Quote of the Decade
Gordon Brown said
“What you as the City of London, have done for financial services, we as a government intend to do for the economy as a whole.”
Mansion House speech, June 2002
Gordon Brown said
“What you as the City of London, have done for financial services, we as a government intend to do for the economy as a whole.”
Mansion House speech, June 2002

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Lord Lamont told ITV News…
“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”





Priceless….
Unfortunately not. So far it’s cost about £175 billion.
Never have so few done so much to so many.
And it only took a decade.
I don’t know my medieval history. But has there ever been a worse Chancellor?
Brown surely makes the elderly nostalgic for Dennis Healey.
Awesome.
It would appear he is kept his word for once…
At least he kept his word
“And we will never return to the old boom and bust.”
Gordon Brown, Budget Statement, 21 March 2007
Well, very prescient wasn’t he!