- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Blue Books (Aug 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 189972608X
- ISBN-13: 978-1899726080
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
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A look at the damaged caused by Gordon Brown
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Coleman wrote this book in 2007 just as Gordon Brown left HM Treasury to become the unelected Prime Minister of Britain. The 'credit crunch' hadn't happened at the time of writing yet Coleman was already providing copious amounts of evidence that Gordon Brown was destroying the British economy and was accusing him of being the man who "has ruined our nation".
This book is a fairly short, but thoroughly comprehensive, compendium of Gordon Brown's ruinous economic and social policies and he scores twenty-two direct hits on Brown in twenty-two, fact-packed, riveting chapters. Coleman's criticisms of Brown's crude attempts at Stalinist social engineering, Viv Nicholson style economics and left-wing fascism give the reader a glimpse of how future history books are likely to record the era of Gordon Brown.
Plenty of simple, thought provoking arguments are laid out here for anyone - no matter what your political persuasion - and it's an easy read laid out across just 150-odd pages. Learn how Brown fiddled the inflation figures so he could falsely claim Britain had low inflation - a claim which allowed him to stoke up the biggest debt-fuelled bubble in British history. How Brown's box-ticking target culture has destroyed the public services. His deliberate expansion of state dependency as a means to an end. The precipitous decline of manufacturing under his stewardship and how New Labour's indulgent, kid glove treatment of globalised big business and big money was in sharp contrast to their treatment of Britain's small business sector which they have strangled to death with Soviet levels of red tape, regulations and bureaucracy. Over taxation, under investment, public and personal over indebtedness and tens of billions of pounds of central and local government waste. Bearing in mind what was to happen within months of Coleman finishing this book, Chapter 6 "The Imprudent Chancellor and the Worst Budget Deficit in Western Europe" makes some spookily prescient points.
Sadly, what makes this book essential reading for anyone who wants to know how the country got into its present mess and what makes Coleman's case so difficult to dispute, is that many of the things he predicts will happen actually did happen and within just months of the book being published. If you take into account Brown's time as Prime Minister his legacy becomes even worse than it was at the time Coleman wrote this book. Under Brown's Labour government we have seen the national debt double [and forecast to double again to £1.4 trillion by 2014/15], the budget deficit go through the roof [to the point where the government is now borrowing one pound of every four pounds it spends] and Brown personally engineering what must be the largest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in British history when he bailed out the banks. Thirteen years of Brownonomics has also saddled Britain with the widest gap between rich and poor since the Second World War. As Coleman says of the New Labour government..."If they had deliberately set out to destroy the country they could not have made a better job of things".
This book is a fairly short, but thoroughly comprehensive, compendium of Gordon Brown's ruinous economic and social policies and he scores twenty-two direct hits on Brown in twenty-two, fact-packed, riveting chapters. Coleman's criticisms of Brown's crude attempts at Stalinist social engineering, Viv Nicholson style economics and left-wing fascism give the reader a glimpse of how future history books are likely to record the era of Gordon Brown.
Plenty of simple, thought provoking arguments are laid out here for anyone - no matter what your political persuasion - and it's an easy read laid out across just 150-odd pages. Learn how Brown fiddled the inflation figures so he could falsely claim Britain had low inflation - a claim which allowed him to stoke up the biggest debt-fuelled bubble in British history. How Brown's box-ticking target culture has destroyed the public services. His deliberate expansion of state dependency as a means to an end. The precipitous decline of manufacturing under his stewardship and how New Labour's indulgent, kid glove treatment of globalised big business and big money was in sharp contrast to their treatment of Britain's small business sector which they have strangled to death with Soviet levels of red tape, regulations and bureaucracy. Over taxation, under investment, public and personal over indebtedness and tens of billions of pounds of central and local government waste. Bearing in mind what was to happen within months of Coleman finishing this book, Chapter 6 "The Imprudent Chancellor and the Worst Budget Deficit in Western Europe" makes some spookily prescient points.
Sadly, what makes this book essential reading for anyone who wants to know how the country got into its present mess and what makes Coleman's case so difficult to dispute, is that many of the things he predicts will happen actually did happen and within just months of the book being published. If you take into account Brown's time as Prime Minister his legacy becomes even worse than it was at the time Coleman wrote this book. Under Brown's Labour government we have seen the national debt double [and forecast to double again to £1.4 trillion by 2014/15], the budget deficit go through the roof [to the point where the government is now borrowing one pound of every four pounds it spends] and Brown personally engineering what must be the largest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in British history when he bailed out the banks. Thirteen years of Brownonomics has also saddled Britain with the widest gap between rich and poor since the Second World War. As Coleman says of the New Labour government..."If they had deliberately set out to destroy the country they could not have made a better job of things".
