Gordon Brown has resigned as leader of the Labour party and will make way for David Cameron to become Prime Minister. . Follow us on twitter at / itn_news .
Gordon Brown was a man that was deficient of 'spin' but a man who wore his heart on his sleeve and was, as such, all too human in a society that sees politicians as celebrities or staged managed robots. He did a lot for the UK as Chancellor and in his short term as PM as a true beliver in the Labour Party principles. In a globalised world and the criminal and mysterious workings of the deregulated financial markets, political power is as a vastly different as the country is. I believe he was a genuine and principled man who did and does care about real people and real issues. I believe him when he quoated his school moto. Gordon, you did indeed do your best.
@@EddieOConnor_Facilitating the largest expansion of the UK economy in history, even more than when we owned 25% of all life on planet Earth. This among many other policy victories, some of which (e.g. Child Trust Funds and the BoE’s independence) are still paying dividends today and even saved us from complete financial collapse under the Tories.
I have the upmost respect for this man and am glad to see he such graciousness in defeat. He may have taken on a bad name and reputation from his close relationship with Tony Blair, however I believe this man to have represented the Labour party and what a real MP should stand for very well and wish him the best of luck.
What was Brown supposed to do ? Let the banks go under ? The origins of the banking crisis was in North America. The unregulated and dispicable behaviour of bankers had their beginnings in the Thatcher/ Major governments as well as the Blair/ Brown governments. If the Conservatives had been in government in 2008 the crisis would still have hit the UK. I agree, Brown was not the most able PM, but I suspect history will be kinder to him on his handling of the banking crisis.
+merrymonarch Situation he was given? Given to by himself, he was the chancellor for the 10 years prior to becoming PM. He bankrupted the public finances so they weren't ready for a financial crash, which happened when he was PM.
I'm sorry, but which country was ready for the financial crash? Yes, it was inevitable there would be a recession around 2010, but no one ever even dreamed there would be a financial crash of such magnitude.
@@TheDSSlayer Didn't blame him for the crash, just the fact we weren't prepared for it. He borrowed us up to the eyeballs rather than putting any aside.
@@MrThorfan64 he really isn’t missed. I’m glad Cameron beat him, at least Cameron didn’t support terrorists. You talk about clowns, the only clown I can think of is that kneeling (unt Starmer.
@@EddieOConnor_ Huh, bet you think that's clever. I presume u support the Partying BJ, who has ruined our country and we are supposed to laugh off his appalling behaviour, incompotence and corruption on a scale barely seen before.
Not a big fan of Gordon Brown Tony Blair or Labour in general to be honest.But with Brown I respect his public service of over 30 years in parliament and 13 in government that has to be admired
Only vote I really regret. Voted Tory as I was sick of New Labour. It was a mistake on my part as what happened after has been a disaster on both sides of the house.
he may not have always made the right choices for everyone, but he's permanently in a difficult position where it's impossible to please absolutely everyone. I'm glad that now he's left he's getting some resepct, becasue in years to come people will be missing him.
He just got unlucky that he had to face the Greatest Recession in modern history. If you look closesly, the Republicans also lost the elections in 2009 because they were the party in charge during 2008 and the Democrats used that.
Nice speach, well done Gordon Brown! He had to do a difficult job to do in an awful time. All the best for his future. Here's hoping Ed Milliband can get us back on track and give the Torries a run for their money!
I met GB in 2009 in Gateshead whilst Chancellor. A decent man dedicated to public service, albeit not a great PM - he probably deserves more credit than he got though
He resigned as Leader of the Labour Party not as Prime Minister. He would be Leader of the Opposition if he didn't resign. Cameron got the most seats. Not a working majority but the guy with the most seats should be the PM.
Goodluck Mr Brown, people will realise one day what an honest genuine man you are. We are now left with two men who have suddenly forgot what they stand for just to get their feet in the door of No 10 talk about a sell out, lets see how long before Britain really goes down the pan......
I cried when I watched this, because I both feel sorry for and admire Brown. The way he dealt with the economic crisis was not condemned by the global community, quite the opposite, he was recognised by the Governments of europe as a great economist and a great leader through those times. Unfortunately the public decided they would rather have a photoshopped, PR-friendly Cameron rather than the professional economist Brown to guide our country through the worst economic crisis since the 30s.
