[lbo-talk] Britain's failed experiment?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 09:55, James Heartfield
<Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> It’s a mistake, by the way, to equate government spending with socialism, or progress, or human welfare. A great deal of UK spending is on the military, the police, jails, subsidies to businesses, landlords and banks (pfi, ‘quantitive easing’ etc).

It would be great if you supplied numbers from official sources to
back your claims (ie lack of higher welfare spending than in the
Thatcher years).

FC