ELbowloh-
I do! It led to Osborne's austerity policy. A breathtaking decision to deliberately plunge ordinary people into poverty. How can a decent society allow a Chancellor to get away with this? Isn't it as immoral as Blair invading Iraq? I'm still incandescent about the complacency of the comfortably off, who all supported austerity, and saw themselves as the real victims of the banking crisis. Because common people don't matter. They're just oiks and chavs. If they have disposable income they waste it on booze and fags and excessive cars.
I still believe that Osborne should have borrowed and invested, which is what Obama did. Or did I get this wrong? I have no grasp of economics.
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It is, no one apart from die hard Tories think of the financial crisis that started in 2008
I experienced this at first hand on Tuesday. I went for a few drinks with some people who I know through a shared interest in travel. There was a guy there who I hadn't met before, but others had, I think. A group conversation started around the election and this 'new' guy said several times that, if labour got in, they would 'raid' pensions, 'just like Brown did'. This was reiterated 3 or 4 times later.
Later, Truss came up in the conversation and he said that her plans weren't too radical, but that they'd been blocked by the Bank of England! I had to go to the bar just then, so I bought him a pint and sat down with another group further away! We moved on to another bar after that and the b****rd didn't offer me a drink in return!
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Ordinary people don't think about the bailout, it's ancient history. But they're aware of the increase of poverty, rising rents and earning so little for full time work that you go into debt just paying for the basics.