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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
He's got Labour about right, but I think he must have skipped a few pages of Theresa's manifesto. Did he miss the bit about social care, which is radical enough to give half of the elderly premature heart attacks?
The Conservative manifesto is clearly more responsible in its tone and vision and recognises that we don't have untold riches to fund inessential projects. Public opinion forces the Conservatives to ease back a bit on austerity, which means the deficit will have to be fully paid back later than they would like.
However, if the IFS really expect any political party to project doom and gloom in their manifestos, then they really don't understand politics at all.
The IFS do themselves no credit with these remarks, which I think may damage their credibility.
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Labour have always promised to spend, spend, spend. Buying votes and creating non-jobs is in their DNA.