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The easiest thing in the world would have been to give the NHS staff a bigger pay rise. I'm sure your great leader Starmer would have done so if only to make a name for himself as Mr Generous, despite it being someone else's money he'd have used to pay for it.
Dead simple Belton. Two reasons1) The Tories seized on the debt that we had in 2008 after the GFC and screamed that it showed that Labour was incompetent on the economy. They weaponised the concept of Govt debt and that has dominated our economic discussions ever since. It's bloody hard for a political party to then put its hand up and say "You know what? We've mislead you for 13 years and we really should be doing what Labour said we should do all along."2) There IS a loser from debt-fuelled growth, but it's not who BB thinks it is. It's not him and thee and me. It is people who have vast amounts of capital stored away. Because what debt-fuelled growth does is to raise longer term inflation. So if you have a very large amount of money stored away, it gets progressively lower in worth over time. And if there is one philosophy that the Tory party has always stood for, it is protecting entrenched wealth.You might remember the 2010 Election campaign. Cameron banging the lectern and saying it was immoral to run up debt because it is not fair to take the money from "Our children." In fairness, you could say he was being breathtakingly honest when he said "our children". It's just that people thought he was taking to them about "their children".As I say, the USA under Biden has finally put this debt bullshit to bed. Watch the effect over the next few years. Their economy will grow at a rate that ours can only dream of.
So if Corbyn had won the election he would have funded the nurses pay rise by taxing me and thee?