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)

It will be interesting to see what his lordship claims to have discovered. From what I remember, the facts of currygate were not denied and it all revolved around what the lockdown rules were at the … (View Post)