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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
It didn't come as a surprise to me. I think he came down at the last minute in favour of Brexit as it would further his career, in contrast to people like Farage and Gove who are passionate Leavers.
Like a lot of people in the UK, he was probably not totally convinced of the arguments either way but he made a rationale choice. I don't think it makes him a genius or eccentric, just a politician's politician.
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History now looks more kindly upon Mr Brown as the man who saved us from the perils of the Eurozone.
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I can't speak for 'history' but I'll never remember him kindly.
I remember him as the 'prudent' Chancellor who sold off much of the UK's gold reserves at a rock bottom price in favour of stuff like Euros, who used PFI to keep massive borrowing off the books and whose ineffective financial oversight allowed the UK's major banks to bring the country to its knees. There's a thread about it all around here somewhere so I'll leave it at that...