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)

Should it? Running a surplus is rare enough to be noteworthy. (View Post)