Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Dreams.

Data is there to be used.

Check the cost of the Faukland and Iraq wars again your £5billion

Look at the reasons given at the time for selling gold.

The Uk was not the only country to flog their gold.

Strange, but I always think of trinkets of little intrinsic value when gold is mentioned.

It is like a marker in the sand waiting for the tide to come in.

Have a good weekend the world is coming to the end.

Gold hits all-time high of $1,500 an ounce (which means the amount Gordon flogged for £2bn would today fetch £13BILLION)By Daily Mail Reporter

Short-changed: When sold at 1999 levels Gordon Brown got £2.3bn for 400 tons of gold. Today he would have got £12.95bn
The British economy was short-changed by almost £11billion when Gordon Brown sold 400 tons of Britain's gold reserves at rock-bottom prices.

Gold today rose above the $1,500 dollar-an-ounce barrier for the first time and a sale of the precious metal by the former Chancellor that raised £2.3billion would today have fetched a whopping £12.95billion.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378784/Price-gold-hits-record-1-500-What-Gordon-Brown-sold-2bn-fetch-13bn.html#ixzz1tyy96inf



Complete fool and a idiot, thats Labour for you.

The Falkland war in my opinion was right, money far from wasted.

Boris Johnson for next Prime minster

dreamcatcher

$1,500 gold price is not a all time high ?

Even worse than aldwickk. :-)) Fred you would make a good MP. Looking at other countries and stating we were not the only ones or theres worse across the water.
Gordon cost the country a fortune and we are still paying for his term.

The decision to sell the gold – taken by Mr Brown when he was Chancellor – is regarded as one of the Treasury's worst financial mistakes and has cost taxpayers almost £7 billion.

Mr Brown and the Treasury have repeatedly refused to disclose information about the gold sale amid allegations that warnings were ignored.

Following a series of freedom of information requests from The Daily Telegraph over the past four years, the Information Commissioner has ordered the Treasury to release some details. The Treasury must publish the information demanded within 35 calendar days – by the end of April.

The sale is expected to be become a major election issue, casting light on Mr Brown's decisions while at the Treasury.

Last night, George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, demanded that the information was published immediately. "Gordon Brown's decision to sell off our gold reserves at the bottom of the market cost the British taxpayer billions of pounds," he said. "It was one of the worst economic judgements ever made by a chancellor.

Cash raised from the sales of the gold was reinvested in foreign currencies.

Gordon must rank as one of the worst Prime Ministers of all time. The only one that might have been worse was Michael Foot, but thankfully he wasn't elected. The Labour manifesto of Michael Foot was called the longest suicide note in history.

It is a great shame that John Smith died too soon. I would have liked hime to remain as leader of the Labour party instead of Blair. The good thing about him was that he was unelectable and we would not have had Blair's government.

His nose must be bigger than that already due the the lies that Labour tell on a daily basis.

I think Freds nose must be even longer. :-))

If it was not so serious I would laugh . This picture is all I remember of our Gordon.

another Labour party member with a big nose, oh its mr Blair.

The above, I bet that put a smile on your face fred or perhaps not. :-))

This is the picture of Gordon that I remember.

dreamcatcher

The euro ?