Cameron and George Osborne can hardly turn with scorn on Labour's spending, because they have promised to match it. Did we hear a cheep from either about house prices being too high, or people borrowing too much? Cameron, moreover, was inside the Treasury and the Tory policy machine when the last boom-and-bust moment happened. And he can hardly pose as a reborn fiscal conservative, a stern Thatcherite de nos jours, when he's spent so much time distancing himself from the old bat - sorry, glorious helmswoman and saviour of the nation.
... the brutal truth is that, if we are entering a time of financial instability, the likeliest political winner remains Brown. It should encourage an election this year, or in the spring. Because if your pipes are blocked, you call for the plumber - however you curse him - not the interior decorator.
Feel free to add your own metaphor about what happens when the drains are blocked.
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