Sauce for the goose ...

Labour's shadow chancellor Ed Balls was on the box last night saying that Labour was not actually promising to repeal various measures taken to save money by the present coalition government.

When a BBC journalist put it to him that from the vehemence of the criticism Labour had made of these savings voters could reasonably assume Labour was proposing to do something different he replied that if Labour were to win the next election it would inherit a large and unsustainable public spending deficit from the present government.

Indeed, Ed, but it's two thirds the size in absolute terms (or half the size as a proportion of GDP) of the one you left them in 2010 ...



Comments

Jim said…
I saw that too. I honestly could not believe what I was hearing. Basically "we will inherit a financial train wreck because the conservative plan to fix it is not working"

hmmmmmm, well i could quite agree with him the Conservative plan to fix it is not working very well, but then I wonder if he remembers just what it was the country is trying to recover from?

Pity you don't seem to remember Ed, because myself and plenty of other people do.
Jim said…
also wouldn't it have been so much better if labour had got its way over the last 5 years. I don't recall a single saving that Labour (including Ed) were not up in arms about.

we even had suggesions that this scheme or that could be introduced, and could be paid for by borrowing.

I mean seriously, yes by all means have a go at the Conservative party for doing a pretty bad job of eliminating the deficit. I do it often enough, but about the only people on Earth this second paragraph does not apply to are the people who caused the problem in the first place. And yes Ed, you can see one of them if you look in any mirror.
Chris Whiteside said…
Pretty much the point .I was making
Jim said…
Well yeah, but i was so dumb founded at the time i heard it, and still to be honest. That i thought i had entered some sort of weird alternate reality where by spitting image was still on the telly.
Chris Whiteside said…
Indeed. That is a reaction I can fully understand and share

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