I always think of this when people want to let Labour back in, the party that literally left a note saying "there's no money left".
Proof decades later that regardless of party, people vote for who they voted for regardless of how shit they've been before.
The bit at the end is a perfect denouement.
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Oh that note again...
It’s actually a tradition for outgoing chancellors to leave notes like this for their replacements.
I expect Theresa left one for Boris too, on the lines of “sorry, there’s no majority left”.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 1 Nov 2019, 15:27,
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Leaving a note for successors may be traditional, the puerile and irresponsible content was not.
Liam Byrne, who left the note, was never chancellor.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 1 Nov 2019, 17:34,
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Irresponsible only in the sense that it gave the tories political fuel
Despite the fact that such notes are good humoured jibes between rivals and not meant to be used for political purposes
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jonbob loves you, Fri 1 Nov 2019, 17:37,
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You really don't know what you're talking about, just making up bullshit excuses for shitty behaviour.
You thought the note was from an outgoing chancellor FFS.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 1 Nov 2019, 20:08,
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So I did.
In fact he was chief secretary to the treasury. I still fail to see what was so reprehensible about it, beyond the political fallout.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 1 Nov 2019, 23:20,
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One reason for that
is that there is not a party that has any chance of being voted into power which is not shit.
It is all down to which kind of shit you can bear swallowing.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 1 Nov 2019, 15:40,
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Do popes film scat with bears?!
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 1 Nov 2019, 18:17,
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They had just bailed out the entire UK retail banking sector
because the yanks had fucked the world over with their sub-prime mortgages - so there is that. That's where the money went in case anyone is interested. It wasn't an orgy of brand new libraries, minimum wage, bursaries for nurses, student fees and more bobbies on the beat. It was greedy Tory bankers who bled this country dry and they're at it again with Brexit.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 1 Nov 2019, 16:40,
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That's ridiculous. Nobody thinks the crash was caused by Wolverhampton having too many libraries. What they do think is that the government of the day was recklessly handling the budget in times of plenty, which bit us in the arse when the economy tanked through external forces.
The economy was a bubble. The money wasn't siphoned off, it literally didn't exist in the first place.
The money that supported the banks protected your savings, your mortgage, your pension, and very likely your job. It has also largely been repaid.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 1 Nov 2019, 17:56,
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