One big difference between 2008 and now is that Gordon Brown was in charge, knew what had to be done to ensure there was not compete meltdown and did it.

Gordon Brown in the Guardian today: “For the first time since the welfare state was created, it is the food bank, not social security, that is now our safety net..”

Imagine Gordon Brown laughing his balls off at the Queen's funeral after you partied the night before her husband's funeral?

Nah me either. Kwarteng should be sacked immediately.
#KwasiKwarteng #SackKwarteng #queenfuneral

British media have yet to ask Gordon Brown about that £124,494 he took from a Russian bank while serving as MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath @scottishlabour
archive.ph/TZJD1

This is increasingly looking politically unsustainable.

One Tory MP tells me: “It’s extinction level stuff. This is like 2008 but worse. We’re messing with the very fundamental principle of providing a home for your family. That’s why it’s different: it’s real stuff”.

Thank god that Gordon Brown made the Bank of England independent.

🚨Exclusive: I’ve been leaked Gordon Brown’s big internal review on devolution and the union.

🗳Labour is considering abolishing House of Lords if it wins next election, replacing it with an upper chamber of nations and regions theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

Chris Grey 🇺🇦 “The intellectual world of Gordon Brown” gave us a pretty darn nice country to live in.

(Even if he was not as right as he claimed, and he was lucky with the prevailing times.)

I’d go back there in a heartbeat. Who wouldn’t?

I’m old enough to remember Kwasi going batshit furious because Gordon Brown raised govt borrowing to £8billion. Wouldn’t stop wanging on about it. Utterly irresponsible! Saw a forecast today that said Kwasi’s raising govt borrowing to £276billion. The end.

Everything good that can be said about Gordon Brown already has been by someone more articulate than me.

What I can say, with certainty, is that his policies helped millions of families like mine and we will never forget it. 🌹

Where is Gordon Brown when you need him?

thetimes.co.uk/article/9d687b…

Ed Conway Bank of England This is when we need the likes of Gordon Brown. He shorted out 2008. This bunch haven't got a scooby.

Gordon Brown waiting in his livingroom for the treasury to give him a bell and save Britain once again ... 'Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man'

Some muppet from the Institute of Financial Affairs on @bbcnews is now blaming Gordon Brown.

It's like a fucking Nutter's convention.

The Neglectful Gardener: @RebootGB #NFNFNE 🐟🇺🇦 Wasn’t the £ worth $2 at one point under Gordon Brown?

In 2007 Kwarteng criticised Gordon Brown, in @newstatesman, for increasing borrowing by £8bn: 'Brown boasts of his relationship with Prudence, but is not embarrassed by increased government borrowing.'

Today Kwarteng increased borrowing by… 9x as much. newstatesman.com/long-reads/200…

Remember how the Tories blamed Gordon Brown for the 2008 crash and some of their dim-witted supporters still believe it. Kwarteng has actually almost crashed the global economy but apparently Remainers, city slickers and fear of Starmer are to blame. #ToryCostOfGreedCrisis

Gordon Brown 🔥 in Guardian today: ‘You cannot rely on a heartless government having a change of heart, but concerted action by the public can force a change of mind…The coming war must be against poverty, not against the poor.’

These people are NOT responsible for the current mess in the UK:
Keir Starmer
Gordon Brown
George Osborne
Andrew Bailey & the MPC
Jerome Powell & the FOMC
Janet Yellen
Christine Lagarde
Kristalina Georgieva
FX traders
Gilts traders
Asset managers
Bankers
Most economists

1/

Let this from Gordon Brown sink in: 'Things are so bad that Human Relief Foundation which has spent 30 years focused entirely on aid to the world’s poorest countries, has opened a food bank in Birmingham.'

Sam Coates Sky In the absence of a functioning government, the wisdom of Gordon Brown's decision to make the Bank of England independent becomes ever more clear.