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I'm getting more than a little issed poff by politicians telling me there is no alternative to the cuts because we have a really really bad debt situation. It's not that bad. Really bad is Ireland, or Iceland, Greece, Spain, Portugal... I'm thinking Japan's problems maybe consist of something containing the words 'really bad'. We're just a wealthy country that owes a lot of money because it stupidly rescued a load of banks that would have been better off left to go broke.

Of course the problem with that is that innocent people like us, and me in particular, have money invested in them. There used to be a safe bank owned by us, via the government, but Thatcher privatised it, leaving us with no choice but to trust the market. She also deregulated the banks which is why they were able to get into the mess in the first place. Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?

So now there the coalition are, telling me that there's no alternative, invariably followed by their assessment of what Labour would have done, had they remained in power, so my question is this...

If Labour wouldn't have done the same thing as the government is doing, doesn't that make it an alternative?