What ever we may think of Gordon Brown Prime Minister he does appear to be quite a survivor but in many ways he does remind me of a captain on a ship that has lost control of its steering,navigation,sonar and radar systems and is in thick fog.
There are rocks and even Icebergs ahead but the Ship continues at full speed.
Captains of industry shout warnings but as always Gordon Brown knows best and his ship seems to continue at full steam ahead.
He is a Captain who has survived three serious mutinies from his own crew members and was able to continue to sail on more than what Captain Bligh on HMS Bounty could do.
He did unleash the forces of hell on Allistair Darling who was onlytrying to do his job.
His record as Chancellor will probaly be judged as one of the worst if not the worst since the end of WW11.
I have absolutely no doubt that he helped to create the most serious recession in the UK since the 1930's.
He relaxed the banking controls and before we knew it local authorities and police pension funds were investing in unknown Banks from Iceland.What a farce.
On 10th March 2010 he gave a speech in the City of London.
In this speech he invited the country to trust him to see the UK through the current turbulent economic storms. He has to be joking as all the problems have arisen under his watch or should I say lack of.
Whilst he has great resilience, a brass neck and lead armoured underwear his biggest failing (of which there are many) is his failure to accept one jot of responsibility when things go wrong (and inevitably they do who ever you are) whether they be of a military nature, the recession or the break down of social fibre in society you can guarantee he will not take responsibility for anything.
Having said this though I undersand that on Television he is going to admit that he failed to supervise the banks properly and that he made a mistake in cancelling the rate of income tax at 10 pence that he had introduced.
There are considerbaly far more mistakes than just these two.
Absolutely amazingly before the Chilcot enquiry he seemed to say that when he sat in the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer he never had any real input or idea into the funding of the British Army who were at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. What was he doing then. Certainly not his job as any prudent chancellor would want to know exactly what was going on when a country is at war. How else could he control or monitor expenses and funding.
Who exactly is he trying to kid?
If he is really saying that he merely sat in his office and did not get off his chair to ask or seek the information that he would need to know to do the job properly then clearly he has to be a mouse and not a man.
Or is he saying that his predecessor Tony Blair when Prime Minister ran the government in an autocratic way and if so then again Brown was a mouse not to be able to -stand up to Blair for information.
Just look at the upright character of Alistair Darling the successor to Brown as Chancellor who has had the gumption to stand up for his own views against Brown and I have to admire him for that. He does show that there is at least one member in the Labour cabinet who is not a mouse.
Brown when Chancellor clearly failed to fund the war in Afghanistan and Iraq adequately.
I know full well that he said before the Chilcot enquiry that all urgent requests for funding were met and at the same time the defence budget was increased by 1 or 1.5 % in each year. Again he completely misses the point he must think we and the British Electorate are fools.
He fails to understand that in a war the budget has to be ramped up not just kept to minimal increases.
He has subsequently admitted that the information he gave to the Chilcot equiry was flawed in that in real terms the funding had not increased every year as he had claimed
If he had provided the funds the back log of helicopters so badly needed would be in service NOW and not still on the order book equally with the armour plated vehicles.
The question is very simple would Brown go for a drive in a Snatch Land rover the vehicle that has been nicknamed a "mobile coffin".
Can any one really believe that Gordon Brown is for Britain.
A future fair for all. Is this some kind of Fun Fair Fit for a Fool.
What about your poor record.
Gordon Brown states that he is in the future business well he certainly has not been very clever business in the past as he allowed Police pension funds and Local Authorities to Invest in Icelandic Banks.
Gordon Brown is a Financial Fool. He is the only Prime Minsiter to ever give incorrect figures to a Tribunal. Remember he was the Chancellor of the Exchequer so you would hope he would get the figures correct.
