by David Kamikaze

Created on: January 15, 2010

To those of us in the UK, asking if Gordon Brown could become electable is like asking if it is possible to take a package holiday to Pandora, the beautiful alien world as depicted in Avatar. It seems such a strange question with such an obvious answer that it is very difficult to see how he could end up becoming electable. But more on that in a bit.

To the British electorate, Brown has been the architect of his own doom in many regards. As Chancellor, Gordon Brown had a mantra of being "prudent" with the countries finances. However, his mistakes - which are many and varied - have led to Britain being in the weakest position of any country in the global recession.

Where this prudence has been no-one really knows, as Brown when Chancellor made some catastrophic blunders. Taxing pension funds - which has led many funds to strain under the pressure and reducing the money that hard-working people have clearly saved for - has led us into a position where it is clear that people can no longer work enough hours to validly have enough put back to help them in their retirement.

Selling large quantities of our gold reserves at the end of the 90's, at their lowest value in decades, may have been appealing at the time but a decade later, with a huge deficit in our countries finances, gold value is at an all-time high and it has become commonplace now for companies to advertise on television for unwanted gold jewellery in exchange for cash.

Sitting on the gold for just a few years longer would have reaped much better returns for the country. Estimates recently suggested if we had sat on our gold reserves, the country could have been richer to the tune of three billion British Pounds.

That is not to mention increasing National Insurance contributions to the point where it is often better for low-income earners to be unemployed and claiming benefits, the Corporation Tax Threshold and of course, let us not forget everyones favourite elephant in the room, the Iraq War.

As Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has had much to contend with too. The Expenses Saga, which dragged politics in this country into the gutter, may not have been expressly his own fault but he, his party and most Members of Parliament in general, were all too happy to exploit the many gaping loopholes in the system for their own gain.

His bullish and largely undiplomatic approach to politics has also been exposed - Brown preferring to listen to his close friends and his eagerness to keep the few happy has led in

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