By rights, Gordon Brown should fear this debate on the economy more than any other. Here
are ten questions I would like to hear him answer:
1. You told Gillian Duffy yesterday that
you have a “deficit plan to cut the debt in half over four years.” This was a lie, wasn’t it?
Our debt is £771bn now. Your deficit plan - ie, to run huge deficits for years – will actually double it to £1,406 billion within four years according to the Treasury. The debt for which Mrs Duffy and other taxpayers are liable would double under your plans - yet you told her it would halve. How can you tell a lie of that magnitude, to the very sort of women whose taxes you intend to use to service this extra debt?
2. If someone in the pensions industry had mis-sold a pension, in the way that you mis-sold your deficit programme to Mrs Duffy, would they not go to jail? And rightly so?
3.
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