Quote Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew View Post
Labour were cringingly apologetic too. They sucked up way too much Tory propaganda and didn't fight it properly. They were weak then when it came to opposing Tory austerity.
Eh! The Tories didn't gain power until 2 years after the 2008 crisis; austerity came much later. I agree that was a very poor policy. We should have been expanding the economy and not reducing it. The argument that there was no money was clearly incorrect as £405bn was found to pay for COVID.