This phrase was first used on posters and “buttons” in all of the offices where Bill Clinton’s staff worked during the 1992 election campaign. It was a reminder to them all that whatever they talked about internally during the campaign the issue that worried the American people was the economy – and that given the importance of talking to the electorate about the things that worry them it’s stupid not to recognise that.
This week’s events – bringing in it the first use of the failure regime for an NHS hospital for the South London Health Trust – leads me to start a series of occasional Friday posts concerning the economy and its impact on the NHS.
