I don't disagree with the idea of austerity (though I don't agree it's as necessary as you say), but the Tories' implementation of it. It's not just bad press, it affects almost everyone is society negatively and costs more in every single sector to implement than it saves.So yeah that **** pisses me off. BUT I do agree with their austerity program. Our debt is too high, it is not good. Yes it sucks, yes I hate the cuts to public services, and yes it's annoying that baby boomers enjoyed decades of frivolous public spending and then millenials have to pay it back through year after year of ****ty cuts. But you can't avoid debt, it will just grow into a much bigger problem if we ignore it, and then we'd REALLY have to pay for it.
Restricting funding to the NHS now just costs more in the long run as people go longer without care, increasing care costs down the line as illnesses become less quickly/easily treatable and thus more expensive to treat, which has many knock-on effects in terms of employability, social mobility, and so on.
The prevention of homelessness in provision of social housing and social services is FAR cheaper than tackling the problem of homelessness (which causes increases in health costs, crime (and so policing and court costs), etc.).
A good example is the PIP/ESA/benefits sanction system, which has already cost more to run than it could ever save. It would have been cheaper to let the (grossly exaggerated number of) benefits cheats scam the system to their full ability than to run the entire counter-benefits-cheats system.
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