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Summer of Unrest: The Debt Delusion: Exposing ten Tory myths about debts, deficits and spending cuts
 
 

Summer of Unrest: The Debt Delusion: Exposing ten Tory myths about debts, deficits and spending cuts [Kindle Edition]

Mehdi Hasan
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Britain in 2011 is in the grip of debt hysteria. If the current coalition government is going to be remembered for one thing it is the cuts: the most severe that this country has seen for decades. Cuts to university funding, libraries and public sector workplaces have seen the most high profile resistance, with the type of protest on the streets not seen since the Poll Tax riots and the Thatcher years.



In this ebook, Mehdi Hasan exposes ten myths about the debt, deficits and spending cuts, and asks if this programme of austerity is really necessary or whether it is actually an economic strategy with its roots in an ideology that extends much further back in time than the global economic collapse of 2008.



BRAIN SHOTS is the pre-eminent source for high quality, short-form digital non-fiction. The Summer of Unrest series brings together stellar writers to explore the issues surrounding the austerity measures in the UK, uprisings in the Middle East and the nature of the protest movements springing up all over the world.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 145 KB
  • Print Length: 36 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage Digital (28 July 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005E87CHC
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #30,877 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Well presented, informative read 9 Jan 2012
I bought this book because a) I have a gnawing suspicion that the government and the popular press is possibly not giving us all the information about the current economic state and b) it was cheap and short.
A previous reviewer castigates the author for not expressing his own opinions which seems unfair as it seems to me that that is not the purpose of the book. I appreciated the quotes from those more learned than I that gave another side to the argument, and was pleasanty surprised to learn that indeed there is in fact another side to the argument. If you`re tired of hearing millionaire Tory ministers tell us that we`re all in this together and that there`s no other solution, this will set you thinking. And that`s good, isn't it?
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read 24 May 2012
By Al2
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Personally I had picked up this book expecting an insightful analysis into the economics surrounding the financial crises, however this book focuses more on the political aspects surround the decision making. None the less, I was pleasantly surprised.

The book provides an interesting deconstruction of the myths and deecptions around the decisions made in Whitehall and helps the reader understand the disconnect between what Politicians say and what they mean, do and even aim to acheive.

My hats off to the author who has continuously managed to astound me with insight and perspective.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What the politicians aren't telling us. 18 Feb 2013
By elzG40
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An antidote to the 'propaganda' that keeps getting spun on TV and in the papers. Some very illuminating facts about and figures the financial crisis. How big was the mess that Labour left the Conservatives to clear up? The confusing language being used by the present government to hide what's really happening to the National debt.

Don't believe everything you read in the papers, this little book helps put the financial crisis in to perspective and shows George Osborne to be financially illiterate or a bare-faced liar. Do your research and then decide.
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‘Insanity,’ as Albert Einstein is said to have once remarked, ‘is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.’ &quote;
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Labour didn’t overspend. This is the laziest of the deficit hawks’ myths, easily belied by a glance at the figures. In 2007/08, before the banks collapsed, net debt was down to 36.5 per cent of GDP, compared to the 42.5 per cent that Labour inherited from John Major’s Conservatives in 1996/97. Britain under the ‘profligate’ and ‘spendthrift’ Brown had the second-lowest debt of any G7 country. &quote;
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Britain’s total tax revenue as a percentage of GDP stood at 34.3 per cent in 2009. This is far below not just Denmark (48.2) and Sweden (46.4) but Italy (43.5 per cent), Belgium (43.2 per cent), France (41.9 per cent), Luxembourg (37.5 per cent) and Germany (37 per cent) and at almost the exact same level as in 1990, when Margaret Thatcher left office. &quote;
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