to agree with sir lord sugar that Gordon brown should replace edd

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Anyone else agree that Gordon brown should come back as the labour leader? I really miss him, and don't think edd can even compare to him with his economic ability.

Even lord sugar would be better, he has the brains and know how to be one of the world a most successful billionaires.

I'm going to completely lower the tone of the debate and ask if anyone else thinks Andy Burnham looks like the handsome version of shrek from shrek 2?

I like Gordon, and have a lot of respect for him but the LL is the wrong place for him. Oh and that stupid woman was a bloody bigot!

I'd love to see Andy Burnham. I love him.

Oh and Ed Milliband puts me off voting for Labour in any way. I can't be the only one!

Brown was unpleasant about an unpleasant old racist. can't get myself overly upset about that.

No, he's not an inspirational leader for the country and is associated with the recession. However, labour picked the wrong brother.

I'm worried the tories will get in again or a coalition with tories.

We just need to get labour in. I've volunteered for the first time ever to help with the campaign.

David Miliband would be my choice. I'm still pissed off over the whole 'bananagate' shambles.
Apparently it lost him credibility, although did Ed actually ever have any?

Also, Gordon Brown -texture like sun. I love him for that reason alone.

I'm not helping here - and genuinely studied politics.
Please excuse my twattery.

Agree, David Milliband would be my choice. Such a shame he didn't get the leadership in the first place.

I worked in the same building as Gordon Brown and he had a reputation for being rude and vile to his staff. He used to barge to the front of the queue in the staff restaurant as well. Alastair Darling used to queue with everyone else when he was chancellor. May be a minor detail but I don't like a rude pig as PM or Labour leader.

Alister Darling does come across well, too.

Andy Burnham for me - I like him a lot and he has had real world experience - also like Harman but the fail will never let go of the extremely tenuous lies links to peedows

I liked GB - I thought he was a decent bloke and a good chancellor - the old 'sold of our gold' line is lazy

I can't either Millibland and I didn't vote for either of them

I have sympathies for GB as well. However, the selling of the gold reserves was a mistake, and house price inflation happened on his watch. Also, now there is his part in the Vow, which has arguably undermined the decisiveness of the referendum result. GB, a Scotsman, had no mandate from anyone to promise what he did to Scotland, and since then he has appeared to be giving the impression that the Tories want the UK budget to be set without Scottish input. Surely he must know better than that.

There is also the pension raid.

Labour had the choice of two Millibands. They clearly, as a lot of people thought at the time, chose the wrong one.

I agree with a previous poster. Alan Johnson would be a great leader.

No no no no.......not Gordon Brown......gibber gibber.......not he of the sucky voice and the awful face. Please................just NO.

I hated that man with a vengeance never given to any other politician.....awful awful politician and dreadful leader.

Noddy or Big Ears......but NOT Gordon Brown.

Alan Johnson. Wish he would reconsider.

Failing that, Andy Burnham but I fear he's too left.

I don't think bringing him back is the answer.

Twenty shadow ministers say they are willing to call for him to stand down, if Alan Johnson is willing to step into the breach

Would much rather Gordon Brown than any of the other alternatives.
I can't bear the thought of Chuka (clueless, a farce that he is shadow business secretary when he has never run a business) or Alan Johnson. I do not get why people love the latter so much. Having read his books I was a) amazed he managed to get anywhere in politics at all and b) that his books won wards when they are like wading through treacle to read. He is distinctly average, as are most of the other front runners, even Andy Burnham who I think is thoroughly decent but no intellectual powerhouse.
As a Labour Party member I very much look forward to getting a chance to get rid of hopeless Ed before the election so we have some hope of avoiding another Con/Dem or Con/Kip horror. I just hope I get to tick a box with Gordon Brown's name on it. He is decent, supremely clever and inherited a shit storm courtesy of Bliar.

*awards, not wards.

Lord Sugar is an exceptional businessman who happened to donate £2M to the Labour Party and then got made a life peer. That does not qualify him to have astute political views.