PFI chickens coming home to roost!

nearlynew

Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »

This thread is a classic in the "1997 as yea zero" mindset. Everything is Brown's fault, therefore anything negative about PFI is Brown's fault, therefore when chickens come in its onto Labour.

Point out that PFI is a Tory policy adopted and expanded by Labour, and suddenly its "why are you mentioning the Tories?" Er, because it was started by them? We saw similar over the Millenium Dome, "Labour'sWhite Elephant" conceived, started and championed by Deputy Prime Minister Michael Hesletine.

Anyway, PFI is not off-books. Eurostat include PFI debt in state debt stats, and for the last few years so has the UK government.

Ignoring the fact that you are a stooge............

if you had actually read this thread you would have seen that we had acknowledged that PFI was not started by the current government.


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kabayiri

Maybe Labour didnt start PFI.

But...they were quite happy to borrow 50bn under the scheme for schools, and then crow about how they were the party turning round education etc....sanctimonious g*ts the lot of em.

I know a pfi school where the janitor cant even screw a toilet roll holder back onto the cubicle wall.....nooo, got to call out an "engineer" for that at vast expense. Some bargain eh?

Sheesh I could give everyone a free house if in power, by borrowing on the never never....doesnt make it right does it.

purch

The Conservatives handed over high unemploment and high debt

I'm not sure that is 100% correct !!!

.......in fact I'm not sure it's even 25% correct :eek:

Rochdale_Pioneers

purch wrote: »

I'm not sure that is 100% correct !!!

.......in fact I'm not sure it's even 25% correct :eek:

Well if Brown had run up "high debt" before the crash, the the fact that debt was higher pre-97 would by definition be high.

mbga9pgf

Tell you what, compare Total debt, IE State and individual debt, and compare it to what we had back in 1997.