To want Gordon brown back as PM

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Such an underrated politician that always speaks so much sense. He would be so much better than any of the current lot!

Agree. But at this point I’d take anyone. John Major. Anthony Eden. Pitt the Younger.

Gosh, no I don’t miss him.

He schemed for years and thought being PM was his right so I don’t think he was any more honest than the rest of them.

Also he used to use the EU as a bogeyman (tbf so did a lot), and that helped contribute I feel to the general anti EU feeling and the sense that we always got the short straw with them. He’d say he’d fought the EU to give us x back to make himself look good when actually there had been no fight, he’d blame the EU for things we’d wilingly given up etc. I think a lot of politicians should think hard about why the UK got this feeling that we were constantly fighting the EU.

I liked Gordon Brown. He seems genuinely concerned about families and children.

I agree he cared about people genuinely. Without him working tax credits wouldn't have been created

So many times over the past couple of years something has happened and I’ve thought ‘well Gordon Brown was right about that’ particularly wrt austerity.

Thatch would sort it

Agree.

To clarify- agree with Gordon Brown. Not the above poster asking for Thatcher.

I agree, totally underrated. I’ve also always thought Harriet Hartman would have made a brilliant leader. I imagine she’s close to retiring now though (was very surprised that she’s older than May!)

Yes, I liked Gordon and Sarah Brown, they have a child with CF so I feel they understand my family more than the current bunch.

Major is our most underrated. He was the one who made the Good Friday Agreement possible and laid all the groundwork. Blair just came in and grandstanded about it and pretended it was all his idea.

I liked Gordon Brown too. He's a steady hand and seemed to genuinely care about families. He was quiet and not showy.

Labour need a strong leader who would be more popular. I do actually think if Corbyn had gone a few months ago that there might have been a different result with the no confidence vote the other day.
I don't think Labour can win an election under Corbyn.

He was great for children and families. We need that!

Yes let’s get the country into a mountain of debt again

I always think that they picked the wrong Miliband as leader, and that’s why Labour is where it’s at today.
I also liked Gordon Brown. He was probably the only prime minister I thought that could relate to the public.

I liked Gordon Brown although pfi happened under him, didn't it, which was a terrible idea.

I think you're find Gordon was a steady pair of hands and the Torey's have doubled the debt during austerity

Gordon Brown???? Who presided over the government that got us into this great financial mess?

You might have been fooled into thinking he was a man who understood people, but we all know he says what he really thinks when no one is listening!

Agree with secret on the Milibands...they picked the wrong one. I didn’t rate Brown at all though.

I also liked Gordon Brown. He was probably the only prime minister I thought that could relate to the public.

I’m not sure Gillian Duffy would agree with that assessment!

Gordon Brown was a terrible chancellor (selling gold at the wrong time, pfi finance... to this day still costing the country a fortune, and the unfunding spending that labour generally love) and did nothing as pm because Tony Blair gave it to him knowing the crash was coming and tried to absolve himself of any blame

I like Brown but in these shallow times people prefer style over substance.
I quite like Jeremy but he's a stubborn old bastard and really is enabling the incompetent May to sell us all down the river!

Also, let’s not forget the infamous note left by Gordon Brown’s outgoing government in 2010 (which left a record £163 billion annual borrowing deficit and a £777 billion national debt):

“Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid there is no money. Kind regards – and good luck! Liam.”