The government is borrowing massively in an attempt to keep itself in with a slim chance of winning the 2010 election. Why do you think many of the mortgage and tax proposals either run until 2010 or start then?
Labour would look at potential ATC disruption through a prism of its GE prospects.
Your tone of indignation/outrage suggests one who is partial to a degree of conspiracy theory in everything.
If they made massive spending comittments that went far beyond their current electoral remit, would you not be critical of that too?
Of course they want to be re-elected. Yes, the current crisis is helping their chances. Why? Because they are actually trying to do what they can to fix it. They might well be p*ssing into the wind... but at least it's better than the standard political huffing and puffing with very little action that we've all become, sadly, used to.