Orwellian?

Published: 29 July, 2010

• IN your Comment , (Labour need a moral compass to steer past cuts, July 22) you suggested that it was “Orwellian” to argue that the previous Labour government were “the authors of the crisis”.

You forget that it was the Labour government that failed to regulate the banks and rocketed up unprecedented debts in the years before the bailouts.

They got us into this mess, and as ex-Labour minister Lord Myners has pointed out, there was “nothing progressive” about accumulating a record public debt!

Yet even while it was borrowing and spending huge sums the government still withheld the much-needed cash for improving Camden’s council homes. Don’t hold your breath on Labour finding that ‘moral compass.’

ROCKY LURUSSO
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