Gordon’s "Falklands Moment"
Best comment of the day from Talwin:
“I notice over the past day or two some commentators wondering if by chance the current economic disasters might not turn out to be Brown’s Falklands moment.
D’you know I think they’re right. With Brown as Galtieri.”
He is telling the people of Swindon that he has brought down oil prices “We’ve had some success in getting it down.” Nothing to do with global recession reducing demand.
He has invoked Anti-Terror laws against Icelandic Fundamentalists banks rather than normal bankruptcy procedures. He threatened to freeze the assets of other Icelandic owned companies, without any legal basis. Is he going to arrest Father Christmas at Hamley’s if Iceland doesn’t pay local councils for their losses?
Last night in a BBC interview, during which he smiled randomly like an over-medicated hypermaniac, he told Nick Robinson that “everything was being done” and that “I have to restore confidence in the banking system”. Bonkers – bank stocks collapsed on the open this morning. “I” is the Prime Mentalist…
