Going quite well, eh, Vlad?

• The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

• The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

No, no. Not my own. Lenin's.

Oh look. Here's a thing.

Lenin biographer, James Maxton. Maxton biographer, Gordon Brown.

Yes, the very same, nationaliser of Britain's means of exchange, debaucher of Britain's currency by devaluation and the accumulation of historically unprecedented debt, tax-and-spend waster of the nation's resources without precedent and midwife to our now rising inflation, mentor of the world's - especially the EU's - governments on the management of currencies and world economic governance.

Hard man Vlad's softlee-softlee Fabian children must be so proud.

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