The British Prime Minister is one of the Stupidest People Alive

[LeftishBrit]

34. Gordon Brown did NOT leave that note

It was Liam Byrne to David Laws. He was being flippant, but in any case he was a disgusting person to do this, because he could have known that the Tories would use it as ammo. But I despise Byrne in any case. All Tory politicians are bad (yes, not as bad as the BNP or UKIP, but that's not a big recommendation for them); but not all Labour politicians are good.

There is indeed a global economic crisis, and there would have been some cuts whatever government was in power; but the Right here have worsened the damage by emphasizing only deficit reduction and ignoring the need for growth; and by their dislike of public services as such. The point is that many of them are strong ideological supporters of cuts and privatization and reduction of public services and 'smaller government' for their own sake. Thatcher et al pursued policies of cuts and privatization and favouring the financial sector at times when there was no economic crisis.

I am not sure whether Cameron himself is a far-right nutfuck, or whether he just wants to be Prime Minister and strut around and look important and therefore he panders to far-right nutfucks. I suspect it's the latter. But it comes to the same thing in terms of policies.