Gordon Brown has that sinking 1970s feeling

The Times
"It feels grim. Britain was supposed to have said goodbye to the cycle of boom and bust and to have left behind damaging and disruptive industrial relations. Both have returned. Labour has taken us back to the 1970s in the crisis it has created for the public finances and it is taking us back to the industrial anarchy of that era. That is why people are heartily fed up with this government. And they are right."