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Time for one of my apologies for a blogging drought again today.
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Just time to return to Andrew Marr's latest programme and bring out something I should have brought out more fully on Sunday. I mentioned that Marr often says nice things about Alistair Darling to Alistair Darling (and via him to us the voting public)
http://beebbiascraig.blogspot.com/2010/03/marr-on-very-biased-form.html
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The specific compliment that Marr keeps on giving Mr Darling is this: "You famously gave a gloomy but accurate account of what might be coming ahead of the recession as it was about to hit us and you were pretty much proved right..."
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How different this is to the lesson drawn by Alex Brummer The Daily Mail:
Indeed, a consistent theme of Darling's budgets has been his rose-tinted economic forecasts. The most misleading occurred in the spring of 2008 when he predicted only a minor downturn. In fact, Britain and the global economy was heading into the deepest slump since the 1930s.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1260470/Budget-2010-Smoke-mirrors-politics-spite.html#ixzz0jAbeodAt
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Mr Darling smiled appreciately at Andrew Marr's latest paean to his wisdom and foresight, as well he might.
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