samwire wrote:
did it? are you sure about that?
Yes.
previously, samwire wrote:
dead is stable.
still, in 13 years the last lot managed to spend up, leave us in the worst recession since god knows when and stick an extra half a million on the unemployment pile. but they stopped dogs killing foxes. excellent work.
So, the Labour government 'spent up' and 'left us' "in the worst recession since god knows when".
If you do not mean to link those things, then don't do so. There's a good chap.
The actions of the Labour government did not cause the recession.
The recession was caused by the financial crisis, which was also not caused by the Labour government.
Matters may well have been very much worse if Brown did not make the decision to bail out the banks. Some economists believe that we would have entered a depression rather than a recession.