The Tories have pushed public debt past £2 TRILLION after they promised to eliminate it
Using an ad-blocker? PLEASE SWITCH IT OFF
My ads don’t cost you anything but they do provide me the money I need to live.
Using an ad-blocker on this site is as bad as stealing.
“Spaffed up the wall”: Boris Johnson’s phrase – inappropriately applied to public money used to investigate child abuse – may now be more correctly applied to his own government’s use of all public funds..
Remember when the national debt was just £950 billion and the Tories slithered into office with a claim that they would eliminate it?
What happened?
George Osborne – remember him? – promised that he would eliminate the national deficit (regular borrowing by the government) by 2015, and would then reduce the debt.
He never did. And now he’s nowhere to be found.
And the national debt is now more than double what it was in 2010.
The Tories will say it’s because of the cost of the Covid-19 crisis – which they have increased exponentially by involving inept private health companies that have failed to carry out a single task adequately.
They may say it’s due to the cost of Brexit – which Boris Johnson pushed on us with a campaign of lies back in 2016 and which has cost us more in four years than we paid in more than 40 as an EU member state.
And they will certainly try to blame the Labour government of 1997-2010 and the international financial crisis that happened during that period, which had nothing to do with Labour policies.
They’ll also say a Labour government would have made matters worse, even though they have squandered more money in the last 10 years than was ever spent by every Labour administration the UK has ever had.
And don’t forget that Labour has reduced the national debt when in office, which is more than the Tories have done in our collective lifetime.
The BBC article is full of Tory apologists saying there was nothing they could do, but it simply isn’t true.
The Conservative Party has, in the words of Boris Johnson “spaffed up the wall” all the public money it could get its hands on, and then borrowed more than a trillion pounds more.
And ministers will say that you have to pay it back.
Source: UK government spending on virus measures pushes debt to £2 trillion – BBC News
Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.
Vox Political needs your help!
If you want to support this site
(but don’t want to give your money to advertisers)
you can make a one-off donation here:
Here are four ways to be sure you’re among the first to know what’s going on.
1) Register with us by clicking on ‘Subscribe’ (in the left margin). You can then receive notifications of every new article that is posted here.
2) Follow VP on Twitter @VoxPolitical
3) Like the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/VoxPolitical/
Join the Vox Political Facebook page.
4) You could even make Vox Political your homepage at http://voxpoliticalonline.com
And do share with your family and friends – so they don’t miss out!
If you have appreciated this article, don’t forget to share it using the buttons at the bottom of this page. Politics is about everybody – so let’s try to get everybody involved!
Buy Vox Political books so we can continue
fighting for the facts.
The Livingstone Presumption is now available
in either print or eBook format here:
Health Warning: Government! is now available
in either print or eBook format here:
The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
is still available in either print or eBook format here:
Has much has I dislike brown he had brought the
National debt down this lot are robbing our silver
And monies lining their own pockets with our cash
It’s unbelievable how some peasants believed their
Tripe now we pay the price
The debt figure of 2 billion is a lie as £735 billion of the so-called national debt is now owned by the government, and so cannot be included in the figure for debt.