What is Brown’s claim to greatness?

It is reported that Brown been given the honour of addressing Houses of Congress during his visit to Washington next week.

A considerable coup.  He follows Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.

Could I ask what is Brown’s claim to greatness?  What has he done to deserve this?  I can’t think of a single justification.

I can only assume that Obama will be accorded a similar honour when he comes to London.

Brown was responsible, with his mate Alan Greenspan, for getting us into financial mess.  So far none of his policies for getting us out of it have worked.  Is he going to apologise to the American people next week?