Despite Gordon’s whining to the EU it is now the case that Irish banks now represent the safest place to deposit money in Europe, with a AAA guarantee from a country with the lowest national debt to GDP ratio of any AAA country. Thanks to Gordon’s prolificacy Irish commercial banks are safer than even the Bank of England.

UPDATE : Lots of whining in the comments about this, so may as well mention that WPP is joining the taxodus and leaving Brown’s Britain and re-domiciling in low tax Ireland.

UPDATE October 2010 : This is quoted at Guido on a regular as some kind of evidence of terrible analysis. It is the case that Irish bank paper became safer in 2008 than any other European bank paper once the state guarantee was in place. The question that should be asked: Was a state guarantee a good idea? The impairment this has now brought to Ireland’s sovereign credit rating suggests not.