Labour's Executive Rules Against Challenge to Brown

Our unelected prime minister & labour's unelected leader survives an attempt to legitimise his premiership - seems like he is scared of elections.

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People have likened him to Robert Mugabe.

Thats a load of rubbish. Mugabe called an election.

I just don't understand how Brown has been allowed to get away with it. In other countries there would have been riots on the streets.

Becoming PM now would be political suicide, everyone knows that Labour are guaranteed to lose the next election ... would you want to be the PM to lose? or the new Leader of the opposition to turn Labour around???

If any of the "big hitters" actually wanted the job then I think that the story would've been very different ...

The thing is though the executive of labour party who is probably unelected has made a decision that affects the whole country.

Britain's constitution should be amended so that when a party in power changes its leader there should be a general election. As it stands it is undemocratic.

My point is, not many people would have voted labour if Gordon was party leader at the last election.

Originally Posted by symonh2000

My point is, not many people would have voted labour if Gordon was party leader at the last election.

Not many people will vote Labour if mickey mouse was the leader.

Every 4 years the overall winner at the general election is the apathy party.

I guess it's true what they say, you really do get the leaders you deserve

The opposition bang on about how bad the labour partys moves are, and yet they fail to deliver any straight cut answers as to how they would tackle the problems today and people are willing to give them support??

Originally Posted by symonh2000

People have likened him to Robert Mugabe.

Thats a load of rubbish. Mugabe called an election.

Originally Posted by G5een

The opposition bang on about how bad the labour partys moves are, and yet they fail to deliver any straight cut answers as to how they would tackle the problems today and people are willing to give them support??

That's because every time the Conservatives announce a policy idea, Labour shamelessly nick it - look what happened with the Inheritance Tax
This lot are well and truly busted - Brown will have to be dragged out of Number 10 kicking and screaming, but at the end of the day his own party know he ain't up to the job; even the myth of him being a good chancellor has now shown to be a lie.

Originally Posted by Cloverleaf146

That's because every time the Conservatives announce a policy idea, Labour shamelessly nick it - look what happened with the Inheritance Tax
This lot are well and truly busted - Brown will have to be dragged out of Number 10 kicking and screaming, but at the end of the day his own party know he ain't up to the job; even the myth of him being a good chancellor has now shown to be a lie.

+1 to that ... not that I'm particularly religious, but wasn't there some story about how one of the prophets predicted 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of famine ... so they saved during the plenty to survive the famine ... what did GB do in the years of plenty ... borrow borrow borrow ... now are national debt is massive thus we don't have the resource to survive the "crunch" ...


... compare and contrast this to Spanish banks that are now smuggly buying up all the british banks at a bargain price ...

Originally Posted by Cloverleaf146

That's because every time the Conservatives announce a policy idea, Labour shamelessly nick it - look what happened with the Inheritance Tax
This lot are well and truly busted - Brown will have to be dragged out of Number 10 kicking and screaming, but at the end of the day his own party know he ain't up to the job; even the myth of him being a good chancellor has now shown to be a lie.

+2 to that.

Even the Lib dems are out with tax cutting ideas, now they realise we are all broke.

Originally Posted by symonh2000

+2 to that.

Even the Lib dems are out with tax cutting ideas, now they realise we are all broke.

Labour have done there best at extracting as much money as possible out of us because (and I genuinely believe this) that they think that the money is safer in there hands than ours, so they can spend it on what the country really needs ... the trouble is that they've p1ssed it all up the wall and now that we are coming on hard times people are going to have to rely on the government to bail them out rather than having there own resources to fall back on ...

Surely this is the most intellectually and morally corrupt government ever inflicted on this once great country?

Brown is an even bigger ego-maniac than Bliar was - I can hardly believe it possible.

He so convinced himself that we wanted him, that he was so good that we'd all be bowing down if he could just wrest power from Tosspot Tony.....how confused he must be now.

He's the one who wrecked the economy, he's the clueless idiot in charge whose past ideas as Chancellor are now exposed as a busted flush. He looks more like a rabbit in the headlights than leader when on TV these days yet he clings to a power that was never properly his like a tyrant of some cruddy banana republic.

Democracy in action it would seem.

Contrasts nicely with my taxes and the blood of innocents being spilled ramming democracy down the throat of Afghanistan and Eye Rack.

It doesn't matter who they replace him with, they'll be out next time.

Anyone can ride a property bubble, you don't need to be Scottish or clever to manage that trick.

In-fighting and naval gazing during a particularly tumultuous global financial/economic crisis is not wholly clever in my mind. Not good for the incumbant, not good for the country they were elected to serve

Perhaps he was just a little miffed at losing the Glasgow East by election??