the financial crisis was so bad, hyperinflation, the effects of the oil shock thatjimmy ca rter�*s government struggled, ultimately unsuccessfully, with. you came back in the 1990s, when the blair government came back in partially in a wave in reaction to the crisis in the pound under the tory government of 1992. is there a way back? if there is, how painful do you think it will be? out of the picture - we have heard from our two colleagues... what i've heard from i the trickle—down doom, when you juxtapose it to the celebration of. the queen's era, which has just happened before, - and suddenly we are back in. the dregs of national malaise. it is quite a shock. i've experienced this shock several times before. - there is a pattern to. this, when it happens to the party in power. sure enough, that signals| their doom down the line.