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The Tory Legacy
A massive Black hole has now been discovered in the UK economy..After the Tories went dancing and skipping over the sunny uplands with their pockets full of taxpayer cash. Now the truth is coming out.After Labour have discovered a whopping great £22 billion hole in the economy left by the Tories plus public borrowing was at a record high under the Tories ...Thank god the public woke up and smelled the coffee on july 4th.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It's quite obvious that Labour are not telling lies about this £22 billion Black hole in the economy that came to light after just a couple of weeks in power.No incomoming Govt could ever spend that much money in just a few weeks. Not even a Tory govt could ....but they would have a bloody good try.
I didn't intend to come back to this thread seeing as the OP is gulliver who seemed concerned that it had gone off topic but I realised he does that all the time on other threads and therefore I will take a leaf out of his book.
I wasn't involved in Operation Grapple which was the UK's atomic testing but was there in 1962 when the Americans "borrowed" Christmas Island. ( now called Kiritimati in the Gilbertese language. ti together is pronounced as s, so KiriSimaS is the closest they could get to Christmas). It was called Operation Dominic and over a period of four months the Americans dropped or fired 36 bombs and missiles, with 24 of them dropped south of Kiritimati. Our protection was 1 pair of thick black goggles that we couldn't see the sun through but when the bomb detonated everything was as clear as day. The American Government have paid out many thousands to any person who was there, military of civilian, American or British who developed cancer. The British governments, both Labour and Conservatives, constantly deferred payment , seemingly cynically withholding it until everybody involved died. The Labour statement I referred to was different in as much as they mentioned exposure to nuclear radiation and not just those with cancer. Out of about 20,000 military personnel eligible for compensation, there are an estimated 1500 of us left. As I said in the letter, time is literally running out.
Apologies to gulliver if he's still annoyed.