In an anonymous comment from this post on Guido Fawkes's website, provided links to HM Treasury website.
Gordon Brown's 1997 Budget Statement -
"I will not allow house prices to get out of control and put at risk the sustainability of the recovery."
Oh and this as well:
Pre-Budget Report, 9th November 1999 - "Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past."
Budget Statement, 21 March 2000 - "Britain does not want a return to boom and bust."
Pre-Budget Report, 8 November 2000 - "So our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the...the old boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 7 March 2001 - "Mr Deputy Speaker we will not return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 22 March 2006 - "As I have said before Mr Deputy Speaker: No return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 21 March 2007 - "And we will never return to the old boom and bust."
"I will not allow house prices to get out of control and put at risk the sustainability of the recovery."
Oh and this as well:
Pre-Budget Report, 9th November 1999 - "Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past."
Budget Statement, 21 March 2000 - "Britain does not want a return to boom and bust."
Pre-Budget Report, 8 November 2000 - "So our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the...the old boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 7 March 2001 - "Mr Deputy Speaker we will not return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 22 March 2006 - "As I have said before Mr Deputy Speaker: No return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 21 March 2007 - "And we will never return to the old boom and bust."
All the links to the HM Treasury website now produce the following error message:
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Guido himself posted: "No More Boom and Bust" Double Plus Ungood Malquote. The post is still visible on my RSS Reader, but the link to the post itself produces a "Page Not Found" error.
Is this the hand of Mandelkidneyston at work, supressing all negative reportage? Is the Labour Party so desperate to change the received wisdom that if all references are removed from the internet and public domain, that they think a) we won't notice that Gordoom is lying through his teeth, b) we are so stupid as to believe that Gordoom is the saviour of us all, and c) that of we can't find any references to past speeches we will believe that they never happened.
Maybe in Gordoom's mind they never did.
Update: Fortunately, the Times has not fallen foul of Gordoom's alternative reality and has listed Labour references to "no more boom and bust"



