Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Are the general public warming to Gordon Brown in his handling of the financial crisis? Discuss | |
Posted by: | Colin Jordan | |
Date/Time: | 12/10/08 08:39:00 |
"In short the blame lies with those who allowed the financial systems to be as they are" This would appear to me to be Gordon Brown and his government, since they are the people who make the rules that allow bankers, speculators, dealers, spivs, call them what you will, to behave as they have been doing for some time now. In addition to which, in his ten years as chancellor, Brown spent his time ingratiating himself with the city so that he could turn up in parliament once a year and brag about his fiscal brilliance. I would concede that previous governments have some responsibility, but Brown's mob have been in charge for eleven years now, and there comes a point in any government's tenure when it can no longer keep saying, 'It's all the fault of our predecessors,' though to be fair to Gordon, he does use a slight variation: 'It's all the fault of everybody else.' |