Gordon Brown's 10 worst financial gaffes

**Cyberman** · 24 June 2009, 12:12

I could have written that myself. His incompetence knows no bounds and unfortunately he has made us all a lot poorer.

**Fred Bloggs** · 24 June 2009, 12:15

10? Don't they mean more like a 100 or 1000?

**bogeyman** · 24 June 2009, 12:15

Oh God!

I'm almost (almost) beginning to feel sorry for him.

He is so inept. So awkard. So crap at everything. Wrecks everything he touches.

He's the boy you never chose when picking sides for football.

He's the boy who could never assemble his Airfix Lancaster Bomber kit.

He's the boy you didn't want tagging along with the gang when you were going to your secret den in the woods.

Poor old Gordon.

I'd quite like him if he wasn't such an arrogant, pig headed megalomaniac.

**Doggy Styles** · 24 June 2009, 15:44

And still people say he has a great intellect!

Surely this is impossible given his incompetence.

**Bunk** · 24 June 2009, 15:51

I thought this would be funny but it's actually just depressing

**Bunk** · 24 June 2009, 15:53

Originally posted by bogeyman View Post

Oh God!

I'm almost (almost) beginning to feel sorry for him.

He is so inept. So awkard. So crap at everything. Wrecks everything he touches.

He's the boy you never chose when picking sides for football.

He's the boy who could never assemble his Airfix Lancaster Bomber kit.

He's the boy you didn't want tagging along with the gang when you were going to your secret den in the woods.

Poor old Gordon.

I'd quite like him if he wasn't such an arrogant, pig headed megalomaniac.

That's what Guido refers to as the curse of the one-eyed son of the manse. He's got a knack of jinxing anything he touches.

**bogeyman** · 24 June 2009, 15:58

Originally posted by Bunk View Post

That's what Guido refers to as the curse of the one-eyed son of the manse. He's got a knack of jinxing anything he touches.

It's Sarah I feel sorry for. She, no doubt, has to sooth his fevered brow. Listen to his rantings and ravings. Say the right thing and stand by her man.

Sounds like a Herculean task to me.

Poor woman.

**Doggy Styles** · 24 June 2009, 16:01

Originally posted by Bunk View Post

I thought this would be funny but it's actually just depressing

That was exactly my reaction when I drew up a similar list a little while ago. Funny at first, then realisation that many of his changes are so deeply embedded, and have done so much damage, that we'll be stuck with the effects for decades.

Take pensions. 12 years ago UK private and company pensions were solvent and the envy of most countries. Now look at them.

**Cyberman** · 24 June 2009, 17:00

Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post

That was exactly my reaction when I drew up a similar list a little while ago. Funny at first, then realisation that many of his changes are so deeply embedded, and have done so much damage, that we'll be stuck with the effects for decades.

Take pensions. 12 years ago UK private and company pensions were solvent and the envy of most countries. Now look at them.

The really sad thing is that people have continued to vote for this destructive party despite widespread information available on the damage to pensions, economic health etc over the years. It just shows that democracy does not work in creating prosperity whenever Labour get voted in.

IMO there should be some sort of aptitude test before an election to determine whether a person is fit to vote.... perhaps five simple questions on a voting slip that even an imbecile can answer... if they fail then the vote is void.

Labour voters certainly have no right to complain about banks, pensions, immigration, wasteful public spending and the debt situation. They voted for it !!

Gordon Brown's 10 worst financial gaffes