & admitted as much to Yanis Varoufakis. The ECB, George Osbourne, Theresa May, the editors of the Mail, Telegraph and Sun, and apparently yourself, are among the people who do not see it.
Austerity didn't work on many measures, no - but that's not to say the alternative would have worked either. We don't get to replay our models here with altered variables. The truth is that any Government only has a limited impact on how the economy will work, especially in a globalised planet where most people in business work across borders. There may very well have been nothing but some form of 'austerity' applicable (as in the Tories actually increased state spending during 'austerity')
Yanis Varoufakis What a guy - sold £10m worth of books on Amazon before doing a runner. Wish I was him.
