Re: Brown on the ropes?
 

Well I reckon Brown must be seriously worried to risk bringing back Mandelson into the Cabinet and there are now even rumours that Blunkett is on his way back.....

Re: Brown on the ropes?
 

According to Newsnight it was a signal to the rest of the party that they are united and have decided they will fight for a 4th term instead of fracturing

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:D Yeah right, they're "joined at the hip....." :)

I reckon it's got a tad more to do with trying to secure Murdoch's media empire's backing...

http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-polit...ch-party-press

Re: Brown on the ropes?
 

the blind leading the blind --don't miss the next installment of - oooh i've screwed it all up :rolleyes:

Re: Brown on the ropes?
 

On the contrary, who better to deal with the aftermath of dodgy mortgages?

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Brown on the ropes? Poppycock.

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My local is running a sweepstake on what Mandelson will get sacked for next. Some offerings have been 'sex scandal', 'financial irregularities', 'accepting illegal donations', 'obtaining passport for foreign housemaid' etc

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Yes, how long's it going to be before Mandelson starts auditioning for 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here' I wonder.

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Could it be that the economic storm clouds have a silver lining for Gordon? How else could he throw so much money around to 'save the nation' without being accused of being irresponsible or electioneering and buying votes?

Re: Brown on the ropes?
 

He has done well politically out of all this, seen as strong and dealt with a lot of the problems quickly. Even the papers were talking about the world following his led in the last few days

Re: Brown on the ropes?
 

Given he should have seen this coming a while ago i would imagine he would have a few ideas in place ready to kick in. It staggers me that we are now praising him for handling a situation he did a lot to create. Seems to me it's a bit like complementing the digging technique while someone digs you into a damn big hole Silver lining for us of course is that whatever kudos he gets for this phase will be lost when sadly people start losing their jobs.

Re: Brown on the ropes?
 

A lot of other countries apparently did not do anything either though, I don't see Gordon Brown getting the blame from the public when they see the same thing happening elsewhere. It's seem to have been a fault with the entire system rather than any one thing Brown did (or in this case, not do)

His response though is being praised all over the place, America and Europe both copied the same plan and American papers are praising the British government for taking the lead on it.

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Excuse me! I know you don't like him and he's not that popular with me but he's not single handedly responsible for the global meltdown in economics..It took a lot of very greedy short sighted people around the world to achieve the present situation.

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No he is not the only one to blame but he is the only to blame for the impact this is yet to have on the british public. His lack of forward planning is going to seriously come back and bite us sorry people but if you think this is as bad as it is going to get your in for a shock. I really am at a loss to explain how suddenly he is the knight in shining armour for doing what labour have always done in a crisis ie throw money at it. That isn't planning for a labour politician it is instinctural.

Come on people am i the only one feeling a little queasy at how much gordon seems to be revelling in all this at the minute and before we hail him can we actually see if this works not just in the short term but as always with gordon and his great ideas in the long term as well. Arn't people fickle one minute he is the villain now all of a sudden he is a hero and while not single handedly responsible for this blaming the banks totally is not fair either or don't we have regulators in this country that should have sorted this out before it got to this stage.

Re: Brown on the ropes?
 

1000 job losses a day upto now, it's not been this bad since 1992.