Why labour have to defend the failure that is Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown might not have been the one who pulled the trigger on the “gun” that caused the recession but he is the one who supplied the bankers with the gun supplied them with the ammo and gave the nod wink that they could run riot with the economy without personal repercussions. Gordon Brown is economically short sighted and was happy to get small immediate gains in exchange for a recession that was going to happen as a result of his failed policies. Labour would have had no reason to try and defend Gordon Brown legacy if they had had the guts the honesty and the competency to get rid of him. But they acted like craven politicians rather than leaders and the weakest prime minister in living memory managed to fend of the feeblest of leadership challenges.
If you throw a drowning man a life ring and you where the one who pushed him in the first place you are no hero, Gordon Brown is as much a villain in this as the Bankers.

I have edited this to include and excellent comment made by John Williams on the BBC website. "Although a lifelong supporter of the labour party, I fully agree with David Cameron in that Gordon Brown should have known the risks he was taking with the British economy, but obviously did'nt. His attempt at the premiership was woefull and he shouldn't be let near a position of power or responsibility ever again."

It’s time for Cameron to grow a spine.

The BBC reports the truly scary story that Gordon brown is one of the favourites to become head of the International monetary fund. Quite why anyone would think that the UK’s most incompetent chancellor in living memory should be in charge of one of the world most important financial institutes is anyone’s guess. Fortunately Britain has a veto in the IMF and David Cameron has hinted he may use it. He needs to do more than hint he needs to clearly state that Gordon Brown will not be head of the IMF. This is an area where he can be clear as hardly anyone but the most sycophantic and possibly insane labour support would think Brown is a good choice.

Labours Iraq and Afgahnistan war failings

The Telegraph today has a pretty obvious report about the Iraq war war by Sir Sichard Dannatt. that labour chronically underfunded the Iraq war was very obvious at the time. One of the most Damming revelations is that by early 2009, at a time when the Army was suffering a punishing casualty rate in Afghanistan, he had not had a face-to-face meeting with Mr Brown for six months. Eventually he was forced to “ambush” the prime minister during a chance meeting in Horse Guards Parade to get his concerns across;

He writes in his book: “History will pass judgment on these foreign adventures in due course, but in my view Gordon Brown’s malign intervention, when chancellor, on the SDR by refusing to fund what his own government had agreed, fatally flawed the entire process from the outset.

“The seeds were sown for some of the impossible operational pressures to come.”

Mr Blair “lacked the moral courage to impose his will on his own chancellor”.

Gen Dannatt warns the Coalition that carrying on with the current rate of casualties in Afghanistan – where more than 100 servicemen were killed last year – would be unacceptable. “We’ve got to have cracked it by 2014, 2015,” he said.