I agree with him that he is all about democracy, he is basically saying right here I haven't won this so I will make way. I wanted him to have another term and this was a sad day.
Of course you would. You’re most likely a Labour supporter. You’d probably take a terrorist over Johnson. Thankfully we have Johnson, he’s doing a fantastic job as Prime Minister. He’s not going anywhere. I’m glad that cock (Gordon Brown) is gone. He was an awful Prime Minister. I’m so glad Cameron beat him.
To all you Gordon Brown haters leave off him we are privileged to have had a prime minister off this calibre. Tony Blair, John Major and David Cameron don't come close to him. I would challenge anybody giving the circumstances of the economic climate to achieve what he has so keep talking
He did get dealt a proper shite hand! Like a man trapped in a corner of a room filled 10,000 mouse traps, a few of them are going to go off! Still that's life that's what the people say.
Jim McOist My view is that he assumed office with the worst luck in the world (though his only big mistake was saying he had eradicated boom and bust). People complain that the banks were bailed out and the deficit increased. Failing to realise that if the banks hadn't been bailed out, EVERYONE would have lost ALL their money.
Jim McOist And yet this is the man that sold off half our gold at below rock bottom prices and wasted a shed load of taxpayers money nationalising Northern Rock. He had warning/foreknowledge regarding the state of international banking entanglements yet did very little to safeguard the UK. I cannot agree with you. He has little to no achievements. David Cameron and George Osbourne have turned our country around and brought us back from the brink of catastrophe to make us one of the fastest growing and strongest economies in the world, not to mention falling unemployment, the resurrection of right to buy and tax incentives for hard working families. Brown doesn't even come close and has no significant achievement next to his name as PM, unlike the other PM's you've named.
+beeney2 He didn't need to cling on for 3 years though. The public were crying out for an election, but he just clung on like a dictator. If he had an election after 18 months, he would have stood a chance of winning it, and the public would not hold so much hatred of him. He made the mistake of thinking it was 'his turn' to be prime minister, and forgot that it's actually up to the people. Of course we found out what he actually thinks of the electorate during the campaign in 2010. Anyone who is concerned about immigration is a bigot. A rare moment of truth from Gordon there. I'm a bigot and proud of it!
I hate Labour but Gordon Brown (and his ever changing accent....) had Tony Blair's mess to deal with. He contributed to it, but its a really unfair start
Although I haven't always liked Labour policies I do believe that former Gordon Brown is a man of great integrity who only had Britain's best interest at heart at all times and who wanted to do his bit to help to make the world a fairer place; pity but with style presiding over substance he just didn't stand a chance. I wish him and his family all the best for his future and I also hope that despite a change in government ours will be a future fair for all the way he envisaged it.
I was terrified that a new Labour leader would instantly become PM without the public voting for them, have to deal out the cuts + be viewed as a tyrant, destroying themself + the party. That night I had a nightmare that members of Brown's cabinet were holding pythons in some environmentalist publicity thing + were going to be eaten. I have a phobia of snakes + regularly have such nightmares. D Miliband is uncannily like a 13 year old pot head I was secretly in love with at school probably dead.
@brentybabes Just want to point out that no PM is elected in UK politics. If you think that's the way the system works, you're ignorant of our electoral system.
@JuanMacready -- What happened about the same time we started adding kids to the autism/Aspergers list in droves? We were starting to get rid of most jobs except those in sales, customer service, or finance. Jobs, in other words, where it absolutely helps to have the ability to get people to immediately like you. It's as much about social and cultural engineering via our *workplaces*, as aout anything neurological.
@blueb0g im fully aware of how the system works. the leader of the elected party is elected to office, and very few people are unaware of who heads the main parties so they are in a sense
i'll promise you this, in a years time, most people will be missing him. i would lol this but frankly i'm now fed up with the offensive shit stained drivel that passes for political debate amongst the public. congratulations everyone, we now have mr "vapid" cameron and "caught in the headlights" clegg running this country. have a nice life
It's not hard to find people who think Brown was a miserable failure as PM: somehow that's the portrait the media painted of him, and the public swallowed it like candy. Nor is it difficult to find fellow conspiracy theorists here on the Web. This tends to be their haunt. And, no, you got two letters wrong, not one. I suppose math wasn't your strongest subject either.
