I see that Jeremy Clarkson is in trouble for calling Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot" during a show in Australia. (It's a live stage version of Top Gear. I fear I may be compelled to spend all eternity there if St Peter turns me away at the Pearly Gates). Clarkson thinks that Brown is responsible for all the problems in the economy.
Leave aside for a moment the distastefulness of calling attention to Brown's disability, which is the result of a childhood rugby accident. Clarkson recently admitted in his newpaper column that hed'd taken all of his money out of UBS and invested it with....AIG, just before that company had a narrow escape from bankruptcy. He complained that AIG's annual report was full of terminology that he couldn't understand (which may not be much of a hurdle, in truth), but he still went ahead and put his money there. It doesn't sound like he's well placed to criticise Gordon Brown's financial prowess.
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