Tory myth is 10 years told

SAVIOUR World followed Brown IT’S 10 years since our biggest political and economic crisis since the war – and the start of the Tory myth they still repeat that Labour caused the global economic crash.

In fact it was the greed of bankers, cheap credit and slack regulation that almost brought the world to its knees.

I saw at first hand how Gordon Brown as Prime Minister not only saved the banks, but thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

World money markets had seized up like a rusty bike chain. Chancellor Alistair Darling said we were hours from cashpoints closing. Gordon’s decision to nationalise RBS and back others like Lloyds and HBOS stopped an economic depression. His actions were replicated by governments

Don’t mess with eggs. Edwina

Currie lost her ministerial job over them, I got hit by one in Rhyl and now people are panicking after 700,000 Dutch eggs were found to have pesticide in them. But someone would have to eat 10,000 of the eggs to become ill. The real health alert would be standing next to someone who did!

I’m a big Mo Farah fan. We competed against each other in a game show with his daughter and my granddaughter. But the real star of the London World Athletic Championship was Botswana’s Isaac Makwala. Banned from the 400m final he was expected to win after catching a bug, he ran alone to qualify for the 200m semi-final, then two hours later came second to get in the final. He may not have won but boy does he deserve a gold medal for guts.

across the world. But when we nationalised RBS with £22billion of taxpayers’ money, the new chief executive Stephen Hester tried to give £1billion of it as bonuses to the very bankers who got us into the mess!

Me and my son David’s online petition to get them to give up the bonuses got 30,000 backers. So Hester asked to meet us and RBS backed down and paid just £175million – mostly to cashiers.

But Cameron and Osborne opposed the bailout and thought bank regulation was too strict.

Under them, real earnings fell by over 10 per cent, they doubled the national debt and slashed £9billion tax credits and benefits to low or middle income families.

They’ve given £27billion away to the wealthy and big business and given us Brexit, which could wreck our economy even further.

The Tories did more harm to Britain than any greedy banker ever could.