The general perception is now that the crash, which Mr Brown so cleverly managed, was all the fault of the Greedy Bankers and they ought to be given a BankerSpanking like on Deal or No Deal. Sir Fred is the worst offender, of course.

Wasn’t the crash really all about a rapid excess of government borrowing to pay for the burgeoning state coupled with personal borrowing to max on the credit cards? Sooner or later, of course, the bills had to be paid. Now we are still borrowing money in the form of rapidly expanding QE. The banks have drawn in their horns and nobody knows exactly how much they are in debt themselves.

Gryff Rhys Jones, that hilarious comedian, had an angry rant about this on Question time last night.

Meanwhile, as you prove above, the government is pretending to deal with the crisis while allowing the debt and deficit to creep up.

I just cannot understand why the people in power do not just lift the regulations, reduce taxes and stand back to let the machine roar back into life. It is all there ready to go and they are standing on the brakes.

People can have as many children as they like providing they are prepared to take responsibility for them. The Government cannot expect companies or business to have to take the burden for those who take extended time off for maternity and other needs of their children. This is also unfair to their colleagues who have to pick up that work when they are missing.

Anon it is not a narrow view there is much resentment going on in the work place over this issue.

Bazman being poor is not an excuse, my Mother and Father were very poor as you would see it. They both worked and had four children to provide for. They juggled work so that neither took time off. When we were young my Father worked days and my Mother worked nights.

People need to take responsibility for themselves not expect businesses and the State to do it for them.

They are not doing this.

Meanwhile Ed Balls is promising long life, health and prosperity if and when he gets elected. and the boundaries are fiddled in his favour too.

I have already answered you on the lack of skills issue. Asking the same question will not produce a different answer. State education will have to improve to give young people at least the basics to be able to take a job. Private companies cannot afford the time or the cost to educate the young to the standard required.

Did anyone ever take any blame in the state sector – or loose their bonus as private industry collapsed all around.

The private sector cannot grow with the lack of demand, the bloated state sector on its back, absurd employments laws, expensive “green” energy, an inefficient and expensive legal system, silly regulations everywhere, bank not lending and pulling back and a complete lack of vision from Cameron. Labour to return shortly too it seems. Also a clearly anti-business business secretary.

Why would people want to invest in the UK given all this.

The central banks are even now making a far bigger mistake than they made previously. They have caused massive govt bond price inflation. This is not measured in their basket. When that bubble bursts there will almost certainly be an instant hyperinflation. The central bank socializes risk. It mis prices money. It is a central planning cartel. Free markets cannot operate with this quango.

Get rid of the central bank. You cannot reform it.

If Mr Brown had not been “investing” so enthusiastically, people and businesses would have had more of their own hard-earned money left, and would not have taken on so much debt. Nor should he have been allowed to believe that he had “ended boom and bust”.

You would have thought that Mr Osborne would at least try to learn from recent history, and reduce spending….

Good to know. Probably should print some money to celebrate, a hundred billion seems a not unreasonable sum.