Eliminate the deficit? Eliminate economic hope, more like | Phil McDuff
All George Osborne's great project has done is destroy growth, and escalate poverty. Is that what austerity was for?
Congratulations, everyone! We did it! The deficit has been eliminated! George Osborne, the architect of austerity, emerged from one of his non-jobs as the editor of the London Evening Standard to tell us all it was a "remarkable national effort" on Twitter, as if he'd ever broken a sweat over it. David Cameron, who will go down as arguably the worst prime minister in history thanks to the gigantic power move of doing a Brexit and running away, simply added: "It was the right thing to do" - safe in the knowledge that he was now out of the line of fire from tough questions.
Deficits aren't only not bad, they're necessary - without them we get deflation and an explosion in inequality
Related: How language duped us into austerity | Zoe Williams
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