Gordon Brown - Head of the IMF???

ninky_2

mental note to remember the phrase "washed-up politician" for when cameron is voted out of office. methinks he'll be forgetting his stance on it.

2010

Dracula in charge of the national bloodbank.

bendix

ninky wrote: »

gordon brown is a great man. i mean that very sincerely.

unfortunately for him (and us) the likes of murdoch saw to it that a completely different picture was painted.

Is Murdoch and the mass media to blame also for the profile painted of Brown by his own colleagues, like Darling, Blair and Mandelson etc?

And was it Murdoch to blame when Brown's contempt for his core supporters was captured in the oh-so-wonderful 'Awful Woman' moment in the campaign?

Brown was a truly awful PM. A sullen bully who resented he couldn't ride roughshod over his colleagues. He was the reason Labour lost the election. He was little better as a chancellor, riding (and claiming credit for) the boom years which we are little to do with his financial management skills, as he was to blame for the bust years.

Wheezy_2

bendix wrote: »

And was it Murdoch to blame when Brown's contempt for his core supporters was captured in the oh-so-wonderful 'Awful Woman' moment in the campaign?

Ha yes, that was funny when he called that bigot a bigot.
But then he ruined it by going round her place to apologise.

ninky_2

bendix wrote: »

Is Murdoch and the mass media to blame also for the profile painted of Brown by his own colleagues, like Darling, Blair and Mandelson etc?

And was it Murdoch to blame when Brown's contempt for his core supporters was captured in the oh-so-wonderful 'Awful Woman' moment in the campaign?

Brown was a truly awful PM. A sullen bully who resented he couldn't ride roughshod over his colleagues. He was the reason Labour lost the election. He was little better as a chancellor, riding (and claiming credit for) the boom years which we are little to do with his financial management skills, as he was to blame for the bust years.

yes. i challenge anyone not to have come out with such comments off guard. it was a sky mic conveniently left on him and left turned on. they clearly haven't heard of 'soundman's honour'. if we broadcast all such incidents there would be very few people left in the spotlight.

Pete111

bendix wrote: »

Is Murdoch and the mass media to blame also for the profile painted of Brown by his own colleagues, like Darling, Blair and Mandelson etc?

And was it Murdoch to blame when Brown's contempt for his core supporters was captured in the oh-so-wonderful 'Awful Woman' moment in the campaign?

Brown was a truly awful PM. A sullen bully who resented he couldn't ride roughshod over his colleagues. He was the reason Labour lost the election. He was little better as a chancellor, riding (and claiming credit for) the boom years which we are little to do with his financial management skills, as he was to blame for the bust years.

Be fair Bendix. The man did 'save the world'. Surely that's a tick in the 'plus' column?



Seriously though, I'm beginnging to think that the lefts view on any politician can be categorised in 2 distinct ways

a) Spends more money than they have for as long a time as they can whilst shouting 'fairness' at maximum volume and actively ignoring all those red bracketted numbers in the accounts
=
A towering Collossus of the Political Arena.

b) Floats the idea that splashing vast tranches of cash on those who continue to contribute sod all may not actually be working and restricts spending to vaguely sane levels
=
Weasel worded rat faced scrote who doesn't understand that society can only function correctly when state borrowing is astronomical and income tax payers gratefully hand over vast %'s of their pay for the Govt to feed into a labyrinthine system designed to hand it out/back in a manner mostly determined by what the Guardians letters page contains that particular morning.

bendix

Oh . so what you're saying ninky is that he didnt really mean to say it, didn't actually mean it, and that it was the free and unfettered press's fault his inner feelings at a time of national importance came to light.

Fair enough.

ninky_2

bendix wrote: »

Oh . so what you're saying ninky is that he didnt really mean to say it, didn't actually mean it, and that it was the free and unfettered press's fault his inner feelings at a time of national importance came to light.

Fair enough.

we all say things we don't mean from time to time.

even you bendix.

(she was actually a bigoted woman).

Pete111

ninky wrote: »

we all say things we don't mean from time to time.

even you bendix.

(she was actually a bigotted woman).

She was bigotted....

...but no more so than a large % of the population.

(Outside of Islington obviously)

lynzpower

Really2 wrote: »

I will be honest, I am not saying I would not want GB because of him being Ex-Labour.

I just don't think his record and foresight is good enough. TBH I can't think of anyone in current politics I would put forward?
Vince Cable had the foresight, but is he good enough to head up the IMF? Not sure, but I would chose him over GB TBH.

What are you on about. cable has changed his mind massively.. Prior to the election, most had him down as economic brain of Britain. A fine mind!
But now, he has changed his mind over er- his whole view on economics0- and shown us a man who's intellect is as malleable as play doh for a sniff of power.

If he stands up and walks out of this coalition I might have some respect for him. He doesn't know what hes doing! Cameron only has him there as he wants to "keep his enemies closer" - that much is obvious to anyone!