Sarah Greene would get it. Till it fell off.

Edited by Part Time James (08 Dec 2016 6.57pm)

Your first bit isn't helping your argument.

Have you ever had builders in? Bleedin' useless most of the time. And I always fix my own computer, it usually just takes a bit of patience. In fact I built my main one.

I think expertise has to be weighed and the level of bias considered. In this case, people are too keen to panic, especially Remainers.

Sure, so how do you about that, that's what I wonder.

The reason why I alluded to the project scenario is that Ministers will have a diary stuffed full of meetings and I doubt they have got much time to identify the people who have good advice and separate them from the charlatans.

Good for you that you can fix your machine, one of the general themes is that the last 20 years has seen an explosion in information thanks to the internet. It's made it much harder to be sure what you're doing any more, and I think the uncertainty that creates is one of the undercurrents related to the votes for Brexit and Trump. People feel baffled by the technocrats, I know I do.

I remember reading a passage about a frustrated manager. Wanted his team to give their views on the important financial data. General silence resulted, but when the meeting moved on to biscuits suddenly everyone had a view.

I was really commenting on your point about Italy being saddled with more debt - which I couldn't see.

QE is not a panacea for bad debt though - it's a liquidity tool.

I still don't understand how QE can impact bad loans in Italian banks. I could understand if the Italian Gov. wanted to pump in some capital, but it's against the rules these days isn't it?