Austere Reasoning

So, was it "the Tories", all on their own and without reference to the EU, who caused the austerity in Greece, or the privatisation in Italy, to name but two? 

Was it a fluke that the then pro-austerity Conservatives, the then and still pro-austerity Liberal Democrats, the pro-austerity SNP, and the pro-austerity wing of the Labour Party, all campaigned for Remain in 2016?

Or that the areas that swung the referendum for Leave were the ones that had been hardest hit by the economic policies of the previous 39 years, beginning with the Callaghan Government's turn to monetarism in 1977?

And is it a fluke that the Labour vote in those areas is now in free fall? Jeremy Corbyn's betrayal of the Brexit in which he has always believed has cost him what ought to have been an easy victory over this dreadful Government. 

Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I am standing for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.