Daniel Hannan is a very clear thinker.
"Without any alternative narrative to explain their present discontents, Europeans blame the downturn on ‘cuts’, ‘bankers’ and ‘deregulation’. The politician who tries to point out that spending is massively higher than it was three years ago, that we could expropriate every banker entirely and still make barely a dent in the national debt, and that financial services are perhaps the most regulated sector of the economy, is liable to have…"