Please don't get me wrong Steve the seeds of the "crash" in 2008 were sown in the USA in 1998, Gordon Brown was a financially irresponsible twat throughout all 13 years of the Blair/Brown era (Pension raids and selling off gold at bargain basement prices in order to "buy" votes). I have very little time for "professional" politicians and that is what Gordon Brown was. Maggie on the other hand was voted into office with the country in ruins and she did what she had to do for the good of the country not the Conservative Party.