He was a shit chancellor, shit PM

It's not a movement

Its a label that has been captured by post modernists, just like the atheist movement

Brown was stupidly indecisive in not calling for an election during his honeymoon period

It’s retarded that Brexit party don’t have removal of hate speech laws in the manifesto

When they literally claim to care about free speech

He was a good chancellor

i'm unfamiliar with brown's policy thoughts beyond economic

He was a shit chancellor

and wasn't given a chance as PM

PFI, working tax credits, and a vast expansion of housing benefit paid to private landlords are all HIS specific, collosal failures

when have brexit party claimed to care about free speech, and I mean actual free speech, not "free speech but"

The policy about university free speech

whose fine idea was uni tuition fees?

another brown failure was the bailout of the banks

As someone who studied the financial crisis for his qualification - that is utterly false

If the banks were not bailed out (and they are paying the govt back)

The impact would have been many magnitudes worse

The underlying causes have not been fixed

Well, they have been improved

can't say they've been fixed because time will tell

It's almost universally thought actually that if America had bailed out their financial institutions at the beginning, rather than later

The financial crisis might have been averted or at least lessened

Seriously doubt it

You can doubt all you want

but you don't know as much as me on this topic

It all was, and is, a big pyramid scheme

And as for the big-brain scheme of making depositors first in line to lose their money when a bank goes down, that's fucking mad

Stuff wasn't right

still isn't

But regulations following the crisis have been put in place

and isn't going to be

And the tories wanted even LESS regulation

of course

Im gonna sort dinner now, happy to send my essay on the crisis though 🙂

thing is, if the crash didnt happen, then they might not have put in the tighter lending restrictions they have today

definitely wouldn't

but its all coulda woulda shoulda sooo

@PureEvilPie actually the government continually bailed out failing banks in America that what lead to the finicial crisis banks got used to being bailed out and continued to take risks they knew they shouldn't because Uncle Sam had their backs

There remains no penalty for failure with banks

Precedent has been set