SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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AUSTERITY is the wrong policy on every count.
Overspending was not the cause of the financial crash, so austerity is not the right policy for dealing with what did cause it — which was the bankers’ arrogance and irresponsibility triggering the global recession.
When the massive bank bailouts led to huge budget deficits, austerity was the wrong policy to cut the deficits because prolonged contraction of the economy makes deficit reduction far harder to achieve than systematic growth and expansion.
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