Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Blimey, thanks to you and Tiss for confirming that the writer of the piece in the OP was talking bollox - that natural order of things which says Conservatives = financial competence and boom times for all and Labour = financial chaos and misery for all has been restored after a nasty few hours when I believed that maybe the Tories weren't the economic and financial force of nature that we are told they are by the likes of the Mail and the Sun.

Even if there were any truth in what that Accountant and tax specialist wrote, we can rest safe in the knowledge that any veering off course by the Government can be put down to last year's referendum.

No doubt, what is said in these articles

https://www.theguardian.com/news/dat...deficit-target

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bu...-a6994016.html

http://www.standard.co.uk/business/w...-a3218261.html

https://fullfact.org/economy/did-geo...-deficit-year/

can, somehow, be blamed on Brexit as well.

Anyway, we all know that even if it is true that the average annual Government borrowing figure under Conservative Governments has been higher than under Labour administrations over the past seventy years, it's still all the fault of Labour isn't it!
Don't you think the average has been skewed by the deficit being 157bn in 2009 and only being halved in the past 8 years?

What would the average be if the Tories inherited a surplus in 2010 like the Tories left Labour in 1997?