Calm down dude
I don't love Gordon Brown. You're making a lot of personal points about the country. You've embarassed yourself already with your low level understanding of the subject at hand.

What I will say is that one man's personal experiences do not accurately reflect the actual situation between 1997 and 2010. It's like people saying that global warming must be a load of nonsense because we've had a particularly cold winter.

None of the points you made in your original post on this page were correct and as such are invalid. The willy waving is taking place solely on your part, not mine.

But, as you've so kindly numbered your responses, allow me to do the same:

1) It is pointing out that you were displaying a fair degree of ignorance in your original post and proudly displaying that ignorance as the basis of your discontent with the Government.

2)I don't see what you mean by 'used to be a large country'. The geographical area of the United Kingdom is more or less the same as it was when John Major moved out of Downing Street. The UK is also substantially richer than it was then.

3) By 'boom years' I meant the longest period of uninterrupted economic growth that this country has enjoyed. That is a fact, look it up. Granted we have just had a recession, but 97-2007 to all intents and purposes were boom years. Just because things were bad where you lived does not mean it was like that everywhere else. Get some perspective.

4) Nobody forced people to take out credit they couldn't pay back. And your understanding of the causes of the recession are very, very basic. US bankers created financial instruments that, like all such instruments, rely on risk to generate a return. What they did was sold mortgages to people in the US who could not pay them back, spreading the risk around (as one should) and then selling these packets of debt on at a profit. When those people who were mis-sold their mortgages couldn't pay them back in droves, the whole thing came down. Nothing to do with 'penniless chavscum' and 52 inch plasma TVs. Nice classism there to go with the general ignorance.

Highly amusing that you state that it's all about my opinions. Mine are based in fact. Yours appear to be rehashed versions of tabloid misunderstandings and hysterical flag waving.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 20:15, 1 reply)

(eyeroll)
Your croissant and wineglass are on the table over by the window.

You'll have to provide your own newspaper.
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:11, closed)

That's an excellent response
There's nothing smug about knowing facts and using them to back up reasoned arguments. Was that really the best you could come up with?
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:49, closed)