which is alistair darling interview britain was two hours away from total social collapse former chancellor on the crisis that erupted five years ago this week said so here's the chancellor of the checker at the time alistair darling and again this is just like these going back to the tony blair era where we were forty five minutes away from saddam hussein nuking us and wiping us away and here we have what reminder of alistair darling saying we are two hours away from societal collapse over in the u.s. we had hank paulson former goldman sachs c.e.o. saying that there would be revolution in the streets if you guys didn't pass tarp so deja fraud what's sad about the alice are darling quote that the world is two hours away from massive meltdown that what's sad about that quote is what really. we should understand is that we were two hours away from having some accountability in the banking sector early two hours away from having honest accounting for two hours away from getting rid of the bad actors and the massive fraud in wall street the city of london we're only two hours away from having a