Waiting for the Etonians: Reports From The Sickbed of Liberal England - Nick Cohen

Do you remember what life was like before the crash?

• When level-headed couples were still taking mortgages five times their joint income.
• When the middle class was divided between the haves and the have yachts.
• When Her Majesty's Government boasted that their 'light-touch regulation' of finance had abolished boom and bust, and laughed hysterically at anyone who disagreed.

By Christmas 2008, eight banks had been part-nationalised, Woolworths had disappeared, unemployment had reached nearly two million and the country's debt had hit record levels. We are now a bankrupt nation.

After the Great Crash of 2008, Americans could at least blame an incompetent right-wing government. But when the money ran out, Britain was ruled by left wingers who had grown up despising the 'funny-money' men. And yet, like the most gullible investors on Wall Street, New Labour prostrated themselves before the snake oil charmers of financial capital.

ISBN: 9780007308927

Pages: 383

Trade paperback

4th Estate, 2009

Good condition; cover has some creases

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