Recession In the United Kingdom

On February 10, Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families of the United Kingdom, said that "I think that this is a financial crisis more extreme and more serious than that of the 1930s and we all remember how the politics of that era were shaped by the economy."[184] On January 24 Edmund Conway, Economics Editor for The Daily Telegraph, wrote that "The plight facing Britain is uncannily similar to the 1930s, since prices of many assets - from shares to house prices - are falling at record rates [in Britain], but the value of the debt against which they are held remains unchanged."