If looked as if Alistair Darling were stuck on a groove on his Sky News interview. Michael Howard was famously asked the same question 13 times – Darling seemed to give the same answer as many times. I suspect his message was programmed by No10 because it has Brown’s fingerprints all over it. Here’s that message – repeated ad nauseum.
“People are feeling the pressures, but it is driven by the fact that food world prices are up by 40% and oil has doubled in the last year. That’s feeding through. The key is we take action to reduce these oil prices and get lower prices at the pump, lower prices at the supermarket.”
There are three elephants in the room, trampling on his argument:
1. We’re paying more because of the Black Wednesday-style slide in sterling since Brown came to power – our currency plunged by 15% to 20% against most others (bar the dollar).
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