Mintball wrote:
Let us reiterate.
When this government took office, employment had stabilised and there was economic growth.
Those are facts. Whether some people like them or not. Whether some people like Ed Balls or not. They remain facts.
Equally, you will not eradicate the deficit (a problem caused by the banks' behaviour) via austerity (for some) and without growth.
This is not rocket science.
Growth has to come from the private sector you will not eradicate a deficit by increasing public spending. Pumping money into the public sector - Balls' preferred method - is not going to stimulate growth. Even Balls admitted Labour would need to reduce the level of borrowing if they retained power. Balls never offered a solution to driving growth.
Growth was less than 1% in 2010 so to say we had growth is stretching a definition and 2009 the last full year under Labour saw a significant downturn in the economy, unemployment has been growing since 2008 - to say Labour had it under control is a not supported by the figures!!