I do not know if Paul Tucker is or not the right man for the Old Lady, but he sure does not seem the right man for Britain.

Sir, you hold that Paul Tucker is “The right man for the Old Lady”, November 16. And though I do not know much about the Old Lady I must disagree, because the last thing I feel that Britain needs at this moment, is someone who quite recently opined that “Stability comes before the good things in life”. 

It was stability searching nannies, with their silly and uncontrolled risk adverseness that made the banks to excessively increase their exposures to what was considered absolutely not risky, “The Infallible” and to doing so, not only causing many safe havens to become dangerously overpopulated but also stopping “The Risky”, like small businesses and entrepreneurs, from having access to bank credit on equal terms. 

You suggest that “the new governor should make room for intellectual free spirits, such as Andrew Haldane”. Though in some ways I have not felt Mr. Haldane yet to be free enough, I wonder why someone like him could not directly replace Sir Mervyn King.