到了20世纪70年代，这一套办法终于给英国带来种种苦果：国际收支经常项目下不可持续的巨额赤字、高涨的通货膨胀水平以及在当务之急问题上的政治死结。
By the 1970’s, it had brought to the United Kingdom large and ultimately unsustainable current-account deficits, high levels of inflation, and then political gridlock over what to do.