Spiked Online: Call this a recovery?

The New Labour government’s authority and credibility may appear to be in ruins on every front from Afghanistan and Megrahi to expenses and education. But never fear, prime minister Gordon Brown has a cunning plan for a successful fightback. He is apparently planning to ‘seize back the political agenda with a new focus on the economy’, confidently pinning his hopes of victory in next year’s General Election on evidence of a recovery. As one headline puts it, ‘Economy is on the mend, says Brown, and we did it’.So, never mind that Brown was Tony Blair’s chancellor through the decade that stored up the problems which exploded in the credit crunch.