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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
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. |
It's also beyond me how you can possibly believe anyone else could have done better over the last decade. And how much BofE gold bullion was used to prop up the £ during the ERM fiasco?
Have a walk around Hyndburn at the investment. Look and then compare and contrast with the Tory years. TB et al may not be my flavour of Labour and criticism where due, but where's the serious alternative?
I don't agree with 'Surrey talk'. We should weigh up what's best for Hyndburn. Labour has pumped probably far in excess of £100m into Hyndburn in the last few years. How much of this funding for Hyndburn will still be there under Cameron?