Sometimes you just need a good belly laugh to brighten up the day, which was easily achieved when reading that former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is reportedly hoping to take on the £270,000-a-year role as head of the International Monetary Fund.
This is the man who only recently admitted that he had not understood how entangled the world’s financial institutions had become, was wrong to leave banking regualtion in the hands of the Financial Services Authority, sold all the gold at a record low price, spent as if there was no tomorrow with nothing to show for it….
Fortunately, he must first be nominated by the UK Government, so as long as the one making the decision on the day is the one in possession of the communal brain cell, the world should be safe. However, equally strange things have happened, Tony Blair is a Middle East Peace Envoy.