It seems odd that someone of the Left should seemingly defend this government and constantly go on the attack of the ONLY possible alternative to the present government.
However, in answer to your post, yes it is correct that Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling did plan on cutting budgets, they never denied it, and I have not said that they would not have cut spending.
The only clowns who ever suggested that you would not have had to indulge in austerity was the far Left, the Corbynites and the Momentum types.
What Alistair Darling passionately argued for, was for firstly to wait until growth was properly established, and then to indulge in reducing SOME budgets, but not others, and to pursue a debt reduction plan over a much longer time frame than the failed Tory plan.
Those economists who argue that George Osbornes plan was too severe, involved making very deep cuts over an unecessary short period, caused growth to contract, and looking at the facts and statistics, they appear to be correct.
As for your accusation that New Labour were really not that different to the Conservatives, well can you remember the opposition Conservatives voting against a National Minimum Wage ?. Would a Conservative government have introduced SureStart, or universal free bus travel for all pensioners. ?
The Blair government auctioned of the radio spectrum to mobile phone companies and put the money into turning our NHS around, what would the Tories have done with that money ?, probably used it to pay for tax cuts, particularly for the wealthy.
No, me thinks you have a selective memory
