Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at 4:40 pm on 22 June 2010.
The hon. Gentleman has said the word himself, so I will make the same point that I made to Chris Leslie earlier. The hon. Gentleman is just rehearsing Keynesian arguments that died in the 1970s. Even the Labour party in the '70s understood that, to the extent that Keynesianism worked at all, it only succeeded in stimulating inflation. Would he please consider the inflationary effects of the policies that he is recommending?