Quote: Leeeigh Leeeigh "How much did we lose with Lamont as Chancellor when he tried to prop up the pound? He was actually buying our own currency in a desparate attempt to keep sterling at a unrealistic rate.'"
Like Gordon and Darling did propping up RBS not too long ago?
Gordon cost our economy £5 billion by selling 395 tonnes of gold when the price was at the lowest it had been for a long time.
Quote: Leeeigh Leeeigh "I have never been a Sun reader but I blame the French for the mess we are in.'"
Agreed. It was that young fella in Citibank that caused this. If he hadn't messed up, we may have been blissfully unaware anything was wrong for a little while longer.
Gordon famously said, "No more return to boom and bust." What a load of bullocks.
You've got to fix the roof when the sun shines, not when the monsoon has already arrived.