保守党的成功做成并且做得相当聪明的是说服英格兰人民他们只是在“收拾工党的烂摊子 ” ， 并且，要不是紧缩，英国将“是另一个希腊 ” — —而这正是弗格森的观点。
What the Conservatives did succeed in doing, and doing brilliantly, was to persuade English people that they were only “cleaning up Labour’s mess,” and that, but for austerity, Britain would have “gone the way of Greece” – exactly Ferguson’s view.