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Yes Ive heard this 'poison chalice' notion mentioned John and indeed it is. Whoever wins, and it looks more and more like a coalition will run things, but it will be a miserable time of government. Cuts aplenty, which really equates to massive job losses, savings on waste ,which really amounts to more massive job losses, higher taxes across the board, which will mean yet more job losses because nobody will be buying anything in the shops, so demand will slump...austerity will rule and the population will be disgruntled and get even more fed up with politicians. So yes indeed, not an election to win.
When the Tories used the term 'age of austerity' they were essentially right, but immediately upon presenting us all with such a grim prospectus...their poll ratings hit the buffers, so they stopped using the term and their poll rating recovered somewhat. We expect it will be austere but clearly we dont want to hear about it.
