Can we please put to bed the fiction that things would somehow have been easier had Labour got another term. When Alan Johnson stands up and wails "It's worse than Thatcher!" as he did in the Grauniad the other day ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...atcher-johnson ... all he's doing is echoing Alistair Darling's own concession last March that a re-elected Labour government would have had to have done the same ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8587877.stm
And while I am happy that neither of them is currently the chancellor, I know which one of them I trust with a calculator. And it's not the one that didn't even take a maths O-level at school, much less pass it.