Brown should have known !

Surely George Brown should have seen this financial disaster coming . For goodness sake he was chancellor of the exchequer for ten years. Over that time we have had house prices going out of control, obviously it couldn't continue. As for Mr Darling he couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery , let alone the economy of a country that is already on a down ward slope. As always it's your every day man and woman who seem to have suffer at the government's incompetence.
Would be interested in other views.