I have a secret . THE GIRL WAS A MAN . <| sep |> I knew it was going to be her before I even clicked it ! I was thinking about her dead tooth in Saving Grace today lol <| sep |> No one said we were following the policy he put forward , except perhaps the guardian . Austerity is not designed to spur growth , it is designed to pull in chronic deficits . Even if you had pursued larger fiscal stimulus I don ' t honestly believe the debt to gdp level or deficit would look more healthy because global demand and growth has been so sluggish . You would simply have increased debt . I see the argument your making in the long run are all dead but I think people have failed to grasp where such a build up debt leads . It won ' t be paid down easily like the post ww 2 debt people like to quote , the UK isn ' t going to grown at 8 % per annum for 25 years . The only answer is debt monetisation , actually printing money to pay the debt , somthing which is taboo in economic markets so should not be looked at as a quick fix .