Gordon Brown hits back as Germans
attack tax give-away.
An extraordinary dispute between Britain and Germany on their rival approaches to the economic crisis overshadowed the start of the EU summit yesterday, laying bare deep divisions on the best way to rescue Europe.
The mud-slinging was started by Peer Steinbrück, the German Finance Minister, who called Gordon Brown’s plan to borrow heavily crass and depressing, and insisted that Germany would not follow calls to pump extra cash into a tax give-away. Mr Brown’s response was to dismiss the attack as “internal German politics” because of a dispute within Berlin’s Left-Right coalition over
whether to increase its fiscal stimulus to levels agreed by Britain and demanded by the European Commission in Brussels.
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When Gordon Brown told the Commons that he led the world into recovery, he was not telling the truth. Germany believes, as I do and many others, that one of the perpetrators of the oncoming disaster cannot also be the saviour.
When I listened to Esther Rancid eulogising over hero Brown, all my misogyny kicked back in.
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