29th March, 2011
The Indie journalist, blogger and tweeter Johann Hari posted an article today about Tory scare-mongering on the UK’s deficit. (You can see it here.)
Hari calls the scaremongering the biggest lie in British politics.
Peter Hoskin, writing in The Spectator’s online “coffeehouse” has issued a swift rebuffal. (You can see it here.)
One of Hoskin’s points is that the deficit (if not the debt) is the highest on record. He produces a chart based on Treasury figures to prove his point. (You can see it below.)
You may be surprised to know that I really like this chart.
Look at the ten Labour years before the crash in 2008.
See “Brown’s waste” there? See Labour profligacy there? See a decade of irresponsible spending there?
Me neither.
