This is still being retweeted round the further reaches of the kinder, gentler left, so a word of explanation..
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When Cameron & Osborne started using the term austerity in 2009 I objected to them co-opting 1945 language of common sacrifice..
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They dropped it quickly when they realised how unpopular it was, but the word was used by Labour against them after 2010..
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I thought it implied things were as bad for whole country as in postwar years, when Tories were cutting welfare for a minority..
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Which is bad and I don't agree with it but very different from 1945-52..
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Anyway, I realise this is a pedantic point that did not come across as intended
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Certainly not for you.
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Really? "difficult economic conditions created by government measures to reduce public expenditure." "the country was subjected to acute economic austerity"
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Whe public spending increases year on year, and the debt keeps growing, it is not austerity.
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Your relevance, accuracy & brevity remind me of why I started reading the Independant. And they’re perhaps the only reason I still do. Thank you.
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