Letter: Lend us a quid?

Alistair Darling wrote at length, telling us how austerity was not the way forward (Perspective, 18 May).

What he did not address was where the money would come from to support economic development (in public projects, we presume).

Is there anyone out there now who will lend money to countries which they know will never be able to repay them?

Derek and Kathryn Sharp

Edinburgh