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What we're really curious about is the "real answer".

I think bashing religion (not believers)

"make fun of people who think different and don't pick on people who share your beliefs".

Might want to brush up on your English comprehension.

Some people such as students find that zero hours contracts are actually a very good way to earn money, without being taken away form their studies.

Wonder how happy those students will be working on zero hours contracts after graduation.

Apprenticeships may make it seem like unemployment is down, but they're a poor replacement for actual jobs, a way of undercutting minimum wage (the minimum required to live on) and a way of subsidising costs for large multi-billion pound corporations.

Focusing on the deficit and debt at a time when our GDP is down is just bad economics. We need to borrow money to restart the economy. Not cut the GDP even further. Debt should only become an issue when the economy is good. Trickle-down economics and austerity experiments have failed time and again.

The growth is deceptive as the UK isn't really doing that well in comparison to other countries like the US and France. It's easy to use GDP growth to create a misleading view of economic development. For example, a poor country with a GDP of $2k can easily "beat" the US and Germany in GDP growth if it's GDP rises to $4k.

The deficit is just the amount by which the government's revenue is below it's spending. Most people don't understand that. Deficits can be and have been easily manipulated. The deficit was increasing since the coalition government took power, but fell the very quarter before the election, which is what the media obligingly reports.

Poor countries can have a low deficit, it just doesn't mean much.

The tories only focus on deficits/debt because they want to use it as an excuse to cut public services. They've manipulated the deficit because it's easy to cheat on and makes them look good to people too clueless on economics to know better. It's the usual conservative tactic, cut until the service can't run properly and then claim it's a failure of the public sector and announce privatisation.