@jswebbo Too damn right. He is a very decent guy. I think he was the best one to bring Britain back. Tony Ruined it but I think Gordon would have brought it back
@JuanMacready Actually we did that by forcing the Unions to hold secret, rather than show of hands ballots. More power to the worker/individual. Trotsky would have approved of that if not the rest!
@thedoctorand I don't care if gets the Noble Prize for economics. We had enough of him as PM too last a life time and so not hearing from him is a blissing. Worry about the rest of us who going to have too pay for all his mistakes while he was PM.
Which British ancestors are you talking about? The Normans? The Angles/Saxons (Germans)? The Norse? The Danes? The Romans? The Celts? ... Couldn't keep those immigrants out
@JuanMacready No Prime Minister has ever been elected. We don't vote directly for leaders, we vote on a constituency basis. Then the party with the most seats, nominates the person who can 'best command the majority'. The party elects a leader not us. How dya like them eggs. Ps Brown was built on true, ferocious passion. Best Prime Minister, he was wasted on this country.
@mightywibble so how do you explain the many people eg, gordon brown, clinton, bush, soros, the pope, obama, , kissinger, brazinski, hitler, all of them calling for a new world order??? what do you think they mean when they say that????
@nograviti Labour reversed equality with the Equality Act 2010 which means employers can discriminate against colour, favouring someone non white even if they are not the most suitable or favouring a female over a male regardless of if they are the best person for the job. Equality is about treating people the same, not giving more rights to people that are different.
Is it Surrey by chance? I live just outside the borders of Surrey in towards West London which has always had a Liberal tradition (Kingston, Twickenham, Richmond, etc). Who's your MP?
@poorambo gets me mate blair starts a war with lies jumps ship then his side kick takes over and well just look at the mess. blair and brown laural and hardy of politicks
Why am I not surprised to see vitriol on this forum. I did not like all of Mr Brown's policies- I positively disliked some of them. He also made serious economic mistakes. But I think he deserves a lot more credit for the hard work he done on addressing poverty and debt in Africa. Racists here will say that is irrelevant. I disagree. Gordon Brown may not have been an outstanding PM, he made fundamental mistakes but im tired of people completely and irrationally demonising his name.
i am sad that a truthfull man did this when i was very ill in Huddersfield on 30th April 2010 because i am prude to say my ex-husband Phone Hudderfield because it was our daughter Nicola Birthday and he rung her to say happy birthday and she told him to f# off so i do not know but the next day they got me out of bed and a sister showered me i was trying not to faint and she said who is Mr Peter J Bradley i said what and i cried and i thought who my God he still care's he is a royal marine and a police officer who toke care of Gorden Brown because he was stand just to the right of him and i thought o.m.g still looking after Queen and Gorden Brown Peter would put his life down to save England and Mr Brown go and take over and have a injection in your face so people hear your word's and i believe you could win and stop everyone taking more out of the purse then needed N.H.S Police everyone but the Queen army navy and R.A.F
It’s Funny how this one resigned and the next one done the exact Same although the next one was a corrupt Tory and the first was a great Scottish labourer
The difference was that he resigned due to losing the election and the other one due to not getting his way i.e losing the eu referendum to remain vote
Gordon Brown was a man that was deficient of 'spin' but a man who wore his heart on his sleeve and was, as such, all too human in a society that sees politicians as celebrities or staged managed robots. He did a lot for the UK as Chancellor and in his short term as PM as a true beliver in the Labour Party principles. In a globalised world and the criminal and mysterious workings of the deregulated financial markets, political power is as a vastly different as the country is. I believe he was a genuine and principled man who did and does care about real people and real issues. I believe him when he quoated his school moto. Gordon, you did indeed do your best.
Brown did allot of good things that he will never be given credit for
Arggred
Like what, supporting terrorists?
@@EddieOConnor_
You're an imbecile 👌!!
