When a Government spends more than it collects in taxes, it has a choice. It can practise austerity or go for growth. Some of those who now criticise the insistence of the EU – or rather the eurozone states – that Greece must endure another round of austerity if it is to receive yet another bail-out loan, are among those who approve of George Osborne’s austerity policies here. Among those indeed are some who insist that he hasn’t gone far enough quickly enough in order to cut the deficit and prevent the national debt from continuing to rise.