"Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he is the right man to steer the country through difficult economic times.
He blamed "international factors" for rising oil and food prices and housing market problems and said he was taking the right action to deal with them.
Asked if he should stay in his job he said: "There are many people who could take over but I think I can steer this economy through difficult times."
"I have done it before and I can do it again," he told the BBC."
Could someone remind me when he last saved the UK economy, I must have missed that? Was it when he stole from every pension scheme? Was it when he sold half of the UK's gold reserves at the bottom of the market? Was it when he decided to enter into the numerous PFI schemes that will bankrupt the country in years to come? Was it when he backed down to Union pressure and didn't raise the retirement age for public sector employees, so increasing the amount that taxpayers will be paying out in public sector pensions? Was it ...... - please add your own "Was it..." in the Comments.
When Gordon Brown became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1997 he inherited an economy that had been growing for some years; there were low interest rates, low inflation and a budget surplus - let's compare 1997 with 2008 shall we?
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