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Brown calls crisis meeting tonight

Well hopefully the dithering will stop and some major decisions will be made to stop this crisis. The meeting starts at 5pm, will be interesting what steps will be made.
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  • benood
    benood Posts: 1,398 Forumite
    You don't think Brown's meeting is a substitute for doing something do you? He seems to have been doing little else for the last few days.
  • opinions4u
    opinions4u Posts: 19,411 Forumite
    Doomed.

    We're all doomed I tell ya!
  • Birdie100
    Birdie100 Posts: 81 Forumite
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    It's all very well all these meetings, but I fear that Brown will simply tonight be discussing the fact the British banks' share prices are falling so considerably. I doubt very highly he will become involved in anything to do with Icesave this evening.
  • Barneysmom
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    Mad Hatter's Tea Party. It'll all be more of the same.
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  • cheekykid
    cheekykid Posts: 262 Forumite
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    I would hope that today they will increase the protection limit to something closer with that of the USA. I believe for UK standards 50k is hardly enough. Am sure "many" people have much more than that
  • XXXX
    XXXX Posts: 157 Forumite
    Over the last 11 years sitting in Downing Street, what else did Brown do apart from bankrupting the British economy?:confused:
    Vodafone sucks. :mad:
  • Caudle
    Caudle Posts: 92 Forumite
    If Brown and co think that their actions (other than the order to print more money) are going to have any significant effect, they will be deluding themselves.
  • Is Gordon Brown defecting to the Conservative party? He is doing a good job of making sure they win the next general election.
    Iva started Dec 2018.
  • bazster
    bazster Posts: 7,436 Forumite
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    Is Gordon Brown defecting to the Conservative party? He is doing a good job of making sure they win the next general election.

    I thought he was in the Conservative party?
    Je suis Charlie.
  • Is Gordon Brown defecting to the Conservative party? He is doing a good job of making sure they win the next general election.

    To be honest I would vote for the Raving Loony Party if they were still in operation as they can't do any worse job than Labour has. Mr Brown has been way too slow in dealing with this crisis and instead waiting for financial system to be looking into the abyss before even stepping forward.We elect politicians to take action, not to just talk about it and then hide under the bed, hoping it will all go away.
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