Give up the act Nick Cohen: You are a right winger advocating a return the Thatcherism and cuts. If we read a flood of articles we see that massive amounts have been given to "restart lending". But this money that our government has freely given to rescue the richest amongst us could have gone into public services. The austerity programme of the Tories following on (in a worst case scenario in a year or so) is the direct result of this gift of tax revenue to the rich. We know this. Cohen says that the governmet wastes money and there goes the deictic reference to the conventional wisdom the right have put so much money and column inches and air time into building up: that the public sector is inefficient and that, by implication, it should be sold off to the rich to run efficiently for profit. Why should I have to argue against this ridiculous notion: the case for the public sector? Why should anyone have to argue the case for the obvious? It's o...
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