to (plan) b or not to b

Saturday 5th November 2011

An informative “breakfast briefing” I chaired looked less at a nominal “plan b” that everyone agreed would be the ideal way to go, and more at whether, given the uk’s huge debts and intense global macroeconomic twitchiness, it could be carried out without dire consequences. Conclusions, if such they were, that unfortunately growth spending needs carving from current spend, and that there’s nothing new under the sun, as this excellent video showed...