There's a world of difference between a struggling economy, a healthy economy and a bullshit boom - We now have a struggling economy where everybody (except Tesco, Piers Morgan and Rupert Murdoch) are broke.
In 1992 when the UK told Kinnock to f-off, we had a healthy economy. People were slightly worried, but everybody just about had enough to get by and they made sure they lived within their means. If you can't afford it, you don't buy it.
In 1997 onwards, Brown encouraged every arsehole to go out and borrow money they couldn't afford to buy crap they didn't need. The national debt rocketed from something like a few hundred quid per person to £15,000 per person. It was a bullshit bubble based on spending money people didn't have. That's why he de-restricted the banks, opened every floodgate, sold every asset and sent the country up **** creak without a paddle to maintain this "amazing recovery". Not as if he gave a toss either. He had lined his nest and had a career of after-dinner speaches at £100,000 per night to look forward to. Not to mention an an army of northeners who'd cheer Adolf Hitler if the Austrian had ever worn a red roset.
The bloke was so dastardly, he used Blairs charm to get elected because he knew full well that the vote would never have gone his way otherwise. So not only is he dishonest, he's deceitful.
Then to cap it all off, he appointed Alastair Darling as his successor. And what was Darlings way of stimulating the economy? Get rid of the 10p bracket and introduce a 50% bracket. Screw the rich (Northerners say "Yay"!) and while they're at it, screw the poor too! (Northerners look puzzled). Oh, and he also introduced the mickey mouse Car scrappage scheme. Which maybe would have been a good idea except he'd screwed every penny out of everyone on the land rich or poor, so nobody could afford a car anyway, £2000 discount or not.
Anyway, I shall be drawn into this debate again as it invariably hives me a hernia.
