Gordon Brown- Nice person but bad for PM job

[Pot Yummy]

I used to not be a huge fan of Gordon Brown but recently he's really started to grow on me. I think he is a generally nice person, unlike some other politicians who are greedy. I think he is really caring, for example, I read that he called Simon Cowell and Piers to check if Susan Boyle was OK after she checked in at The Priory.

However, is he right for the job of Prime Minister? Personally, I feel he is unsuitable.

[billy69]

GB is not a nice person remotely - if he had an atom of decency - he would realise he was a total incompetent at his job - including chancellor & step down before he wrecks anymore of the UK.

Instead - like the rest of his sidekicks - they have delusions of grandeur / blinkers to the extreme & look after their own greedy interests not giving the slightest stuff that they have sent the UK down the pan - possibly irrecoverably. History will judge them correctly & severely

Come voting day they will get their due rewards - pity it's not sooner than later

[swee]

Nice person - bullshit.

[ukmav]

Gordon Brown nice person? Sorry can't agree on that certainly the most inept chancellor in history cold bore you with the facts and figures but I shall not as they are well known and in the public domain if one cares to look.

Fit to be PM? frankly the only thing he or indeed his immediate predecessor as prime minister are fit for in the houses of parliament is cleaning the members toilets

[Pamb]

Gordon Brown is a hopeless Liar

[wow-ding-dong]

In the words of JC, a 'one eyed Scottish idiot'

[DodgyDave]

I suspect the mudslinging of the media have a lot to do with perceptions. As well as the fact in the eyes of the media Cameron can do no wrong.

But before you all go voting the tories in at the next election (this from someone who remembers the 80's) do consider:

If you want the minimum wage to rot
If you want the BBC to become commercial
If you want SKY tv to become the dominant broadcaster
If you want free entry to museums to end
If you want a government whose answer to the recession was to do nothing (the ONLY party in the world to have this policy)
If you want a PM who behaves like a school bully
If you want the country to be run by old etonians
If you want a party that will dismantle higher education

Then vote conservative

[ukmav]

Dodgydave
I can only assume you were either out of the country for the eighties therefor not aware of the real facts or that you are insane, the old adage there are none so blind as those who won't see has never been more apt than for someone who has witnessed the eighties and early nineties, under a conservative governement when none of your suggestions happened, and the late nineties and the start of this century when under Labour the entire fabric of our nation, our society and our values have been dismantled, degraded, downsized, demeaned, damaged beyond repair, disastrously mismanaged and destroyed, by the two worst primeministers in history and the worst chancellor in history. When comparing Tony Bliar and Gordon Brown brown comes out slightly ahead but ONLY because he is hopelessly inept rather than totally corrupt and evil as was Bliar (a man so devoutly catholic that he waited until after leaving office to convert because as a catholic he feared he could not be primeminister) who single handedly did more damage to this nation than two world wars, the unions and their bloated power of the sixties and seventies, and comprehensive education put together.
Your grandchildren's grandchildren will be paying for Gordon Brown's ineptitude if they are lucky enough not to have been murdered by the scum Bliar's adoption of the Human rights charter, at the behest no doubt of his wife, allows to wander freely in society rather than being locked up for meaningful sentances in unpleasant prisons.

[shelby_w]

Can you enlighten an American? When is the next election scheduled, or is there none scheduled yet?

If Brown is so unpopular, why doesn't Labour replace him before the Conservatives take back the government?

[ukmav]

they probably would if they could think of any member of their parlimentary party who would be more popular than he is. Truth be told after 12 years of labour misrule we NEED a change actually truth be told after 12 months of Labour misrule we needed a change actually 12 days was long enough to work that out.

[DanMc]

Gordon the PM that is so bad, even half his own MP's are planning to leave office rather than face losing their seats.

As one put it to me, we would be better off with Neil Kinnock running the party.

