Safe, but not as we know it, Jim

“Alastair Darling (Labour) had the safest pair of hands in Westminster”, I read in a glowing obituary.
    This is the bloke who was Chancellor from 2007-2010, when the banks went bust because Gordon Broon was trying to use them to buy votes in Scotland instead of regulating them,  and a Labour stooge left a note in the Treasury for the incoming Tories saying there was no money because Gordon Broon had spent it all.