Whilst listening to Gordon Brown during the 2010 General Election campaign it is difficult to escape an impression that he behaves like a firefighter in dealing with the current financial crisis. He gets into a combative rhetoric and posture and lambastes his opponents as threats to economic recovery. In 2008 Gordon was "the world saviour". Now he got into even a hotter role.
Indeed Gordon is a firefighter. But either a stupid one or, worse, one with a hero syndrome. All in all, "the world saviour" in the current firefighting role comes across as a bit of a Walter Mitty.
Since writing this article, the author found that Lord Lamont also compared Gordon Brown to an arsonist posing as a firefighter in his article over a year ago (albeit in a different context). It seems it is not only an unbridled imagination.
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