please empty your brain below
As a Labour supporter I'm a bit nervous about this too close to call election but will probably end up getting up at some ridiculously early hour to see what's going on
And the outcome was just as I expected!
On the other hand, austerity is proven to reduce GDP because there's less money going around. So you might not have a deficit, but the national debt, as a percentage of GDP, increases!
The only reason that we have growth at the moment, is that between 2012 and now, austerity has been slowed down significantly by the coalition (hence they didn't make their targets for deficit reduction).
Basically, deficit reduction is not as important as GDP growth, and we should be concentrating on the latter, not the former, at least for now.
And if anyone votes for what a Rupert Murdoch owned newspaper says instead of using their own brain, then more fool them.
Thanks DG, for the brilliant chart, entertaining and well observed, as ever. It will lighten what looks to me as a radical Liberal, like a very depressing future.
Keep up the good work.
The Telegraph's spam email was not universally welcomed
https://twitter.com/tobyharnden/status/596139276028350465
Daily Express "Labout and SNP would be absolutely disastrous for us all"
Daily Mail - "Make sure you use our tactial voting guide to keep Red Ed out"
Daily Telegraph - "Don't do something you'll regret"
Isn't there supposed to be a convention that the media aren't partisan on election day itself?
I'm glad to hear it. I was a bit spooked. BUT I can't find any commentary in the mainstream media at all.
In other news... there is something rather civilised about making afternoon tea compulsory. I quite like it. Can we add to this, that there will be cucumber sandwiches and also a compulsory pint (real ale only) after work AND that those of us who can flash a maroon passport be allowed, indeed required, to partake of these customs even in the colonies in which we are forced to reside?
Since when?
http://www.bl.uk/learning/images/front%20page/If%20Kinnick%20Wins-st.jpg
My only regret is that the 'dangleway coalition' was not represented in sufficient comic degree. But I suppose none of it really matters....
- although it was the Telegraph in the inbox, rather than the Sun in the letterbox.
- Gov't will indeed probably be all-English - unless that lone Scottish Tory is made Scottish secretary)
But I don't think the Govt will need to rely on the DUP. And Boris may have to wait a bit longer than expected to have a bash at the top job.
And if the Scots' idea was to wield the balance of power in a hung parliament, they have come unstuck since it is largely they who have caused Labour's downfall.
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