Philip_Thompson
Philip_Thompson
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Re: In the next general election betting the Tories no longer odds-on to win a majority – politicalbetti
Labour underestimated how much they'd borrow every single year they were in office which is how they ended up increasing debt to GDP annually from 2001 onwards despite the UK growing and having … (View Post)1 -
Re: In the next general election betting the Tories no longer odds-on to win a majority – politicalbetti
The BoE head is right as quoted that the UK is like a 'coiled spring' ready to recover from this pandemic. The IMF have called a lot wrong over decades. (View Post)1 -
Re: In the next general election betting the Tories no longer odds-on to win a majority – politicalbetti
Given the Parade of Past PMs Preaching on this issue, we should restore Foreign Aid to the rate Major had it at. Or Blair. (View Post)1 -
Re: In the next general election betting the Tories no longer odds-on to win a majority – politicalbetti
The difference is that austerity was necessary in 2010 because Gordon Brown had blown all the money and was running a structural deficit. Prior to the pandemic the 2018/19 deficit was considerably lo… (View Post)2 -
Re: In the next general election betting the Tories no longer odds-on to win a majority – politicalbetti
That's literally what happened today. 🙄 (View Post)1
