How Labour wrecked the economy to punish the Tories
A picture is beginning to emerge of Labour’s last days in office, and it is a picture that shows how petty and selfish Labour has become. A picture that reinforces a point I have made previously that Labour are unable to differentiate between the national interest and their own electoral interests.
Two stories in particular have enraged me, and I’m sure that once you’ve read them you will be enraged too:
‘Civil service chiefs lodged formal protests at spending decisions by Labour ministers…
“…over the last few months of this government there were a lot of spending commitments that were made and some of those may not represent good value for money”…in some cases the decisions “were made against accounting officer advice”.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8690312.stm
That’s what Lib Dem treasury minster David Laws found when he took office. Waiting for him when he sat at his desk was a letter from his Labour predecessor – Liam Byrne MP which read only:
‘Dear chief secretary, I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left’
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article7128665.ece
It’s pretty obvious why we have a £163m budget deficit – the biggest in Europe and bigger than Greece’s (and considering how much the government took off the books to make the picture look better that’s pretty terrifying): Labour made a bad economic situation worse out of spite.
I hope that the country never, ever forgets how Labour urinated all over the national interests to improve their own electoral prospects and hurt their political opponents.