Do Labour’s facts really add up? (From St Helens Star)

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  Sankey wrote:
  

  frankly wrote:
  aye the tories did pick up the pieces in the late 70s early 80s when many of my workmates/friends in this once fully employed town were thrown on the scrapheap..one day Maggie may you rot in hell

  Frankly what happened after the early 80's did the world end? Notice the 26 years of growth that followed seems to have escaped your memory. And why where things so bad in the early 80's? There's a very good programme on TV at the moment about the 1970's I suggest you watch it.

  First i would like to congratulate Labour on a well earned victory in St Helens
  
  Sankey you are always good for a laugh Labour lost in 79 to the Tories remember the famous poster "Labours not working" when unemployment was at 1.3 million within 18mths that had double under the Tories till it peaked at over 3.5 million and billions of oil revenue was wasted in paying dole money .
  
  26 years of growth WHAT my memory certainly doest remember that ,it remembers the recessions in the 80's,90's recessions so big that with out a banking collapse GDP was higher under the Tories then it ever was under a Labour govt that the family silver "privatisation" of state assets and oil revenues were wasted to plug the lost in tax revenues with millions of people sat on the dole .No money to spend on the NHS ,education ,environment , but one thing did happen as is happening now the rich got richer as they attacked the poor people of society to give to their rich friends
  
  I ask people don't believe what people like Sankey say ,Labour for years for had to defend this type of propaganda from the Torie media ,with the internet the truth is out there .Look up the data
  
  Data provided by the IFS
  
  http://www.guardian.
  co.uk/news/datablog/
  2010/oct/18/historic
  -government-spending
  -area#data
  
  The data above makes a mockery that the Tories are good with the economy .
  
  He will accuse me now of posting links but the Institute of Fiscal Study can put the facts better then i can with out a bias opinion"
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