So, what are your thoughts on Gordon Brown?
Someone asked me on Facebook "So, what are your thoughts on Gordon Brown? Was it really time for a change?" below is my response.
Well I'm not a natural Labour voter here in the UK. A lot of people praise Brown for giving us a stable economy, but it is my understanding that's a lot to do with only a couple of decisions he's made, like handing over the control of interest rates to the independent bank of England. There are reports he's done some bad things to our pension funds etc.
"Was it time for a change" Well that one is certainly Brown's doing, there was apparently an understanding some years back that Tony would hand over to Gordon and by some account Brown's people have kinda forced Tony from power when he didn't really want to go yet. Although he was seen as a risk for the Labour party now because he was becoming increasingly unpopular, despite having won them a historic three consecutive terms in office.
There was much speculation about what he'd do after leaving office, we are somewhat more egregious to our outgoing PMs than you are to your presidents so it was widely rumored that he might hit the US lecture circuit, and make a killing like Clinton. I think this Middle East job is right up his street as he loved the world stage, sometimes to the detriment of domestic attention, however it's also a massive risk because he will be viewed by some in the Moslem world to have waged several unpopular wars on their brothers... although he's also been a massive proponent of the two state solution about Israel and Palestine.
A bit longer of a response than they were maybe expecting, I thought their response was highly amusing...
"For what it's worth, Blair's always welcome to move to California and be governor ;-)"
Well I'm not a natural Labour voter here in the UK. A lot of people praise Brown for giving us a stable economy, but it is my understanding that's a lot to do with only a couple of decisions he's made, like handing over the control of interest rates to the independent bank of England. There are reports he's done some bad things to our pension funds etc.
"Was it time for a change" Well that one is certainly Brown's doing, there was apparently an understanding some years back that Tony would hand over to Gordon and by some account Brown's people have kinda forced Tony from power when he didn't really want to go yet. Although he was seen as a risk for the Labour party now because he was becoming increasingly unpopular, despite having won them a historic three consecutive terms in office.
There was much speculation about what he'd do after leaving office, we are somewhat more egregious to our outgoing PMs than you are to your presidents so it was widely rumored that he might hit the US lecture circuit, and make a killing like Clinton. I think this Middle East job is right up his street as he loved the world stage, sometimes to the detriment of domestic attention, however it's also a massive risk because he will be viewed by some in the Moslem world to have waged several unpopular wars on their brothers... although he's also been a massive proponent of the two state solution about Israel and Palestine.
A bit longer of a response than they were maybe expecting, I thought their response was highly amusing...
"For what it's worth, Blair's always welcome to move to California and be governor ;-)"
posted by M at 8:23 AM
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