Gordo's a loser - but with our money

For years Brown spoke of prudence. He learnt not to sound like a socialist. Yet all the while he spent our money like a drunken sailor.

Brown may well be a loser - but he's been losing with our money, and our children's hopes of prosperity.

The dynamic, low-tax economy he inherited in 1997, has been mortgaged to pay for the greatest expansion of the state since the war.

As Chancellor and the Prime Minister, Brown's only big idea has been to tax and regulate, and then regulate and tax.

Now, he wants to extend his destructive creed with a global tax regime.

Under Brown's proposal, a global tax on financial transactions could net some £500 billion. Think of what people like Brown, and other unelected supranational technocrats, could do with that kind of money. All that money, without even needing the pretense of a democratic mandate.... Terrifying.

We need an election to boot him out.

Posted on 8 November 2009 by Douglas Carswell

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You're right, of course. He is a socialist, such a bad one that even the Russians aren't listening.

The Russian Finance Minister, Alexei Kudrin, had this to say: "I am a sceptic on such taxes. Gordon Brown is known for always raising taxes."

Posted on 8 November 2009 14:05 by Bob Jones

"Terrifying"

I was terrfied 12 years ago when they came to power. Oh just how right I was.

Posted on 8 November 2009 14:59 by Johnny Norfolk

Yes politicians could theoretically get all that money. But seemingly no one else wants know. I wonder why?

Could it be that it would be clunky, costly and impractical?

Posted on 8 November 2009 15:34 by John Page

I see Gordons great plan for every country to impose a taxon financial transactions in order to provide a reserve for future similar financial disasters has been ruled out by the Canadian Finance Minister who said that their aim was to reduce taxation not to increase it. Perhaps Gordon should learn a lesson from elsewhere rather than trying to tell others waht to do.

Posted on 8 November 2009 16:13 by Brian E.

Could you please list your specific plans for getting the financial system back under democratic control? I have not read anything here except complaints about the opposition.

Posted on 8 November 2009 18:14 by Carol

Yes - he could expand the state much, much more even than he has done now. Almost everybody would be working for the state! I'm sure there's a name for that...

Posted on 8 November 2009 23:25 by Steve Tierney

Quite rightly he got laughed out of court at the G20. What on earth does this ex-historian, ex-student activist know about economics anyway? Mind you he pulled the wool over the eyes of most of the media for 10 years so maybe he does know something about sheep shearing!

Brown looks as silly to the world's economists today as he does to the public with his jogging and his antics and incompetence at The Cenotaph.
GORD HELP US ALL AND ROLL ON MAY!

Posted on 9 November 2009 00:33 by THE ESSEX BOYS

It's almost impossible to comprehend the level of incompetence and cynicism in this man.

The great global boom meant that he netted an extra trillion pounds in tax compared to the previous 10 years. He then went and blew it all on 'hookers and beer' (to continue your drunk sailor analogy), and now has the cheek to say that banks should pay extra taxes in order to pay for the bail-outs.

Sorry Gordon. They've been paying extra taxes for the last decade. You just spent it all and you're now having to print more in order to bail them out.

Obama Beach is like a man who blows all his lottery winnings in one night of excess then complains in the morning that he's got no money for a taxi home.

Posted on 9 November 2009 08:24 by Mark M

'Vast there shipmate! Everyone says my powers of financial management are as bad as Mr Brown's. Now you're doing it too. Frankly, matey, I resent it. I may squander my money on rum and wenches, but at least I have rum and wenches to show for it. Mr Brown has absolutely ******* all.

Posted on 9 November 2009 10:35 by Drunken Sailor

The simple solution to both the GB and EU problems is for GB to become president of the EU.In very short order he will have f****d them up, as he has us, then we can quietly leave them both together.

Posted on 9 November 2009 15:11 by eddyh

You didn't notice the final repayments of the WW2 debt then?

Funnily enough I didn't resent repaying that, any more than I expect my children to resent the loans required to refloat our economy in the World Wide Recession . . .

Posted on 10 November 2009 21:30 by Quietzapple

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