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    Brian - where do I start?

    The Pacific rim, the Americas, northern Europe? take your pick.

    To be fair more will have a deficit now, years into a recession than did at the start of the recession and that is the whole point. The irresponsible countries carried on building up deficits in the growth phase of the economy when they should have been balancing the books.

    Norway, even now has a surplus, back in 2010 it was about 10% of GDP.

    The UK economy at that time had 13.3% deficit. This was the largest inn the OECD with the next largest deficit to us being Ireland at about 12.2%. Greece incidentally was a bit over 9%.

    Such is the scale of the problem - the massive UK deficit did not include Brown's off-balance sheet fiddles either.

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