Gordon Brown to blame for struggling economy

Jan 14 2010 by Ian Bunting, Hamilton Advertiser

I HOPE interviewers will ask Gordon Brown why so much requires to be done to restore our economy when he has been in charge of the country’s finances for 13 years?

He claimed he had stopped the cycle of ‘boom and bust’ yet we are now in the biggest bust for decades, if not the worst-ever.

The UK had a system of pension provision which was the envy of the world, although the state pension was on the low side. However, one of his first acts as Chancellor was to destroy through taxation the funding of the pension industry.

He boasted about creating jobs but they were all in the unproductive sectors of the community supported by the taxpayer.

He promised a referendum of the Lisbon Treaty but reneged on that and then sneaked off to Brussels to sign the Treaty after the other EU leaders had signed in a public ceremony.

He should be forced to answer how our growing deficit is going to be reduced when he persists in borrowing to continue spending with the aim of getting out of recession.

Any person in charge of household expenses knows that borrowing only increases, not reduces, debt.

On his past record, if given another five years there will be no country to save.

William Scott, address supplied.