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AIBU?

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AIBU to think that Gordon Brown

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CagedBird · 11/05/2010 19:25

...may have won the election had he shown the dignity, confidence, calmness and genuineness throughout the election campaign as he has just shown in his resignation speech?

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chesgirlNOTgriffins · 11/05/2010 21:11

I thought I was the only person who liked him. I think he is a good man.

giveitago · 11/05/2010 21:15

I think he's a principled man. Principled people are flawed as was he.

I loved the speech - I wish him well in his life and I hope to god Blair rots in hell. I loathed the bastard - Brown does hold responsibility for overspending on public services just before the recession, but boy he inherited some shit from Blair.

I'm sad.

VicToryA · 11/05/2010 22:31

How many hours have you got, DuelingFanjo?

HumphreyCobbler · 11/05/2010 22:35

I truly believe that he is a man who does and says whatever is expedient to say at any given time.

I was thinking about the Damien McBride incident today. No one ever mentions that.

And talk to the people who lost money in Equitable life about how they view his integrity.

wannaBe · 11/05/2010 22:40

I didn't vote for him, I think though that on the whole his heart was in the right place, but tbh I think he just didn't suit the media - he was too awkward when in front of the cameras.

They were talking about htis on the radio today and were saying that some commentators had listened to the debates rather than watched them, and they thought he'd come across really well. But those that had watched the debates said the opposite. Clearly the visual matters to people, and he wasn't able to put that across iyswim.

I don't think that one impassioned speach necessarily means anything though.

HumphreyCobbler · 11/05/2010 22:43

Just like Nixon/Kennedy!

ThatVikRinA22 · 11/05/2010 22:49

it makes me angry that when it comes to the running of our country it comes down to personalities. stupid and short sighted.

we get the government we deserve. seems half the country agreed with me and the rest are fools!
if you voted lib dem you voted tory by stealth. i nearly did.

i am sad that Gordon Brown has resigned, i think he did us proud in the face of recession when the rest of the world also went tits up financially. it was under a conservative government that industry was sent overseas and the banks became the holders of all the power. people are so short sighted it kills me.

so now we have a tory government. good oh, (unless you are not wealthy, or if you have disabled children, or if you have children at all and you want to work, or if you sick, disabled or elderley or homeless - bring it on.)

i am really going to miss labours ethos. and im going to miss Gordon Brown.

Janus · 11/05/2010 22:50

I think we can guess someone's political beliefs when they call a man 'frightful'!!! I'm sorry Victoria, I really don't want to cause offense, I just haven't heard anyone say that word for such a long time, please forgive me, I have had a glass or two!

WombFrootShoot · 11/05/2010 22:53

I guess my opinion doesn't mean a thing. As we are back on the road of Tory rule...and I will now endure a flaming from the left wing (who I believe myself to be a member of) but...

Surely, surely to God, this time last year (and yeah yeah yeah, global fucking crisis keep everything stable - so let's say 6 months ago) someone, someone must have gone to Gordon and said "Look, your image (and I KNOW this is shit, but tis the way now) is in the bloody MAGMA. We're losing support from ground roots, from the working classes, from the middle classes, from every idiot who should vote labour but reads the Daily Heil (and believes that we are all under threat from the "underclass and immigrants") et al..

(which as an aside...surely we can't be living in a "democracy" with so many right leaning newspapers spewing their SHITE everywhere? where the fuck is the impartiality? - ugh 'nother thread)

It's time to talk about a step down, an AMICABLE change of power? For the good of the party - who I believe stands for the good of the nation, not for the good of a bunch of.....anyway, can't do this anymore tonight. Tired of telling people that GB wasn't an "unelected PM" and that DC is an unelected PM, tired of tfeeling the most base betrayal by the Lib Dems, Tired of the dawning belief that the LibDems have finally turned themselves into the 20th century version of the SDLP by this most...heinous collaboration.

Tired.

Sick and tired.

Goodnight.

VicToryA · 12/05/2010 09:50

No worries, Janus.

It's the private education wot did it.

FWIW, I am decidedly not wealthy, but am still terribly (see, another Tory word) glad the Conservatives are in power, albeit with the Fib Dems.

xkaylax · 12/05/2010 09:59

I also liked Gordon Brown (sad)

xkaylax · 12/05/2010 09:59

I also liked Gordon Brown (sad)

Yingers74 · 12/05/2010 10:07

I think Gordon's style of politics is very old fashioned and he just didn't seem comfortable in this media obsessed campaign. Also he was incredibly unlucky. Really felt for him yesterday and his family but he looked pretty happy and relaxed once it was over, and I think that speaks volumes! It was time for him to go though.

Good luck to him for the future.

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CagedBird · 12/05/2010 12:35

I voted lib dem after thinking quite hard (I knew it wasn't a wasted vote as it was between Labour and Lib Dems in my area - Lib Dems won). I also figured that if there was a hung parliament, they would side with Labour (as they are closer politically?) on the condition that GB would step down. I felt completely gutted and let down by NC and the Lib Dems tbh but we will see what the future holds. It doesn't look promising though.

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BettyButterknife · 12/05/2010 12:48

I've been in tears on and off since I watched his resignation.

I think we've lost a politician who was in it for the right reasons, not like the two goons we've got now. I feel very sad about it all.

VicToryA · 12/05/2010 12:58

I have also been in tears, but of relief.

therapysage · 12/05/2010 17:19

I am very pleased to see so much support for GB. I share that sense of sadness. At the moment the country doesn't need someone who looks good and talks smooth. It needs someone who understands economics, which he did. Perhaps he would have done better to stay Chancellor. Why does anyone want to be prime minister anyway? You never get any thanks for it.

chirpee · 12/05/2010 21:39

I too am so glad to see so much support for Gordon Brown. The fact that most of the newspapers in this country - in particular the Daily Mail and the fascist Daily Express - are owned and written by the Tory Party,and were therefore gunning for him from Day 1, he did a tremendous job and kept his dignity to the end.

blueshoes · 12/05/2010 22:24

I am sad to see Gordon Brown go. I think his heart is in the right place.

Oh well, better for Tories-Lib Dems to take the flak for the deeps cuts post-election.

minibmw2010 · 12/05/2010 22:29

My boss said earlier today that he just wasn't suited to public life, etc". and I said "so what? why does he have to be? doesn't it show us all up to be incredibly shallow if we think that's the most important thing he should do?". I don't care if I NEVER see my Prime Minister, I just want to be able to trust that he's doing his job .. isn't that what spokespeople are for ??

edam · 12/05/2010 22:32

If you are bringing fascism into it, not fair to slag off the Express while failing to mention the Mail was a fascist rag in the 30s, supporting the British Nazi sympathisers.

Funny how they failed to mention that while calling Clegg a Nazi.

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