Get real, The EU and The USA consulted Brown and Alistair Darling (Chancellor under Brown) on how to deal with the Global crash (mostly created by people like Sunak who made his millions from it). If you properly examine the financial data from the period, we were back on an upward trend after the crash and would have been back to pre-crash levels within a couple of years. The data then starts a gradual and sustained downward trajectory after Cameron became PM and Osborne was Chancellor. Brown, far from skinting us (the finance gamblers did that) was helping us to recover. This is not opinion, it is fact, the data is there, look at it.