Sunday, Sep 21, 2008
Is Gordon a leader or a lemon?
Times: Survival depends on treading a fine line
Gordon Brown’s future depends on whether the public accepts his new slogan: “It’s the global economy, stupid”; as he develops a new narrative of limited responsibility. Not only is he, over the past 11 years as Chancellor and Prime Minister, not to blame for what has gone wrong but he now views himself as the experienced financial statesman and the right leader to handle these problems.
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1. wiltshire said...
Ah, so what he meant to say was "No more boom and bust. That is assuming nothing happens anywhere in the world which might cause a boom to turn into a bust. Should anything untoward happen I cannot be held responsible as I only forsee and only predict an endless boom, which by definition is therefore not actually a boom but will be considered the norm. So boom will be eradicated by continuous increased prosperity for all and if a bust should happen it will certainly be the fault of whoever causes that to occur but I can guarantee it certainly won't be me because I have already decided there will be no more boom and bust. Infact I will go so far as to say that my genius is sooooo great that the period of boom, I mean continuous increased prosperity for all, will be the biggest such period of all time. I comfortably predict UK house prices increasing at least 3 or 4 fold and who won't feel richer under those circumstances? Should the impossible happen and a downturn occur, not only will it be the fault of 3rd parties as yet un-named but the UK will almost not even notice because our economy will be in an impregnable state of robustness. Yep, I have to say I'm feeling pre-tty good about this whole boom and bust thing".
2. Davidg said...
> No more boom and bust.
when the question was put to him by Andrew Marr he said what he meant was no more return to 3 million unemployed and 18% interest rates as under the Tories. So it is obviously a very hedged bust he was talking about.
3. wiltshire said...
We'll have to wait and see what happens over the next 18 months then. There's a lot of water to flow under the unemployment and interest rate bridges yet.......