So what's Mr Darling guilty of, exactly? Nothing – but that won't help him survive. Besides, it's the Bank of England's job to keep inflation down. ![]() Inflation way off target? Blame the Chinese for consuming all that oil. The collapse of the Government's fiscal rules? Mr Brown spent too much, recklessly so during the boom, a time when he should have been building up the public finances "for a rainy day". The abolition of the 10p rate and other various botched tax rises? Mostly pre-announced in Mr Brown's Budgets. Northern Rock? A consequence of the credit crunch, qv. The credit crunch? The inevitable corollary of a credit boom, left undisturbed to run its delusional course by former chancellor Gordon Brown. ![]() Losing the data discs? Not a single case of fraud has been reported. There's plenty that has gone wrong at the Treasury since Mr Darling took over a year ago, but not much that can be blamed directly on him, poor man. Alistair Darling always reminds me of one of those contestants on The Apprentice, the type who are sensible, who never do anything wrong and whose team leader regularly lets them down – but who you know is going to get fired by Sir Alan Sugar.
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