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Groundhog Day … austerity didn’t work under the Tories & it won’t work under Labour either
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[2024-08-20 21:37 UTC]
@CarolineLucas
I don't think many MPs could have been elected to Parliament intending to impose "austerity" on people, as if that were an explicit policy intention.
The A word was widely used in the 2010 - 2015 Parliament to complain about what over that period was a higher average percentage of GNP being spent on public services, compared to the average percentage of GNP spent on public services during the previous 1997 - 2010 Labour administration.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/298478/public-sector-expenditure-as-share-of-gdp-united-kingdom-uk/