The " I am the Greatest" World Tour

drc

mewbie wrote: »

GB is desperate to be seen as a real player, rather than the psycopathic loon that TB kept in check for a number of years. Flying all round the world for a succession of photo ops that just show how he and his wife don't quite have the Obama look to them.

I think you've hit on something there. Our PM needs to see a shrink. It's quite scary to see this utterly delusional man is such a position of power (and unelected to boot). Someone please get the men in the white coats and tell them one of their patients has escaped!

vivatifosi

I'm offsetting my frustration at the cost of his jetting off with my sheer joy at the fact Crash is getting economic lessons from the Latin Americans.

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2727306020090327

StevieJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm offsetting my frustration at the cost of his jetting off with my sheer joy at the fact Crash is getting economic lessons from the Latin Americans.

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2727306020090327

I bet ole Gordon has blue eyes as well

cocktail

you forget that he is trying to save the world.

Generali

StevieJ wrote: »

I bet ole Gordon has blue eyes as well

One blue eye wasn't it?

Martinslovechild

My own belief is that Gordon Brown knows that the cost of sorting out this mess will be a lot less if he's able to convince other nations to stimulate their own economies at the same time. Stimulating the British economy in isolation will bring only short-term benefits and will cost a lot more in the longer-term.

Personally, I don't really think he's fully thought this through. Gordon's likely betting that the recession will be a short but deep one, whereas many economists and so-called experts are betting that the downturn will last for a period of several years, and in some cases the majority of the next decade.

Gordon and Alastair keep reiterating that they must do whatever they can because to do nothing would be far more damaging. However, I believe that one of the biggest concerns which most people have is that it's our money and the money of future generations that's being used to bail out the banks - the very same banks who then refuse to lend it back to us in the form of small business loans & mortgages. Many people will likely feel very angry when their business goes under because of short-term funding issues and then when they do start earning, their National Insurance contributions have increased to help pay for it!!

ricll

mardatha wrote: »

[...] to places that have nothing at all to do with the UK, ( Chile and Brazil, for goddsake ) ...

i'm brazilian you see, don't know what mr Brown was doing there either, our president doesn't speak a word of english (he can't even speak proper portuguese for that matter, but that's another story). :beer:

dealsearcher

This is taken from another thread but it is relevant here. If you think Gordon's financial stimulus idea is good then take a look at this:

http://www.europac.net/Schiff-MSNBC-3-25-09_lg.asp