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It's Browns fault that here it was far worse than any other country in the world and we are the worst placed of any country in the world to get ourselves out of it. Brown was in thrall to the financial sector, so he replaced the effective watchdogs with the toothless FSA, gambled the entire economy on the impossibility of ever-rising house prices and a credit-led boom whose bursting was inevitable, to fund massive increases in government spending, illegal wars and the like. It was Brown that cost the country over £2billion by selling 60% of our gold at not only a historically low price, but one which he then drove further down by announcing the sale beforehand, against all advice. Judged purely on his financial judgement, the man is an incompetent arse and should be sacked.