I'm not at all impressed by Gordon Brown's performance as front man for the UK in general, but apart from severely mis-judging the public mood on several occasions and having to backtrack on decisions he made and stuck to for far too long, most of what he has done has been right, especially with regard to the current economic crisis which was caused the banks making risky (mostly on sub-prime motgages in the US) investments. The rest of europe and the Americans followed where he led and if you watched the program "The Love Of Money" http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ust_the_World/ on the BBC recently you would have had that explained to you.Originally Posted by Dedworth
Tripe ! who is responsible for the present round of Boom & Bust and mismanagement of the economy for the last 12 years - step forward Bottler Brown ?
Will you start the ball rolling with a list of what can be "sold off on the cheap" - after he flogged off the gold reserves there's nothing left.
Come to think of it the UK Border Agency might be worth a few quid if privatised and they would be kept busy for decades if the new Government has the balls to sling out the dross Labour has allowed to enter and remain illegally.
As for your obvious preference for the tory party, I can only say that you must have been either living abroad or on a parallel universe to the rest of us during the 80's and 90s when the tories were last in power. If I'm mistaken and you were actually here in the UK during that time, then I think you either have a very short memory or are suffering from selective amnesia.
Iain.
