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Originally Posted by jaysay

Well if the Tories are out of their depth, Labour have drowned long ago, you just can't see can you, you plank, Labour have never in our history made a success of running this country, they've always made a pigs ear of it, if ever anybody was out of their depth it was the one eyed Jock and his little Darling the Burk and Hare of British politics. As for the Tories putting people on incapacity in the eighties incapacity claimants went from around 200,000 in 1997 to 550,000 in 2010, ever though of being a stand up comic C'mon, try the Edinburgh fringe

total costs rose from £600 million in 1979 to £3500 million in 1997 your figures dont add up http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cp/CASEpaper26.pdf