One of the great tragedies in this country is that Neil didn't win the election in 1992, largely because the Tory press mounted a disgraceful and personal campaign against him. That was the last chance the UK had and probably will ever have of a Labour government. Now all there is left at the next election is to decide which party is best suited to carry on Thatcher's policies.

[ukmav]

DanMc
If you honestly think Neil "the expenses fiddling Eu commissioner" Kinnock would have made a good primeminister regardless of his political leaning then I can only wonder how.

[wow-ding-dong]

I suspect the mudslinging of the media have a lot to do with perceptions. As well as the fact in the eyes of the media Cameron can do no wrong.

But before you all go voting the tories in at the next election (this from someone who remembers the 80's) do consider:

If you want the minimum wage to rot
If you want the BBC to become commercial
If you want SKY tv to become the dominant broadcaster
If you want free entry to museums to end
If you want a government whose answer to the recession was to do nothing (the ONLY party in the world to have this policy)
If you want a PM who behaves like a school bully
If you want the country to be run by old etonians
If you want a party that will dismantle higher education

Then vote conservative

New Labour

Record peacetime debt.
Record peacetime deficit.
The first facist MEP elected to European Parliament.
UK drops from 7th to 24th in international maths and literacy rankings.
100 new taxes on the middle class.
Council taxes double for the middle classes.
Council tax revaluation if Labour are voted back in.
4,300 petty new laws.
Authoritarian police state oppressing legitimate protest, photography and law abiding citizens.
Doubled the length of tax law and created a mass of new regulations.
Sold the UK's gold reserves at the bottom of the market.
Ripped up a system of financial regulation proven over 300 years; 10 years later the UK has 5 failed banks.
Destroyed the best private pension provision in europe, taking £100bn from prudent pensioners.
Destroyed more of the UK's manufacturing sector than Thatcher.
Politicisation of the police, the civil service, education.

Falling productivity in public sector despite 48% real-terms increase in spending.
Overseen the rise of the unaccountable, unsackable, feather-bedded bureaucrat, taking control over every aspect of people's lives.
New GP contract increased average pay to £100,000.
Most GPs refuse to provide care during evenings and weekends.
Arrest of an opposition MP for doing his job.
House prices unaffordable for workers on average salaries.
Soaring knife and violent crime in our cities.
Debasement of politics, endless re-announcements of the same policy, cash for peerages, lies, spin and deceit.
200+ service personal killed.
First non-jury Crown court trials.

3 million immigrants invited into the UK to take 81% of all new jobs created.
1 million young people unemployed.
Jacqui Smith.
Foot and mouth crisis (twice)
Farm payments
Tax credits
Iraq war
Under funded ill-equipped Forces
PFI
Home Office failures
Uncontrolled immigration (am I a racist for mentioning immigration, dear me)
NHS in tatters
School standards at the lowest ever
Thousands of knee jerk badly written laws
Rampant EU fraud
EU ignoring its own people
EU referendum promise reneged
Treaty/ constitution
Northern Rock
HMRC
Lost data – child benefit and dvlc
Donorgate
Cash for Honours
Single families
Economy in complete tatters
First time buyers taken out of market
Rich and poor divide becoming bigger
Plenty of tax rises – both direct and indirect
Uncontrolled private sector
Crime out of control
Young deaths
Guns on our streets
NO ELECTION
Afghan war
Quangos controlling parliament
Financial crisis
Populist catholicism

[ukmav]

Apart from the reemployment of a self confessed criminal who never had to undergo prosecution (mandelson for martgage fraud) a fairly comprehensive list there wow ding dong. glad to see that I am not the only one who feels this has been a disastrous administration.

[swee]

I used to not be a huge fan of Gordon Brown but recently he's really started to grow on me. I think he is a generally nice person, unlike some other politicians who are greedy. I think he is really caring, for example, I read that he called Simon Cowell and Piers to check if Susan Boyle was OK after she checked in at The Priory.

However, is he right for the job of Prime Minister? Personally, I feel he is unsuitable.

Nice person? HARDLY.