What has poor old Gordon got right?

[Doggy Styles]

Minimum wage.

I remember the days of people getting paid £1 per hour, security guards, Hair Dressers, etc. If i was on the dole and was offered a job for £1 an hour what do you think i'd do?

Yes, that's not a bad one.

It's still not high enough for some people though. Except Poles.

[Doggy Styles]

The VAT Flat Rate Scheme.....that's it, nothing else!

Surely accountants benefit from Tolley's Guide being twice as big as when he started?

[expat]

UK should have joined euro from start, that would have prevented huge house debt bubble and also raise in costs due to devalued pound when the rest of Europe gets deflation.

You are just not getting economics UK style:

1. huge housing bubble is good, it makes people feel rich.
2. huge debt is good, it keeps banking profitable.
3. huge house price crash is good, it helps first-time buyers get on the ladder.
4. devalued pound is good, it helps exports.
5. price increases are good, it makes people work harder.

In Britain, everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

[OwlHoot]

Minimum wage.

.. If i was on the dole and was offered a job for £1 an hour what do you think i'd do?

Go straight back to it?

[BrilloPad]

Gordon was good at making Tony Blair look a good prime minister.

[adestor]

**** all, that's what.

[BrowneIssue]

What has poor old Gordon got right?

He managed to become Prime Minister by hereditary means.

Ironic he should now be dictating to the Windsors the gender & religion of their hereditary followers.

[BoredBloke]

UK should have joined euro from start, that would have prevented huge house debt bubble and also raise in costs due to devalued pound when the rest of Europe gets deflation.

It didn't stop the house debt thing in Ireland

[Doggy Styles]

It didn't stop the house debt thing in Ireland

AtW puts me in mind of someone who'd like everyone on his street to give away their houses and live in a commune.