Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Partly to offset the financial mess Labour left the Country in. You do not suddenly come into power and go at it with a hatchet to make ones self popular and win votes, you do it because the previous bunch have left it in such a perilous state that you have to.
‘We would have matched Labour spending pound for pound and there was little else that could have been done to prevent the crash’ - George Osborne in the Spectator interview with Andrew Neil. October 2017.
The ‘Labour broke it and we will fix it’ mantra was an effective election slogan in 2010 but given what’s happened since even tories don’t parrot it anymore.