@@EddieOConnor_Facilitating the largest expansion of the UK economy in history, even more than when we owned 25% of all life on planet Earth. This among many other policy victories, some of which (e.g. Child Trust Funds and the BoE’s independence) are still paying dividends today and even saved us from complete financial collapse under the Tories.
Compared to Theresa May, Gordon Brown was a brilliant statesman.
HA HA HA.
@@bbodinefan11 something funny?
Managed not to cry or nervously hum, so already better than May or Cameron when leaving office
Yeah! I love Gordon Brown
We need him back rather than boris johnson or sunak
Love him or loathe him, that was a fantastic goodbye speech.
"Thank you and goodbye". Classic last line.
A great, personal speech from an honourable man. Good luck to him and his lovely family.
0:13 theresa may?
Haha I thought so too
Sean Corcoran I think every speech May has said includes “Strong And Stable Leadership!”
Not anymore
I have the upmost respect for this man and am glad to see he such graciousness in defeat. He may have taken on a bad name and reputation from his close relationship with Tony Blair, however I believe this man to have represented the Labour party and what a real MP should stand for very well and wish him the best of luck.
What was Brown supposed to do ? Let the banks go under ? The origins of the banking crisis was in North America. The unregulated and dispicable behaviour of bankers had their beginnings in the Thatcher/ Major governments as well as the Blair/ Brown governments. If the Conservatives had been in government in 2008 the crisis would still have hit the UK. I agree, Brown was not the most able PM, but I suspect history will be kinder to him on his handling of the banking crisis.
Honourable man. Makes me cry to watch this.
He did the best he could in the situation he was given. Churchill would have been considered a failure if he'd had to deal with what Brown tackled
+merrymonarch Situation he was given? Given to by himself, he was the chancellor for the 10 years prior to becoming PM. He bankrupted the public finances so they weren't ready for a financial crash, which happened when he was PM.
+Piston Broke Exactly, and we would have been better prepared for it, if he hadn't sailed so close to the wind with the public finances.
I'm sorry, but which country was ready for the financial crash? Yes, it was inevitable there would be a recession around 2010, but no one ever even dreamed there would be a financial crash of such magnitude.
@@mhl8396 you legit don't know anything about that financial crash lol do some research before you rant about lies :D
@@TheDSSlayer Didn't blame him for the crash, just the fact we weren't prepared for it. He borrowed us up to the eyeballs rather than putting any aside.
Give it a few years; he'll be missed. A good man.
He is missed, considering the clowns we've had since then.
@@MrThorfan64 he really isn’t missed. I’m glad Cameron beat him, at least Cameron didn’t support terrorists.
You talk about clowns, the only clown I can think of is that kneeling (unt Starmer.
@@EddieOConnor_ Huh, bet you think that's clever. I presume u support the Partying BJ, who has ruined our country and we are supposed to laugh off his appalling behaviour, incompotence and corruption on a scale barely seen before.
@@EddieOConnor_ Brown should’ve won in 2010.
This aged well
Not a big fan of Gordon Brown Tony Blair or Labour in general to be honest.But with Brown I respect his public service of over 30 years in parliament and 13 in government that has to be admired
Only vote I really regret. Voted Tory as I was sick of New Labour. It was a mistake on my part as what happened after has been a disaster on both sides of the house.
People need to realise that Labour is far more than a political party, it's a calling!
he may not have always made the right choices for everyone, but he's permanently in a difficult position where it's impossible to please absolutely everyone. I'm glad that now he's left he's getting some resepct, becasue in years to come people will be missing him.
What an amazing prediction!
He was way better than Bo Jo ever will be...
lovely guy. terrible prime minister. Really like him though and wish him a wonderful retirement
I say terrible both!
Was a great PM actually
He just got unlucky that he had to face the Greatest Recession in modern history. If you look closesly, the Republicans also lost the elections in 2009 because they were the party in charge during 2008 and the Democrats used that.
The last great PM, this far. A decent human being.
Nice speach, well done Gordon Brown! He had to do a difficult job to do in an awful time. All the best for his future. Here's hoping Ed Milliband can get us back on track and give the Torries a run for their money!
That didn’t age well
A fablous man that, sadly only history will appreciate
History has definitely run its course now...
If only it was still Labour in office.
