Competition for Gordon Brown

[Eleusis]

Thank God.

Meacher to Challenge Brown

Can I be the only one who saw this thread title and thought "But I don't want to win Gordon Brown"?

Don't think he stands a chance. I quite like him though.
However it's Gordon for me.

It seems remarkable to me that he is allowed to stand as PM in England when his constituency is in Scotland and Scotland now has its own parliament. How would the Scots feel if an MP from somewhere in England they'd never heard of was planning to lead the Scottish parliament? Wellcome to his challengers! Bring them on!

hellobello are you seriously suggesting no one has heard of gordon brown?

Umm. Constitutional anorak out again.

The PM leads the Government (not Parliament) of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, not just England.

And there might be a case for some kind of English Grand Committee to debate England-only laws, but the devolution settlement means that most decision on England have a big impact elsewhere - eg top=-up fees at university, decisions on health service funding etc. Also, the English MPs vastly outnumber representation from otehr parts of the union in any case.

There are a lot of vested interests playing up the Brown's a Scot angle. I'd be more concerned about his neo-liberal policies, myself.

You sound far more knowledgable about government issues, Firepile! Bundle, do you know the name of Gordon Brown's constituency? The way of life and quality of life in Scotland is not the same as it is in England. I may well be wrong, but it does appear that Mr Brown wants to have his cake and eat it. I don't know much about the Scottish parliament. It is harder these days, so I'm told to be an english person living in Scotland.

Hi HB. Sorry about that. Scottish politics something of a specialist subject. Believe me it's even duller in RL!

Am also an English person living in Scotland. Can't say it's got harder for me, but I am a bit of a self-hating Anglo which might explain it (much more comfortable with the political ethos in Scotland that in the South of England which is where I grew up...)

than not that.

I think it's Kirkaldy but I am a bit anoraky

Erm, so it's ok for us in Scotland to have been governed by countless English Prime Ministers and some of you are getting your knickers in a twist about the possiblity of a Scotsman getting the job? We are talking about him being the Prime Minister of the WHOLE OF THE UK. It's not difficult....

Think it's only hellobello so far on this thread who is against a Scot becoming PM.
I say Gordon for PM-hurrah!
He has to beat old Dave 'let's forget I'm a nasty Tory' Cameron

I hate Gordon Brown. I want him to NOT be PM. But, it isn't because he's Scottish. It is because he thinks he tax this nation into properity, which is a very dillusional aspiration.

Gordon Brown also wants loads more nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons in this country. Anyone fancy living near a nuclear reactor, in these jolly days of being Al Quaeda targets? And he voted for the war in Iraq, don't forget - didn't lift a finger against it.

I could go on.

I certainly do not dislike the Scots. Perhaps I have misunderstood something about the 'divide and rule' attitude of this government. I too was an english person living in Scotland and I loved it far more than any time I have spent in England. I do not like Gordon Brown.

Lol BTW, Lemonaid. No-one would enter.

It is Kircauldy. Where George Macdonald who wrote At the back of the north wind came from.

I think it's Kirkcaldy