Does the government know what it wants?

Behind all the noise as the bankers met the politicians last week to discuss the mortgage crisis lies one, simple, unanswered question. What do we want to happen here?

Behind all the noise as the bankers met the politicians last week to discuss the mortgage crisis lies one, simple, unanswered question. What do we want to happen here? Until this is clearly answered, and action taken, the unsatisfactory dialogue will continue and the process may drift along, without ever quite getting there.

One thing is clear. This government is equivocal about the whole thing. We know what it doesn't want. It doesn't ...