@@GameRoof1
The contrast with those who have followed as PM couldn't be starker. 😧
I met GB in 2009 in Gateshead whilst Chancellor. A decent man dedicated to public service, albeit not a great PM - he probably deserves more credit than he got though
In 09 he was pm
He resigned as Leader of the Labour Party not as Prime Minister. He would be Leader of the Opposition if he didn't resign. Cameron got the most seats. Not a working majority but the guy with the most seats should be the PM.
This guy is actually proud of what he has done. unbeliveable ! He has learned much about how to supress human nature.
The Last Labour PM until 202? And A decent human.
Goodluck Mr Brown, people will realise one day what an honest genuine man you are. We are now left with two men who have suddenly forgot what they stand for just to get their feet in the door of No 10 talk about a sell out, lets see how long before Britain really goes down the pan......
A sad day. Farewell Mr Brown, you deserved better!
Gordon Brown, you are sorely missed!!
It's a tradition to watch these resignations as a family in the UK.
@karezza44 can you show where i can read about this fact as i am interested to know
Loved it, the ending was touching.
And We've gone DOWN HILL EVER SINCE!!!
The Queen didn't accept his resignation, but he insisted.
Ass, of course she did. The Queen doesn't refuse a resignation.
I cried when I watched this, because I both feel sorry for and admire Brown. The way he dealt with the economic crisis was not condemned by the global community, quite the opposite, he was recognised by the Governments of europe as a great economist and a great leader through those times. Unfortunately the public decided they would rather have a photoshopped, PR-friendly Cameron rather than the professional economist Brown to guide our country through the worst economic crisis since the 30s.
I agree with him that he is all about democracy, he is basically saying right here I haven't won this so I will make way. I wanted him to have another term and this was a sad day.
I would gladly take him back over Johnson right now.
Of course you would. You’re most likely a Labour supporter. You’d probably take a terrorist over Johnson.
Thankfully we have Johnson, he’s doing a fantastic job as Prime Minister. He’s not going anywhere.
I’m glad that cock (Gordon Brown) is gone. He was an awful Prime Minister. I’m so glad Cameron beat him.
To all you Gordon Brown haters leave off him we are privileged to have had a prime minister off this calibre. Tony Blair, John Major and David Cameron don't come close to him. I would challenge anybody giving the circumstances of the economic climate to achieve what he has so keep talking
He did get dealt a proper shite hand! Like a man trapped in a corner of a room filled 10,000 mouse traps, a few of them are going to go off! Still that's life that's what the people say.
Jim McOist My view is that he assumed office with the worst luck in the world (though his only big mistake was saying he had eradicated boom and bust). People complain that the banks were bailed out and the deficit increased. Failing to realise that if the banks hadn't been bailed out, EVERYONE would have lost ALL their money.
Jim McOist And yet this is the man that sold off half our gold at below rock bottom prices and wasted a shed load of taxpayers money nationalising Northern Rock. He had warning/foreknowledge regarding the state of international banking entanglements yet did very little to safeguard the UK. I cannot agree with you. He has little to no achievements.
David Cameron and George Osbourne have turned our country around and brought us back from the brink of catastrophe to make us one of the fastest growing and strongest economies in the world, not to mention falling unemployment, the resurrection of right to buy and tax incentives for hard working families. Brown doesn't even come close and has no significant achievement next to his name as PM, unlike the other PM's you've named.
+Jim McOist brown what a prat fucked us good
+beeney2 He didn't need to cling on for 3 years though. The public were crying out for an election, but he just clung on like a dictator. If he had an election after 18 months, he would have stood a chance of winning it, and the public would not hold so much hatred of him. He made the mistake of thinking it was 'his turn' to be prime minister, and forgot that it's actually up to the people. Of course we found out what he actually thinks of the electorate during the campaign in 2010. Anyone who is concerned about immigration is a bigot. A rare moment of truth from Gordon there. I'm a bigot and proud of it!
Goodbye Gordon.
Best Chancellor ever!!!
Almost every single Prime Minister has said the economy has been in a better situation when they left than when they arrived...not Brown
I hate Labour but Gordon Brown (and his ever changing accent....) had Tony Blair's mess to deal with. He contributed to it, but its a really unfair start
I'm guessing the Queen accepted without hesitation
History will be far kinder to Brown than Cameron.
