Could Brown be more wrong?

"Britain remains well-placed to withstand this uncertainty in the global economy" - Gordon Brown, January 2008

"Britain is well placed to weather the first financial crisis of the new global age" - Gordon Brown, September 2008

Which is why the pound is tanking....

"Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past." - Gordon Brown, November 1999

"And we will never return to the old boom and bust." - Gordon Brown, 2007

Which is why GDP growth is falling off a cliff...

"I will not allow house prices to get out of control" - Gordon Brown, March 1997

Which is why house prices need to correct by over 40% to return the house price / income ratio to the long-term average, and why Britain is in worse shape than the US.

Veep Debate

CNN's poll of 611 Americans conducted during last night's VP debate came to the following conclusions:

• Only 26 percent of those surveyed said that Palin was more intelligent in the debate compared to the 57 percent who chose Biden
• Overall, 51 percent of the debate watchers said that Biden did the best job in the debate, while 36 percent gave the nod to Palin.
• However, the Alaska governor overcame expectations as 84 percent of the debate watchers said she did better than expected

So lets get this straight; Biden is deemed more intelligent by a 31 percentage point margin and is judged to have won the debate by a 15 point gap. Yet, Palin exceeded the expectations of 84% of those polled - They clearly had a staggeringly low opinion of her before she began.

Just because she didn't fall flat on her face doesn't mean she won the debate, nor does it make her any more credible. In the event of McCain being unable to fulfill his duties, for whatever reason, can you really imagine this woman as President?