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Letter to Gordon Brown

Hi folks, I thought It would be fun to compose a letter to Gordon Brown with input from you lot. It would help if it could be a little bit funny just to lift our spirits a bit.

This would be my opening line:

Mr Brown

What most people want you to actually do is get your hairy, lying, thieving @rse back over Hadrian’s Wall and take your Darling ‘Eyebrows’ with you.

You are wasting billions of pounds of taxpayers money that we haven’t even earnt yet and are not likely to ever be able to earn with the level of predicted job losses. It is truly ‘jaw dropping’ isn’t it? And I mean that quite literally.:p
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  • mummytofour
    mummytofour Posts: 2,636 Forumite
    If Maggie was here we would all be starving in the streets, as she would of privatised the welfare state we cant have it all and nothing is perfect. Mr B may not be perfect but at least he appears to care and seems to be trying to help.

    However I do wonder about the banking system... I know ity collapsing would be v v bad but I think giving those greedy sods all our cash is a bad idea but I personally have no better idea, all I can say is I am glad its not my job to sort this mess out becasue I don't think I could do a betetr job.
    Debt free and plan on staying that way!!!!
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    If Maggie was here we would all be starving in the streets, as she would of privatised the welfare state we cant have it all and nothing is perfect. Mr B may not be perfect but at least he appears to care and seems to be trying to help.

    I think labour have been more than obliging in privatization.(Trains, nuclear power etc.)
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    If Maggie was here we would all be starving in the streets, as she would of privatised the welfare state we cant have it all and nothing is perfect. Mr B may not be perfect but at least he appears to care and seems to be trying to help.

    Oh purlease.

    Must Thatcher, someone from 2 decades ago be dragged into everything....if she must, can we not use untrue extremities?
  • Really2 wrote: »
    I think labour have been more than obliging in privatization.(Trains, nuclear power etc.)

    I think you'll find the tories privatised British Rail
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    The other week California couldn't pay out welfare cheques ... perhaps we should start a programme of "Lucky Dip: randomly not receive your cheque". Perk things up a bit. Like a reverse lottery.

    Many of those on benefits aren't worrying because their income's fixed... they think.
  • mbga9pgf
    mbga9pgf Posts: 3,224 Forumite
    If Maggie was here we would all be starving in the streets, as she would of privatised the welfare state we cant have it all and nothing is perfect. Mr B may not be perfect but at least he appears to care and seems to be trying to help.

    However I do wonder about the banking system... I know ity collapsing would be v v bad but I think giving those greedy sods all our cash is a bad idea but I personally have no better idea, all I can say is I am glad its not my job to sort this mess out becasue I don't think I could do a betetr job.


    Hang on a minute, do you want to jog your memory back to the state of the coffers when Maggie took over? I think the polite term is fooked.

    Want to remind us which party the conservatives inherited it from. Yep, you guessed it, Labour!:mad::mad::mad:I take it you have forgotten that for the first time in this nation's history, socialists overspent and went begging to the IMF for forgivess. The appearance that Brown cares has lots to do with getting re-elected and nothing about getting this nation back on track. Sometimes, you need tough love to fix the situation

    Some of us can actually live through the good times without state support. Shame Labour didnt twig onto that, or we wouldnt have a public debt approaching 300% including bailouts and PFI.. :eek:
  • Mozette
    Mozette Posts: 2,247 Forumite
    !!!! off!

    succinct and to the point at least.
  • Cleaver
    Cleaver Posts: 6,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi folks, I thought It would be fun to compose a letter to Gordon Brown with input from you lot.

    Have you thought of getting a Nintendo Wii?
  • purch
    purch Posts: 9,865 Forumite
    "Talk us through your thinking, when you sold off the Gold reserves"
    'In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are Consequences.'
  • Eyesparky
    Eyesparky Posts: 689 Forumite
    "At what point were you recruited by a foreign power to systematically dismantle the economic stability, civil liberties, justice system and national defense capability of Britain should you ever gain a position of influence?"
    "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." — Confucius
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