Tell you what the cause is, wrong person for the wrong job
Brown studied history at university and worked as a lecturer of politics, later becoming a journalist and current affairs editor. To then become Chancellor of the Exchequer in charge of the British economy is quite worrying considering his experience or lack thereof.
Darling was a solicitor! It's like putting a dentist in charge of a particle accelerator. Yes, they obviously have intelligence and a skill but they haven't got any experience or qualification for they job they are doing.
Would you give your child to a civil engineer to perform an appendicectomy? Of course not!
Would you leave the economy of G8 country under the control of a journalist or solicitor? No.....oh wait, we did
Why doesn't the Chancellor have a doctorate in finance or economics with years of experience in the city? Now I know that they have many advisors and assistants to guide them but at the end of the day they make the decisions not the advisors.
I think I've found the problem
Now I may not have been 100% serious but it does make you wonder, well it does me