More Gordon lies

Plato is getting exasperated with the MSM - thankfully Jeff Randall is in possesion of his marbles...here's an extract from his latest column.

"With bravado that can be invoked only by someone whose emotional intelligence is buried in a vault of self-delusion, the Prime Minister announced this week that the Budget will be on March 24.


His accompanying comments about "character" appeared to have been scripted by a comedian in need of some fresh material.

"For better or worse, with me what you see is what you get," said Mr Brown. It is a line so at odds with reality, so manifestly untrue, so utterly ridiculous that one barely knows where to start challenging it.

Was this the same Mr Brown whose shameless evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry was dismissed by Army chiefs as "disingenuous"? The same Mr Brown who unleashed the "forces of hell" on his own chancellor? The same Mr Brown who cannot walk past a national statistic without rebasing its measurement for narrow political advantage (crime, inflation, growth)?

When events defy the Prime Minister's preferred view of the world, he has a remarkable capacity for applying the Tipp-Ex. History doesn't haunt him because he either ignores or rewrites it. No British leader in my lifetime has embraced the technique of veracity evasion with greater enthusiasm.

Mr Brown's most egregious abuse of our credulity, "no more boom and bust", has been expunged from the script. In its place is a claim that his genius saved us from the ravages of an American-inspired crash. Rather than expiate his sins of profligacy, he seeks to exploit them. Financial disaster is repackaged as a tactical triumph: his triumph.

"I won't let you down," Mr Brown promises. Too late, old son, you already have..."

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