Originally Posted by
baswell
Apart from your confusion between debt and deficit, I don't quite understand how this graph is a response to my earlier statement. Care to clarify?
Originally Posted by
baswell
Same as yours. By disagreeing with me, you are expressing your opinion too.
I have no opinion on how much of and how to spend other people's money, unlike yourself...
Originally Posted by
baswell
There was an election and a bunch of MPs decided to vote together, thus forming a government. That's how it works.
Actually it doesn't work that way. We do not elect our government - only our parliamentary representatives. The government is appointed by our monarch, or at least by her representative. The civil service, which by and large determines how and how much money is spent, remains completely democratically unaccountable and immune from dismissal.