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Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? by goatinaboat on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:21AM (#21790257)
If you look at the 1997 Labour manifesto, which led to the UK doubling GDP from 97 to and 2007 and the 2019 Labour manifesto they’re very similar

The bits about nationalising everything were certainly very different so I don’t think this claim holds up to scrutiny.

I also find it interesting that you stop at 2007. What happened in 2008 that might call into doubt Labour’s management of the economy?

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Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? by pjc50 on Saturday December 14, 2019 @12:46PM (#21790809)
> What happened in 2008 that might call into doubt Labour’s management of the economy?

The blowup of Lehman Brothers (US investment bank), ABN Ambro (Dutch bank recently acquired by RBS), Northern Rock (overextended British building society), Kaupthing (Iceland), and Anglo-Irish (despite the name, entirely Irish)? Yes, I'm sure that's all the fault of the Labour government.

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Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? by sweeneyrod on Saturday December 14, 2019 @11:56AM (#21790444)
You're blaming Labour for an international financial crisis?
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Re:What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code? by goatinaboat on Saturday December 14, 2019 @12:47PM (#21790818)
The financial crisis manifested itself in the UK wholly due to Gordon Brown’s mismanagement of the economy yes. A housing bubble and promising the end of boom and bust. Having sold off the gold reserves at a rock bottom price already.

Labour would like their voters to forget it was them who bailed out the banks too.

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