Thus, he compares 2.6% growth in 2014 with the 4.3% contraction in 2009, which he describes as “the last full year of Labour government” – as though Labour policy produced the collapse in growth. Similarly, “At no point after May 2010 did [confidence] sink back to where it had been throughout the last two years of Gordon Brown’s catastrophic premiership” – as though the Brown government’s performance caused business confidence to collapse.
弗格森的狂妄有一个令人沮丧的方面，那就是他根本没有意识到大萧条对政府表现和商业预期的影响。因此，他将2014年2.6%的增长率与2009年4.3%的衰退相比较。他称2009年时“工党政府的最后一个整年”——好像工党的政策导致了增长崩溃似的。类似地，“自2010年5月以后，[信心]从未跌回戈登·布朗灾难般的首相生涯的最后两年的低位”——好像是布朗政府的表现导致商业信心崩溃似的。