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^The country is in a mess because of Labour and Gordon Browns fiscal irresponsibility. The Government has a budget deficit of around £150 billion which is almost unbelievable and has to be addressed. Failing to do so would see an enormous increase in bond yields as we couldn't convince investors that we were capable of dealing with our debts and the loss of the AAA credit rating which would push up interest rates throughout the whole economy.
I don't agree with everything that has been done and think that quantative easing is both an incorrect and immoral policy but to blame everything on David Cameron (or Nick Clegg) is absurd.^
No, the country is in a mess, like most Western governments, for a series of complicated reasons having to do with the financial crisis and subsequent recession. That coupled with the fact that median wages have been stagnating for three decades, so people took on debt in order to cope with rising living costs.
Nobody is blaming Cameron and Clegg for the deficit. The deficit crisis (in all countries) is the result of the financial crisis being turned in to a national debt crisis. This happened because the financial crisis caused a recession in many Western countries (lowering tax receipts and increasing welfare payments) and because tax payers bailed out the banks with trillions of dollars.
What Cameron and Clegg can be blamed for is the mishandling of the economy since they came to power. They have put in place ideological cuts something that the Tories have always wanted to do anyway and made the deficit problem worse by putting a dampener on growth.
Since the crisis, various EU countries have recovered to a slight extent in terms of growth, but the UK has performed one of the worst, with almost no growth year on year since 2008.