Brown’s Woes in Brown’s Words
Political Bettinghas reminded me of the infamous October interview with Andrew Marr. Calling off the election that he had never called was an unbelievably stupid move from Gordon Brown - probably his most stupid move to date. Indeed, during the interview, he talks over Marr as he asks “You don’t think you’ve lost your moment?”
Challenged over the brilliantly successful Tory party conference weekend, Brown tries to discredit the Tory tax announcements:
Let me just say, we will win an election because when you come to dissect these Conservative policies - i-if you throw £5bn at a problem, you know, 2p on income tax, on a problem, and do not show how you are going to fund it, then for a short moment you can persuade people that you’ve got a policy. But when it comes to the forensic job of dissecting that policy, it will be found that the Conservative policy not only doesn’t add up, but it leads to economic disarray.
A mere eight months later, Brown is willing to get Britain £2.7bn further into debt in order to bribe the electorate of Crewe. “For a short moment you can persuade people that you’ve got a policy… economic disarray” - indeed so, Prime Minister. I would laugh, but it’s just not funny. Watch from 2mins 10secs.
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