Tet wrote: But basically, fuck off with your misinformation and misplaced blame. Why is the economy shit? Why was austerity necessary? Because the last Labour government left it in such a mess. Has it been successful? Absolutely.
Has the debt grown hugely in the last 7 years? Yes, it has. Has it grown by more than it did under every previous Labour government combined? Yes. Why? Because of the staggeringly bad state of the national budget deficit. By definition, the debt will continue to grow while we have a budget deficit. Until we get into surplus, we will have to borrow more money to cover our outgoings.
But bringing the deficit under control is essential. Have the austerity measures achieved that? I think it's fairly obvious that yes, they have. Have the government "completely failed to bring government borrowing and spending under control"? I can't see how anyone can make that claim with a straight face.
[1] No, I'm not entirely blaming them for that. They happened to have the misfortune to be in power during a global financial crisis. Do I think other parties might have managed the situation better? Maybe. But be that as it may, the economy inherited by the coalition was in a terrible state, and that's not the sort of thing that can be fixed overnight.
Given that you acknowledge Labour wasn't to blame for the global financial crisis then it seems illogical to then squarely blame Labour for the level of national debt.
I would question your statement that reducing the deficit is essential - it is important but not essential and could have been done in a more managed, slower fashion ie avoiding the brutal cuts that are going to come back to bite us. The deficit reduction has been successful in reducing the deficit at a time when interest rates are at historic lows and therefore national debt interest payments are far from the highest we have managed (apologies the image below has been cropped at the end missing off showing that debt interest has increased in 2010 and 2011):
Could alternative policies (eg more Keynesian investment) actually have proved more beneficial in the medium/long term.
The real point is that it is a myth that Labour can't be trusted with the economy (and that the Tories are more economically competent/always having to clear up Labour's mess). The Labour Govt post WW2 had to deal with much greater debt and still managed to create the NHS and much of the welfare state.