Gordon Brown - depressing the national psychology

That Gordon Brown has and is continuing to do massive damage to this country and to its economy should be no surprise to anyone. And I'm certainly not going to rehash all the arguments about exactly what Brown is doing wrong. But I think that there is another aspect to the anti-Brown case that is is worth discussing. And that is the damage Brown is doing to the economy simply by staying in office.

I'd argue that a substantial part of economics - as with all social sciences - needs to take into account the human and psychological aspects to both boom and bust. The economy is, to some extent, dependent on how the people within that economy feel about what is happening. What we are seeing today is the manic depression, if you will, of the UK (and global) economy. The boom years were the manic phase of our economic psychology. Now the bust face is that psychology plunging into depression. And our economic psychology will not start to improve until circumstances change. 

Which is why Gordon has to go. He is one of those circumstances that has to change. Psychologically, he is associated with the ersatz boom phase that the economy went through. He was Chancellor - his policies led to the current meltdown. And he is presiding over the economic freefall. He is associated with ruining the economy, and doing nothing other than wasting money on deeply flawed attempts to turn that economy around. Everything about him reeks of a deep and destructive failure. 

A good many things need to happen before the economy picks up again. The removal of Gordon Brown from office is one of them. He is associated with economic failure and if the nation is going to get the confidence back to start spending again, then it will be under a different Prime Minister. 

Put simply, our economic psychology ain't gonna get any better until we kick the Gordon Brown habit that we have had for over a decade...