The idea that Brown crippled defined benefit pension schemes single handedly is bunkum. Removing the tax relief on share dividends had an effect but it was only circa 12/13% of the deficit at the time. As most funds ****ed themselves partly due to them being wedged into the dot.com boom, and took a bath when that crashed.Emperor was a joke but Blairs ambition was to be President of Europe
Blair and Bush should be rotting in jail as war criminals for the Iraq war and the aftermath from that
Brown changed the Pension Fund tax rules which resulted in a £5-6b per year loss to the Pension Funds
Brown also sold off the gold reserves
He did sell some of the gold reserve off, which with hindsight was a mistake as the price subsequently boomed. But again it’s been blown out of all proportion in terms of its significance, it was £3.5BN worth at the time.
This lot increased the national debt in a decade (pre COVID) by over £1TR more than doubling it, yet it barely ever seem to get a mention. It’s laughable.
