The last time a Labour government took power, they inherited a budget surplus. During a boom period, they turned said surplus into a huge deficit. A deficit that the Conservative Party has tried its best to recover from, and indeed has done a pretty good job, and was close to doing so... and but for Covid, this deficit would probably have been eliminated by now.
The deficit must be eliminated before debt can come down. A lot of people don't know the difference between debt and deficit. That ignorance is taken advantage of by politicians.
I hate saying this, but perhaps, once in a generation, we need a Labour government voted in to remind voters how fiscally irresponsible and useless they really are..
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