Britain best placed to weather the Recession in 2008

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ATL: 2008 The British Prime Minister boasted that Britain was best placed of all the developed nations to weather the recession. And unlike OTL he was right.

Here is the story of how it all came to pass. And how life is unfair. And most particularly how Politics is the most unfairest of all.

1992. "F*cking Ingrates all of them." John Major thought the microphone was turned off, but the British electorate heard what he really thought of them though he later claimed he was actually saying "Fucking Great Alison" after listening to a performance of "All Cry out Loud" by Ms Moyet after consuming Six cans of Special Brew.

Kinnock got in with a majority of 23. Tarzan Heseltine won the Tory party election and Major was condemned to a life of vagrancy until he sobered up and joined AA six years later. By then of course Thatcher was back in power.

But how did it happen? Read on for more details...
 

hammo1j

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1992: Michael "Tarzan" Heseltine smoothed his mane and admired himself in the mirror. At last the Tory leadership was his. But the main prize remained.

Still, better to Reign in Hell than Serve in Heaven.

At least Labour was keeping the the plot and going with the Euro like Maggie would have never done. He would vote with them in the Commons tonight to join the exchange rate mechanism. It was rumoured that Chancellor John Smith would be back to lead the vote after his heart bypass operation which had been needed after a routine scan mandatory for ministers had revealed the problem.

1994: Labour slump in the polls to a new low after interest rates hit 21%. Smith had declared that speculators such as George Soros would never win.

He did and Labour's economic reputation lay in tatters.

Tarzan pulled out more loose hair from his failing, greying mane. He knew it was the intolerable stress of the job. Stress made 100 times harder by the fact that Labour were running a series of Posters that showed which way Heseltine had taken the Tories over currency convergence.
 
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