Brown managed to stay in his Chancellor post for 10 years - no mean feat.
He bluffed and bullied his way through. He had less responsibility than ANY chancellor before him... having given a portion of it over to an unelected body... maybe a good thing, maybe not. During that 10 years, he served in one of the most corrupt Government's this country has ever seen - one with serious blood on its hands.
Now look... he's thrown his rules completely out of the window in this current crisis... and in his term as chancellor... his mantra was that he had ENDED boom and bust... yeah sure
If he had ended it for this country then it would have been ended for us regardless of what happened in other countries... otherwise it wouldn't be ended at all. 10 years of bluff ending in failure of what he was boasting. Yes, quite some record