It's all very well to say that GB brought the system down, but it isn't really true. Labour choices were trammelled by the legacy of the Thatcher belief system, the "me" generation when B. Liar first came to power, and that particular public schoolboy never really believed in the need to control capitalism (as neither, dangerously, does the willowy Mandelbaum). That meant that revenues to do public good had to be derived through the capitalist sytem, hence the pursuit of growth options.

It was the inheritance from Thatcher and B.Liar (and that from Ronnie Raygun in the USA) that brought the system down, not Brown.