The truth about Brown's boom and bust

An hilarious exchange in Gordon Brown's interview with the Daily Mail on Saturday:

So I had come to Downing Street in search of the real Gordon Brown. When we finally manage to snatch some time in the study on the first floor, I ask if he has any regrets about his boast: 'No more boom and bust.'

'I actually said, 'No more Tory boom and bust,' he replies.

Hilarious for two reasons.

First, abolishing Tory boom and bust by turning it into Labour boom and bust would hardly have been an achievement worth mentioning.

Second, his lame claim isn't even true.

In March 2006 he said this:

I have said before: no return to boom and bust.

If you are interested I have a list of the many times he and his colleagues made this claim.

His reply is so laughable it deserves to become famous, and perhaps, in time, it will.

Comments

[Ian Thorpe]

I've always said Labour were more conservative than the Conservatives

[am]

Now the incompetent amateur polititions have control of the incompetent professional bankers. Its all going to end in tears Gordon.

[Chris]

I am sure that future civilisations will genuinely consider our current politicians as being mentally defective. Surely some basic BTec qualification for MP's should be required to check their numeracy? A Mental Health Check would also filter out compulsive liars and those suffering from Narcissistic personality disorder. This could have saved the horrors of most of our current world leaders, and allowed treatment in a secure and safe environment!

[thos in aberdeen]

Brown must be thanking his lucky stars that the US economy tanked first. Sort of hides the fact that ours is being taxed into oblivion, and that before the bailout...

[Asw]

Idiot can't even lie well.

[Mrs G]

Browns completely delusional and we let him run the country!

[Bev]

Is good to see him exposed for the twister of the truth he is. Only the truly gullible will be taken in by all the spin we are being fed about him saving the world.

[Huw Sayer]

The old Tory ad from 1987 - "New Labour, New Danger" - seems even more prescient with every passing day.

Gordon Brown does indeed represent the rock - the rock on which the ship of state has foundered - and like the wreckers of old, with their alluring lights, he claims to be saving the crew while pillaging the cargo.

[Jo]

Plus ca change!

[Steve Buckel]

Thirdly, his claim, by inference, that it was a Labour boom and bust makes him appear pleased, even proud, of the not inconsiderable part he played in bringing about this debacle which is causing real people serious trouble.

If he does get an improvement in Labour's poll ratings, it will justify J K Galbraith's dictum, "Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups"

[Pat]

Daniel, Guido had a similar post which has mysteriously dissappeared from his website. If I were you I would watch out for incoming!

[Peter]

There are lies, damned lies and New Labour

[John W Meadows]

When Nulab conned the British voters eleven years ago I thought the party line was we have abolished the failed policies of our past,we are now shiny,new and improved.
I did not think they meant by new policies that they would turn normal economic cycles into one great big hairy mess.
Poor Cameron,he has an even bigger disaster to sort out than did Maggie.

[john]

Brown still has time to put all the rest of the layabout labour cronies into the Lords to collect daily what a pensioner lives on for a week plus their gold plated pensions. Plus the Mail will pay silly money to serialise their desultory stories.