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I said that austerity was a word used by the left and BBC. I didn't say they were the first to use it or that they invented it, that would have been that bloke who invented the dictionary.
Ivor, you may be fooling yourself into thinking that you didn't start out flatly denying that the Tories used the term "austerity" to describe their ideology before they even got stuck in implementing it.
But if you think tax cuts and better services go hand in hand keep praising austerity
"austerity" was a word used by lefty marketing types, as it sounds so negative.
Erm it was a tory thing
It was a word used by the lefty establishment to criticise the tory government.
No it was a word used by the tories
Well they deserved to fail if that's true.
But you aren't fooling anybody else.
Remember - when Cameron gave that conference speech, in which he used it 11 times, the Tories were not in power.