Money Central – Times Online – WBLG: Gordon Brown's 10 worst financial gaffes.
Why were the financial journalists silent when these gaffes were being made? It's a bit late now.
She may be gone but you have all those wonderful memories :-)
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And the short answer is that they had no idea what was going on. 20-20 hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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I haven’t checked, but I bet you a fiver that 50% or better of these errors were picked up by Taxpayers’ Alliance/Burning our Money at the time; even though not staffed by well-paid, prestigious, “specialist” journalists. An RSS feed to Burning our Money would have materially improved their performance. I think, unusually, you are wrong James. More things are explained by cock ups than conspiracies certainly, but we need a better explanation of why they let Labour bankrupt us without question or challenge. Surely it’s more likely they were biased or bought, than that they were barmy?
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