Even after 16 years it is hard to forget the late Robert Maxwell. Casting around, desperate for money, he stole the pension funds of his employees and, for whatever good he may have done in his lifetime, he is now remembered as a figure of hate. The comparison with Gordon Brown is irresistible.
Brown has of course already raided the pension funds of the country, leaving millions hard up in their old age, but we now learn that in his desperation for money he has raided the lottery funds as well. Read John Major in today's Sunday Telegraph.
I would remark in passing that history students of the future will discuss how one man, thoroughly nice but far from clever and another, thoroughly clever but far from nice, could both have made such appalling Prime Ministers.
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