Friday, December 19, 2008

Gordon Brown = Ramsay Macdonald

Yesterday the pound crashed by an amount not seen since 1931. Only by Brown being removed can the fall now be halted with all the horrifying implications such a collapse would involve. Wikipedia opens its account of the Labour politician Ramsay Macdonald as follows:

James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British politician and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose from humble origins to become the first Labour Prime Minister in 1924.

His first government lasted less than one year. Labour returned to power in 1929 but was soon overwhelmed by the crisis of the Great Depression, which split the Labour government. In 1931 he formed a "National Government" in which a majority of MPs were from the Conservatives. As a result, he was expelled from the Labour Party who accused him of 'betrayal'.

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