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    GaryC - 4 or 5 million - even 50 million, cannot change the economic reality.

    Better economic stewardship since 1997 would have avoided a structural deficit developing as early as 2005, if so then there would be no need for cuts and put the UK in a strong position at the start of the cyclical slowdown in 2007. The problem was that Brown believed his own conceit, in his own words he claimed he had - 'banned boom and bust' and ran the economy as if he really had (a bit like King Canute....). There is the crux of the problem made worse by his spending slight of hand using off-balance sheet funding of revenue disguised as capital starting in 1997. All a matter of record and you cannot change the rules of economics, however you may wish otherwise, 1 plus 1 equals 2 and always will do.

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