QUOTE (newres @ Feb 1 2017, 01:49 PM)
Not Gordon Brown and Nicola Sturgeon then?
Not Sturgeon, she has never been a position to do anything about it, the problem was in the financial markets, not Scotland.
Brown and all the other prime ministers and chancellors since deregulation are certainly to blame for not re-establishing some sensible ground rules - Thatcherism/Reaganism created a period of growth and affluence, largely based in the UK on the sell off of a large chunk of government assets and freeing the financial market to pretend their assets were worth much more than they were.
Major, Blair and Brown seemed to think it would last forever. Brown found out the hard way that it wouldn't. He did a pretty good job of rescuing the situation, but we are still paying for it.