EVERY week on Prime Minister's question time, Tony Blair says he is not going back to the days of boom and bust.

With interest rates killing off the export market and redundancies and short-time working now common again, can we assume he is just going for the bust?

I, for one, could do with just a little bit of boom!

SAM SPENCER, Ribblesdale Place, Blackburn.

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