Originally Posted by
ninianclark
Sold / Gave away our gold reserves, hid his massive spending off the bookings by doing it all via PFI - until the crash found him out, introduced various tax laws against the self employed, and deregulated the banks (light hand on the tiller) he did this after meeting Alan Greenspan with Tony Blair and Ed Balls. And was shown up for being 2 faced by that women who he accused of being an old bigot, but that can happen to anyone I guess.
The good bits - he stopped us going into the Euro, he is a nice bloke (I met him once back in the early 2000's), he has had terrible tragedy in his life, which transcends politics. Would be better suited to be a chancellor of a university than a country I think.