Financial Disasters

[dang65]

Why does the list suddenly jump from actual accidents involving machinery and mechanical failure, to a completely unrelated and random comparison with public spending - no other examples of which are included in the list? There are loads of other examples which would completely eclipse any of GB's spending, however shocking that may be.

[Mich the Tester]

Why does the list suddenly jump from actual accidents involving machinery and mechanical failure, to a completely unrelated and random comparison with public spending - no other examples of which are included in the list?

Because Gordon’s pocket calculator failed. It couldn't handle more than 9 digits and when Gordon saw the result 'E' in the little LCD screen after totting up revenues and subtracting expenditure he thought it meant 'Excellent!'

[TimberWolf]

'Someone or other' said we owe more now than after the second world war (although no doubt that isn't in real terms). And we paid that off quick enough, well in 60 years or so. Are we still paying for the Spanish Armada, i.e. the public debt?

[EternalOptimist]

Why does the list suddenly jump from actual accidents involving machinery and mechanical failure, to a completely unrelated and random comparison with public spending - no other examples of which are included in the list? There are loads of other examples which would completely eclipse any of GB's spending, however shocking that may be.

It's called guilt by association.
'Look at all these blooming disasters - hey wait - Brown is a blooming disaster as well.'

just think, if we had stuck him on piper alpha, it would have been more profitable for the country to blow it up than to let it pump oil

[Churchill]

'Someone or other' said we owe more now than after the second world war (although no doubt that isn't in real terms). And we paid that off quick enough, well in 60 years or so. Are we still paying for the Spanish Armada, i.e. the public debt?

We're still being taxed for the Napoleonic war...

Income Tax was announced in 1798, and introduced in 1799, as a means of paying for the war against the French forces under Napoleon.

[OwlHoot]

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Made for a profitable film though, which is more than can be said for the Snot Goblin.
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Lew Grade would have been fuming. After his famous flop "Raise the Titanic, he quipped "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic!"

[Doggy Styles]

Lew Grade would have been fuming. After his famous flop "Raise the Titanic, he quipped "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic!"

Are there any proper characters like Lew Grade running TV these days?