Immigration the last thing in the Tories' armour?

[Eric Cartman]

They shouldn't have been running a deficit at all, the economy was booming. They increased spending and didn't fund it adequately through taxation. But Brown believed that he ended boom and bust so there was nothing to worry about lol....then 2008 happened and due to Brown's over spending we weren't as well placed to cope, leading to a requirement for deeper Austerity

That's a very childish way of looking at running a country, surely it depends what you are spending it on.

I think he did end boom and bust because for the last 13 years we haven't seen any of the boom bit.

Saying 'a requirement for deeper austerity' implies it worked. It didn't, we never reached the surplus that they kept forecasting because growth was shite and so the debt pile just increased.

I think Bob probably had it right earlier in the thread about you.