Phew – Thank you Evan Davis for restoring some sanity ContractJournal
I freely admit this is an indulgent blog and rather outside what I see as my scope, but I felt an obligation to make some points on the subject of the attacks on Alistair Darling and to record a thank you to Evan Davis of the BBC for saving me time in expressing many of my concerns (not that he was or probably is aware of my concerns).
I had been fearing that I was alone – and perhaps misguided – in my assessment of the holiday outpourings of Chancellor Alistair Darling that appeared in the Guardian.
I had been of the view that the Government had, up to that point, been either underplaying or was simply blissfully unaware of the scale of the potential economic problems we face. Admittedly, the strength of my views may be partly down to the housing industry – a sector I cover – being at the centre of the storm. Read the rest of this entry »
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