Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
No doubt Iain will be pleased to give us the official politburo line on the crucial role Gordon Brown played in leading Europe out of this crisis.
No I won't be doing that because unlike both yourself and the DM, I see absolutely no benefit in distorting the facts just so that they appear to justify my own political beliefs.

Quote Originally Posted by Dedworth View Post
There I was thinking Pa Broon was a gutless, indecisive, bottler unable to take decisions
The decision to ground planes was not Gordon Brown's so I would be very surprised if he tried to take credit for getting them back in the air.