Austerity isn’t working. The disastrous Tory economic experiment has left the economy stagnating, household incomes falling at their fastest rate in decades and unemployment soaring towards three million. Even by the criteria the government has set itself, that of reducing the deficit, it is failing. The Tories are set to borrow £158 billion more than […]
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George Osborne shows he’s learnt nothing from Greece or Ireland
Dec 5th, 2011 by Michael Burke.The Autumn Statement was widely presented as facing up to harsh realities of slower growth, but with George Osborne offering a series of cunning schemes in order to resolve the crisis. And yet, the stagnation of the British economy is a function of government policy, and plans to increase investment by increasing the credit available to smaller firms […]
