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IT HAS NEVER been an aim of Tory governments to raise the living standards of the population. But this government is engaged in the third huge assault on the pay and incomes and services of ordinary people in living memory — and the most vicious of all.
The first of these was the programme of Margaret Thatcher, which completely re-ordered British society in the interests of big business and the rich. She also decimated the trade union movement and bragged that she had recreated the Labour Party in her own image. We are still living with the disastrous consequences of her policies.
The second big attack was launched by Cameron and Osborne, with the eager help of the Lib Dems in 2010. The economy and living standards have never properly recovered from the austerity policies they implemented. Of course, the stated aim then was to reduce the public-sector debt, which had been created by bailing out the banks and the economic damage they caused.
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