Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

I'm no economist, but they keep pouring cash "we" don't have into banking, to keep prices high, and keep the upper levels of banking people earning a fat wage. We're skint, spent up, they're rolling a snowball uphill and the hills getting steeper.
A cynical view would be that they know they are getting the boot next election... so if they make the situation REALLY unpleasant for the next lot, they stand a chance of getting back into power next time...