Gordon Brown to stand down as an MP

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  • redvers36redvers36 Posts: 4,895
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    Meepers wrote: »
    Good riddance, he has held Parliament in contempt since 2010 since he started sulking and not showing up.

    Yes there should be some rule that MPs have to attend parliament. Gordon Brown has treated parliament and the electors with contempt.
  • SylviaSylvia Posts: 14,586
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    redvers36 wrote: »
    Yes there should be some rule that MPs have to attend parliament. Gordon Brown has treated parliament and the electors with contempt.

    Just because he wan't visible in Parliament doesn't mean he wasn't busy doing work in his constituency. I haven't heard of anyone in Kirkcaldy complaining.
  • AndyCopenAndyCopen Posts: 2,213
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    Sylvia wrote: »
    Just because he wan't visible in Parliament doesn't mean he wasn't busy doing work in his constituency. I haven't heard of anyone in Kirkcaldy complaining.

    He has been globtrotting around the world, under the tax dodging tag of "the office of gordon and sarah Brown". Little of his "charity" gets given away.

    But that is socialism for you


    Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown has £10,000-a-week expenses
    Not a registered charity, two thirds of funds raised spent on expenses
    Less than £1 million given to charity out of over £3 million raised
    Vanity project lets Gordon and Sarah enjoy jet-set premier life-style of first class flights and five star hotels

    http://order-order.com/2014/01/24/exc-gordon-brown-office-has-10000-a-week-expenses-raises-over-3-million-gives-less-than-1-million-to-charity/
  • HildaonplutoHildaonpluto Posts: 37,696
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    Gordon Brown will acquit himself much better morally in his Post Westminster life than greedy self serving Tony Blair-of that I am damn well sure.
  • SULLASULLA Posts: 149,789
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    He nearly bankrupted the country. >:(
  • cessnacessna Posts: 6,747
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    SULLA wrote: »
    He nearly bankrupted the country. >:(


    Gordon Brown - The former PM who will brand you a bigot if daring to speak out on mass immigration.
  • ThePerfectOneThePerfectOne Posts: 20,466
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  • paul2307paul2307 Posts: 8,079
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    So he gets to retire on a nice fat pension where as I never can as his policies cost me mine >:(
  • cessnacessna Posts: 6,747
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    paul2307 wrote: »
    So he gets to retire on a nice fat pension where as I never can as his policies cost me mine >:(

    Cant stand Labor politicians but credit to Gordon Brown if true he is not going to take up his PM retirement pension. Compare Brown to the £-hundreds of -thousands Blair is still costing the taxpayer !
  • paul2307paul2307 Posts: 8,079
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    cessna wrote: »
    Cant stand Labor politicians but credit to Gordon Brown if true he is not going to take up his PM retirement pension. Compare Brown to the £-hundreds of -thousands Blair is still costing the taxpayer !

    An MPs pension is more than most people earn and he has already made millions on his lecture tours
  • cessnacessna Posts: 6,747
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    paul2307 wrote: »
    An MPs pension is more than most people earn and he has already made millions on his lecture tours


    So if - like Blair - Money is his god - why would he turn it down ?
  • paul2307paul2307 Posts: 8,079
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    cessna wrote: »
    So if - like Blair - Money is his god - why would he turn it down ?

    The PMs pension maybe but he will still have his MPS pension which is still more than enough
  • sensoriasensoria Posts: 4,682
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    Meepers wrote: »
    Of course he was a spinner, and one of the worst.

    This was the guy who employed Damian McBride....

    Do you really want to go down the route of "advisers" Lets talk Coulson?
  • cessnacessna Posts: 6,747
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    paul2307 wrote: »
    The PMs pension maybe but he will still have his MPS pension which is still more than enough


    No one is denying he will retire on great wealth - but unless I am missing something
    he will not be claiming all he is entitled to by waiving his PM pension rights !
  • sensoriasensoria Posts: 4,682
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    How close to a million pound have you raised for charity?
    AndyCopen wrote: »
    He has been globtrotting around the world, under the tax dodging tag of "the office of gordon and sarah Brown". Little of his "charity" gets given away.

    But that is socialism for you


    Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown has £10,000-a-week expenses
    Not a registered charity, two thirds of funds raised spent on expenses
    Less than £1 million given to charity out of over £3 million raised
    Vanity project lets Gordon and Sarah enjoy jet-set premier life-style of first class flights and five star hotels

    http://order-order.com/2014/01/24/exc-gordon-brown-office-has-10000-a-week-expenses-raises-over-3-million-gives-less-than-1-million-to-charity/
  • paul2307paul2307 Posts: 8,079
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    cessna wrote: »
    No one is denying he will retire on great wealth - but unless I am missing something
    he will not be claiming all he is entitled to by waiving his PM pension rights !

    So we are to ignore the devastation he caused and I am to forgive him for him causing me to lose my pension because he isn't taking all he is entitled to :confused:
  • LostFoolLostFool Posts: 90,623
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    paul2307 wrote: »
    An MPs pension is more than most people earn and he has already made millions on his lecture tours

    The mind boggles that there are people willing to pay money to hear him drone on.
  • alan29alan29 Posts: 34,612
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    SULLA wrote: »
    He nearly bankrupted the country. >:(

    That was the bankers. Brown organised the G20 to bail them out, thereby saving millions of peoples life-savings and pensions. Part of the cost was massive public debt.
  • SULLASULLA Posts: 149,789
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    alan29 wrote: »
    That was the bankers. Brown organised the G20 to bail them out, thereby saving millions of peoples life-savings and pensions. Part of the cost was massive public debt.

    I disagree. Brown promised us no more boom and bust.
  • alan29alan29 Posts: 34,612
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    SULLA wrote: »
    I disagree. Brown promised us no more boom and bust.

    Sadly politicians are in the business of promising things that they have no power to deliver. The people we elect are not the ones who control things. But we are all playing the game as though they were.
  • gemma-the-huskygemma-the-husky Posts: 18,116
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    Ach, they will be dancing in the streets of Raith tonight.
  • cessnacessna Posts: 6,747
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    paul2307 wrote: »
    So we are to ignore the devastation he caused and I am to forgive him for him causing me to lose my pension because he isn't taking all he is entitled to :confused:

    It has nothing to do with devastation and the lose of your pension
    or whether Brown is as rich as Blair (who presumably is claiming his PM's pension)
    Still doesn't explain why Brown is forgoing his legal entitlement to his PM retirement pension.
  • paul2307paul2307 Posts: 8,079
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    cessna wrote: »
    It has nothing to do with devastation and the lose of your pension
    or whether Brown is as rich as Blair (who presumably is claiming his PM's pension)
    Still doesn't explain why Brown is forgoing his legal entitlement to his PM retirement pension.

    A sense of guilt for the financial ruin he wreaked on the British public
  • GreatGodPanGreatGodPan Posts: 53,186
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    paul2307 wrote: »
    A sense of guilt for the financial ruin he wreaked on the British public

    Do you think Cameron will feel the same?
  • paul2307paul2307 Posts: 8,079
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    Do you think Cameron will feel the same?

    I know that you have distorted and outdated political views that have continually been shown not to work but the economy is in a far better state now than the one Cameron inherited from Brown
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