GRAY BLUNDERS INTO BANKING.

GRAY BLUNDERS INTO BANKING.

HAS HE FORGOTTEN HIS ROLE AS ENTERPRISE MINISTER? Commenting on Iain Gray’s attack at First Minister’s Questions today SNP MSP Joe FitzPatrick - a member of the Scottish Parliament's Finance Committee - said the Labour leader had blundered badly with his choice of subject since Fred Goodwin had been closely associated with Gordon Brown for over 10 years and it has even been reported that Fred Goodwin was knighted on the advice of Gordon Brown. He also failed to realise that his former boss, Alistair Darling, accepted in the House of Commons that Fred Goodwin's pension was considered by the Government but that it did not understand the arrangements. Commenting Mr FitzPatrick said: “This was an incredible own goal by Iain Gray. In his attempts to smear he forgot about his party’s open flank as concerns Fred Goodwin – namely the close links between Gordon Brown and Fred Goodwin. “By taking this tack Iain Gray has just shown how Westminster has a great burden of responsibility for the financial crisis we face. “If Iain Gray wants people to resign over Fred Goodwin perhaps he should look to Gordon Brown who appointed him as an advisor and reportedly suggested Fred Goodwin for a knighthood? “Perhaps he can also explain why his former boss – Alistair Darling – admitted that Fred Goodwin's pension was considered by the Government? “Iain Gray hasn’t got a leg to stand on concerning the financial crisis. Since Gordon Brown is so keen to say it all started in America does Iain Gray regret inviting American financial businesses to invest in Scotland in 2002? "It seems strange that Iain Gray and the Labour party are trying to re-write history when last October their financial mismanagement once again implicated them in the arrangements that have led today’s reports about Fred Goodwin."