Cnut: Back to the future, everyone!

Listening to Brown yesterday, so many things reminded me of Harold Wilson's Labour government in the sixties.

(Oh, yes. Actually, Prodicus is even older than that... 465-395 BC)

Harold Wilson and his proprietor, Vic Feather

• State investment bank (Lord Stansgate must be glowing).
• Homes for Unmarried Mothers (Fanny Craddock would approve).
• Technological brilliance will take us forward into the future (Remember Blue Streak? 'The white heat of the technology revolution'?)
• Backing British manufacturing (forgetting that other countries will make it all at lower cost).
• Curing cancer in Our Generation (Brown the Kennedy fan, remembering Jack's Man on the Moon speech...)

An earlier Brown Labour economic genius

Where does he get all this guff?

But wait... what was Dr Brown's PhD subject? Ah, yes. The History of the Labour Party.