There are lots of things that humanity has has had to put up with but which are now no more. Smallpox is one such thing but the other should be former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Whilst Smallpox may have been eradicated by vaccination, Labour’s last and wholly failed Prime Minister Brown has returned in order to work on Labour’s plans for reforming or rather wrecking the British Constitution.
Brown is, according to Henry Hill writing in CapX magazine, engaged in an attempt to “to file a second draft of his obituary.” Brown wants to play a key role in Labour’s constitutional plans and wants history to see him as a founding father of a reformed UK Constitution.
The problem is that everyone who has any knowledge of Britain’s politics knows that Brown’s term in office was mired in failure and may even, with Brown’s decision to deal with the 2008 financial crash by Weimar style money printing, be causing problems today. I can think of no political problem that could be solved or even made less problematic by an injection of Gordon Brown.
Mr Hill’ article is a damning indictment of both Gordon Brown and Labour’s plans to wreck the constitution. It’s a brilliant read and shows how bringing back Gordon Brown to weigh in on constitutional matters is a road to disaster. Brown should have been flushed into the political darkness long ago and it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that Labour seem intent on bringing him back.
You can read the entirety of Mr Hill’s article via the link below:
https://capx.co/if-its-brown-flush-it-down-the-former-pm-is-doubling-down-on-constitutional-failure/
As you have said before when UK politics is failing so spectacularly all kinds of things rush in to fill the vacuum. I lived through the Brown days you describe so accurately but to be fair can anyone truthfully say his period was any worse than the Tory pantomime we have had to endure for the last 12 years?
Agree there. Brown was crap but then also were Blair’s years and the current time of the Lib Dems posing as Tories.
Like Sunak, Brown was, in my opinion, never the Prime Minister of the UK. He was a usurper. Like Sunak, not one person in the Labour party voted for Brown to be their leader. There was no leadership election, Brown simply barged his way into the job because, in his mind, it was “his turn”. And Labour let him get away with it. And let’s not forget, Brown is the man who sent the price of gold crashing through the floor by announcing, well in advance, that he was selling a large portion of Britain’s gold reserves. I wouldn’t trust him to paint my front door.
Spot on Pete, we have an unelected head of state an unelected second chamber and an unelected Prime Minister. Can the UK reasonably be described as anything other than a fake democracy?
The Brown premiership was a ‘buggins turn’ one cooked up by way of an agreement between Blair and Brown. There were probably better people in Labour who could have led but never got the chance due to Brown’s agreed takeover.
As for the gold incident, this must surely show that Brown was and is a fool of monstrous proportions.
No pressure, but I have to ask what would your solution have been to deal with the 2008 economic crisis?
I’m not an economist but my first decision would have not to have indulged in Weimar style money printing. Secondly those banks that had engaged in the sort of practises that meant tht they accumulated large amounts of junk loans should have been left to go to the wall but with the deposits of customers protected.