From today's Metro:
Gordon Brown admitted that he was greatly relieved that other countries had not monitored banks and that nobody had spotted that he was now rewriting history.
The prime minister said he was glad that financial institutions were not supervised across borders - after ten years in which had done precisely nothing in this regard either.
"We would have dealt with some of these problems, had they not contributed to an illusion of ever rising wealth. So we turned a blind eye to self-certified lending, mortgage multiples of six times income and 125% mortgages, and deliberately ignored the early warning signs of seemingly ever rising house prices" he told BBC Scotland's Politics Show.
"I have never mentioned any of this before. But while we wanted the credit and house price bubbles to go on for ever, other countries did not"
Asked if he had any regrets over his tenure as Chancellor, Mr Brown said "Of course not. I can now blame this on everybody else, despite being Chancellor during the period when UK household debt doubled and house prices trebled, and amazingly enough, gullible journalists are now parroting my bare-faced lie that I have been putting forward proposals to deal with this for years."
Meanwhile, Mr Brown was today due to reveal that the welfare system would be subject to further tinkering during the downturn to maintain the illusion that the government had some sort of plan. He will say "It is no time to cease tinkering, thus maintaining the illusion that we have some sort of plan"
The original article is not online, so I've scanned it in for you here in case you don't believe me:
What have we wrought in the UK?
4 hours ago
5 comments:
If I may paraphrase Mr. Obnoxio: what the f*cke*ty, f*cking f*ck?
Whilst most people are thinking how much hemp, how high the lampposts, I am considering where is the book repository? Where I can shoot from?
Whence the grassy knoll?
Can anyone relieve me of this turbulent Son of the Manse?
STB.
ps could I do Italics, I would, of course, have.
STB.
The thing is, it was the IMF which warned us 18 months ago:-
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/martin-bright/2008/10/brown-system-british-global
TA, that's a great article. In other words nobody else remembers GB mentioning any of this before either.
What. A. Deceitful. Tosser.
1984 here we are. Let's re-write history, shall we? 'Cos clearly our memory is flawed and what happened was not what we saw happen as now we know that what happend is what we now say happened.
Mark,
I'm thinking I might blog it, linking to this and also a transcript of the BBC Scotland interview...
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