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Originally Posted by jfman
Would we have weathered it though? Probably not. It's just twisting reality for a cheap, and easily rebutted, party political point.
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Well, clearly, we wouldn’t have been down by so many billions had we been able to draw on our gold reserves and balances, so austerity measures would have been considerably less impactful, and maybe not necessary at all, had Gordon Brown not frittered away our money.