The bankers lied. And Darling, a mere puppet on their string, knows it
Guardian / 11-03-2010
Still no inquiry. Still no answers. A trillion pounds has been devoted over the past 18 months to protect Britain's financial system from alleged Armageddon, with not a murmur of value for money. This stupefying sum is more than has ever been spent on any project by any government in British history.
We know where the money came from but we do not know if it was necessary, nor who now has it. We know only that, a year on, Britain is experiencing a worse recession than any comparable country. The lack of accountability, the sheer lack of curiosity from the political community, is amazing.
The nearest to an explanation came from the man responsible, Alistair Darling, on Michael Cockerell's recent BBC documentary on the Treasury. If he had not acted in October 2008 as he...
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