Labour had forty consecutive quarters of economic growth whilst maintaining low inflation,
low interest rates and low unemployment. Which other government has ever achieved this? We have since had six quarters of negative figures due to a worldwide recession followed by a return to growth.

Borrowing always increases in a recession. Gordon Brown's early years as chancellor saw him reducing the debts that escalated during the recession of the early nineties.

It is simply incorrect to suggest that the Labour government has presided over years of famine.

That said of course, the election is about the next five years not about 1997.
(Cave Duck, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 18:26, Reply)