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  • the immediacy and huge nature of it that strikes me as ideological

    Not saying it's not ideological, but the immediacy strikes me as more of a PR move: BAM! We're in power and we're already making BIG CHANGES!

    I mean either way thank fuck they did it. Can you imagine what Johnson and Truss would have done were they able?

  • I think (with no evidence just my memory of the time) it was far more to demonstrate labours fiscal competence than anything else

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