Next time our super PM goes jogging - can't he just continue and not head back? Seeing the back of him would do wonders for our morale. We would know the worst is over.

Richard, London, UK

What people don't seem to have grasped yet is that inflation is not the worry. Deflation is. Soon you are going to be so relatively poor that you will not be able to afford much and the prices of EVERYTHING will drop drastically. Sorry to tell you house prices will fall 80 - 90 percent. Good luck.

Jon, Bath,

Gordon Brown and his puppet Darling have been telling us for months that the UK economy is the BEST placed to weather the global economic slowdown!
The OECD is telling us that the UK is WORST placed!

How can you tell a NuLab commissar is lying! When their mouths start moving1

Stephanie King, larnaca, Cyprus

Can we afford any more of Mr Browns right decisions. Look at some, Paid over 13 years £156 billion to EU when he knew 95% is unnacounted for, sold half our gold at less than one third the value, smashed a £100billion pensions industry. Borrowed up to £300billion from banks to pay banks + 40billions

Jas, Alders, UK

Gerry Watts,
this is funny considering that many of the UK's sectors have notoriously horrible service.

Alex, London, england

Things can only get ...errrrrr....WORSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ian payne, walsall,

Yet more millions being wasted in a pitiful attempt to buy votes. The cupboard is well and truly bare. Will the last Nulabour supporter kindly turn off the lights and shut the door.

Roger, Surrey.,

I doubt that Gieves&Hawkes will be happy with that
sort of publicity.It seems they are responsible for the
worst dressed man on the planet.His clothes fit him as
badly as he fits the position of Prime Minister ie they
fit him nowhere.

john Vestey, porto Ercole, Italy

I just think it is a terrrible pity that we all have to endure a further 18 months of this truly awful government.
They are going to hang on and hang on.
Just you wait-Nothing will come up, nothing will change for the better and things will get much worse .

WILLIAM GRIERSON, KIMPTON, UK

£50 an hour for a trainer? Who's paying for this?

tris, dundee,

There should be a new meaning for" Inheritance Tax": a tax on future generations by this Government,paying for their incompetence. If only brown could carrying on walking, and take his borrowing with him. Do go rapidly into that political goodnight-the country just can't afford you any more.

A Walton, Leicester, England

Gordon Brown has hit the UK economy by his offensive, ineffectiveness and is now again tinkering at the edges because he lacks the courage to take radical measures.
Your dogma has damaged us Gordon and you really must resign.

A.M. Williams, Stafford,

ours will be the only leading econonmy in recession because its based purely on house prices and people borrowing huge sums of money on the back of it and spend spend spend.well the bubble had to burst sometime and that time is now

pat, solihull, uk

Offensive? Yes, I find New Labour to be very offensive.

Now that's decided, can we get on with coming up with sensible policies to deal with recession?

Paul, London,

Can we have the same trainers who slimmed down Gordon have a crack at Public Spending? I daresay they'll be a heck of a lot better than the Treasury.

Paul, London,

He wasn’t elected; we can’t get rid of him, three cheers for the Dictatorship.

Mike, Berlin,

Shouldn't this read? ..."Brown IS offensive and WE are going to be hit by recession"

judy, Liverpool, England

Our first "lollipop head" world leader ... and it's a bloke ... we must be so proud as a nation .....

susan, glasgow,

Now if Gordon could also slim the State, slim the taxes, slim the number of quangos, and slim the red tape from Brussels, as well as he has slimmed himself, he might yet have some impact.

Paul Freeman, London, England

The headline should read. Brown’s autumn offensive is hit by his own taxation policy.

He has no one to blame but himeself and we are all paying the price, some should buy him a dictionary for Xmas so he can understand the meaning of prudence. Old Labour ideas rebranded New Labour.

steve tea, Manchester, cheshire

More trouble for poor Gordon....there is more round the corner too if he doesn't come off of the Atkins diet - no fruit/bread/milk is a suicide step to ill-health...get tucked in to the eggs and bacon mate - you know it makes sense!

Derek Clifton, Andover, Hampshire, England

He looks so old and worn and even more unpleasant than before.

Delphine, Oxford,

I am very grateful that the government has done something, no matter how small it is. I am excited to see what will happen to the market as it will certainly affect my family's ability to sell our property and finally move up the market.

Alex, Chichester, UK

Not that long ago we were told again and again by NuLab.,that immigration is wonderful for our economy.So how is it we end up as the only leading country facing a recession ? It looks to me like we've got the worst of both worlds,as you can bet they'll all be entitled to unemployment benefits.

Mike, Dunstable, England

How can we have gone from GBs proud boast that we were one of the world's leading economies with one of the fastest growth rates, into recessiion so quickly? Why did GB go against Tony Blair's advice that we should have joined the Euro. Please step down GB and let someone else do the job..

Michael Bowden, Christchurch, England

GBrown Jan07 'Masterplan to Change The World'.

He was proposing to reorganise IMF, WB, UN, EU, G8, ETC ETC - are the MIGS (Men In Grey Suits) making him suffer, and consequently us.

Or is this a sinister Masterplan to equalise the world's populations?

Where is TBlair and what is his roll ?

John, colchester, uk

Is Gordy jogging to keep warm as he can't afford the heating, and has he lost weight because he can't afford to eat properly?

Sue, Barnsley, UK

Now we know where all the taxes are going.
Gieves and Hawkes suits and personal trainers for GORDO.
How many million suits has he got?
How many billion £50 per hour training sessions?
Is all this expense justified and does it meet targets?
It's our money.
The nation needs to know.

David Nammory, Liverpool,

The damage has been done now. It's just a case of putting measures in place so that we don't allow house prices to rocket again, inevitably leading to the crash we are about to see. Brown claimed the credit for the boom and must take the longest walk for the bust.

Mike, Bristol,

This superficial market tinkering has only one effect: It convinces the market that Brown is soft on inflation, crashes the currency and so drives rates higher. As ever, meddling makes it worse.

A statue would do better.

Pat, Coromandel, NZ

To Paul, down the road in Singapore; the ending for your comment should be "off a short pier".

Bill Peter, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

With two fools like brown & darling what do you expect......

John, London, Uk

He should take another long walk.... and keep going.

Paul, Singapore,

Hardly surprising when the UK years ago decided that a "services economy" was the way to go, basically abandoning manufacturing anything, and forgetting that other countries are just as capable of providing 'sevices' ,and much more cheaply. A case of all your eggs in one tatty basket?

Gerry Watts, Hobart Tasmania, Australia

The Emperor's New Suit plus a lot of smoke and mirrors and no answers to simple questions!
Methinks this charade is a cover up for the more sinister rogue of inflation via the huge hikes in food, fuel and energy costs!

Mike O Connor, Plymouth,