The story tells itself

Just read it.

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Angela Eagle): The Liberal Democrat motion has been much commented on, possibly because it reads like the storyboard for “Apocalypse Now”, or perhaps even “Bleak House”. According to the motion, we are facing an “extreme bubble in the housing market” and the “risk of recession”, and we must “act to prevent mass home repossessions”.

(Commons, 2 April 2008 3:45pm, Hansard)

With due credit to Liberal England.

(I really must get back to theo-blogging, but I'm not quite done with A Better Way yet. I'm sure that when I am, there'll be some thoughts fizzing around which need dealing with.)