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  'Real terms', Alex, is an elusive concept which bears little, if any, relation to the 'truth' as spouted by the popular media. It is also foreign to the notion that the nation's economic woes can be cured by more public spending and raising income tax rates.
  
  As for Broon, he was not clever enough to have plunged the country into penury all on his own. Ed Balls must share much of the blame for egging him on, and Blair for letting them have their head. It's clear to me what has to be done to stop the rot - broadly as proposed by Barry, modified somewhat by Ross's more centrist views. It's also clear what is stopping it happening - a lamentably weak Tory PM who is in thrall to snake-oil salesmen Clegg and Cable and is unable to control any parliamentary faction bar that consisting of his own fan club.

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