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[expat]

I truly believe that he, among others in his cohort, are at the core of most that is wrong with this country; that he is a criminal and those crimes include treason against the people of the UK; and that he should be punished for those crimes and that punishment should be Capital.

OK, I'll buy it: what treason? Taxing you?

[Cyberman]

Tired old tune now. Who would you rather have had in charge during this global economic crisis?

Or do you believe that Gordon Brown caused this global economic crisis?

Or do you just dislike him because of some things that you don't like, so, like a petulant infant, attribute all evil to him and by extension good to anyone else.

Pathetic.

Our pensions would certainly be worth a lot more, 170 Billion pounds according to latest estimates.

[Bagpuss]

Our pensions would certainly be worth a lot more, 170 Billion pounds according to latest estimates.

I wish you could go back to a time before the internet

[stackpole]

Tired old tune now. Who would you rather have had in charge during this global economic crisis?

Or do you believe that Gordon Brown caused this global economic crisis?

Or do you just dislike him because of some things that you don't like, so, like a petulant infant, attribute all evil to him and by extension good to anyone else.

Pathetic.

Global problem? If I crash my car into someone I'm not absolved of blame if we were BOTH speeding.

I can't agree with you there expat. The BoE used to monitor and supervise bank lending. The government took that job away from them a few years ago, supervision became weak or non-existent, and bank lending started to go mad. That was down to Gordon.

Instead of saving lots of money during the better times to pay for the rainy days to come, the government went on a spending spree, ran up a large deficit, and now has ballooning debt. That was down to Gordon.

The government announced a fire-sale of our gold reserves, which bottomed out the market, then sold the gold at the new knock-down prices. That was down to Gordon.

The man is incompetent.

Bailing out the most vulnerable banks was the only possible action, and yet he had to be browbeaten into it after provaricating for weeks.

He's now on a world tour trying to attract inward funding. I dread to think what sort of a deal he is getting for the British taxpayer.

[AtW]

Or do you believe that Gordon Brown caused this global economic crisis?

Yes, Gordon Brown played a big role only for UK to be in deep tulip with his debt bubble - what he should have done is ensure that UK has got low debt levels and lots of savings it would have allowed UK to go over the crisis much easier and might have allowed to buy some cheap industries when prices are low. It was criminal mismanagement that house prices were allowed to baloon like they did in the last few years, that Northern Crocks in this country were giving 125% morgages while Brown was the Chancellor - the buck for economy stops with him, there is no other person in the UK who was in position of responsibility during this time.

[AtW]

The man is incompetent.

I think he knew what he did. He just wanted to be PM too badly, so he opted the risky path of fking up the country he was in chance of in order to get the position he always wanted. That is worse than incompetence, he had a motive to do it.

[EternalOptimist]

I think he knew what he did. He just wanted to be PM too badly, so he opted the risky path of fking up the country he was in chance of in order to get the position he always wanted. That is worse than incompetence, he had a motive to do it.

you mean....he did it right, to achieve his goal?

he's competent

must go for a lie down in a darkened room

[HairyArsedBloke]

I think he knew what he did. He just wanted to be PM too badly, so he opted the risky path of fking up the country he was in chance of in order to get the position he always wanted. That is worse than incompetence, he had a motive to do it.

Am I agreeing with Atw; or is he coming to his senses?

[stackpole]

I think he knew what he did. He just wanted to be PM too badly, so he opted the risky path of fking up the country he was in chance of in order to get the position he always wanted. That is worse than incompetence, he had a motive to do it.

Sorry Alexei, I don't believe that. He has spent the last 11 years as a man out of his depth, playing with the levers of power.