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What's so wrong with big wage rises anyway?

Iain Macwhirter on the economy

They are very good at telling other people to tighten their belts. All week we've been receiving pious lectures about how Britain must never return to the dark days of the 1970s, when wage claims drove up prices in a ruinous inflationary spiral.