Can we afford Gordon Brown.....

A desperate attempt to revive a corpse
(Vince Cable, The Times)
"Yesterday's announcement of a second round of bank bailouts was, unlike the first, badly received both politically and in the markets. This partly reflects growing pessimism about the state of the banking system and the state of the UK (and global) economy.But there is also widespread scepticism about whether the Government is still on the right track - it now looks like someone giving the kiss of life to a corpse."
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The nation has a bad case of mad Treasury disease
(The Guardian)
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How much rope does Gordon Brown need?
(Telegraph)
"And as we recall the Prime Minister's outrageous and pathetic performance over the past couple of days, as our banking system and currency have tottered, and he has proved unequal to the task of stabilising (let alone clearing up) a mess of his own making,...."