Come on Mervyn, lighten up.
It might never happen. Hardly a week passes now without the Governor of the Bank of England making an apocalyptic forecast about the economy: comparing the recession to "another Second World War"; warning of "black clouds of uncertainty" on the horizon; and putting the frighteners under MPs on the Treasury Select Committee by announcing this week that the recession is only half-way through.
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