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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It amazed me for several years that Brown had a reputation for competence as a Chancellor (as PM his true abilities have shone like a beacon!). Certainly a very selfish, spineless, arrogant, inhuman, kleptomaniacal "statist" bully who in my opinion has NEVER done the right thing for his country, only what is politically expedient to promote himself. eg selling our gold reserves at the lowest possible price, so he appeared to be a good European. Sackable offence. One of many that an incompetent opposition and the press let him get away with.
You will correctly guess that with this background opinion that I enjoyed the book. There were more revelations of incompetence on a grand scale throughout, and the book is an easy read. Great. The implications for the UK though are, frankly, scary.
However, the book does state it is definitive and objective. Hmmm. Think instead that its a bit of a welcome rant. If you like in-depth intellectual analysis you will be disappointed. It is also lacking in supportive, investigative facts. This may though have made the book dull and a lot less appealing.
Nevertheless, anything that reveals to a wider audience what a mess we are in, and why, is welcome. Finding solutions is another matter. As an easy read it is ideal as an overview, and it gave me a lot more incidences & detail than I was previously aware of. It should in fact be used by opposition parties to formulate their battle plans. Why ANYONE in the Norwich by-election last week voted for Labour is beyond me, so I believe the book deserves to be compulsory reading for the electorate before they are allowed to vote!
In short, an enjoyable (but ultimately depressing for any responsible member of the tax-paying community)read if you dislike the target, Brown, and a good outline of some major issues that politicians will need to urgently resolve before the country is financially bankrupt.
You will correctly guess that with this background opinion that I enjoyed the book. There were more revelations of incompetence on a grand scale throughout, and the book is an easy read. Great. The implications for the UK though are, frankly, scary.
However, the book does state it is definitive and objective. Hmmm. Think instead that its a bit of a welcome rant. If you like in-depth intellectual analysis you will be disappointed. It is also lacking in supportive, investigative facts. This may though have made the book dull and a lot less appealing.
Nevertheless, anything that reveals to a wider audience what a mess we are in, and why, is welcome. Finding solutions is another matter. As an easy read it is ideal as an overview, and it gave me a lot more incidences & detail than I was previously aware of. It should in fact be used by opposition parties to formulate their battle plans. Why ANYONE in the Norwich by-election last week voted for Labour is beyond me, so I believe the book deserves to be compulsory reading for the electorate before they are allowed to vote!
In short, an enjoyable (but ultimately depressing for any responsible member of the tax-paying community)read if you dislike the target, Brown, and a good outline of some major issues that politicians will need to urgently resolve before the country is financially bankrupt.
62 of 71 people found the following review helpful
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If you want to know the damage that the Moron has done to the economy of Britain, this is the book you should read. A page turner filled with factually backed accusations. The effect of Gordon Brown's actions on the finances of his country, its institutions and its Constitution are all examined and picked apart. There is little here for your comfort but much for your ammunition pouch. No wonder this book is being sold at a premium - £25 per copy as opposed to the publisher's price £9.95 each and £25 for 10! Only towards the end of the book does the momentum fall off: the writer tires of his subject, and with such a subject, this should surprise no one.
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Unfortunately So Is the Author
This book does not give any sources for the claims it makes. I'm sure most of them are true. (I'm sure of this because there are many other, more reliable, books out there on the... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Frogstopper
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Published 18 months ago by unkledysfunktional
A great book
Oh, that there weren't more people who had the passion that Vernon Coleman showed when writing this book. He leaves Gordon Brown without a name (rightly so, in my opinion). Read more
Published 19 months ago by Tarasdad
Compulsory reading
You can't help but be left enraged by the deceit of Gordon Brown. He and Blair have ruined the very structure of our society for generations to come. Read more
Published 21 months ago by ebbw
How to stop it happening again?
Vernon Coleman has done a public service by writing this, but will we listen?
I recently finished this book and it does what it says on the label-makes you angry and... Read more
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Published on 17 May 2010 by Stephen F. Hayes
Not in the same league as Rawnsley - not by a long way!
Like Zubedsky, I am reviewing this book when I'm only part way through it. I'm not inclined to read any more.
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Published on 10 May 2010 by Francis Webster
Gordon is an even bigger moron than you could possibly imagine
If you think Gordon Brown is a bad man, you are right, however, I'm afraid he's a thousand times worse than you could have ever possibly imagined and more so. Read more
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