Vote!
Does Gordon Brown deserve credit for the end of the recession?
- 29% are saying yes
- 71% are saying no
comments from readers
- Johan
28 January 2010 - no
Your's is a bogus question: it starts from the premise that there has been an "end to recession" - which it has not, not in your wildest dreams... Neither Gordon Brown nor anyone else could possibly "deserve credit" for something that has not happened ...
- Tonypro
28 January 2010 - yes
By the poll statistics it would appear that the Cameron 'spin' machine is winning the day!
- Bill Ford
28 January 2010 - no
Lets see what happens after the general election 1st.
- Peter Kenyon
28 January 2010 - yes
When it comes, as it will if Labour can remain in power.
- Margaret Emma
01 February 2010 - no
The recession is by no means over - there is worse yet to come. This is merely an hiatus whilst the powers (that want) to be regroup after the failure of Copenhagen.
- suell
01 February 2010 - no
Brown has managed the economy as well as anyone could (want about Alastair Darling's role, though?) but can we really say the recession is over!
Sue Lloyd
- jacater
02 February 2010 - yes
The Tories' indecisiveness and incompetence could have led us into depression. The fact they have no clear policy on the economy (as shown in the ComRes/Independent poll that says 82% of people don't know the Tory economic policy) leaves us bereft of the leadership and decisive action of Brown's government to help us out of the recession.
- The Flying Scotsman
03 February 2010 - no
Does Jack the Ripper, deserve credit for leaving the bodies, where they could be found?
- npgdavies
03 February 2010 - no
He deserves full credit for starting the recession
- eamon1
04 February 2010 - yes
Brown and Darling have done as well as you could have hoped considering the Credit Crunch produced a massive collapse in demand and recession. Would the Tories have tried Quantitatve Easing, re-capitalised the banks and partly nationalised some of the banks in response to this crisis? Cameron's U Turn on the Deficit Reduction, now that his plan is identical to the Government's after attacking for so long, shows he is out of his depth.
Eamon - wislon
05 February 2010 - no
Gordon Brown has been a nightmare as Chancellor and PM. He ignored advice and sold off UK gold reserves on the cheap and raided pensions, triggering a wave of shutdowns of company final salary pension schemes. Having been encouraged to save and be 'prudent' for ages, the UK public is now saddled with the banker debts he did nothing to regulate at the time. Our children will still be paying for this into their middle age. Far from being upper class, well heeled or rich, a lot of ordinary families are going to be stung by Inheritance Tax, due to the fiscal drag on house prices, particularly in the South. When they try and take steps to mitigate this, they find they are hamstrung by all kinds of Brown stealth-tax clauses aimed at Trusts etc. If you work hard and pay your way throughout your working life, you will wake up to find you are no more than a cash cow to this corrupt government and the establishment behind them. The Tories will be no different.
- ptharris
05 February 2010 - yes
Just consider what Cameron and Osborn would have done.
- 123gb
08 February 2010 - no
hopeless left-wing politics, time and time again, proved inadequate!
- treborc
09 February 2010 - no
I might have said yes if he had seen it coming.
- treborc
09 February 2010 - no
I might have said yes if he saw it coming he did not
