Gordon Brown

[urban genie]

Being ourted by some in scottish labour to come intp the leadership race andsort put the party.

Gove has been calling him to ask advice on fighting scottish independence calls.

In today paper has done an interview where he speaks about the 3000000 unemployed being left off offivcila stats.


He seems.very in vogue at the minute and looking back I think he will be regarded as having done a good job both as chancelor, though his free riegn for the banks was too far, and PM (will wait for someome to mention gold) but ultimately was too much of an old real politicion where the 00s onward seemed to crave the camera friendly but ultimately useless new political class.

With this new poll put about scotland I expect we will see more of Gordon used to try and save the Union as he did last time.

 

[metalblue]

That’s a really good shout having him lead Scottish Labour.

His problem as chancellor was he was so determined to keep things of the balance sheet he made some very costly policy decisions such as PFI.

 

[Gabriel]

Time moves on and I suspect Brown’s abilities might not be enough to sway public opinion now.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

HIs day, came, went, and once it's raked over again, we'll see all the cracks. Never go back where yer've been. Look at SWP. Came back to us from Moanihno and only scored a brace on his second debut v The Black Cats..

 

[mat]

He was a decent PM, a great politician too and lost his job because he wasn't a PR man's wet dream.

He should stay out of the Scottish labour internal politics to keep his reputation intact.

 

[hammocity]

Being ourted by some in scottish labour to come intp the leadership race andsort put the party.

Gove has been calling him to ask advice on fighting scottish independence calls.

In today paper has done an interview where he speaks about the 3000000 unemployed being left off offivcila stats.


He seems.very in vogue at the minute and looking back I think he will be regarded as having done a good job both as chancelor, though his free riegn for the banks was too far, and PM (will wait for someome to mention gold) but ultimately was too much of an old real politicion where the 00s onward seemed to crave the camera friendly but ultimately useless new political class.

With this new poll put about scotland I expect we will see more of Gordon used to try and save the Union as he did last time.

He's a bit marmite, not sure it would be a good thing at his age up against Krankie, bit of a poisoned chalice leading Labour in Scotland.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

It's on his watch and record that his 10 years as chancellor failed to make us robust enough to deal with the financial crisis a lot better and has led to Tories stripping away what little we had. For a Labour chancellor to have had a decade and us still end up like this is the indictment of him. He spent more time posturing to undermine Blair and get the top job than he did doing his own job properly. Don't like him.

 

[west didsblue]

Very underrated PM. Unfortunate to cop part of the blame for the global financial crisis. If he had won the 2010 election I believe the country would be in a much better place today.

 

[west didsblue]

It's on his watch and record that his 10 years as chancellor failed to make us robust enough to deal with the financial crisis a lot better and has led to Tories stripping away what little we had. For a Labour chancellor to have had a decade and us still end up like this is the indictment of him. He spent more time posturing to undermine Blair and get the top job than he did doing his own job properly. Don't like him.

Disagree entirely. Ten years of austerity and ending up like this are down to one party only. The Americans were in the same position in 2009 and the subsequent 8 years under Obama bear no comparison to the subsequent 8 years here under Cameron and May.

 

[west didsblue]

He's a bit marmite, not sure it would be a good thing at his age up against Krankie, bit of a poisoned chalice leading Labour in Scotland.

He’s 9 years younger than Biden so age shouldn’t be an issue but I agree it’s a poisoned chalice. It would be quite notable if he were to end up as PM of an independent Scotland. I doubt there’s been another politician who’s led two countries. Doubt independence would happen in a timeframe where that could happen though.