Yet another example of Gordon Brown's spite

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If there is anything which encapsulates what a bitter and vindictive man Gordon Brown truly was, then surely it is this?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/7805707/Gordon-Brown-accepts-a-pay-cut-for-David-Camero n.html

I agree with cutting the Prime Minister's salary - but of course Gordon Brown didn't have the courage to cut his own salary, only David Cameron's.

It's got some fantastic points Riven but with the money that's been rained down on it for the last 13 years we should have state of the art hospitals, schools, roads, railways............

But sadly we havnt because most of it has gone on Quangos and made up jobs for the boys.

With the money that has been ploughed into health your dd should be getting more than 4 nappies a day and you should have a stable of ft carers for her.

Riven Everyone wants to help the disadvantaged. I disagree that Labour have been effective in the way they have done this, but for now, let us work on the (false) assumption that every pound they borrowed was spent wisely.

But just imagine how stupid it would be if everyone in the country went to their bank manager, got a £20000 loan, and gave it straight to a charity. Noble, yes, but quite stupid.

Yet that is effectively what has been done on our behalf.

longfingers, you really are quite boring about this. Labour's gone and finished for quite some time. Whether or not the very wealthy Dave is quite the saviour you expect remains to be seen. Somehow I don't think a few grand less in his pocket will make much of a difference.

I can't honestly get it up to give a flying fuck, tbh.

I would be appalled if his wages were not being cut.

I was at a dinner with some really senior financial experts fairly recently. They genuinely believe that Gordon Brown was instrumental in saving us from a much, much worse recession.

I'll take their word over the Torygraph, thank you.

Unlike the left, we on the right don't expect a new era full of rivers of milk and honey from our leaders. We just want them to be quietly competent.

Anyway, the Tories will never do the "hopey-dopey" stuff - their fate is always to sort out the mess that Labour leaves them.

'Anyway, the Tories will never do the "hopey-dopey" stuff'

Someone's been listening to Sarah Palin speeches.

Yes the tories will come up with 'research' to show that class sizes of 50 in state schools are fine I'm sure. That's why they want them all in rows. Stack one lot on top of the other.

Is it not only right that any cuts to reduce the massive deficit start at the top?

And I agree that the whole recession thing would have been a lot worse without Brown

And, yes it's completely irrelevant whether Cameron needs the money or not, but let's face it, he's not going to miss the measly bit that's been cut from his salary is he?

OP, I can never quite get a grasp on where you sit politically. You need to be more forthright. Do you like Brown or not. Come on, off the fence now.

The one good thing Gordon Brown did was to keep us out of the Euro (under pressure from William Hague).

Thank God we are not in that hellhole of a currency.

ROFL @ "every newborn child now comes with £20000 of debt on its head - most of it due to Gordon Brown."

Deluded

Ah but the bad news for you 'on the right' is that the political expediency of a coalition deal is that the centrists can pretty much ignore the more rabid right as they need the backing of a more broadly left ally.

'Hopey-dopey' good grief what planet are you from or do you get the DM and DT fed intravenously

Ah but the bad news for you 'on the right' is that the political expediency of a coalition deal is that the centrists can pretty much ignore the more rabid right as they need the backing of a more broadly left ally.

'Hopey-dopey' good grief what planet are you from or do you get the DM and DT fed intravenously

Riven - I'm with your DP on that. And then cuts in benefits too will probably mean that those same people will be really struggling very soon.

belgianbun - it always amazes me that people are so blinkered about the UK. It's an incredible privilege to have been born here (IMO).

Of course the Prime Minister's salary should be cut.

But maybe one of you can ask instead why
Gordon Brown didn't cut his own salary but instead that of his successor?

Oops!

Alouiseg Sun 06-Jun-10 14:19:55
And it looks like he's planning on working for the IMF.

Has your DH been blogwatching like the rest of us or has he got something more do you think?

oh fgs

any country with a deficit can express it in terms of 'debt on every newborn child's head'.

And you try finding a country without a deficit.

Emotive claptrap, designed to make idiots support cutting essential public services. It means nothing very useful.

LadyBlaBla - which part of that statement do you disagree with?

longfingernails when the decision was made perhaps GB thought he would still be PM? Or, perhaps, he thought that it was only fair to make some cuts in parliamentary costs when the rest of the public sector would be hit so hard?