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Local MP Greg Barker said:
"It’s rather pathetic that instead of facing up to the huge problems that they themselves created, the Labour Party appear to now be in total denial about the deficit and just want to play old style political games.
Even Alistair Darling himself admitted that Labour overspending meant that they would have been forced to make tougher and deeper cuts than Margaret Thatcher.
The point I was making to an American business audience last week, during the British trade mission that I led to the USA, was that the savings and cuts that we are now being forced to make are even larger than those undertaken when Margaret Thatcher had to pick up the pieces after the ruinous Labour government of the 1970s.
But the good news is that because we are getting to grips with the largest deficit in Britain's peace time history, international business can look to invest again with confidence in the UK, as we start back on the road to growth and recovery.
I know these are still difficult times are for my constituents in Bexhill and Battle, but the honest truth is that if we don't take steps now to live within our means, we'll all end up paying higher taxes or making deeper spending cuts just to pay off Labour’s debts."