Baron Stoneybroke of Kircaldy

There is a pattern of sacrificing the future to the present. Why would he sell the gold reserves? This is living off your capital. You can live really well for a time selling off assets and running round town with a fat wallet. That’s what we have done. Firstly we have raided the family vaults and then when they were bare we borrowed money from strangers to keep our crazy lifestyle going. That is Gordon Brown’s legacy, but why did we let him do it? The fact that nobody in the Cabinet disagreed with him or was able to stop him tells us a lot about the sorry bunch round Blair.