I think you could be right there
I think you're gay for Brown!
Gordon Brown is gay .I am Scottish and heard it years ago so it must be true,lets face it,it makes sense.He is a traitor to Scotland and is hated
How do you circumcise Brown?
Kick Blair in the jaw...
britain is a great country god bless the UK
Farewell Mr Brown! I applaud you!
I'd like to see you do any better.
@FranBMan Thanks
Although I haven't always liked Labour policies I do believe that former Gordon Brown is a man of great integrity who only had Britain's best interest at heart at all times and who wanted to do his bit to help to make the world a fairer place; pity but with style presiding over substance he just didn't stand a chance. I wish him and his family all the best for his future and I also hope that despite a change in government ours will be a future fair for all the way he envisaged it.
@Fanofshahat here here could not of put it better myself i also wish him well
Gordon will now go on and work for bigger people because he is worthy of it.
Good Luck Gordon Brown in your future occupation.
@nograviti I think it was mainly Harriet Harman.
@ mightywibble... where does insight align with proof???
Gordon brown for queen of england and cameron as his royal jester!
@brentybabes Not quite. The queen can appoint any MP or Lord to be PM. She just chooses the person who has the best ability to command the commons.
Sarah looks like she's about to break down into tears
@MegaSpliffster Agreed!
Why did he resign? I've looked everywhere and can't find the reason.
Nulono because he lost the general election
you can say he wasnt a good prime minister but what you said took it way to far...
@JuanMacready Yep.
I was terrified that a new Labour leader would instantly become PM without the public voting for them, have to deal out the cuts + be viewed as a tyrant, destroying themself + the party. That night I had a nightmare that members of Brown's cabinet were holding pythons in some environmentalist publicity thing + were going to be eaten. I have a phobia of snakes + regularly have such nightmares. D Miliband is uncannily like a 13 year old pot head I was secretly in love with at school probably dead.
@mightywibble ah spoken like a true teen.......as you grow up you will learn more.....
@Buggsy61 What about him beng both incompetant and bonkers when he was PM?
Why do I get the feeling that Gordon Brown is the Theresa May of The Labour Party
They were both in power for about three years, and outside of CZcams nobody will remember they even existed.
I think you need to look up what the word 'deluded' actually means.
@brentybabes Just want to point out that no PM is elected in UK politics. If you think that's the way the system works, you're ignorant of our electoral system.
@JuanMacready -- What happened about the same time we started adding kids to the autism/Aspergers list in droves? We were starting to get rid of most jobs except those in sales, customer service, or finance. Jobs, in other words, where it absolutely helps to have the ability to get people to immediately like you.
It's as much about social and cultural engineering via our *workplaces*, as aout anything neurological.
@blueb0g im fully aware of how the system works. the leader of the elected party is elected to office, and very few people are unaware of who heads the main parties so they are in a sense
i'll promise you this, in a years time, most people will be missing him. i would lol this but frankly i'm now fed up with the offensive shit stained drivel that passes for political debate amongst the public. congratulations everyone, we now have mr "vapid" cameron and "caught in the headlights" clegg running this country. have a nice life
It's not hard to find people who think Brown was a miserable failure as PM: somehow that's the portrait the media painted of him, and the public swallowed it like candy. Nor is it difficult to find fellow conspiracy theorists here on the Web. This tends to be their haunt.
And, no, you got two letters wrong, not one. I suppose math wasn't your strongest subject either.
@jswebbo Too damn right. He is a very decent guy. I think he was the best one to bring Britain back. Tony Ruined it but I think Gordon would have brought it back
@RichardElden Until Cameron/Clegg came along that is.
The only thing that Boris Johnson has on multiple occasions failed to do
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@flow789 yeah same man :)
Sad to see him go. I thought he did a good job...
@mightywibble why dont you stop watching tv and start finding out bout how badly we are being fxxxxx....???
@JuanMacready Actually we did that by forcing the Unions to hold secret, rather than show of hands ballots. More power to the worker/individual. Trotsky would have approved of that if not the rest!
@JuanMacready He did well for all.
What he really said: "I resign. Laters, bitches!"
