Not so, look at the cost of the GFC (and for that matter, Covid) and none of your solutions would have touched the sides. And as we have discussed last week, the American economy with which we were i… (View Post)

Ah yes, the golden legacy following Conservative economic policy being completely destroyed on Black Wednesday. Not my words – Ken Clarke's. (View Post)

Even if you are right that Brown overspent, it had sod all to do with the GFC; it neither caused nor aggravated it. And of course, Gordon Brown was the last Chancellor actually to run a surplus. (View Post)

I'd like to see it but it would hit the well-paid pundit class. (View Post)

Hubris, but borne of successfully sidestepping the European downturn using counter-cyclical spending. If he'd said, no more normal size boom and busts but if a really big one comes along... (View Post)