SNP MOCKS PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN OVER NEW GLOBAL ORDER COMMENTS.

SNP Treasury spokesman Stewart Hosie MP, today (Monday) mocked the Prime Minister for suggesting that this recession, which has already seen unemployment hit almost two million is the "the difficult birth-pangs of a new global order".

Mr Hosie said:

"This is meaningless rubbish. Gordon Brown’s remarks are typical New Labour speak - just spin to deflect any criticism of the man who was at the financial helm of the UK for a decade.

”These are not ‘birth-pangs’ so much as the death throes of a failed Labour government.

"Gordon Brown might be better answering why he allowed a credit bubble during his tenure as Chancellor or why debt levels were so high that the recession can now only be fought by doubling the national debt to over £1 trillion.

"The tens of thousands of people losing their jobs are looking for help now, as are the businesses who are still struggling to get credit from the banks yet all Gordon Brown can do is spout nonsense about 'new global orders'."