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Are you looking forward to Gordon Brown as your prime minister ?

74 replies

mozhe · 31/05/2007 09:28

I'm wondering how other MNers are thinking ?
Will he be an improvement on Blair ?
Are you discussing such a momentous change even.....?

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suedonim · 31/05/2007 16:14

'Follow-on' PM's don't have a good record in history. Eden after Churchill, Douglas-Home after Macmillan, Callaghan after Wilson, Major after Thatcher. None of them really made their mark in a good way.

1dilemma · 31/05/2007 17:30

agree with expat again

niceglasses · 31/05/2007 17:38

I like him, I am looking forward to it - with some fears of course.

I think he is grounded in a real socialist belief. I like his approach to politics.

I don't think we will have as much spin or lies tbh. I think he doesn't have that media edge which will cause him problems.

I think he is genuine - he wants to do good. But I want to hear more about his policies. There is an every widening rich/poor gap - it needs addressing now.

Eleusis · 31/05/2007 17:46

There is an ever widening gap cause he taxes us so much it keeps us in the poor group.

niceglasses · 31/05/2007 17:48

Well, the op asked for an opinion and thats mine.

Yup, the gap needs to be addressed - I think hes far better placed to do it than Blair, or God forbid, the tories.

NoodleStroodle · 31/05/2007 17:49

Ummm no.
I think he is after people like us.

UnquietDad · 31/05/2007 18:04

The Gordon smear campaigns seems to be upping their game a bit. I've read some really disturbing stuff on politics blogs recently, some of it pretty clodse to libel I'm sure. Rocking-horses, anyone?...

suzycreamcheese · 31/05/2007 18:05

OP: NO..are you having a laugh?....

he signed the cheques for blairs way and will be different in personality he might even have one...but NO

niceglasses · 31/05/2007 18:12

I can never find any decent blogs. Do tell.

I used to work at the Commons. Its a minefield of rumour. And far too public school for my liking.

Eleusis · 31/05/2007 18:12

Smear campaign? I don't think we need one. There's so much true stuff to use.

LazyLine · 31/05/2007 19:19

The whole thing makes me feel sick. What's the alternative? Cameron? Don't people get it? I'm sick of hearing people go on and on about how fresh and young and motivated and friendly he is. As if they have forgotten exactly what the face of the Blair campaign was all those years ago. It was the same!

I can't believe people fall for this marketing crap.

Not that marketing could help Gordon hahaha!

I can't help but think that anyone actually wanting to be PM should be automatically excluded from the race.

LazyLine · 31/05/2007 19:19

LOL Eleusis, too true.

feb · 31/05/2007 20:08

Agree with this Lazyline:

'I can't help but think that anyone actually wanting to be PM should be automatically excluded from the race. '

I don't think anyone gets to be in a position of political power by being decent and honest

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mozhe · 31/05/2007 21:57

1dilemma....I'm going to sit on the fence for a bit,( unlike me I know..). I fell seriously out of love with Blair due to his foolhardy foreign policy...It's a case of once bitten twice shy with regards to the NHS...also keen to see how he handles his european colleagues..I actually met him once, he seemed quite decent....nowhere near as aloof, awkward as he seems in the media.

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UnquietDad · 31/05/2007 22:26

niceglasses
I enjoy

Iain Dale and Guido for starters.

1dilemma · 31/05/2007 23:11

Yes lazyline, interesting to see you too think Cameron is modelling himself on early Blair, very off putting.
mozhe we shall have to see what he turns out like! They should just hand over now imho what's the pint of waiting?

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mozhe · 01/06/2007 09:38

Agree with that 1dilemma...move on now Tony !

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BrummieOnTheRun · 01/06/2007 10:54

Watch this space for Gordon's campaign for the mummy vote...some rumblings already about childcare for under 2s?

As far as I'm concerned, he's had 10 years to come up with a way to help with crippling childcare costs.

He personally presided over the system that turned parents into 'employers', so it's far too late for him to win my vote now (on this issue or any other).

Eleusis · 01/06/2007 11:01

Ohhhh.... Childcare for under 2s is too little too late in my book! It will probably be two hours per day staarting at 9:30. Ever so helpful... NOT!

expatinscotland · 01/06/2007 11:05

You'll probably have to put in a separate Childcare Tax Credit form for it.

You'll fill it all out correctly, and then get 20 different award notices back, each differing by a negliable amount.

Then, 4 years later, you'll get a demand notice from HM Revenues & Customs.

For £7,000 or £8,000 immediate payment.

Because their office f*cked up.

And you'll think, lying awake at night with worry wondering how you'll ever be able to pay back your 'debt' and still feed your family, 'Why didn't they just tax me less?'

Then you'll consider moving to Australia . . .

Eleusis · 01/06/2007 11:08

tax and waste is a bad thing

suzycreamcheese · 01/06/2007 17:58

tax and waste...love it!...as a slogan!

1dilemma · 01/06/2007 20:59

lol expat. Planning a trip downunder?

BrummieOnTheRun · 01/06/2007 22:04

I'd like to see an Expat vs Gordie showdown live on mumsnet

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