| Zekkyou said: The 2008 recession makes direct comparisons on that front rather difficult. After the crash the UK's borrowing skyrocketed, and that borrowing had to be continued under the Conservatives (hence the infamous "I'm afraid there is no money" note that was left to the conservatives in 2010). Since then the Conservatives have pulled net borrowing down from its 153 billion peak to 43 billion in 2016 (about in line with what Labour were borrowing). I'm not saying austerity has been the correct approach, but we can't linearly draw a line between it and our debt and say "it's not working". The conservatives were left with quite the shitshow when they took power. |
We can clearly say it's not working and was never going to work at the time, the have always been other factors that lead to the debt but guess what the Tory line in their campaign was, a hint it hinged on the country's borrowing despite the fact that any Government would have had to do the same and when they landed in office they swore austerity was the only way and that the debt would be cut by a target year that after 5 changes still has never been hit. It's because of this that people began turning Cameron the twat and Osbourne especially after they step on the disabled like they were dirt and now the baton has been passed on to May, Davis and Howling Mad Bo Johnson for their share of the kicking as austerity turned out to just out to be a farce to cut money spent on certain groups of people mean while we're some how financially fine to go ahead and bomb the likes of Syria where one fighter jet cost over 600K to fuel and launch.
