Originally posted by AtW
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I thought the Conservative vs Labour argument was always that one 'wastes' by spending on stuff we might not need, trying to increase SoL for the populace as a whole / and one that 'believes there is no need for state public services' by only investing in things that improve GDP, or personal wealth for the 5% ?
It's surprising to me that people are even using this as a political slagging match; I'm upset at the hardline tories and labour supporters for trying to point score.
That said, just trying to observe with no bias, I can't really accept anyone pro Conservative who's trying to argue that we wouldn't be in a better place, if it weren't for 10 years of austerity; or by trying to justify 300bn to essentially prop up the economy , as 'having the money due to austerity' - we don't we are printing and borrowing it.
It's unwise to spend based on a political alignment at a time like this. We cannot have our cake and eat it , we need global co-operation and GOD FORBID, we need to start listening more to people with expertise on world subjects , rather than politicians, who sadly have very little SME at all.
<climbs down off soapbox>
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