Spineless politicians still refuse to explain how they would tackle the deficit


My expectations of politicians, those “insidious and crafty animals”, are low. (Like Hayek, I find that over the course of a long life they have steadily gone down.) But in this general election campaign the performance of all three main parties has still managed to disappoint. They have refused to spell out in any detail how they propose to eliminate the huge government deficit, which is unprecedented in peacetime.



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