It was the soundbite of the chancellor's dreams. The head of the IMF said that when she looked back at the UK's deficit in May 2010 and imagined there being no plan to reduce it "I shiver".
This came after Christine Lagarde had backed "the policy mix" ie the combination of government tax and spending policies and the Bank of England's interest rate and quantitative easing policies.
I took the latest from Lagarde as basically saying she knows how special and awesome the stupidest fucking guy on the face of the planet, George Osborne, really is, but, maybe, really, please, fix your economy.