Gordon Brown’s Labour Party, of course, paid a high political price for allowing the perception to be created that his much-touted commitment to “prudence” was only skin-deep. And the fate of Greece, which for some ten years has endured the longest recession ever to hit an advanced capitalist economy, provides another salutary lesson. More @Wikipedia
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