Even the IMF says austerity doesn’t work. It’s the zombie idea that will not die | Phil McDuff

Politicians say that it’s sound finance, when in fact it’s a tool used to demonise immigrants and profit from ‘working-class concerns’
A few weeks on from the general election, and David Cameron has been disinterred to say giving public sector workers pay rises is the height of selfishness – while Theresa May is back to harping on in prime minister’s questions about the debt left by the last Labour government. It’s apparently 2015 all over again.It&rsquo