Not perhaps my most inspired prediction ever, but I did tell you that last night's debate would not feature a party leader admitting to the scale of the current economic crisis or the enormity of the measures needed to deal with it effectively. And in case anyone thinks I am exaggerating or scare-mongering, read what Bank of England Governor Mervyn King and the Institute for Fiscal Studies have to say on the subject.
So what do you think, given that none of them can be in any doubt as to the enormity of the situation? Do they know what they will have to do, but are too scared of the electoral consequences of telling us, or do they not have the faintest idea how to cope with a crisis of this magnitude? Let us hope for all our sakes that it is the former, as in this case at least dissembling would be preferable to incompetence.
Mark Simpson
30 April 2010
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