Following on from the article in yesterday's Telegraph what do Mumsnetters really want from Gordon Brown?

[WilfandWilma]

I would like exactly the same things from him as my husband (and any other sane individual).

The most decent thing he could do right now, would be to resign immediately. It would be marvellous his odious friend and fellow bully, Ed Balls could also resign.

Obviously the chances of this happening are less than zero! So if he won't resign I would like him to have the honesty and courage to admit that his unbridled spending and borrowing over the last 13 years has wrecked our economy and brought this country close to bankruptcy. I would like to ask him why he sold off our gold reserves back in the late 90s when the price of gold was at an all time low. I would also like to ask him what he meant when he said "no more boom and bust" as house prices have tripled since he became Chancellor. DH and I bought our first flat for £115,000 a month after the 1997 election. I recently saw this flat is now on the market at a staggering £400,000. How many first time buyers could now buy our flat?

I do not want to hear his views on birthing pools, neither do I want to hear his wife telling us what a nice guy he is (Sam Cam take note!)

If he would like to be PM for another five years, then at the very least I would like him to admit that he will having to make very sweeping cuts. I do not want to have my intelligence insulted by his suggestion that he doesn't need to talk about cuts until after the election!

What does everyone else want to hear from Gordon Brown?

I would like him to stop giving jobs to unelected people such as Peter Mandelson and stop using the House of Lords to allow New Labour's cronies and proteges to sidestep actually getting elected.

I'd like him and the labour party to pay back the difference between the gold reserves he sold off (when they were at there lowest value ) when the economy was booming and he didn't need the finance and what they would be worth now (they are at there highest value ever recorded) when we could do with selling them to ease the burden on the tax paying public.

I'd like him to personally apologise for all those labour screw ups, like the nhs computer system that cost so much money and still doesn't work properly ( a lot like the labour party).

To apologise for spending our tax paying money on the disaterous ID cards system that nobody except the government wanted and has now been scrapped.

To apologise for his green taxes (some rather stealthy)inlcuding the flying tax and then giving the nod to the third runway.

To apologise for his spend spend spend attitude to our (yes our ) money on pathetic one term projects that either weren't taken up afterwards or couldn't self fund.

To apologise for labours disasterous handling of the NHS, pumping in sooo much money into managers and even artwork (yes artwork, just what the patient needs) instead of funding more front line staff and more life saving drugs for patients (and i'm still waiting for this 18 week wait to see a specialist after 8 months!).

To apologise for the education system, or lack of it with children leaving primary school barely able to read and write, for lessons in how to google and how to facebook and wellbeing and happiness classes for all (vomits).

To apologise for the way in which disabled people and especially children are treated with special regard given to DLA and there appeals hearing system which couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery let alone distinguish between a child with autism and a child without.

I want him to personally get on his knees and apologise to the families of soldiers killed both in Iraq and in Afghanistan for his piss poor handling of finances for troops and equipment and for the conditions of the family quarters in this country and for lying to parliament, the equiry, relatives and the general public over this matter and while he's at it I want him to increase pay for soldiers to the same level as police officers in this country and giving them a decent living condition both here and when deployed.

I want him to personally knock on every door of the pensioners he screwed out of their pensions by stealing from the pension pot and apologise to their faces.

Gosh I really could go on all day...

...Oh yes, I forgot.

I want him to apologise for opening the door to wide scale immigration in this country that has allowed every tom dick and criminal to enter our shore unchecked and has facilitated in the largest serge in organised crime and with 'women' and 'child' trafficking in our country.

you're not planning to vote Labour then Atlantis?

"you're not planning to vote Labour then Atlantis?"

LOL.

Only if someone gives me a labotomy before election day.

I would like Gordon Brown to stop telling everyone he is "the son of the Manse", I couldn't give a toss what his father did for a living.

oh yes CrackFox.
He is just trying to prove that he Has Morals. Well, I think he probably does Have Morals but I think you really have to judge politicians by what they actually do rather than what they believe, specially after they've had 13 years in which to do it.

DH is looking over my shoulder and says they would have to 'renounce managerialism'.

"I want him to personally get on his knees and apologise to the families of soldiers killed both in Iraq and in Afghanistan for his piss poor handling of finances for troops and equipment and for the conditions of the family quarters in this country and for lying to parliament, the equiry, relatives and the general public over this matter ..."

Well he admitted today he lied, I suppose thats a start to my list..

I wnat him to accept that the economy is in a very poor state and things are not goig to get better any time soon.
Then I want him to admit he will have to make cuts and start making plans to do so.

It won't be nice and it won't be pretty, but at least the public would know it has to dig in.

I'd like him to set a date for the election so that we can finally judge him democratically. Foisting him on us as PM unopposed and unelected was a terrible decision. I'd also like him to fight a fair & principled campaign between then and now... not sinking to cheap class-based jibes or repeating the 'british jobs for british workers' toe-curler. And he should have the good grace to step down as Labour leader if/when they lose power. Then he could leave No 10 with some dignity intact.