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If you look at the 1997 Labour manifesto, which led to the UK doubling GDP from 97 to and 2007 and the 2019 Labour manifesto they’re very similar The bits abou
by goatinaboat 7y ago
If you look at the 1997 Labour manifesto, which led to the UK doubling GDP from 97 to and 2007 and the 2019 Labour manifesto they’re very similar
The bits about nationalising everything were certainly very different so I don’t think this claim holds up to scrutiny.
I also find it interesting that you stop at 2007. What happened in 2008 that might call into doubt Labour’s management of the economy?
- sweeneyrod 7y agoYou're blaming Labour for an international financial crisis?
- goatinaboat 7y agoThe financial crisis manifested itself in the UK wholly due to Gordon Brown’s mismanagement of the economy yes. A housing bubble and promising the end of boom and bust. Having sold off the gold reserves at a rock bottom price already. Labour would like their voters to forget it was them who bailed out the banks too.
- pjc50 7y ago> What happened in 2008 that might call into doubt Labour’s management of the economy? The blowup of Lehman Brothers (US investment bank), ABN Ambro (Dutch bank recently acquired by RBS), Northern Rock (overextended British building society), Kaupthing (Iceland), and Anglo-Irish (despite the name, entirely Irish)? Yes, I'm sure that's all the fault of the Labour government.