@kwak370 hear hear. anyone willing to accept defeat has my respect too.
brown went along with mad blair's iraq intervention wholeheartedly. For that alone he will be remembered NOT the global crash
sairoz mohammed dick
johnson should take note,but he will not
@pardeepsinghk lol :) why do you say that?
@thedoctorand I don't care if gets the Noble Prize for economics. We had enough of him as PM too last a life time and so not hearing from him is a blissing. Worry about
the rest of us who going to have too pay for all his mistakes while he was PM.
Professor6871 blessing I think you mean
Which British ancestors are you talking about? The Normans? The Angles/Saxons (Germans)? The Norse? The Danes? The Romans? The Celts? ... Couldn't keep those immigrants out
@JuanMacready No Prime Minister has ever been elected. We don't vote directly for leaders, we vote on a constituency basis. Then the party with the most seats, nominates the person who can 'best command the majority'. The party elects a leader not us.
How dya like them eggs.
Ps Brown was built on true, ferocious passion. Best Prime Minister, he was wasted on this country.
@blueb0g in theory she has that power however if she were to exercise it, it would likely trigger a constitutional crisis
Gordon "I sold the gold" Brown.
Shows how little you know.
Gordon “a stronger economy than under Pax Britannica” Brown
A very dignified and moving speech.
great joke mate if anyone destroying this country its Cameron
Should never have had an unelected PM anyway
Something more specific?
A stupefied nation breathes a collective sigh of relief and mutters "fuck off, and don't come back" under it's breath.
@mightywibble so how do you explain the many people eg, gordon brown, clinton, bush, soros, the pope, obama, , kissinger, brazinski, hitler, all of them calling for a new world order??? what do you think they mean when they say that????
@nograviti Labour reversed equality with the Equality Act 2010 which means employers can discriminate against colour, favouring someone non white even if they are not the most suitable or favouring a female over a male regardless of if they are the best person for the job. Equality is about treating people the same, not giving more rights to people that are different.
The Brown era was awful, but the humour that came out of it was priceless.....
Brown was unelected!
Brown virtually caused the credit crunch!
That it was bollocks!
jimmy carter jr who are you voting for in 2020?
Is it Surrey by chance? I live just outside the borders of Surrey in towards West London which has always had a Liberal tradition (Kingston, Twickenham, Richmond, etc). Who's your MP?
Punching above his weight with her
@poorambo gets me mate blair starts a war with lies jumps ship then his side kick takes over and well just look at the mess. blair and brown laural and hardy of politicks
Jez, this woman next to the man looks ghastly, or rather ghostly.
+Vincent fischer-zernin That's his wife. A VERY committed Labour party activist.
His very unlucky wife!
Why am I not surprised to see vitriol on this forum. I did not like all of Mr Brown's policies- I positively disliked some of them. He also made serious economic mistakes.
But I think he deserves a lot more credit for the hard work he done on addressing poverty and debt in Africa. Racists here will say that is irrelevant. I disagree. Gordon Brown may not have been an outstanding PM, he made fundamental mistakes but im tired of people completely and irrationally demonising his name.
i am sad that a truthfull man did this when i was very ill in Huddersfield on 30th April 2010 because i am prude to say my ex-husband Phone Hudderfield because it was our daughter Nicola Birthday and he rung her to say happy birthday and she told him to f# off so i do not know but the next day they got me out of bed and a sister showered me i was trying not to faint and she said who is Mr Peter J Bradley i said what and i cried and i thought who my God he still care's he is a royal marine and a police officer who toke care of Gorden Brown because he was stand just to the right of him and i thought o.m.g still looking after Queen and Gorden Brown Peter would put his life down to save England and Mr Brown go and take over and have a injection in your face so people hear your word's and i believe you could win and stop everyone taking more out of the purse then needed N.H.S Police everyone but the Queen army navy and R.A.F
The trouble with Brown is that he gives shit a bad name.
It’s
Funny how this one resigned and the next one done the exact
Same although the next one was a corrupt Tory and the first was a great Scottish labourer
The difference was that he resigned due to losing the election and the other one due to not getting his way i.e losing the eu referendum to remain vote
tory in a red tie
SirFragMatic I call bullshit on that