The top petition on the 10 Downing Street site is a petition entitled 'Please Go' calling on Brown to go. It has over 30,000 signatures already and some are predicting a six-figure petition before long. A rival petition entitled 'Please Stay' has 30 signatures. One of them has been entered as 'Gordon Brown'...
Petition to: resign. | Number10.gov.uk
Petition For Gordon Brown To Resign Top Of Prime Minister's E-Petition Website | Politics | Sky News
The incredible thing is that Brown has turned out to be an entirely different character to the one the Brits thought they were getting.
They thought they were getting an antidote to Blair. Someone unflashy, serious, wonkish, sober. Presbyterian perhaps. And while I suppose Brown is all those things, they are all undone by his towering cack-handedness at the business of politics. It is some gruesome irony that the successor to Blair, a man who promised to be his antithesis, will be undone by the fact he turned out to be even more obsessed with spin and presentation than Blair, only without an ounce of the latter's genius for it.
Here is another little Youtube moment from last week that in 20 seconds sums up Brown's failings beautifully. Watch the way Obama naturally moves over to the policeman, and compare that the pathetic lurch by Brown in his wake...you can almost see Brown's terrible political antennae faintly receiving that yes, shaking the cop's hand is great political showmanship, but hey, what do you know, poor Gordon gets there second. Where have we heard that one before? And then, when he does get there (you see it coming) he doesn't know what to do! So he stands there awkwardly for a brief moment like a plank, before shuffling on leaving the cop with his hand dangling like a fool. It is just so, so awful and sums up Brown's shortcomings as a politician better than a thousand biographies.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K68THqDqPKc]YouTube - No Handshake For You![/ame]
My opinion since Brown bottled the election last year was that he will go down as one of the great pathetic characters in British political history. The nearly man who waited and waited and then had the prize taken from him early by a combination of events he partly caused and by his own massive shortcomings. This fate is now unavoidable and he has nobody to blame but himself.
Oh yep, he's screwed, and the worst thing is that his effort to be someone other than who he is, i.e. to be all Blair fake cuddly and informal, is a large part of why he is mocked so. To be rejected for who you are would be bad enough, but to be rejected for being who you aren't, well that's a real kick in the unmentionables. He should stop listening to the spin-parasites and embrace his 'son of the Manse' side, at least he'd be respected a bit more. Not by me, though, I won't forgive him for PFI (he was the prime mover behind it) which has saddled the next generation and the one after that with extreme debt for short-term political advantage for New Labour. And of course it was Brown who said 'no more boom and bust', which is now deservedly being thrown back in his face....
labour have been in power 12 years and we supposed to delighted and surprised and grateful that only now after all they've done they are floundering.
its like calling aherns resigning after winning the election in 2007 and his 11 previous years some sort of victory.
What does the Irish President spend their time doing. Work in progress
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