[Margaret Pilkington]

I think you logic regarding Gordon Brown and the selling of the gold reserves is flawed....he didn't need to sell our reserves...and what was stopping him from not selling the gold AND bringing down the debt by promoting growth.
My recollection of a past government is that it made it almost a career choice for some people to go on benefits and stay on benefits.
It made it so that it didn't pay to stir your stumps and work...but to sit back and let some other poor schmuck do it for you.
I see some of these so called weak and disabled driving around in new cars...provided by the tax payer.
OK.......I know some really disabled people too who are grateful for what they get.

And one of the prime reasons why it is so damn difficult to get a job now is that we lived in an era where you could have it all now and pay later.(the watch word was 'Borrow, borrow, borrow - we can pay it back tomorrow)
Well, LATER has come...and it isn't much fun....for anyone