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  GaryC - that is a very weak response.
  
  Are you saying Mrs T reduced prudential oversight of the banks? - the facts, yes facts not opinion, are what disagree with you. Brown was the one who did that when he introduced the tr-partied regulatory system, a fact of history and it was that which set us on the path to the banking crisis and enabled RBS in particular to do what Brown told them, to go out and take risks.
  
  Are you saying that Brown did not set the disastrous inflation brief for the Bank of England? That is a fact of history not opinion. That held down interest rates too low for too long creating the debt bubble - a fact.
  
  Are you saying that Mrs T went on a spending and borrowing spree? The facts show that it was Brown who did so, he increased the deficit during the growth phase of the economy when it should have been closed - a fact born out by history.
  
  Perhaps you are saying she did not establish the first regulation of retail financial services? Well the 1986 Financial Services Act is a fact of history.
  
  Perhaps it is the Thatcher/Waters dispute with Lawson and Major that you think is opinion? No a fact of history.
  
  Gary - economics is my home turf and if your only defence is to pretend facts are mere opinion then you are deluding yourself as much as Labour are trying to delude the electorate.

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