Can’t help but laugh at some of the comments on here. For starters, debt isn’t necessarily a bad thing, stop acting like Britain is a joke and all countries laugh at it because of its national debt. There are plenty more countries with a lot more national debt, they don’t see it as a crisis because they see debt comes from investment.
The conservatives idea of cutting the public sector leaving huge unemployment which crucially has not been picked up by the private sector has weakened the economy – which in turn reduces taxes because people are earning less. so whilst the government is getting less money in through tax and giving out more money on benefits, it is also failing to help out the deficit. YAY!
Would you rather have a strong booming economy with everyone not feeling threatened about being made redundant. The more we spend, the more money goes into the economy, the more jobs we have. Positive multiplier effect, Labour were around when the WORLD WIDE recession happened, so stop blaming it on Blair when really its origins begin with the American banks. Yet we live in fear, growth doesn’t come from fear, it comes from confidence. Cameron’s ideas of the economy are woeful, he had a speech lined up at Conservative convention, economists told him it would actually make the economy worst so he changed it at last second. Osborne and Cameron are clueless.
The deficit is fine, in my opinion it is better for us as a country to be in debt than to let people not have genuine human necessities that were being under funded by Thatcher, the main article is absolutely spot on about that. I mean, students going to university are going to be left with massive debt which the conservatives see as a good thing? So what’s the difference with some national debt? Oh its okay we can just fund a royal yacht.
Labour may have created debt but they did it through funding the NHS and other absolutely vital things to those who can’t afford to go private, allowing them the quality of life that every single human being should have. When you read comments like ‘how did they get over here’ referring to immigrants. Maybe that person is ‘here’ because they are skilled enough worker to play a role at a hospital. We need these workers why? because we don’t have the expertise in this country, because we had a generation of possible doctors and such destroyed by Thatchers lack of funding towards education, ruling out opportunism for that generation.
How did ‘they’ get over here? They, are the same as you. Every single human being, you are made up the same, you were created the same. ‘They’ may not have had the CHANCE of being born into a wealthy family. I wonder if you’d complain if you were undergoing heart surgery and it was a nationality apart from English. Or would you tell Bupa to get you another?… Get your head out of the daily mail and think about the modern world we live in, you probably want to bring back the British Empire and invade the Falklands. eurghh.