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Gordon Brown to head the IMF?

Forget party politics for a second.  Anyone who has read Jonathan Powell's insider account of Gordon Brown's behaviour in Downing Street cannot, in my view, possibly think the former Prime Minister would make a suitable head of the IMF.

Powell's book, The New Machiavelli, might be a subjective recollection from a loyal Blairite.  But if only fraction of things happened the way he describes, Brown simply isn't up to the job.

Then, of course, there's the small matter of how Gordon presided over a reckless credit bubble - and helped turn the crunch that followed from a banking crisis into a sovereign debt problem.

It's precisely because the IMF is about to start grappling with problems as profound and difficult as any in its history that we need an A grader at the helm.

But then again, if anyone wanted to discredit the whole idea of bailing out Eurozone countries, putting the man with a reverse Midas touch in charge ....  Any vacancies at the European Central Bank, perhaps? 

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