Yes, well, they did screw the pooch over the whole Northern Rock mess. That said, imagine what things would have been like if Darling had allowed Carclays Capital to buy the almighty mess that was Lehman Bros?Yes, Osbourne might have done something really ridiculous, like guarantee the deposits in Northern Rock, and stop it collapsing so badly it needed nationalising. Thank Christ we had Brown to sort that mess out
What if that had been reality? Would capitalism or free enterprise still exist?