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I don't see him as quite the big failure some say they do, although he was no success either! To be fair to him he was very unlucky with other events, he inherited the leadership when that little weasel Blair had made Labour very unpopular with his illegal warmaking and lying, and then along came the world recession. Both catastrophes started in America, thanks!

But I felt he could have taken a far stronger stance against both these disasters. Instead the old servile attitude prevailed just as much as when Blair was up Bush's harriss. Then the big bank bail out - this is where he lost a lot of public support. Alhough he was fairly vocal in condemning the fat cats and their practices, he did not do enough about it, he is the PM for gord's sake, he should have passed a law just to stop 'Sir Fred' stealing more of our money for his pension - this would have earned him a lot of real respect.

He also failed to read the public's anger over immigration and came over as a poodle to the EU. He was so out of touch with the public's concerns that it was really worrying at times. Surely his advisers could have told him of our anger? But does he listen to them? He was labelled an autocrat and a bully by some and you can see their point.

His good points were that he was a serious man, a hardworker and he did have presence on the world stage. But he was sunk by the weight of his own gravitas, was far too rigid and stiff, and unfortunately struggled to steer his party more than an inch or two back to the left. He pandered to middle England far too much, trad Tory voters, and forgot his own grassroots voters.

Quote: Kevin Murphy @ May 9 2010, 11:53 AM BST

I agree.

In 2000, it took the yanks months to figure out who'd won their election.

35 days from the day of the election until the final Supreme Court decision. Winners of presidential elections don't take office until January 20th (more than 10 weeks later.)

Quote: chipolata @ May 9 2010, 11:39 AM BST

I wish people would stop bleating on about how Gordon Brown should resign. It's his constitutional responsibility to stay on until a new goverment is sorted out, for the sake of stability. Get off the poor blokes back.

Yeah, he's gotta work out his notice period.

Laughing out loud :D

Quote: DaButt @ May 9 2010, 2:35 PM BST

35 days from the day of the election until the final Supreme Court decision.

I stand corrected. I was living there at the time and it sure felt like months :)

Oh I am so enjoying this !

Eton rich kid dreams of entering Downing St a la Tony 1997, high fiving Osbourne, Hague, devoted fawning assoles etc

And now, if he can broker a deal, sidles up with another pretty boy holding a gun to his head !

Wonderful !

:D

You do realise Tony Blair went to the nearest Scottish equivalent of Eton?

Quote: keewik @ May 10 2010, 12:40 AM BST

You do realise Tony Blair went to the nearest Scottish equivalent of Eton?

Yep.

Quote: keewik @ May 10 2010, 12:40 AM BST

You do realise Tony Blair went to the nearest Scottish equivalent of Eton?

What's wrong with eatin'? I love eatin'. I just finished eatin' a T-bone steak and a baked potato. Lovey

Quote: DaButt @ May 10 2010, 1:01 AM BST

What's wrong with eatin'? I love eatin'. I just finished eatin' a T-bone steak and a baked potato. Lovey

Yum.

Can we just have the election again with new candidates?

Replace the PM with an app on an iphone, which can make logical decisions based on the facts. It would never say that people are bigots, it would not need a second home and it would not ignore the findings of its own scientific advisers.

We could paint a big smile on it to make it more acceptable to the average voter.

:D
Only trouble is, being a Gordon Brown face it'll interupt our phone calls, stop us playing our inane games and keep demanding we do something more constructive on it. Then it'll get quite shouty and cross and refuse to be turned off. He'll appear when we're having sex in bed and tell us that we're doing it wrong.
Teary Teary Teary Aaaaaaarggghhh!!!

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ May 10 2010, 9:04 AM BST

when we're having sex in bed and tell us that we're doing it wrong.

No different from a girlfriend then.

Well I can't say I've ever had such a girlfriend, ahem.

Quote: JohnnyD @ May 6 2010, 12:41 PM BST

So, who's gonna be PM in the Lib/Lab mashup?

Gordon, apparently. But just for a few months.

I wonder if Cameron will lead the Tories at the next election?

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