Topic: | Ian Muir is deeply misleading on one point | |
Posted by: | Thomas Barry | |
Date/Time: | 21/05/13 15:51:00 |
"DC won the election" Did he? He wouldn't be in half as much trouble if he hadn't had to shack up with Nick Clegg and co. It's not like Nick hasn't bent over backwards and forwards to accommodate Cameron and Osborne's ill-conceived nonsense, they've dutifully voted for all of it. This 'we'd have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky Lib Dems' stuff is just nonsense. [the rest's pretty much spot on*, although I'm not particularly willing to forgive or forget New Labour for embracing so much of the neoliberal agenda so fervently it's important not to let the usual suspects lie and blame overspending for the 2008 crash rather than lax, reckless attitudes in the financial sector. Finally, Keynes was right, the Right know he was right and are nearly as scared of him as they are, weirdly, of Ed Balls. Because if Keynes is right (and he is right) the whole pack of lies comes tumbling down, starting with that old Thatcher lie about the state's finances being like a household. * The post-Thatcher boom (1992-2005) isn't given nearly the attention it deserves, given that it was the only period since 1979 where we weren't run economically by the swivel-eyed loons: http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2013/05/04/the-economic-miracle-of-1992-to-2005/ |