Ireland's Lessons To Be Learned

Only when a disgrace happens close to us we fear it. Ireland is reassuring us that savage cuts is not the answer for recovery. Mr. Osborne miraculously found £ 7 billion to give away to Ireland. Well, he made me believe that we were broke ! This is once again an evidence that our public finances are not so bad as they would like us to believe. Ireland followed Mr. Osborne’s draconian policies of exaggerated cuts. That's the result, a country is in deep recession which will last for generations. Mr. Osborne is now desperate to save Ireland, not because he has a natural good will to help but rather he is facing a failure of his own policy at our door step. As a taxpayer, I am not happy to have my money being sent abroad to help another nation while there are many issues over here to be solved: Unemployment, unaffordable housing, NHS waiting times increase, 40k less police officers, shocking energy bills etc. "Britain never had it so good". Are you sure Lord Young ?

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