Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
100% correct.
The effect of the media is very worrying. Back in 2008 the government spend billions upon billions bailing out the banks. The opposition agreed to this bailout.
Within no time, the media helped encourage people to blame immigrants, benefit cheats and Labour overspending on the state of the economy. The interesting part of this is that not one single independant fiscal organisation (OBR, IFS, BoE, etc) agreed with any of this. People seem to forget it was all about the banks. It's been one of the greatest manoeuvers in blame in history. We've been told the economy has been in a dreadful state for years. It's been so dire, to the point where the deficit has never even really been brought under control, that we're now going to be spending money like confetti, presumably all borrowed - a situation that all leading economists and financial institutions suggest will get significantly worse when we leave the EU.
I can only presume that the debt isn't as dreadful as we are led to believe and austerity was all about an attack on the worst off in society.