At no point have Labour even hinted at borrowing more to fund welfare and social services. They have said they are not averse to borrowing for capital expenditure, such as house-building etc



The tories have borrowed to fund the shortfall in tax-take and to pay for increased spend on welfare, in the form of housing benefit and tax credits



Alex Salmond's potential influence is being blown out of all proportion by the right-wing press. Typical scaremongering.

On the subject of national debt. This country has ALWAYS been in debt, often at considerably higher rates than than we have seen since 2008. We usually inflate our way out of debt but you can only do that with a growing economy. To grown the economy you require stimulus, a national programme of housebuilding would provide that stimulus, in the same way that it did post-WW2.

Jeremy Hardy gave one of the best analogies I've heard on the deficit: "Would you stop feeding your children, simply to pay your mortgage down quicker?"

You're not far off there. My last job was at a company where the MDs were lifelong Conservative voters. I was there 5 years and had a total of zero pay rises along with the rest of my colleagues. When we all asked about pay rises we were told there was no money and were often referred to look at the state of the nation's economy. A few fell for it and when the new machinery started arriving they were the ones who fell for the old 'speculate to accumulate' lines they were fed too. The only accumulating going on there was at the top. It wasn't until the new sports cars started rolling in that the blinkered few realised there was actually money, and plenty of it. Even so, they're the ones who are still there on the same money they were on 10 years ago, unhappy and moaning everyday, the rest of us have gone and left them to it.

Ah, so all these different types of provider are charities simply giving away healthcare. Bless. It's quite sad to see you scrabbling around trying to to come up with anything that'll try and make it seem you didn't vote to sell off the NHS to the Tories and their chums. Spineless and hypocritical, quite the combination.

Well, where to start?



The state grew during 1997-2008 simply because the previous tory administration had decimated the NHS and education to the point of near collapse. Patients on trollies in corridors, children educated in leaking "temporary" classrooms. Labour inherited that and something needed to be done to redress the problems.



Labour is not anti-business, it is however pro-business paying its share and making a fair contribution to the state costs of infrastructure. The US has a rate of corporation tax almost double ours and yet they still seem to allow companies to emerge and thrive.



"Building future slums"?

In 1953 my parents and I moved from a back bedroom in my grandmother's house, into a newly built, 2 bedroomed terrace house on a brand new estate, built on the outskirts of Hull. Built on land that had previoulsy been agricultural, so acquired for a song. The estate was a mix of 2,3 & 4 bedroomed houses, 2 pubs, 2 parades of shops with 1 & 2 bedroomed flats above. A fair amount of "pensioner bungalows", an "old folks home", a coupleof six-bedroomed homes for foster families and two doctors' surgeries (actually two 2 bedroom houses). The original tenants were spread across a wide range of careersI am not convinced we have a housing shortage - we have an inability of youngsters to get on the property ladder - I know you consider ownership to be a negative - but to most ownership is aspirational and should be encouraged IMO. There needs to be a solution to unlocking the deposit issue, the ISA is not the answer.'"

Utterly. Utterly. Priceless. Vodaphone/Starbucks are the proof that'll you'll believe utterly anything that you read in the Guardian or Morning Star. Mug.

Just what is that garbage supposed to relate to?

Care to expand?

The Morning Star and Guardian? They're left wing rags which are lapped up by the terminally stupid.

No, the Vodaphone/Starbucks reference, or do you believe that they do actually pay a fair and proportionate rate of tax?

The Tories are really pulling out all the stops now and the levels they will stoop to are simply jaw dropping.

The sight of Samantha Cameron giving an exclusive to the Mail on Sunday, about the death of her and her husband's disabled son, really shows the depths that they will sink to in order to try and garner some type of public sympathy for them and their vile, heartless party.

I find it very sad that they've done this, I don't care which party they're representing, it's incredibly low in my opinion.

Cameron has never missed an opportunity to mention his son Ivan, especially if anyone dare criticise the systematic dismantling of the NHS by his party.

Lower than vermin

You certainly won't criticise it, it's what you voted for.

According to Cod'ed scaremongering the NHS died on 1 April 2013. What is left to talk about?

Your lack of basic economic theory and the fact the education system has let you down so badly you cannot answer simple straight forward questions?