Gordon Brown - Opinions

Oh don't act like an idiot when you don't appear to be one. You know as well as I do that that statement only applied to regulating the financial markets.

I thought we'd digressed slightly from the markets

Let's leave it there.

I think people underestimate the difficulty of his job, he has to run the whole country not just a corner shop, you cant keep all the people happy all the time, i think the next election will see a differnt man representing the party but they will still lose to many mistake have been made to redeem themselfs i think.

now Gordon brown, is being blamed by some for the takeover of cadburys, by US company kraft.

to be honest i really don't like the man or his politics. Trying to turn this election into a class war has intensifyed my dislike, its petty and non productive.
Also he seems to have strangled the armed forces as they were about to engage in war, (according to hoon in todays chilcot enquiry)
I think he bears a lot of the responsability of todays fiscal problems, if had saved a little more during the good times then we wouldn't be plunging into the massive deficit our budget now finds itself.
I think some new labour policies worked but alot didn't and we are now paying the price- very little manufactering, the very industry that could take us out of the recession, we are have been embroiled in 2 very messy wars, we have a huge deficit, unelected europeans are taking power from our elected officals, quangos (i'm mostly talking about the one in the lakes that put a 5mph speed limit of windamere)and a unelected member of government being the 2nd most powerful man in the country (good ole manny), our civil liberities being eroded, less freedom of speech, simon cowell being alod to take over the world, reality tv.
I think we need a change

the only problem is, there's no one to change to.

David Camerons a creep (have you seen those posters of him, talk about being up your own arse lol)

and there's little chance of anyone else getting elected.

unfortunally thats very true, they all seem the same.
I vote a to be invaded by the italians. I think its time for the good ole days, you know the roman times, they were dead organised and ran things really well. And who wouldn't love berlisconi as the PM.

and at least our roads will be nice and straight.

and no strikes as everything is run by the mob. You don't want to wake up to a horses head

It will be madness to take him out of office this year. A change in government will mean a temporary high and then a crash lower than where we are now.

There are so many changes in motion right now, like very slow gears turning.

It would be like stopping the motion and replacing all the sizes of the gears. Everything will f*** up.

He's been probably the best kind of Prime Minister we could have hoped for in a recession. He recognised the global scale of the problem and convinced other leaders to cooperate in order to manage the crisis.

I think it would be good for David Milliband to stand for election, though.

Unelected, lightweight, out of touch and unpopular are some of the things that spring to mind when I think of Gordon Brown.

The upcoming election feels to me as if it should be one of the most important in quite some time. Unfortunately we do not seem to have much to choose from.

Brown? Hmmmm

Well as a chancellor he was a disaster. He has stolen people's old age with his tax raid on pension funds - for this alone he should have been in the dock.
He sold the countries gold reserves when gold was at a low, now it's riding high - again - seems when you're in government you can get away with monumental cockups.
He frittered away the slush fund which sensible governments should (And did prior to 97) build up when the economy is good. Now it's raining and the roof is leaking.

As the prime minister, he hasn't done that bad a job though. We just have to be adult and non-partisan about this - you can't say how good he is but overlook some of the biggest financial cock-ups government has made. Black Wednesday which finished off the tories was nothing on this.

No, he isn't that bad a pm really.

What he is though - something that makes me really unsympathetic when the boot is being put in - is that he is a bully, and an arrogant one at that.

What goes around comes around, this is the problem.

The country needs a party which will make tough unpopular decisions for the long term best. The tories claim they will do this - will they though? They are certainly the ones who are coming up with new ideas, but are keeping them close to their chest. Labour are by contrast a bit tired and running out of ideas. This happens in politics.
In 95/96 it was the exact opposite. Labour kept their cards close to their chest in case the tories pinched ideas.

What goes around comes around. Very immature really, but that's politics.

Anyway, for all his faults and my dismissal of labour (Not that keen on the tories either really if I'm totally honest), I don't mind Brown.