Praise the Gord

Well you'd have to be a religious nutter to still trust in that moron....

One of the conditions of the bank bail-out was that "The availability of lending to homeowners and small businesses will be maintained to at least 2007 levels".

FFS - he never learns, does he. WTF does he think caused the problem in the first place?? He was also trying to talk the housing market up by claiming we've failed to build enough houses.

Is he really that desperate that he thinks his only hope of winning the next election is by trying to re-ignite the housing bubble?

The collapse of the bubble wasn't the problem, the problem was the bubble itself, which to a large extent was caused by his policy of setting the BoE an inflation target (CPI) which specifically *excludes* housing costs.