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  The wrong person Brian?
  
  So who was in charge of public spending for 13 years allowing the deficit to rise year after year from 2001 in the part of the economic cycle when it should have been reduced and balanced?
  Who was it who set the brief for the Bank of England for inflation that resulted in interest rates being held down too long too low? Hence the private debt and house price bubble.
  Who was it who reduced tax free saving allowances which, combined with low interest rates, de-incentivised savings?
  Who was it who taxed pension funds and formerly tax free savings also reducing savings incentives and returns?
  Who was it who changed the regulatory system to enable the banks to speculate in the USA and elsewhere?
  Who spoke out encouraging the banks to go out and take risks?
  
  All of these things contributed to the appalling economic conditions we have now on top of the international factors of the cyclical downturn. Mr 'I banned boom and bust' Gordon Brown was that incompetent fool, advised by 'Balls-up'.
  
  This is what people like Reg choose to ignore - the facts speak for themselves and that is why they cannot be trusted with the economy.
  
  That is why Osborne needs to get a grip and cut spending more and to cut taxes.

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