Thanks for your comment. I’m sorry you don’t think this blog is evidence-based. We went to great care to ensure that we linked to all source material.

I’m afraid you’re also wrong to say that “Labour has racked up the largest debt our country has ever seen.” As Will Hutton pointed out in the Observer this weekend, “since 1750 the national debt has always been proportionally higher than this, except for two 40-year periods – one at the end of the 19th century and the other from the 1970s until now.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/13/budget-national-debt-will-hutton

Richard Murphy has a graph on his blog making the same point: http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2009/09/09/uk-debt-dont-lie/

There is a meaningful debate to be had here and we are trying to add to it not obscure.

Best wishes,

Will

What we do know is that Labour has racked up the largest debt our country has ever had and the highest unemployment and lies and spins to try and wriggle out of the truth. No more Boom and Bust. Tory Cuts. Tory Toffs. Anything but their own (dire) position.

It’s always the same – Labour wreck the country leaving massive unemployment and huge debts and the Tories come in to clean up the mess. It’s always never Labour’s fault but some global problem they couldn’t have predicted. 10p tax on the poor? That’s Labour for you.

How the right can expect the deficit to decease when they propose sacking people, which leads to – less tax revenue, more benefit payments, less disposable income in private hands therefore less private spending therefore more job loses in the service industry therefore start the sequence again.

Even Thatcher took 6 years to reduce the deficit even though she was cutting all over the place, why, because of the millions that were left the dole and incapacity benefit.

Leave the poor behind is their motto and unfortunately we are going to give them the perfect chance after next year and I fear the election after.

Goodwin – scrapping trident is a good start.

So what? If government can do the same job with fewer staff then why shouldn’t it? Any private company would. It is not the job of the government to employ people in order to keep unemployment figures down. If a job doesn’t need doing, then you don’t need to employ someone for it. One reason we are borrowing well over 10% of GDP this year is because the public sector has been making up jobs to employ people into for years.

And if you’re interested in the the 60% number on tax rises read the article I linked to. The numbers are from a Times/Populus poll.

“What a pile of crap- “Right wing cuts would devastate vital services and cost jobs”. Have you read the report? There is a rationale for each and every one of the proposed cuts. And where the Hell did you get the statistic that 60% of the population supports tax rises over cuts? That’s a bloody lie, and you damn well know it. Aside the fact that countless reports have been produced by so many organisations proving that reduced public spending (as opposed to tax rises) is a much better way to control any deficit without damaging economic growth. This whole Left Foot Forward project is a pathetic racket. Crawl back under the cave where you came from, Will.