It's going to be a cringefest this week. Gordon Brown is going to present himself as the saviour of the world at this week's G20 summit. On top of that, he is going to suck up US President Barack Obama with a shamelessness that will be breathtaking.
Oh Dear!
Gordon Brown is the perfect embodiment of that saying: be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.He wanted to be Prime Minister so badly that he practically forced Tony Blair out the door(mind you, Blair's time was up)to get into 10 Downing Street.
Since he took over in 2007, Brown has seen the British economy hover on the precipice of a recession. By 2010, it is estimated that over 3 million people will have lost their jobs.And yet our Gordon seeks to lecture other European nations about economic management.The so called Anglo Saxon model of capitalism , which was fuelled by credit was seen as the model to be emulated.Now we know that Gordon's claims was pure bullshit. We were living in a false paradise in a fantasy.We, all of us where seduced by this. From the mad housing boom, the easy availibilty of credit, the crazy mortgages that people took out and the willingness of banks to take ever more risks.
The banks were not regulated because Brown refused to reign them in. He was too busy getting cosy with them. The same Fred Goodwin of RBS who is now being labelled as Public Enemy Number One, was once his pal.Blair and Brown were dazzled by bankers and financiers.New Labour was a like a wannabe Wag meeting a footballer, the knickers come not drop fast enough!
Now, as the world economy crumbles and we all feel the pinch, Brown will try to present himself as Superman.Next year we will prove that his claims of financial prudence were total spin and bullshit.
