Cameron’s government used to claim that its policies would produce a boom by bringing a visit from the Confidence Fairy that would greatly reduce long-term interest rates and cause a huge surge of private investment spending. Now it appears to have abandoned that claim in favor of the message that failure to cut will produce disaster.
卡梅隆政府一贯宣称其政策能够提振信心，从而带来繁荣，显著降低长期利率，促使私人投资支出大量增加。现在，卡梅隆似乎抛弃了这一口号，转而宣称削减支出才是正途。用财政大臣乔治·奥斯本（George Osborne）的话说就是：