• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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      3 days ago

      Brown sold off the gold reserve when gold was at a record low. He tried to increase pre-charge detention to 42 days and to introduce lie detectors into benefits claims.

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        Never claimed he was perfect. You can find fault with literally every PM that has ever existed. But him and Major seemed to be relatively scandal free compared to many who have come before and after them.

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        Gold had been underperforming for decades before Brown sold it off though, you cant really fault him for not predicting the future.

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      That’s fair. Major was before my time, so I just did a quick wiki glance, and did automatically dismiss him because he was a conservative in thatcher’s cabinet, but that doesn’t make him inherently worse than the rest on this list.

      Plus, we just saw what you get from a former civil rights lawyer in the Labour Party