"Neil Jones" wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman" wrote in message
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In article ,
Neil Jones wrote:
According to the DMO:-

Year Total (£mn)
1996 262 261
1997 290 259
1998 297 366
1999 291 788
2000 290 631
2001 281 720
2002 278 720
2003 292 709

1996 is the last full year of Major's government. 1997 is
half-and-half,
so no conculsions can be drawn about that year.

So, while you are correct to say that the Major years left a lot of
debt
behind, Brown has only added to it.

Err, by the figures you've given, the trend in the last two years of
Tory
rule was up - as earlier figures would prove, and down under Brown,
with
the exception of '03. The '03 figure may have been influenced by the
Iraq
fiasco.

OK, "nothing but add" is wrong and I take it back. Perhaps I should have
said something along the lines of we now oew more than when Labor got
in.

These figures don't really tell much of a story, though. 1996 will be
affected by the "sale" of the railways. 2000 onwards by the 3G auction.
However, IMM chose the statistic.

The debt is abut the same all through, but our society is richer and
unemployment a fraction of what it was under the idiots. You have to look
at the big picture. What we pay for and what we get.

These are the best government by mile in living memory. I find it strange
some people want to make us poorer and go with the idiots again. Masochism
I suppose.