Gordon Brown - gone!

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Matblack

And with all that in mind, (global melt down) actually, and many people would probably want to burn me at the stake for this, Brown didn't do a bad job

Brown certainly didn't do a bad job after the **** hit the fan. Before? He caused a good deal of the problems we've got now. UK economy was doing really well 2002-2006, yet he was still running a budget deficit. WTF? If you don't pay off debts when you're doing well, you're ****ed once the wheels come off - and that's exactly what's happened.

Indeed, GB said this himself in the early years, as well as the later classic 'end to boom and bust'. Then there's the housing bubble, the banking bubble, and so on. Of course, he did 'fix' the NHS, which was desperately needed, so it's far from all bad.

Apparently the gap between rich and poor has widened continuously since the 80s, probably even the 70s. That's both Tory and Labour covered then.

I'm prepared to give the Liberal Conservatives a chance. Indeed, it was the result I'd hoped for. Consensus politics FTW. Undoubtedly it'll hit me in the pocket, but that was to be expected.