In summary:

[andygates]

In the words of Warwick LPMUD, "McCain is massacred into tiny fragments with devastating force."  

Sometimes the fun is in the game, sometimes it's in the crushing victory.

Good work, guys. 

Comments

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I'm not an economist so I can't comment.

[despaer.livejournal.com]

Good things they did - Introduce the minimum wage, give interest rate setting to the Bank of England

Bad things they did - introduce the tax on pension dividends, move our system of taxation over to one done by stealth rather than obvious means (income tax and vat), set the housing boom in motion.

Credit where it is due, it wasn't all bad but the problem was that the bad stuff was done in an underhand way (remember how everyone used to think that they were prudent with tax revenue?) and we will be paying through either increased taxation or high inflation for this for about 10 years starting in about 2010 or 2011.

Of course I may be talking cobblers, so if I am hopefully this blog entry will have been buried deep under all Gates' other stuff by then :)