Sorry for the bad language but sometimes the sheer amount of blatant, unrepentant and deliberate lying by our politicians becomes too much to suffer in silence. Let me put it in clear English:
David Cameron is a deceitful lying liar!
I am sick of him and his equally untruthful pal in the Treasury telling us all bare-faced lies by claiming that they are "paying down Britain’s debts.”
They are NOT!
They are INCREASING Britain's debts!
As Fraser Nelson points out in much more elegant language than mine:
David Cameron’s policy is to increase Britain’s debt by 60 per cent, more than any European country. To increase it more over five years than Labour did over 13 years. Just yesterday, we learned the national debt had hit £1,111 billion and it’s heading to £1,400 billion.
You will not be surprised to know that his chubby-cheeked deputy, Nick Clegg, is also lying through his teeth:
His deputy, Nick Clegg, has previously boasted that his government is “wiping the slate clean of debt”. An utterly misleading analogy. Here are the Treasury’s published plans:-
And they get away with it by relying on the fact that 99% of the population do not understand the difference between a deficit and a debt. Yes, you can cut your deficit by not over-spending quite as much as you did the year before but if you are still over-spending then your debt increases!
And if we allow this to continue the result will be catastrophic, as this superb YouTube explanation of the real fiscal cliff the Americans are heading towards - not the pretend one they keep avoiding - makes clear. Please, I do urge you all to watch this video, he has the ability to make the complicated easy to understand.
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0
You will also note that 'Ed 'n' Ed' say nothing because they would be telling the same lies themselves so they have no desire to educate the voters!
ADDITIONAL: Isobell Hardman at The Coffee House reports that Fraser Nelson's accusations of falsehood were repeated at a Downing Street briefing this morning - so hopefully the MSM will pick it up and run with - particularly in teh future if they repeat those lies:
Fraser has explained the reality – that Cameron is in fact increasing Britain’s debt by 60 per cent – in this post with two unnerving graphs, and the Prime Minister’s spokesman conceded that ‘the debt as a percentage of GDP has risen’. Asked whether the Prime Minister understood the difference between the debt and the deficit, he said: ‘Yes, he does.’ By way of explanation for the broadcast, he added:
‘The point the Prime Minister was making is that it is the Prime Minister’s government that is taking the tough decisions to deal with the economic crisis the government inherited and we are making progress with that.
‘We have a long-term fiscal consolidation plan set out across this Parliament which will see debt as a percentage of GDP falling by 2016/17, that’s how we are getting debts under control.’
To be fair to 'Ed 'n' Ed', they have picked up on it:
Naturally Labour – regardless of its own plans for borrowing – is making as much of this as it can, complaining today to the UK Statistics Authority about the claim in the broadcast.
Is this a little bit of evidence for my belief that this government got into office without any appreciation of how ruined the public finances were? Anyone who'd understood in 2010 would have learned the difference between deficit and debt.
Posted by: dearieme | Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 14:56
Nah, DM, it's just proof of the bleedin' obvious that they're all crooks and liars!
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 15:24