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2014 is a forecast not a result, which takes us back to looking at 2007/8 to 2012/13 which is what I based my comment on. Given that there was such a massive spike from 2008 up to 2010 I assume that it was due to the borrowing around the financial crisis, in which case shouldn't it have come...

Please could you provide a link to these figures? Everything I can find (e.g. the OBR's own numbers) suggests that the deficit for 2013 is significantly higher than that for 2008.

And yet the UK signed up, and didn't stop Romania from signing up. So you can hardly say that they were surprised when something they agreed to allow happen did happen. (Not sure where 'similar pay conditions' came from, first time I've seen that in this thread).