On Monday 4 May’s Today, at 8:15 am, interviewing Harriet Harman, JH’s questions implied that Gordon Brown was responsible for the recession and the run on the banks. At 8.55, interviewing Gillian Tett of the FT, he accepts worldwide responsibility for the crisis. For Tett’s brilliant book Fool’s Gold shows how American bankers gave us sub-prime and consequent disaster.
This isn’t something you can be BBC-“balanced” about. Either Gordon Brown did it on his own – the view of everyone from our incompetent cartoonists to Times editorials – or the Americans did it. (Whisper: the second one is right.)
Talking to Harriet Harman, JH said that Brown “actually encouraged – and I use the word advisedly – the sort of crisis we are in with the banks”. Then by continual interruption, and that slightly sinister soft-voiced approach he’s got into latterly, he did his best to stop HH saying that the crisis was “caused internationally”, and was “globally interconnected”.
When Gillian Tett came on at 8.55 he let her say that “In reality the entire system went mad, and we have to fix the system”. Humbly, JH asks: “What’s the first thing we’ve got to do?”
Come on John, you can do better than this! (And I use those words advisedly.)
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