Gordon is a Moron: The Definitive and Objective Analysis of Gordon Brown's Decade as Chancellor of the Exchequer Paperback – 1 Aug. 2007

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".

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 frustrated. Just to take ne exmple, not the costliest but the most obviously stupid and wicked even at the time-Gordon sold off our gold reserves at the bottom of the market and we have nothing to show for it. Why? I am moved to suggest it might have been done out of sheer anti-English spite, or just becuse he could and it felt good to exercise power. Certainly there is no rational explanation. In China, anyone guilty of this level of economic incompetence, indeed betrayal of national treasure would not just have been sacked, but executed.The take home message is not so much that Gordon the psychopathic, immumerate, controlling, foul tempered communist moron has damaged our economy and much else in a way that will take our children a generation to repair, BUT that all the facts about what was being done were in the public realm AT THE TIME and still it went on. Why wasn't he stopped? How COULD we have let him get away with his pension theft, he certainly out did that other Labour (ex) politician Robert Maxwell when it came to dipping his fingers into other peoples' retirement savings to fund his grandiose schemes.We need to put in some kind of triple lock to prevent anything like this ever happening again. However, with every benefit claimant and government dependant (Brown increased both more than any of his predecessors) having a vote, and apparently fully determined to fall for immoral nonsense like the communist dog-whistle slogans 'tax the rich' and 'pay off the debt on the proceeds of growth' , it seems likely we will learn nothing and repeat the same mistakes again. It will serve us right.

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).Vern meticulously and systematically demolishes the New Labour mantra/lie that Gordon Brown was the best Chancellor that we've had in recent memory.From the bleeding of the masses for taxes to the bloating of the civil service paid for by those taxes (to enlist and keep loyal New Labour voters), to the selling off of half of the UK's gold reserve at rock bottom prices (and pre-announcing this, thereby depressing prices beforehand), to the shocking injustice of means testing, and much more; the list goes on. A must read.My only criticism is that the sources used for the book aren't referenced and so at times it seems like a rant (but with good reason).However, this book also inadvertently shows Tony (the liar) Blair's recent assertion that he kept Gordon Brown as Chancellor, as he thought that Gordon would do more damage as a backbencher, as laughable. Brown couldn't have done more damage to the UK if he tried. What was clear to me about Brown from this book was that he was a dyed-in-the-wool socialist, tax and spend and damn the consequences. On the grounds of this book Brown should be tried for Treason. He makes the bankers seem like choirboys.

I have read and re-read the review of M Woodman and still cannot understand the point being made by him/her or whether he is actually criticising the premise of the book.As far as I can tell from a long memory of British politics, Mr [Dr] Coleman has hit every nail on the head of the disaster known as Gordon Brown.I have had to read the book in short bursts because the truth of what the author states is so clear makes me feel very angry and powerless [don't mention the general election]. Much as Margaret Thatcher was hated by the left nobody could have ever written an analysis of her tenure in such stark terms.I hope that the books author sent several editions to No.10 in the hope that Mr Brown would sue.

EVERY PERSON WHO VOTES IN ELECTIONS SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. IF PEOPLE HAD READ IT BEFORE THE LAST ELECTION THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE A COALITION GOVERNMENT. NOBODY HAS DONE MORE DAMAGE TO THIS COUNTRY THAN THIS MORON SINCE THE END OF THE LAST WORLD WAR.