The Conservative leaning press will use Greece as a reason for us having to commit
to further austerity. This is the wrong thing to do as Greece's situation is entirely different to our own however newspapers such as The Telegraph are attempting to use Greece as a bogeyman anyway.
We have heard Conservatives discuss Greece is the idea of having to pay one's own way in this world. It may shock readers to find that our debt is in fact far larger than the Greeks. We seem to forget that, all this bunk by Tories about paying our way and lowing debt is just the highest order of nuttiness.
Last year a loony liberal lefty paper held up by Communists, otherwise known as The Telegraph chastised Osborne as having "perfected the art of preaching sobriety while knocking back the tequila slammers".
Earlier this evening the debt figures were:
British debt: £1 616 789 606 915
Greek debt: £ 226 259 883 917
^This numbers increase every few seconds...
The nugget that we need to take away from this is that our nation is living off of borrowed money, Britain is borrowing more under the Conservatives than it had under Labour and the Conservatives will continue to borrow despite their waging austerity. That last part will trigger cognitive dissonance within many as it goes against our public perceptions about which party is good with money. We cannot allow the course of austerity to be determined by what has happened in Greece but this will not stop David Cameron from using another nation as a verbal backhander when discussing the issues.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Have a great weekend
Bailey
Sources:
EU DEBT CLOCKS
The Telegraph on Osborne's drinking.
We have heard Conservatives discuss Greece is the idea of having to pay one's own way in this world. It may shock readers to find that our debt is in fact far larger than the Greeks. We seem to forget that, all this bunk by Tories about paying our way and lowing debt is just the highest order of nuttiness.
Last year a loony liberal lefty paper held up by Communists, otherwise known as The Telegraph chastised Osborne as having "perfected the art of preaching sobriety while knocking back the tequila slammers".
Earlier this evening the debt figures were:
British debt: £1 616 789 606 915
Greek debt: £ 226 259 883 917
^This numbers increase every few seconds...
The nugget that we need to take away from this is that our nation is living off of borrowed money, Britain is borrowing more under the Conservatives than it had under Labour and the Conservatives will continue to borrow despite their waging austerity. That last part will trigger cognitive dissonance within many as it goes against our public perceptions about which party is good with money. We cannot allow the course of austerity to be determined by what has happened in Greece but this will not stop David Cameron from using another nation as a verbal backhander when discussing the issues.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Have a great weekend
Bailey
Sources:
EU DEBT CLOCKS
The Telegraph on Osborne's drinking.
