Gordon Brown was a great chancellor, as his record clearly shows, he presided over ten years of economic growth, following Tory economic choices where they were right, in spite of the fact that they were tory, he spent liberally when he could, not saving for the inevitable downturn, he sold gold at the bottom of the market and attempts to claim that the strong global climate was all his doing but when it becomes weak it is anyone's fault but his.
To say that he was a good chancellor is wrong. Any chancellor should be able to follow the 7 fat years and 7 lean years parable, should not try to trick people with sealth taxes and should not be happy to break his own spending rules.
Gordon Brown is incompetent. He should have called an election the August after he came in, mid bounce, and didn't, he then dithered over calling a Winter Election, in spite of the fact that there is compelling evidence that those tend to go against government, and now he is paying the penalty of that and his poor spending ideas with the loss of the London mayoralty, and numerous by-elections. The only positive for him is that house prices are falling so he will be more able to afford a new one when he has to leave number ten.
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