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Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014): Catherine Murphy: ...can bear the most pay the most. This is not a just tax system and there is no evidence of the Labour Party in the budget, which is shameful. The response to the budget involves being corralled into accepting that we are where we are. On Saturday I and many hundreds of thousands of people woke up. We are refusing to accept that we are so limited. The debt is the largest limiting factor.
Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: Statements (29 Feb 2012): Catherine Murphy: ...economic situation would cause us to be refused. I use the term, "bailout" advisedly but even after this bailout we will have a debt to GDP ratio of somewhere close to 120%. It is not a case of, "we are where we are", rather we must look at how we got here. It is clear there was major political, regulatory and domestic financial failings but I ask if those failings could have occurred if...

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