Did my ears deceive me, or did Gordon Brown have the extraordinary front just now to lecture us all about the need for "transparency not opacity" and the "end of irresponsibility"? This from the man who made double and treble accounting, smoke & mirrors, and PFI-off-balance sheet finance the hallmarks of our national accounts.
It's time to go in and go in hard. Enough of this gland-aching nonsense that you need an experienced hand at the tiller in rocky waters. We have had Brown at the helm for the last 11 years and his legacy is an economy built on debt. SS Great Britain has its own cargo of Brown toxic waste. In political terms, nothing matters more than ensuring that the only responses voters have to "trust him, he has the experience" are either raucous laughter or, better, cold fury.
PS. Does anyone have a clip of Brown saying "no more boom and bust"? It's not on YouTube, yet, so far as I can tell. Please, someone, put that right. Click here for some statistics on how often Mr. Experience claimed to have invented the internet abolished the business cycle.
