You have to cast your mind back to 1992 to remember the last time we went into an election with the economy in such a mess. And you only have to read the latest news from Greece to realise how much of a mess: the UK's budget deficit is 12% of GDP and Greece's is 13.6%. So whoever wins next week's election is going to resemble a doctor in a trauma centre wondering which limb to lop off first.rnThe question that many are asking, including our floating voters (page 28) and much of the British media, is: how are we supposed to choose a government to tackle the deficit when none of the parties will tell us how they propose to do it? As Robert Chote, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, remarked this week: "All three are particularly vague on their plans for public spending."
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