Quote ="DaveO"As to convention you demonstrate your ignorance since both comma and dot notation are valid.'"
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Are you still unable to see the very clear pattern in the deficit from 1991-1996? It increases during the recession, peaks the year after the recession ends and then reduces year on year after that. This pattern continues all the way to the Labour surpluses from 1998-2000.
Comparisons of this period to Labour's overspending from 2002-2007 are simply not valid as the economy was not in a comparable state. It is as meaningless a comparison as saying that Labour ran an even greater deficit for the two years 2008-2009 than in either of those six year periods. Context matters.