I also (conveniently) forgot to mention Harold Macmillan and Edward
Heath.

It has to be said that what followed for post-war economic policy was
very much the consensus politics of ensuring full employment and the
pre-Thatcher Tories were very much part of that consensus.

I mean Heath completely bottled it for sure.

The post-war consensus was born out of the great depression and the
world wars by those that had lived through those things and had we
lived through those times would undoubtedly have seen things very
differently.

The economic policies subsequently followed were well intentioned,
driven by a never again mentality, and who can blame them?

Unfortunately, however, those policies did fail and we are now where
we are today hopefully a philosophy of just making sure we all get
stinking rich – surely the best National Insurance of all (though
Brown’s doing his level best to undermine that).

The previous generation can and should be forgiven for their misguided
ness, especially as hindsight is easy after the event, but Brown
really should know better by now.

Once is a mistake but twice that’s incompetence, Brown has completely
failed to learn the lessons of the Wilson / Callaghan years - he’s a
dinosaur in denial.

I also do not like the way he has come to power, unprecedented in
recent history (I’m talking five hundred year here).

You’ve probably got to back to Richard III to see such treachery and
plotting prosper so completely.

I really am surprised how his incompetence has made him so unpopular
when really the method and circumstance of his rise to power should
have done that, instead it was almost as if there was cheering in the
streets (well at first anyway).

Even today reading the papers one commentator was saying, “Brown is
safe, Labour loves unity and has never taken out a leader.”

Well what the f**k was that all about twelve months ago?