Last week it was the scrapping of pensions credits, estimated to have cost the taxpayer £100 billion, that painted Gordon Brown as less than honest and a good deal less than prudent.
The Tories, when in government, were often chided by Labour for "Selling off the family silver". Brown seems to have gone one further than that. Not only has he sold off the family silver, he has sold off half the family gold reserves - 400 tons of it - as well. Against advice from the Bank of England, while both he and Blair assured Parliament that the sale took place with the advice of the Bank. The sale took place at a time when the price of bullion was at the bottom of the market, the price has since trebled, and the sale has lost the country an estimated £2billion.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1654931.ece
How anyone can believe that this bunch of fools, liars and incompetants have been good for this country is beyond me.