Explain why you sold Britain's gold, Gordon Brown told
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.
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Governments going bankrupt? Just an accident. Only an accident. A coincidence. Nothing special. Keep your eyes closed. Companies and banks aren't involved. Certainly they aren't!
I see this falls into that insultingly passive avoidance category of :
" Just go back to sleep...It'll all work out just fine."
Rather "go back to sleep... don't check these strange sounds downstairs... nothing is happening... robbers don't come to anybody at all... and they certainly won't dare come to you... especially you... and robbery is just an urban legend..."