Big Graeme wrote:It was also used to finally finish off paying the USA our war debts, something that governments of both hues shamefully neglected.
Lets get this straight, before the banking system imploded the state of the nations finances was as good as it has been since WW2.
35 quarters of consecutive economic growth - a record.
I'm getting mighty tired of the Tory front bench moaning about how bad things are here when we are quite obviously in far, far better shape than most of Europe bar the Germans. And the Germans will be just a fooooked as anyone else when the Eurozone goes into serial collapse and their nice little earner blows up in their face like a cheap inflatable love toy from a Hamburg sex shop.