Good article - makes the situation very clear to me.
Sackerson | Homepage | 09.17.07 - 7:20 pm | #

I wonder if the darling cheque book would have appeared had it been a southern bank with no labour seats around it?
mitch | 09.17.07 - 7:36 pm | #

This will be the opportunity the Labour reactionaries have been waiting for, take Northern Rock into Public ownership, and while they are at it Alliance and Leciester too. How about calling the new entity ¨Giro-Bank¨? Who knows they might even run it from Postoffices.
APL | 09.17.07 - 7:58 pm | #

For master economists Brown and Darling no price is too high to prop up the miracle economy of 5.4 million unemployed and debt-driven inflation that is currently masked by the strength of sterling.
Tony Makara | 09.17.07 - 11:00 pm | #

Alistair Darling has got his hands dirty for the first time, but I think he might have a little trouble washing his hands of this mess after making such guarantees.
Letters From A Tory | Homepage | 09.18.07 - 10:59 am | #