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# I have no love for Brown and Blair
but the incumbent government's austerity measures have little to do with them.

If you want someone genuinely to blame for the global financial crisis of 2008 it was Reagan and Thatcher whose legacy of City/Wall St deregulation enabled the bubble which finally burst.

That said, austerity doesn't actually achieve what it's ostensibly for, which makes you wonder what the real reason behind it is...
(, Tue 26 Jun 2018, 21:56, archived)