Yes. I would add that the enormous cuts in capital spending paved the way for 15 years of economic stagnation. It was particularly damaging since borrowing money was so cheap at that time. (View Post)

Yes, I was a bit imprecise with language. And I think you're right that many of the disability payments would have been something else under old rules. "real spending on non-pensioner non-health… (View Post)

Struggling to understand the problem with this one. Maybe I'm too partisan to see. Is the argument the opposition is making that the economy is actually doing quite well and we didn't need raise taxe… (View Post)

According to the article, pensions linked to earnings growth is in legislation. So scrapping triple lock means we would fall back to that. So it's a comparison between triple lock and that single loc… (View Post)

Nice article here on welfare: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/is-welfare-spending-out-of-control/ Tl;dr - welfare not out of control. But large rises in spending on pensioners and disabl… (View Post)