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Don't forget Gideon's already doubled the deficit he inherited from Labour... Austerity, eh?
Much as I love Tory bashing, that's just not true.
The debt has gone up by ~50% (not doubled, and even less in terms of %-of-GDP) and year on year he's reduced the deficit since coming into power (compared to Labour's record splurge in their final year in power).
http://www.economicshelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/net-borrowing-totalJ511-600x471.png
The fun thing about all of this is no-one knows how Labour would have got on with deficit reduction had they won in 2010. The party not in power is always going to claim they would have done better as it is impossible to prove otherwise.
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Don't forget Gideon's already doubled the deficit he inherited from Labour... Austerity, eh?