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  Peer Steinbruck, who is the German finance minister from the Social Democrat member of their coalition government (not a Conservative) has commented on Brown's economic policy most unfavourably. In fact Brown has had a lot of digs from the German media of late and I am sure his latest faux pas will be played over there too.....
  
  Anyway to quote Mr Steinbruck.
  
  "All this will do is raise Britain's debt to a level that will take a whole generation to work off"
  
  He goes on to pour water over the whole Keynseyan fiscal package that Brown has produced. He also said: "When I ask about the origins of the crisis, economists I respect tell me it is the credit-financed growth of recent years and decades. Isn't this the same mistake everyone is suddenly making again, under all the public pressure?"
  
  There you have it from a leading European left winger....

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