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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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After our disaster at the polls we need a new Labour leader for Scotland; I still think Gordon Brown would be the perfect man for the Job;
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party, he is a good man, with good heart and good intentions
I would like to see him stand for Scotland's leader
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think its a case of too little too late for labour in Scotland but to win back any votes in England their best choices for leader would be either David Miliband or Alan Johnstone..... But I think they would struggle to convince either |
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By *wiftieeMan
over a year ago
near Glasgow |
"After our disaster at the polls we need a new Labour leader for Scotland; I still think Gordon Brown would be the perfect man for the Job;
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party, he is a good man, with good heart and good intentions
I would like to see him stand for Scotland's leader
who would you support"
Everyone is due their opinions, but I'm sorry, I totally fail to understand the people who rate Gordon Brown.
As Chancellor, he ignored his civil servants' advice and started the pensions meltdown. He sold off the country's gold reserves at bargain basement prices, etc etc.
As prime minister, he hadn't a clue, and yet people want him back?? |
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By *lue4youCouple
over a year ago
Lanarkshire |
The days of Labour domination in Scotland is probably over for good. Sure they will come back, eventually and win seats, but the days of Scotland turning Red is probably gone due to their failings in the past and the changing generation, who question policies and do research and don't necessarily vote Labour because my Dad and his Dad did.
Thank Fuck |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"After our disaster at the polls we need a new Labour leader for Scotland; I still think Gordon Brown would be the perfect man for the Job;
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party, he is a good man, with good heart and good intentions
I would like to see him stand for Scotland's leader
who would you support
Everyone is due their opinions, but I'm sorry, I totally fail to understand the people who rate Gordon Brown.
As Chancellor, he ignored his civil servants' advice and started the pensions meltdown. He sold off the country's gold reserves at bargain basement prices, etc etc.
As prime minister, he hadn't a clue, and yet people want him back??"
Because most people, at least the ones without an agenda, realise that what went wrong in terms of the global crash wasn't Gordon's fault - indeed the actions of Brown and Darling went a long way to ensure British folks weren't fucked by the overnight collapse of the banks and the banking system.
Gordon won't return to frontline politics. Miliband D will return in time, perhaps as Labour leader after next (though that might be Keir Starmer).
Had John Smith, Donald Dewar and Robin Cook not died tragically young, this (UK) would be a very different country. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When Gordon and Sarah Brown lost their child, my ex wife wrote to them as we had been in a similar situation some years ago.
The Browns wrote back personally and in my book no matter what one thinks of his record as a politician or indeed a Raith Rovers fan!!
He and his wife are showed they were human. Something many politicians forget to do..... |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Gordon Browns time has passed for front line politics....unfortunately the dearth of talent is glaring on all sides.I rate very very few politicians, with having any gravitas.  "
Especially amongst the Holyrooders. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I actually voted SNP for the first time (as a protest vote) against Jim Murphy, I have always voted Labour and I have always been a UNITE member and Amicus before that; I have always had ties with Labour & Unions but sadly Jim Murphy did not unite me with either.
I would like to return to Labour if they had a strong leader and I mean strong enough in both person and voice, unfortunately Ed Miliband was on a different planet for me and Jim Murphy was in it for himself.
I would like to see a strong character like Dan Jarvis take over, in armed forces he has been there seen it and done it, let him do the same as leader of Labour.
just my humble opinion |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"After our disaster at the polls we need a new Labour leader for Scotland; I still think Gordon Brown would be the perfect man for the Job;
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party, he is a good man, with good heart and good intentions
I would like to see him stand for Scotland's leader
who would you support"
Wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
He plundered OUR government pension pot when he was chancellor and now we all have to work until we drop.
The man is a thief.
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By *inkyHnSCouple
over a year ago
The Council of Elrond |
Haha Gordon Brown the man that promised home rule then disappeared nobody saw him again till he thought i stick my nose into this UK election and put fear into people again. Now if i was a Labour supporter i would have thought Chuka Umunna would have been not to bad. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"After our disaster at the polls we need a new Labour leader for Scotland; I still think Gordon Brown would be the perfect man for the Job;
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party, he is a good man, with good heart and good intentions
I would like to see him stand for Scotland's leader
who would you support
Everyone is due their opinions, but I'm sorry, I totally fail to understand the people who rate Gordon Brown.
As Chancellor, he ignored his civil servants' advice and started the pensions meltdown. He sold off the country's gold reserves at bargain basement prices, etc etc.
As prime minister, he hadn't a clue, and yet people want him back??
Because most people, at least the ones without an agenda, realise that what went wrong in terms of the global crash wasn't Gordon's fault - indeed the actions of Brown and Darling went a long way to ensure British folks weren't fucked by the overnight collapse of the banks and the banking system.
Gordon won't return to frontline politics. Miliband D will return in time, perhaps as Labour leader after next (though that might be Keir Starmer).
Had John Smith, Donald Dewar and Robin Cook not died tragically young, this (UK) would be a very different country."
Yes it would be even more screwed than it is already!
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By (user no longer on site)
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"After our disaster at the polls we need a new Labour leader for Scotland; I still think Gordon Brown would be the perfect man for the Job;
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour
Party, he is a good man, with good heart and good intentions
I would like to see him stand for Scotland's leader
who would you support"
Is this the same man who wrote david camerons speach to the Scottish people during the referendum, never forget and never forgive.
To share a platform with the tories was bad enough but to write a speech for them is unforgivable. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"After our disaster at the polls we need a new Labour leader for Scotland; I still think Gordon Brown would be the perfect man for the Job;
James Gordon Brown is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour
Party, he is a good man, with good heart and good intentions
I would like to see him stand for Scotland's leader
who would you support
Is this the same man who wrote david camerons speach to the Scottish people during the referendum, never forget and never forgive."
That's nonsense.
"To share a platform with the tories was bad enough but to write a speech for them is unforgivable."
Like Salmond cosying up to the Tories to keep Britain in the EU?
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Labour in Scotland has no big hitters that's the issue, they are a faceless party. Murphy was brought in as he was deemed a "big hitter" but problem was firstly he does not really connect with people and seemed (to me at least) he was in it to raise his own profile (maybe for Labour Party Leader) and secondly Murphy was always going to be far too closly associated with the "Westminster Elite" ultimately he was the wrong man for the job but right now the party is in such a mess and in my eyes there is nobody that commands any kind of authority or has any charisma to be leader in Scotland. I'd even go as far as to say I don't think Labour has anyone with that in there party full stop.
If Gordon Brown was made leader in Scotland I honestly think it would be another nail in their coffin lid, while I do think he got a rough ride after Blair held on to being PM and handed over a poisoned challace to Brown and the English media went all out to get him you can't ignore the fact that he again is the Labour Party looking backwards and inwards, they need a complete overhaul of everything they stand for or have lost what they stand for. They need to be a party of the people for the people.
I voted SNP as I have always done, but even I have been struck by the total self destruction of the Labour Party throughout the UK. |
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