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So since i last asked you to come clean about the economic crisis, a fair amount has happened.

Lehman collapses, a few more merge and others get bailed out, more of our public money going to private hands.

So i am guessing that if you don't feel safe to explain the theft that is going on right now you never will. No discussion of central banking, non on fractional reserve banking, still no mention of the m3 index.

Then again it's not as though it is your job to report the facts, that would be the job of a journalist. A calling that no longer seems to exist.

Why has there been no 91Èȱ¬ coverage of the MORI poll showing the Conservatives with 52% of the vote, 28% ahead of Labour on 24% and the Lib Dems on 12%? This is the largest lead by any party for many years and is worthy of reporting.

This story has been carried on Reuters, AFP, all of the national press, in Australia, Malayisa and the US and yet the 91Èȱ¬ deems it unfit for publication.

To an impartial observer like me, this looks like an overt act against the Conservatives.

It strikes me that in the wake of a collapsing financial infrastructure you cannot find the heart to interview Mr Brown in some minute detail. What did he know as Chancellor? Did he ignore regulation breaches? How much information was he given about the sub-prime fiasco in the US? Was the sub-prime manipulation a hedge against other deeply destructive forces in world economics (such as over valuation)?

The crumbling of New Labour was always likely because a lie can only ever lay undetected so long. It is not the few exes that need coverage but those remaining in cabinet for whom honour clearly has no meaning at all.

rmarkwilliams - I heard a brief reference to that poll on News24, and the 91Èȱ¬ news website has also mentioned it.

When will we be able to close this chapter in politics.
I haven't overspent, I've never been on a foreign holiday, I don't drink. I know it may sound boring, but I love my life.
I smoke, not the best of habits maybe, but there you go.
If Gorden Brown had been good with the economy he would have my respect.
But this mess even I seen comming. Not the size it is but I knew it was going to bust.
The rules and regulations realy do it for me, lying, I can not abide. Living in this country now it seems Government want to tell the people what to do and fine them if they dont comply.
He should have listened. now it is too late.
brown resigns and any of the other partise let me live my life I will vote for UKIP .

Gordon has excellent credetials. So when you see some of his colleagues sharpening their knives, waiting in the wings and hoping to oust him, one is deeply saddened. After all he has served the Labour Party faithfully and has looked after the economy intelligently. Hunger for power brings out the worst in politicians!

Looked after the economy intelligently? Which economy are you talking about? I assume you surely can't be referring to the British one.

#6

"and has looked after the economy intelligently"

Posting that is just asking for trouble.....

;o)

*6 " Has served the Labour party faithfully". Yeah right, what a great pity he had not done the same for the rest of us or for his country. The man has proved himself totally incapable of holding high office, he has no sense of what truth is and unlike most polititians who are sparing with the truth, the man is a blatant liar. He has reduced this country's status and it's finances to a critical level, poured money down the drain in more and more funding for failing services and is now in a state of denial, believing that somehow, he, and his abysmal government can still repair the damage ten years of incompetent government has done. Surely someone amongst the psychophants who surround him can convince him that it is time to go.

Intelligent, the nearest to an intelligent thing that Brown did was give the Bof E its independance from the treasury. That was a bit like Magnus Maximus divesting himself of the title Pontifex Maximus and creating the Pope. In both cases these were to do with damage limitation in case things went wrong as they invariably do.

Add to this the fact that Brown left the Banks to manipulate market forces watching as house prices soared ahead of anything the average person could afford with banks profiting questionably as a result. That smacks of Obtaining profits by pecuniary deception. In effect its theft which was also what Brown was guilty of when he plundered the pension pots. Perhaps Brown's real claim to fame along with Blair is as closet communists is rexplaining the rule that property is theft by inverting it- theft of property is OK.

There is no doubt that they have served Nu labour faithfully but what about the Socialists.

I enjoyed today's debate a lot. It contributed a great deal to clarifying the positions held in a clear, easy to understand way. It was far, far better than the normal cross-party arguments which are mired in meaningless politic-speak. Thanks.

#6

"has served the Labour Party faithfully"

I rather suspect that those who belonged to the Labour Party in 1997 would disagree that the Blair-Brown comedy act did anything of the sort. Brown followed Tory economic policy to the letter and even the National Minimum Wage was devalued to placate the CBI. The policy on single parents has been a hopeless parody of social justice and the tax credit system a complete fiasco.

In truth the only people who have served the Labour Party honestly and faithfully are those who would have chosen opposition over government if it meant departing from the basic requirements of a fair society - that you pay taxes according to the size of your income. Most people are crippled by income tax and council tax not to mention VAT etc etc.

Mr Brown served the betrayal of the Labour Party faithfully and now, a little too late for many, he is paying the price.