I think with the factual data I provided, my subsequent bit of minor literary hyperbole made a valid point without ever entering the realm of dishonesty since hyperbole is not intended to be taken literally and therefore is not dishonest.
Even so, austerity (the heart of the Tory platform) has since been utterly discredited, the studies it was based on was proven to be severely flawed (and in one cause completely fraudulently made up), and it has slightly less support left among practising economists in academia than creationism has among practising biologists. In fact Paul Krugman said of it "It is rare, in the history of economic thought, for debates to get resolved this decisively. The austerian ideology that dominated elite discourse five years ago has collapsed, to the point where hardly anyone still believes it. . Hardly anyone, that is, except the coalition that still rules Britain" (2015 - Tory Coalition).

This is now the most debunked theory in all economics.