[News] Alistair Darling RIP

[Sid and the Sharknados]

He should also take some credit for keeping the country together during the Scottish Independence Referendum, since as chairman of the Better Together campaign he'd have undoubtedly taken the blame if it had gone the other way.

 

[London Irish]

Key part of a financial deregulation government that took their eye of the bankers’ shithousery. Also a pal of Epstein’s like Mandy.

I think that’s a no from me Dermot

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Sad news, he was a very decent man.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I know, l'm not far short of that figure, perhaps l ought to make a start on my obituary.

He was younger than me by a few months.
a thoroughly decent, extremely competent and modest politician.
As Larry Elliott, the Economics Editor in the Guardian, wrote yesterday: he got us through the crisis and even had the economy gently growing, then Cameron and Osborne wrecked it all with austerity.

 

[Weststander]

I stand to be corrected but at the time of the banking crisis was it actually genuine that the line of the cash points were about to run dry of cash it was Darling who intervened and kept the cash flowing ?

He was seen driving around in a Securicor, topping ATM’s up.