Chris Giles
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229 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2011
last heard Jan 2015
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And it must be true in some sense.
And it is true.
Roughly, as far as we know, the stats aren't brilliant here, that total public expenditure as a share of national income is...
projected to be cut to about the level of 1938.
But 1938 is not representative of the 1930s at all.
There's a lot going on in 1938, I would have thought.
We were rearming.
We were building quite a lot of Spitfires and the like in 1938.
In fact, the 35% number is very different from the 30s as a
It's a time before rearmament.
In fact, public spending in the 1930s was roughly about 25% of national income, so a full 10 percentage points lower.
So it really isn't in any way fair to say public spending is being cut to the level of the 1930s.
It might be 1938 or 1939, yes, but not the 30s.
And there's a different number of pensions and everything.
So the whole thing is a really rather silly comparison in many, many ways.
But just in that narrow point, it isn't the 1930s.
But it's not just Labour.
Let's be very clear.
There's another way you can say things which are true Labour.
But unfair one way is often to have a lot of implied causality in a statement when actually we don't know of any causality at all.
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