Brown Abandons the One Million Britons Stranded Abroad.

[IainBusby]

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.

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.

[Dedworth]

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.

We can soon see what slant Alistair Campbell and the Daily Handwringer put on it

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.

Yet another process he is careful to distance himself from and deny any involvement. He refused to admit any responsibility for the economic crisis yet is very happy to brag that he's not only leading Britain out of it but the rest of the world too.