"Cameron should call in the IMF from Day 1"

[Vague_Boy]

This from Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School:

 

There is a very real danger that [things] could now spiral, Greek style, out of all control if foreign confidence in sterling slumps and long-term interest rates rise. Mr Cameron needs to do two things right away. He must instruct George Osborne to wield the axe ruthlessly with the aim of returning to a balanced budget over a credible eight- to ten-year timeframe.

 

That means not only reversing Labour's disastrous expansion of public sector spending, but also encouraging business growth with incentives to innovate, invest and work. At the same time, he needs to initiate talks with the IMF in case external support proves to be necessary. In both cases, it is much better to act sooner than later. The mess we are in is the result of 13 squandered years in which an unprincipled government frittered away the achievements of the Thatcher era. We are back not just in 1979, but in 1976, the last time the IMF had to bail Britain out as a consequence of Labour's economic mismanagement.

 

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"Crisis, what crisis?"

[matsalleh]

For someone with a lot of qualifications he is making one big assumption.

[Rioja]

Yeah, thats clearly an economic assessment rather than a political assessment :hihi: (He isn't an economist and his views are about equal in this matter to yours and mine)

 

And foreign confidence in sterling tends to fall when um...people are making announcements like the one in the OP.

 

Quite, he's probably speculating on a run on the pound and will make a nice killing out of it.