Done to bail out the banks... Do you think the banks should have been allowed to fail!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/thomaspascoe/100018367/revealed-why-gordon-brown-sold-britains-gold-at-a-knock-down-price/As for selling off the every single one of the countries assets I believe that was the Tories - paid for and owned by the tax payer yet sold off for a one time receipt losing us billions in revenues year in and year out ever since.
British Aerospace and Cable & Wireless, British Steel, British Petroleum, Rolls Royce, British Airways, Jaguar, British Telecom, the remainder of Cable & Wireless and British Aerospace, Britoil and British Gas, British Coal, as well as electricity generating companies Powergen and National Power, and British Rail, Royal Mail (at a loss), the National Parks, the NHS is being sold piece by piece...
In 2012 George Osborne began a rapid sell-off of government-owned stocks and shares and they are set to deliver the biggest ever sale of publicly owned corporate and financial assets in 2015-16... and yet they are still managing as my FACTUAL graph above shows to get us deeper and deeper into debt! Amazing incompetence at its best!