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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Max Clifford says…
“Most people want to read nasty things about people, not nice things.”

Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.




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!