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7cb9c348 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @419623b4 @5a78798a @4c04d469 @43d7c4ea 

Personally I think it's a bit of a stretch to call the LibDem's complicity with the 'austerity' programme a 'mistake'.  Actually the Brown government had reacted to the  crash in exactly the right way to minimise its impact, then along came the Tory/LibDem 'austerity', which many economists pointed out at the time was precisely the opposite of what should have been done. You can't call that 'a mistake' - it wasn't a little slip-up, but deliberately, disastrously, completely wrong-headed.

A better interpretation of events, I'm afraid, is that Osborne and co didn't care,  because they were ideologically fixated on shrinking the state anyway, and that the LibDems simply didn't understand.
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c9d0e17a | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @64af5594 @419623b4 @5a78798a @4c04d469 @43d7c4ea More than Austerity, I hold the Lib-Dems (New SDP) responsible for the Health and Social Care Act, allowing for fast track selling off of our NHS. I'll NEVER forgive them for that.