Brown's £2billion clanger

For years we have been fed the line that, Gordon Brown is an excellent Chancellor, and he has run the economy extremely well. However, it looks as though that house of cards is coming crashing down around him at the moment.

This Sunday's latest revelation is that he (yet again) defied experts advice and flogged off a portion of the country's gold reserves at a bargain basement price, losing the country £2billion in the process.

Now, i'm no economist, but even I know the "buy low, sell high" principle. In fact, anybody working in the financial sector knows that he has dropped a big clanger. In addition to this, the consequences for anyone in the financial sector losing this much money would be an instant sacking. But, as we seen far too often from this government, if you make a complete fuck up you get promoted. If Gordon can lose such a large amount as Chancellor, can you imagine the damage he will do when the Labour party coronate elect him as the next PM.