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Gordon Brown to stand down as an MP
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Sky Sources: Gordon Brown is expected to confirm tonight that he will be standing down as an MP
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Sky Sources: Gordon Brown is expected to confirm tonight that he will be standing down as an MP
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The voters of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath will.
Sky are reporting this as breaking news?
There were reports about this in the Scottish media last week.
Wonder who will seek his seat? I should imagine the SNP will be in with a chance?
If it's safe I'm sure there's a Blair junior who would quite like it, or they could do what they did in Birmingham and have a man (with party top brass and union ties) get to the top of the all women shortlist
What a vain man he is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iPaiylUYW0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr152QOkKGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gi7qqvRlY0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6vQxOqptcU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFl_evwML2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3F_ly9xSqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovo7uA8JrCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m33RUseb7Wg
And to end on a positive note: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J39bBV7CBJk
I think that this is actually quite a likely outcome.
While I don't agree with much of what Salmond says I do enjoy, for the most part ( he got a little arsy in the final weeks of the referendum campaign) listening to him. He's a very good orator, he's sharp, quick witted and he just plays the game of politics too well. I doubt that his ego will allow him to sit on the sidelines for too long. If he can sit in Westminster and take sideswipes at both the Conservatives and Labour, I'm sure he would love too.
Brown, from what I hear from those in the business community that have met him, is liked, he's apparently very personable and witty, he's just not respected all that much, so I can't really see him being made too many offers to join the board anytime soon. I also don't think it's in his nature to do that. He's also a confirmed workaholic so unless he takes up a position with some form of think-tank, or more likely an academic position most likely in the US, I think a return to politics at Holyrood is quite a likely scenario.
It's also not exactly a taxing commute from Kirkcaldy to Edinburgh either, so no excuse for not showing up, eh Gordon.
A lot of the posters on here will. They won't be able to go on ad infinitem anymore about his lack of attendance.
Perhaps after May 2015 they will be turning their ire on the lack of attendance of the backbench MP for Witney?
Oooh, I think we all know who'll be doing that - don't we?
While not good (about 10% when he first started as PM) - it is better than both Blair and Brown.
Are you talking about Brown or Blair there? ;-)
I was never a fan of Brown but I will accept that he was a man of convictions and intellect. However he was psychologically unfit for leadership especially in a modern media age. For a man who wrote a book called "Courage", he wimped out of the two biggest decisions of his life - to challenge Blair for the leadership and then to call an early election when he became PM.
It's probably still too early for history to do a full assessment of him. Much of his standing will probably depend on how MIliband does if he becomes PM. In 5 years time people may well be saying that Brown wasn't that bad after all...
The PM has affairs fo state to attend to.
Back benchers should be in the commons far far more than Brown is.
Brown was never a spinner, for his many faults that was not one of them. He out and out lied from time to time, but to call him a spinner would not be accurate.
This was the guy who employed Damian McBride....
Brown employed McBride, as did Blair employ Campbell. Its an irrelevant argument.
And that lead to one of Brown's greatest quotes: "I take full responsibility for what happened. That's why the person who was responsible went immediately."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8002085.stm
No it isnt. No one is claiming Blair was some sort of decent principled politician. They are for Brown. He was just another New Labour spin obsessed grubby politician.
If you are under the impression that Brown was a principled politician you are quite mistaken. Brown's only principle was his ideals, taken mainly from 19C text books.