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Brown is totally out-of-control, declaring Sarkozy his beszt ftriend and spending - spending - spending in a completely batty manner.

Christina

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POLITICS HOME 11/12/09

Brown playing politics with Britain's economic reputation, says Osborne

George Osborne today accused Gordon Brown of playing politics with Britain's economic reputation.

Responding to reports that the Prime Minister overruled Treasury plans for a tougher approach to tackling the deficit in the pre-Budget report, a claim denied by Mr Brown, the shadow chancellor said:

"If Gordon Brown has overruled the advice of the Treasury in order to put his own political interests ahead of the economic interests of the nation, if he has imperilled the jobs and prosperity of millions for the sake of his wretched political dividing lines, then he has betrayed the responsibilities of the office he holds.

"There was nothing in the PBR to reassure international markets about the sustainability of our public finances or the Government's willingness to get a grip on the deficit - as we saw from yesterday's negative market reaction, Gordon Brown is playing politics with Britain's economic reputation."

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CONSERVATIVE HOME 11.12.09

"Incontinent" Brown pledged another £700m today, to tackle climate change

Gordon Brown's scorched earth policy continued apace this morning. A week ago he found £800m to spend on helping developing nations combat climate change. Today he doubled that, announcing that Britain will be committing £1.5bn to the same ends. By the time the Copenhagen circus has ended who knows how much he will have pledged.

Will this money be new money and therefore be added to Britain's £178bn deficit? Or will it be money taken from the existing aid budget and therefore denied to anti-malaria and other more urgent programmes? There’s a paper put together by Bjorn Lomborg [which] recommends a far-reaching programme to tackle malnutrition in Africa. It is transformational in its reach and that is the kind of project that UK aid money should be funding.

The Tories are waiting to announce their policy on this issue until Copenhagen is concluded but speaking on the phone to Andrew Mitchell a few moments ago the Tory aid spokesman accused Brown of "fiscal incontinence" in the way he was spraying around figures from one week to the next without explaining either from where the money would come or for what specifically it would be used.

Tim Montgomerie