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Originally Posted by andrewb
Ken, Labour planned to cut deeper and just as fast. They've changed their mind now they've become the opposition. It's easier for them to criticise the coalition that way.
If you don't cut fast you are choosing to give money to bankers in interest payments rather than spending the money educating our children or putting police on the streets.
What you're saying is a lot more pain but over a longer time. We're already paying £120 million a day in interest payments. The scale of the debt is colossal and it's only going to get worse if we don't start reducing our deficit quickly.
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So perhaps you could explain, Andrew, why the government are increasing the overseas aid budget by 37%? We all have to tighten our belts, while we give money to India - a country rich enough to fund its own space programme? Yeah, that makes sense.
