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Thiemo Fetzer

a more important point.

There was a notable realignment of public spending along the divide. As we know why this is so (votes).

Public spending became massively more .

Money was shifted from the current working population (in work benefits), the future working generation (education), to, well, "the past" (pensions).

I am not saying that the State Pension is super generous, far from it, but to claim that there was no austerity is just disingenuous.