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  With all due respect Keith, both Gordon and iDave leave me completely cold.
  
  In the words of Bill Clinton 'It's the economy stupid' and even if Gids (a failed historian) takes over from Alistair (the failed lawyer) it will take more than the inherited wealth from his father's luxury wallpaper company to paper over the cracks.
  
  As Erasmus said 'in the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king', which is why only John Redwood (a local lad, from a council house in Canterbury, who has done well for himself by pure intellect) and the ubiquitous Vince Cable (a grammar school boy with a PhD in Economics) talk anything approaching common sense.
  
  Most of the rest of them do not have enough real business knowledge to run a whelk stall successfully.
  
  Frankly, if you asked MPs for their view on Keynes, most of the Tories would think they were something that one was beaten with at Eton, whilst those on the Government benches would think they were something that their dad put up for his runner beans each year.

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