So apart from catastrophically bad financial regulation, an unchecked housing boom and bust, and a huge amount of poor value PFI to make UK government debt look better Gordon Brown was a pretty good … (View Post)

Putting out a fire that you are in part responsible for is not praiseworthy. (View Post)

Brown gets criticised because he changed UK banking regulation with the creation of the FSA (a huge but almost entirely useless organisation) which let so many UK banks get into a mess in the first p… (View Post)

Listening to Starmer this morning I thought "this sounds like wishful nonsense". He seemed to imply that GB Energy would sell energy below market prices, or alternately subsidise the purcha… (View Post)

Only about 1 in 2,000 houses sold in England 2022 was in that range. So he could easily be in the top 0.01%. No such transactions occured in Scotland or Wales in 2022 to give you an idea of how rare … (View Post)