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Brown's last act of spite

172 replies

longfingernailspaintedblue · 11/05/2010 19:46

Why did he resign before the Tory-Lib Dem was final, despite being asked by both of them, in the interests of the country, to wait?

He will go down in history as one of our very worst Prime Ministers.

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theyoungvisiter · 11/05/2010 22:03

campfires v important.

My first act will be to issue marshmallows as part of the standard police riot kit.

They can toast them over the burning cars.

CatIsSleepy · 11/05/2010 22:04

i wonder what precise time would have been the right time to resign? hanging around too long/not hanging around long enough blah blah blah yawn
perhaps he should have consulted the OP to make sure he got it right

whatname · 11/05/2010 22:04

oh FGS. spite?!!! of course he knew what was going to happen next. Bet you believe everything you read in the papers as well.

MNHubbie · 11/05/2010 22:11

@Whatname No not really I became a science teacher so that I could teach kids not to believe everything they read in the paper.

@Catis I also have pointed out that I didn't think there was any such thing as hanging around for too long as it was his responsibility to hang around until a stable government was formed. If that had taken 40 days like it did for the Germans then so be it.

I'm not the OP but at the same time I'm obviously missing some history here for all the venom that has come.

Like I said my POV is that Brown did some things right, his speeches were good etc but he knew that the Lib Dems were meeting tonight and that it would signal a stable government. Spite is perhaps strong but still it makes the point.

Pancakeflipper · 11/05/2010 22:16

He had to leave by a certain time to get the roof rack on the car and load it up with boxes before it got too dark to see what he was doing.

It's a long drive to Scotland.

Wasn't his fault he had to hang about whilst SamCam was trying to learn how to walk in those heels so she and Davey could then trot slowly to see the Queen.

whatname · 11/05/2010 22:20

MNHubbie, sorry I was talking to the OP!!

Higgledyhouse · 11/05/2010 22:20

For what its worth I think gordon Brown was Fab. I am totally depressed at the thought and now reality of a tory government, and cannot believe people have such short memories of what life is REALLY like under this crowd. Its a very sad day and I think Gordon Brown is intelligent, dignified and he will be missed. Good luck to him and his lovely wife.

Xenia · 12/05/2010 09:44

It is a very happy day. At least the country has a chance to grow . What a wonderful first speech from Cameron yesterday after years of dour Labour politicans unable to string together a sentence. All will be well and all will be well and all manner of things will be well. It's exciting. A new era.

Xenia · 12/05/2010 09:47

And Labour voters might like this www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/the-torch-has-been-passed-to-a-new-generation-of- public-school-nancy-boys-201005122720/

VicToryA · 12/05/2010 09:53

Well said, Xenia. As I've said elsewhere, my experience of life under 'this crowd' was pretty good (as opposed to life under the cloud of Labour). I felt so happy this morning that my children are waking up to a Conservative administration for the first time in their lives.

slug · 12/05/2010 10:05

Tis just a pity he plagarised it from JFK though.

ladylush · 12/05/2010 10:35

No - it was a dignified exit which no one had the right to deprive him of.

"What a wonderful first speech" - lol at the bit about entitlement culture. Did he forget that he'd claimed for the removal of wisteria in his chimney? But wait, he was entitled to - right?

OrmRenewed · 12/05/2010 10:36

No he won't. He will go down in your memory as one of the worst prime ministers but that's clearly nothing new.

The poor bugger's gone! Leave him alone. How vindictive can you get?

weegiemum · 12/05/2010 10:47

I went to a state school and Edinburgh Uni, just like Gordon.

I liked him - his integrity was very impressive.

Sorry he's gone, but he did it in the best way possible!

(can you imagine explaining that to the boys : Daddy just lost his job and the new guy is coming to sleep here tonight to we need to clear out now ......)

gypsymummy · 12/05/2010 11:03

This goes to prove how people will judge a perosn most of the time upon how well he pleases their outlook rather than whether or not they actually have substance. Gordon had his faults as we all do and yet the media took extra pleasure in exposing these and pounding his unassuming exterior. I did not vote for him and yet i feel ashamed of us humans for judging him so harshly just because he did not look, act or sound the way we would like him to and then we go to say we don't trust politicians because they are so "sweet" and " coy" etc etc.. I was very impressed as a human being by his exit speech yesterday and if there is anything to learn from this it is that we the people have much to reform within ourselves as to what we actually want in our leaders as opposed to what we say we want.

ladylush · 12/05/2010 11:08

Yes I liked his speech about humankind.

VicToryA · 12/05/2010 11:21

Integrity?????

The man ousted Tony Blair (who was himself a disgrace IMO) to become an unelected PM. He presided over a government that lied, lied, lied, and lied again about, well, pretty much everything. Whatever his strong points may be as a man (and I don't know him, so I can't say), GB the politician has no integrity and no honour at all.

Blu · 12/05/2010 11:25

So what of the integrity of a government with an unelected Deputy Prime Minister?

VicToryA · 12/05/2010 11:30

Yep, not entirely convinced about that either. Would obviously have preferred a Tory landslide, but hey ho.

I do think it's quite funny that the people who voted LD to keep the Tories out are now paying for their mean-spiritedness, though.

ninna · 12/05/2010 11:45

Gorden Brown is the man who when he and his wife were both working, and earning a substancial joint income, I'm sure, felt justified to claim cleaning expenses from the taxpayers.

ronshar · 12/05/2010 11:45

I dont like GB but I have felt really sorry for him recently.

GB was driven by a sense of revenge when TB changed the agreement they had pre 1997. When John Smith died GB was supposed to take over. TB did instead.
GB then spent the following years undermining TB and refusing to finance alot of the New Labour policies. And then did his utmost to get rid of TB as soon as he could!!

This is all public knowledge and I am sure that we shall see an avalache of books by civil servants etc about it all very soon.

So no, I wont miss GB or the labour party, which has been all but destroyed by GB. He has moved money up to the North and Scotland to shore up the labour vote at the expense of the rest of the country.

I dont care who clears up the mess as long as someone does!

ninna · 12/05/2010 11:51

I completely believe that politicians should be judged by what they say and do, rather than what they look like or what people perceive their motives to be.
Maybe this consideration could be applied to D. Cameron and G. Osbourne

Cammelia · 12/05/2010 12:15

Ronshar "This is all public knowledge and I am sure that we shall see an avalache of books by civil servants etc about it all very soon."

I'm not sure civil servants are allowed to publish their memoirs - probably have to sign official secrets act- for at least 30/40 years

slug · 12/05/2010 12:30

VicToryA, John Major ousted Margaret Thatcher to become an unelected Prime Minister too. (oh how quickly you forget)

VicToryA · 12/05/2010 12:57

Ah, no, I don't forget. You can't get much more of a die-hard Tory than I am, and even I thought they had gone past their sell-by date by the time JM ousted Thatcher.

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