This week has seen a much welcomed reopening of the debate over the raiding of UK citizens' pension funds by aboloshing the dividend tax credit several years ago. To watch Mr Brown and his dubious allies trying to defend this policy is entertainment itself, or it would be if the consequences of their actions were not so serious on peoples' lives. Watching Ed Miliband on Question Time last night was like watching Jimmy Stewart trying to explain away his giant rabbit in the film "Harvey". To him, something which is completely nonsensical to everybody else, is a reality. It may be madness, but only he, Mad Gordon, and a few others can actually see the Big White Bunny. Unfortunately this bunny was going to eat away at our pensions year on year. It was destined to become a major pest. Unfortunately, the patient, Gordon, shows no sign of improvement. In fact he has gone from bad to worse. His behaviour is now akin to a deranged woman in the attic who appears to make up policies with limited consultation. Unlike IDS last night, I will not mince my words. Gordon Brown has been disastrous as Chancellor. The hysterical rhetoric that spews forth when the labour party is challenged on this issue is always the same and always erroneous. Inflation has been kept under control - of course it has! If you keep robbing the pocket of the man in the street then you are keeping down consumer demand. What could be simpler? And at the same time you replenish Treasury coffers to spend on untested social engineering projects that we now know are destined to failure. Add to that the wave of cheap imports coming into this country from places like China and you can see that this will keep inflation down too. Nothing to do with Gordon Brown. In fact he has HAD TO rob us citizens to keep down consumer spending. Had he not done that then "the beast" would have materialised and we would have had inflation. These would have been handled by the traditional measure of higher interest rates.