That Starmer fella...

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lemonade in reply to @ReekBlefs

But I did know that Blair and Brown were going to turn on the spending taps

This is nonsense. In 1997 Gordon Brown made a very well publicised pledge to stick precisely to existing Conservative spending plans for at least 2 years, alongside promising no tax rises. It was to head off the exact same public concerns about Labour that Starmer is worried about now.

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hugo7 in reply to @lemonade

I may not have known

Mate, he's talking about his recollection of how he saw the New Labour brand at the time. Not denying that certain policies ever existed.

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lemonade in reply to @hugo7

Ok, but you don't think it's relevant that, far from trying to create a narrative that they were going to 'turn on the spending taps', they instead were making cast iron pledges that they wouldn't?

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