But I do know my economic history, which means that I know how often governments refuse, sometimes for many years, to do the obviously right thing
Which is why it\’s always so puzzling hearing you talk about all the other and more things that government should be doing said wrong things about.
“But I do know my economic history” may mean ‘I’m happy to dip selectively into economic history in hopes of cherry-picking evidence to support my latest contention’.