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Gordon Brown

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Higgledyhouse · 14/10/2013 23:29

I'm just watching a re-run of Gordon Brown on Piers Morgan from the time he was PM. Now I'm not a particularly political person but I always liked Gordon Brown, I mean the person he is and watching this again tonight has made me sad that we lost him as our leader...... Sarah Brown too, just really nice people. Anyone else feel the same?

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niceguy2 · 14/10/2013 23:58

As a person I thought he is/was quite a genuine person.

He simply didn't have the right skills or temperament to be prime minister though.

fridayfridayfriday · 15/10/2013 00:00

I genuinely loved that man. I cried when he walked out of no10 with his wife and 2 kiddies.

The public are such gullible bastards.

nennypops · 15/10/2013 00:01

I thought him a much straighter and more genuine person than either his predecessor or his successor.

timidviper · 15/10/2013 00:02

I have always felt concerned that the media decided they wanted to remove him and hounded him from office. I too think he is a decent chap and don't think he lost in a fair fight.

mrsjay · 15/10/2013 00:02

I liked him i think he got such a hard time as not being charasmatic etc etc but he was a damn sight more honest than tony blair I have seen his life stories before ,

TensionSquealsGhoulsHeels · 15/10/2013 00:04

I think he was more 'old school' straight talking which unfortunately doesn't work in the world of spin and subterfuge. He tried and failed miserably to manipulate in the style of Blair/Campbell but just fucked it up instead. That's just my observation.

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Higgledyhouse · 15/10/2013 00:07

Yes, you are probably right although part of me finds it quite ironic that for a man who spent so much of his life fighting for equality of opportunity etc that he should be so penalised for not possessing certain personality traits. I don't know it's a tricky one, a nice genuine man like you say nonetheless!

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GobbySadcase · 15/10/2013 00:08

Yep.

I've always thought voters last time got too hung up on personality politics.

He wasn't a great chancellor, though.

zoobaby · 15/10/2013 00:19

I felt sorry for him with the way it all happened. Good on him for going "up yours" when Clegg started making deals about who to support.

The whole "I never voted for him as PM" brigade really got on my tits too! Seriously, it's amazing how many people are ignorant about how the Westminster system of government works... it yes all I could do to stop from shouting "this is not frickin America you ignoramuses" (or should that be ignorami?!?).

GobbySadcase · 15/10/2013 00:23

We were just starting to edge our way out of the global economic meltdown until Gideon got his paws on the purse.

Now thanks to him, call me Dave and idiot Duncan Smith 11,000 'fit to work' are in their graves (and this is the point where I acknowledge ATOS as a labour creation), we almost had a triple dip recession, massive unemployment figures massaged by giving free slave labour to massive corporations, homelessness on a scale not known since the 80s and food banks on the increase!

AmberLeaf · 15/10/2013 00:24

I liked him a lot and was sad to see him go.

caroldecker · 15/10/2013 00:33

I cannot believe I am reading these responses - this is the man entirely responsible for the mess the UK is in and also Damian McBride here for an example

GobbySadcase · 15/10/2013 00:34

Oh really? So no other country had a financial crisis?
Are you denying the GLOBAL ECONOMIC MELTDOWN?

nennypops · 15/10/2013 00:37

He actually left the economy in a stronger position than it is now. It is the policies pf the last three and a half years that have left us in double dip recession.

fairisleknitter · 15/10/2013 00:41

He was v.mean to the labour supporter in Rochdale.

GobbySadcase · 15/10/2013 00:43

Didn't he say what he did in private? I'm sure if someone had been spouting UKIP bollocks at me I might have said similar in private.

Sadly it got picked up...

fairisleknitter · 15/10/2013 00:44

She wasn't a UKIP voter but a Labour voter.

bunchoffives · 15/10/2013 00:44

But she was bigoted fairisle Personally I thought she was a right gobby caaw. Only he shouldn't have said it out loud Blush

fairisleknitter · 15/10/2013 00:46

Well surely you should have the guts to argue with someone if you feel that strongly about it and not just accept their votes election after election.

drawsofdrawers · 15/10/2013 00:49

Good guy.

Takes only his mps salary. He doesn't take the ex PM pension and all other earnings go to either charity or to fund him and his wife's charitable work.

fairisleknitter · 15/10/2013 00:51

Aye, he's certainly a son of the manse!

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 15/10/2013 00:56

Nenny - there was a budget surplus when Labour came to power in 1997. Way before any kind of global financial problems Brown had run up a huge deficit.

He was incompetent and made some truly awful decisions.

caroldecker · 15/10/2013 00:56

son of the manse? Man is an arse

caroldecker · 15/10/2013 01:05

Gordon Brown promised to follow Conservative spending plans for the first 4 years and run a budget surplus till 2001 - he then run a deficit for the rest of his term in power.
The 'global economic crisis' covered only the UK, US and Europe where spending was out of control. He deliberatly changed the Bank of England mandate on inflation to CPI which ignores house price inflation to maintain low interest rates even though there was a housing bubble and was rubbish at reigning in the banks - worst chancellor and then leader ever.
The reason the Lib Dems did not go into a shared govt with the Labour party is becasue he refused to stand down as leader

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