借贷可以是件好事，根本不存在所谓的“国家信用卡”，而且，正如历届政府所证明的那样，你确实可以逆市而行——安迪·伯恩ham擅长怀旧。他作为首相的第一次党内会议演讲充满了对20世纪50年代和60年代英国的美好回忆，当时工人阶级家庭能感觉到他们的生活在稳步改善。他演讲的潜台词是，只要给予时间，他就能重新点燃这种乐观情绪，让国家回到玛格丽特·撒切尔毁掉一切之前的样子。
Borrowing can be good, there is no such thing as the ‘nation’s credit card’, and, yes, you can buck the markets – as previous governments have shown Andy Burnham does a nice line in nostalgia. His first party conference speech as prime minister was full of fond memories for the Britain of the 1950s and 1960s, when working-class families could sense their lives steadily getting better. The underlying message of his address was that, given time, he could rekindle that optimism and return the country to how it was before Margaret Thatcher wrecked everything.
伯恩ham所说的大部分都是真实的。20世纪80年代是一个去工业化、资产剥离和金融放松管制的十年，这塑造了现代英国——而且并不是朝着好的方向发展。拉里·埃利奥特是《卫报》专栏作家
Much of what Burnham says is true. The 1980s was a decade of deindustrialisation, asset-stripping and financial deregulation that has shaped modern Britain – and not in a good way. Larry Elliott is a Guardian columnist