'Call Diane Abbott for right numbers' BBC QT audience in stitches after BRUTAL response
EMILY Thornberry was shut down by a BBC audience member who hilariously called on the Labour frontbencher to ask for Diane Abbott's help to sustain her claim Gordon Brown saved Britain from the 2008 world financial crisis.
QT audience member tells Thornberry to 'call Abbott' for help
In a heated debate on BBC Question Time, the Shadow Foreign Secretary argued Britain should be thankful for Gordon Brown being in charge during the world's financial crisis in 2008.
But one member of the audience dismantled the Labour frontbencher's claim with a hilarious joke about her colleague Diane Abbott.
He said: “One thing that’s quite shocking is Emily stating that Labour saved us from a brink of financial collapse.
“That to me is scary because it means that Labour is taking no accountability for what you actually did, which was run us to the brink of collapse.
“But I think there’s a rescue mission to all of this.
“You can just call up Diane Abbott and she’ll give us the right numbers in a heartbeat.”
Ms Thornberry claimed the former Labour Prime Minister rightfully "recapitalised the banks" in order to save the country from financial collapse.
She said: “It wasn’t Gordon Brown shovelling dollars out the back window.
“It was a world crash, it was an international crash.
It wasn’t Gordon Brown shovelling dollars out the back window
“It began in the equity market in America, for heaven sake, and actually what was needed was we had to recapitalise the banks and thank goodness someone like Gordon Brown was in charge in Britain.”
She added Gordon Brown "was prepared to take brave decisions and actually put money back in the economy at that moment.
“Because if we hadn’t then we were within 20 minutes of money not being able to come out of the cash machine.”
Last month, the former Labour leader warned the world was "sleepwalking" into another financial crisis.
Question Time: Thornberry says Gordon Brown saved UK
Mr Brown claimed that the “leaderless” world in which we now live is to blame for the escalation of risk, and stated that this will inevitably lead to a further financial collapse.
Asked whether a repeat of 2008 is possible, Mr Gordon told The Guardian: “We are in danger of sleepwalking into a future crisis.
“There is going to have to be a severe awakening to the escalation of risks, but we are in a leaderless world.
“The cooperation that was seen in 2008 would not be possible in a post-2018 crisis, both in terms of central banks and governments working together.
“We would have a blame-sharing exercise rather than solving the problem.”