Quote: Sal Paradise "Do you honestly think any party would want to implement austerity - its a massive vote loser'"
[iShould[/i be a massive vote loser, but huge swathes of the public were conned into thinking we were 'all in it together' needed to 'balance the books', 'tighten the purse strings' and 'reduce the deficit', while at the same time, the disaster capitalists were cleaning up, and the rich got super rich.