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Originally Posted by Hom3r
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We're screwed
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Over 13 years Gordon sold off the best part of our gold reserves for peanuts, raided the pension funds and incurred the massive debts we're all now going to have to pay more tax to repay. He set up the flawed regulatory system which allowed the banks to run riot (and almost bring this country down) and built an economy based on credit. Just before it all went pear shaped and his massively remortaged house of cards collapsed, he doled out knighthoods to Fred the Shred, told the City that he wanted to 'encourage the risk takers' and predicted a 'golden age' for the City of London. In what way is he not culpable for the mess we're in and what now has to be done to stop UK PLC becoming Greece?
If the last Tories were so terrible why did he and Bliar copy so many of their 'flawed' ideas on the economy etc. rather than use their massive majority in successive parliaments to get it right and do it better?..
If you're going to carry on blaming Thatcher et al for all our ills don't get upset if in 2023 the rest of us are still blaming Bliar and Brown for what went wrong on their watch and the tough action that had to be taken to put it right.