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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.
GeofCox /
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2023-09-30 10:15:12
in reply to nevent1q…a20d
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