Super Gordon!

According to Paul Krugman in the NYT Op Ed section this am .... Gordon Brown did good .... in fact he did exceptionlly good ....

"Has Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, saved the world financial system? ..... the Brown government has shown itself willing to think clearly about the financial crisis, and act quickly on its conclusions. And this combination of clarity and decisiveness hasn’t been matched by any other Western government, least of all our own."

Wow. He does make the point (quite a lot) that the UK is small fry on the economic stage as compared to the colossus that is the US .... but somehow our little nation stood tall and persuaded other world leaders to act not on ideology .... but instead to to look insightfully yet decisively into the abyss ...and actually do the right thing .....

The Guardian is less adulatory .... but flattering nonetheless .... holding its breath for a Labour revival .... and for a Brownian renaissance ....

As my mum would say .... silent waters run deep ....



Addendum: Just read that Krugman (of Princeton and the NYT column cited above was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics today ... so he must know what he is talking about ....)