I like
Gordon Brown. That's not a ‘cool' thing to say in the media at the moment, the
bandwagon of anti-Brown writers is growing by the day.
Despite the mess the government is in I still think Brown is an intelligent, trustworthy and decisive man, a good leader to have in a crisis. But do I think he should be our Prime Minister? No, for one simple reason - he can't communicate with us.
Every time I see poor old Gordon talk I want to end it all. He's either creepily happy to the point of nausea or he's morbidly depressing, there's little in-between.
We look across the pond and see Barack Obama charming audiences with his fresh, well-delivered speeches then we look back at our TV sets and see Brown either struggling to save his political life with an (understandably) mopey face or see him on the GMTV sofa saying how much he likes Susan Boyle, with a hideously forged smile. Doesn't seem fair does it? Where's our charismatic leader? Where's our hope?
So what's the alternative? Realistically the only alternative at the moment is David Cameron. I don't like Cameron, I think he's smarmy and I don't think he really has many strong ideas of his own. He jumped on the back of both Nick Clegg's big wins lately - a call for the Speaker to quit and the "justice for Ghurkas" campaign. But say what you like about Cameron, he talks a good talk and in modern politics if you can do that you're half way there. He speaks with confidence, passion and energy and that's exactly what we need to hear at the moment.
We need change, we need light at the end of the tunnel; we need hope. Will all that come if/when Cameron is elected? I doubt it, but we probably won't be feeling so morbid every time we see the news and that's a start at least.
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It is a very serious time for politics at the moment and we need some one with a brass pair, who is able to use them to put this country back on track, and it is not Mr Brown. I also wonder who it can be, given the choice we have, we need honesty, and commitment not an I'm alright Jack.
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You will be aright when you sober again.
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i dont like cameron at all. anyone who rides his bike to work to look ecologically sound but has his briefcase driven in behind him is a complete t***t. he really is very smarmy and look at that pic of him. those eyes say it all. hes a meglomaniac. gorden brown, though quite personable is a bumbling idiot but out of the 2 i would trust gorden more.
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We have got to have a Labour Goverment to look after the less well of Cameron has got no idea how the other half live his idea for a good society would be get the rich richer and the poor remain in the doldrums .The Labour party has a lot to answer for the fiddling that went on shame on them who are destorying the party Blears and company.Think of the man who started the Labour party Keir Hardie and men like Nye Bevan they are turning in their graves .Lets get back to the true meaning of what the Labour party stands for
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Paul Krugman, professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University praised Gordon's handling of the banking system. It escapes me why people who have no idea of the complexities of running an economy, still feel that they can legitimately argue against his economic policies.
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BROWN IS A DEAD DUCK AND SO ARE LABOUR THEY HAVE GOT THIS COUNTY IN A RIGHT MESS FROM BEGINING TO END,LETS NOT FORGET THAT BROWN WAS CHANCELOR WITH THAT OTHER CREEP TONY I LOVE MYSELF BLAIR--WHO IS NOW SWANING ROUND THE WORLD RAKING IT IN,AS WE SEE THINGS GETTING WORSE , AS WILL THIS LOT WHEN THEY GET THERE ASS KICKED OUT OF OFFICE. WHEN THE TORYS GET IN THEY WILL SORT THIS MESS OUT ,AND THEY KNOW IT WILL BE A LONG JOB AS THIS LOT HAVE SPENT SPENT AND SPENT,WHAT WE NEED IN THIS COUNTRY IS MORE MANUFACTURING JOBS, NOT STUPID SERVICE JOBS LIKE KICKING RING HOLES IN DOUGHNUTS. AND ALL SO WHERE DO THESE IMIGRANTS GET THESE JOBS FROM THERE ARE NOT ADVERTISED ANY WHERE , I RECKON THERES A PLACE THEY ALL GO TO GET THESE JOBS( SECRET GOV PLACES)AS HALF OF THEM CAN NOT READ OR WRITE SO HOW DO THEY FILL THE FORMS IN IT MAKES YOU WONDER, AND WHY I AM AT IT WHAT ABOUT THE GOLD BROWN SOLD FOR NOTHING WHEN HE WAS CHNCELOR THAT IS SOME CHANCELOR ALL THIS GOVERMENT ARE DOING IS GETTING US IN DEEP POO AS THEY KNOW THAT THEY WILL LOSE THE NEXT ELECTION, AND THAT WILL MAKE THE TORIES LOOK BAD AS THEY TRY TO SORT THIS MESS OUT,CAMERON IS THE ONE TO MAKE CHANGES AND GET THE INVESTMENT BACK IN TO THE COUNTRY I COULD GO ON ALL DAY ABOUT THIS @#$% OVER PAID GOVERMENT---LETS GET IT ON AND A ELECTION BEFORE THAT OTHER ONE MANDELSON CREEPS INTO BROWNS SMALL SHOES ITS QUITE AMAZING WE HAVE 3 IDIOTS RUNNING THE COUNTRY AND WE HAVE NOT ELECTED THEM THAT SAYS IT ALL PERHAPS BROWN THINKS HE IS GOING TO TURN INTO CAPTAIN MARVEL AND GET US OUT OF THIS POO HE HAS MORE CHANCE OF GROWING ANOTHER HEAD
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Adolf Hitler had 'charisma' by the bucket load and, yes, he provided work, made the trains on time, rebuilt national pride, dealt with the immigration problem etc,etc............BUT, at what cost??????
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People who vote for the tories ought to remember what they did to the miners, and steelworkers in the eighties, with absolutely no conscience at all they condemned the to the s@#$%heap with absolutely no hope whatsoever. Whole communities decimated, broken families and suicides
B.G.
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I must say i have heard many things about the government elections and it sickens me to say this but Gordon Brown at the moment is trying his best. Although if Cameron does get into the Pm office i think he will be another Margaret Thatcher and make the rich richer and the poor non exsistant until another revolt againt parliment happens again, saying this i represent many people who also think the same. Also alankshort has a point of brown being a lieing vile degrading man, but he should not be taken over by Cameron but by Chancellor Alistair Darling himself he has the knowledge on finiancial issues
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So we elect Cameron, and what does he do? Continue in the same vein as Brown (in which case, what's the point?) or return to the Thatcher approach, and watch every major British city burn every night - there is no way we would tolerate any more of that in the current climate. I'd be out there throwing petrol bombs myself.
In my opinion, the only person who undertands the mess we are in at the moment is probably considered too old to run the country these days, and that is Vince Cable (a LibDem ironically, but I think a very capable and intelligent man).
We need an eection when this mess is over, but not before. And who to vote for? then God knows.
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