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[…] that facilitated the rich accumulating ever more capital. (p. 209) The fear of being viewed as ‘old Labour’ was undoubtedly a part of it, but Blair and Brown were true believers in the virtues and efficacy of the market, with their ‘light touch’ regulation and all that.49 Anderson writes about the dangers of hedge […]

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[…] complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the Royal Bank of Scotland which was about to go broke, bringing who-knows-what-else down with it. Martin noted: Gordon Brown, the Chancellor at the time, didn’t cause the crisis, but his hubristic policies in the run-up helped make the UK particularly vulnerable to a global financial […]

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[…] complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the Royal Bank of Scotland which was about to go broke, bringing who-knows-what-else down with it. Martin noted: Gordon Brown, the Chancellor at the time, didn’t cause the crisis, but his hubristic policies in the run-up helped make the UK particularly vulnerable to a global financial […]

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[PDF file]: […] Gordon Brown’s book, Beyond The Crash (London: Simon and Schuster, 2010), which I finally picked up off my shelves after ignoring it for years. I looked at Brown to see if he had answered the question: having bailedout the failed UK banks, adding £136 billion to the national debt in the process,9 why did […]

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[…] complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the Royal Bank of Scotland which was about to go broke, bringing who-knows-what-else down with it. Martin noted: Gordon Brown, the Chancellor at the time, didn’t cause the crisis, but his hubristic policies in the run-up helped make the UK particularly vulnerable to a global financial […]

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[PDF file]: […] Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the campaign against the Euro. Since Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had made it clear he wouldn’t support joining the single currency – which was about the only thing the shmuck got right – there was no […]

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[…] complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the Royal Bank of Scotland which was about to go broke, bringing who-knows-what-else down with it. Martin noted: Gordon Brown, the Chancellor at the time, didn’t cause the crisis, but his hubristic policies in the run-up helped make the UK particularly vulnerable to a global financial […]

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[…] Cummings directed campaigns against the Euro, the proposed North-eastern Assembly and the EU. I don’t remember the campaign against the Euro. Since Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown had made it clear he wouldn’t support joining the single currency – which was about the only thing the shmuck got right – there was no […]

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[PDF file]: […] Quigley’s thesis about Rhodes and the Round Table. But as one of the few comments on the book points out, it has almost no documentation.76 In this, Brown is following in Quigley’s footsteps, for Tragedy and Hope has over 1300 pages and no documentation at all. To my knowledge, Quigley has never publicly commented […]

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[…] Gordon Brown’s book, Beyond The Crash (London: Simon and Schuster, 2010), which I finally picked up off my shelves after ignoring it for years. I looked at Brown to see if he had answered the question: having bailedout the failed UK banks, adding £136 billion to the national debt in the process,9 why did […]

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