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Gordon Brown for PM?

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Wilkolampshade · 15/10/2021 19:22

I don't know, just watching the Blair/Brown documentary, does anyone think we could/should bring back Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party for a shot at P. M?
YABU... Absolutely not, what ARE you thinking?!?!
YANBU.... Why not, how much worse could it get?

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SkidmarkOnTheHeadboard · 15/10/2021 19:25

No dice

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MarshaBradyo · 15/10/2021 19:26

When some one commented recently how long Cons had been in and when Blair was out I realised I had totally forgotten he even was PM

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 15/10/2021 19:26

I liked Brown but the trouble with someone with a track record is that there are too many things to attack him on.
Both ‘just a bigoted woman’ and leaving the treasury empty would make him toxic to many many people including Labour voters.

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Franklin12 · 15/10/2021 19:26

Definitely not.

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ArblemarchTFruitbat · 15/10/2021 19:26

We could do a lot worse than Gordon Brown.

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Wilkolampshade · 15/10/2021 19:26

@SkidmarkOnTheHeadboard succinct anyway!

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ilovesooty · 15/10/2021 19:30

I think he'll be viewed more favourably in retrospect than he is now.

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Iggly · 15/10/2021 19:31

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

I liked Brown but the trouble with someone with a track record is that there are too many things to attack him on.
Both ‘just a bigoted woman’ and leaving the treasury empty would make him toxic to many many people including Labour voters.

She was bigoted.

And he didn’t leave the treasury empty. Can’t believe people are still peddling that bollocks
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GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 15/10/2021 19:31

The only PM I’ve actually liked in my lifetime so I’d say yes!

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Hollyhead · 15/10/2021 19:32

No, the housing boom started with him and he did fuck all to redress the balance

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NursieBernard · 15/10/2021 19:33

She was a bigot.

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GetOffTheTableMabel · 15/10/2021 19:35

@NursieBernard

She was a bigot.

She really was Grin

I was not much of a fan at the time but I would weep with gratitude if he returned.
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PasDevantLesElephants · 15/10/2021 19:36

Yes please.

I can't bear the fact that he was unpopular for being too dour and serious.

Who needs gravitas in a political leader when we can have a grinning moron fucking about all over the shop as long as he's a 'good bloke'?

I'll take grumpy over bellend for PM any day.

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Wilkolampshade · 15/10/2021 19:37

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel ah yes, had forgotten the 'bigoted woman' comment..Still, my local bloody (Labour) MP seems to be struggling with the basic question of what a woman actually is and whether she might have a cervix atm...


I just wondered if the Labour contingent that hated Blair might gravitate to him..
Also things are so extraordinary now that his rather bear-like sombre nature might be reassuring? Possibly?

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jgw1 · 15/10/2021 19:37

But Jeremy Corbyn.

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Wilkolampshade · 15/10/2021 19:38

@PasDevantLesElephants this is my thinking. (And if I could work out the quote function on here I would use it.)

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Arrowheart · 15/10/2021 19:39

Yes, he was the best we have had

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NursieBernard · 15/10/2021 19:39

John Smith and Gordon Brown would have made a brilliant Prime Minister and Chancellor pairing. Gordon Brown is my top Prime Minister in recent history.

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Wilkolampshade · 15/10/2021 19:40

@jgw1 nah, I'll pass.

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IGotHam · 15/10/2021 19:41

He was an amazing politician. Lived and breathed his job and had a real vision for the country. The shower of shit we are governed by now are woeful in comparison.

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torquewench · 15/10/2021 19:41

Nope. Pensions.

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hellsbells99 · 15/10/2021 19:43

Didn’t he sell off half our gold reserves when prices were down? Lost us billions of pounds

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ancientgran · 15/10/2021 19:43

@Hollyhead

No, the housing boom started with him and he did fuck all to redress the balance

I thought it started in 1973 when I was looking to buy my first house. I'd phone up about a house that had just gone on the market in my price range only to find out they'd accepted a cash offer 50% over the asking price.
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Tealightsandd · 15/10/2021 19:46

Gordon Brown contributed significantly to the current public health housing and homelessness emergency.

He stayed the cuts to housing benefit.

This led to more private landlords refusing low income and disabled families and vulnerable individuals, homelessness, and social cleansing. Causing huge amount of human misery and suffering - and costing the taxpayer dear (housing homeless families in temporary accommodation costs billions). He also continued Right to Buy.

Oh - and he sold off our gold at a knocked down price.

Johnson was better. Alan Johnson.

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Tealightsandd · 15/10/2021 19:46

*started the cuts

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