Would you want Gordon Brown to be the head of the IMF?

[crookesey 635]

Devils Advocate.

 

As many seem critical, who would be a good alternative?

 

It has been suggested that one of the new emerging member nations have a shot rather than The US or Europe. Any thoughts?

 

Mervyn King.

[Rich 12]

Gordon Clown couldn't run a tap much less an Organisation such as the IMF!

[orbs 10]

is he on gardening leave? he's never at work. right now he's in africa calling for 5 billion. i would like to ask him why he screwed this country so badly.

[BritPat 10]

is he on gardening leave? he's never at work. right now he's in africa calling for 5 billion. i would like to ask him why he screwed this country so badly.

 

I hold no brief for Gordon Brown or any individual or faction of the LibLabCon Party, however, the nonsense about his financial screwing of the country is not quite so clear cut as some of you make out.

 

Blair outThatchered Thatcher with a far superior propaganda machine.

 

Since Thatcher Labour and Conservative have virtually seemlessly changed governments with virtually no differences in policy or spending.

 

The Tories were signed up to take over from Labour with but the subtlest changes in spending plans.

 

The fly in the ointment was of course the crashing of a fraudulent international financial system.

 

Gordon Brown is definitely culpable in so far as he refused to regulate the Banksters, deregulation was of course started by the Thatcher Government continued by Labour and is essentially unchanged by the latest faction of the LibLabCon Party to get their snouts in the trough.

[cleanup 10]

Devils Advocate.

 

As many seem critical, who would be a good alternative?

 

It has been suggested that one of the new emerging member nations have a shot rather than The US or Europe. Any thoughts?

 

forest gummp lol

[Lady Star 10]

Why not? Don't recall anyone complaining about his skills as chancellor... Only after the GLOBAL crash did anyone say anything negative about his financial skills...

[RichD 10]

Why not? Don't recall anyone complaining about his skills as chancellor... Only after the GLOBAL crash did anyone say anything negative about his financial skills...

 

You weren't listening hard enough. There were people who thought him useless long before the credit crunch. I've thought he was useless since about 2004/05 since it was already becoming evident that he didn't care about keeping a lid on the housing market.

[Tatman 10]

Gordon Clown couldn't run a tap much less an Organisation such as the IMF!

 

Yet he managed to run the country and his party.

Badly, but he managed it.

[andyofborg 11]

it was already becoming evident that he didn't care about keeping a lid on the housing market.

 

i'm not sure whether he cared or not, but there wasn't really much he could have done to keep a lid on it.

 

the head of the imf is a figurehead, its not like he will be making the financial decisions and a mildly left leader might stand up to the neoliberals who are intent on lining the pockets of the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

[orbs 10]

if the head of IMF is a figure head why pay brown over £200,000, thats like rewarding him. him and alistair darling was still screwing the country for 5 days after the election, with them signing us up to pay billions to prop up the euro. what they did in those 5/6 days should have been made null & void.

[vinyl 10]

Have they any gold reserves that need selling off at half price?

[wednesday1 10]

Yes, for the way he lead the western world out of the economic crises caused by the credit crunch and stopped the downturn becoming a depression.