I was probably a bit harsh on Gordon in last post.

Re-reading my last post I realise I was probably a bit harsh on Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister. In many ways he has been quite successful. Wealth has been redistributed to different parts of the population and richer council areas have subsidised poorer ones. Devolution was introduced to give more jobs to the Labour Party. Gordon has antagonised our European partners, which I suppose is a plus but not if you need their help. Apparently, he can be extremely difficult to work with, which I thinks makes him quite interesting in a human kind of way.
However, Gordon has an inability to admit that he has been wrong. It would be helpful to do that since it might, might have avoided Sarkozy laying into him about the VAT cut. If Gordon had discussed this move beforehand with the retailers, then it would have helped to have some consensus.
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On the bank rescue plan Gordon pretty much circumvented parliamentary discussion at the time but discussion might have resolved the issue of bonuses. It looks like an oversight not to get strings attached to the rescue packages. Some bankers would probably get bonuses for sacking people.