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Gordon Brown is an economic genius. Discuss.

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  • Jennifer_Jane
    Jennifer_Jane Posts: 3,237 Forumite
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    Martin must despair when he sees these kinds of posts. Children! Children!

    Listen to yourselves. You add nothing to any debate and it's just all about your stupid little egos.

    Get a grip all of you.
  • mbga9pgf
    mbga9pgf Posts: 3,224 Forumite
    Martin must despair when he sees these kinds of posts. Children! Children!

    Listen to yourselves. You add nothing to any debate and it's just all about your stupid little egos.

    Get a grip all of you.

    To be honest, I think its time that uncle martin did the decent thing and pull the plug on this forum.
  • Hair_Bear
    Hair_Bear Posts: 49 Forumite
    Everyone would just move to the House Buying, Renting and Selling forum then so what would be the point in doing that.
  • Entertainer
    Entertainer Posts: 617 Forumite
    When I hear the left playing class war politics and describing Cameron as an Etonian toff, I wonder how this relates to Tony Blair, who went to the Scottish Eton and yet got the full rock star treatment from you all and won three elections. Not to mention the fact that half the cabinet went to private school. Why is this? Is it because rules apply differently to the left?- like the way Labour recessions don't count because they feel your pain (exclusively).

    Darling not Brown deserves credit for the bank bailout and quantitative easing, both of which had cross party support and were inevitable. It is a shame they did nothing for fourteen months and waited until the global economy was on the brink of collapse before they acted. Any fiscal simulus, which is more contentious, has been marginal in it's effect, it is macroeconomics and monetary policy, as usual, which rules.

    How can Brown preside over this avoidable, predictable disaster and still expect to come out ahead and personally vindicated? Is that the state of personal responsibility in this country right now?
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Darling not Brown deserves credit for the bank bailout and quantitative easing, both of which had cross party support and were inevitable. It is a shame they did nothing for fourteen months and waited until the global economy was on the brink of collapse before they acted.

    H

    Wait a minute what about the clowns in Euro land, how long did it take them to act :eek:
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • neas
    neas Posts: 3,801 Forumite
    OP is that you mr gordon brown? :P
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Wait a minute what about the clowns in Euro land, how long did it take them to act :eek:

    That's a distraction. The UK had specific problems that could have collapsed the whole UK banking sector. Thats what we are now going to pay for.
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