tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post2342174876043224516..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Gordon Brown is Still ThereBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-9430582756993758822008-10-01T17:04:00.000+00:002008-10-01T17:04:00.000+00:00a friend just sent me this url. you can send gordo...a friend just sent me this url. you can send gordon a private message that they;'ll deliver to downing street!<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://letthenationspeak.com/gordon-brown/" REL="nofollow">send gordon a message</A><BR/><BR/>now where do i start.........!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-80114084078544710092008-09-20T00:29:00.000+00:002008-09-20T00:29:00.000+00:00Isn't the real problem with Gordon Brown that he i...Isn't the real problem with Gordon Brown that he is a history graduate who has spent 10 years playing at economics without understanding it? Naive people see economics as pulling levers and turning knobs in response to supposedly objective measurements. Gordon certainly did, and fetishised his simplistic, golden rules, and selective inflation targets. He then believed his own figures and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-83112190428871204162008-09-19T00:27:00.000+00:002008-09-19T00:27:00.000+00:00I think Brown's unpopularity is chiefly 90% the me...I think Brown's unpopularity is chiefly 90% the media's fault and 10% Gordons.<BR/>The only reason he is being written off and vilified with such primeval hatred is because he is more honest than his predecessor and because he is Scottish. The English media cannot stand to see a scot in charge. They want the Scots to be part of the union but to stay subserviant.<BR/> As Peter Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-69859807450370303382008-09-18T12:21:00.000+00:002008-09-18T12:21:00.000+00:00Good idea, Mark, though I would prefer Jose Mourin...Good idea, Mark, though I would prefer Jose Mourinho-BrownBryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-41559119333963467012008-09-18T12:20:00.000+00:002008-09-18T12:20:00.000+00:00Rather like a tramp with a dog, it's depressing en...Rather like a tramp with a dog, it's depressing enough to be British at the moment and we all need someone to look down on. Gordon Brown will do. Things can't be that bad if I can still look down on the loser's loser of the loser's party is the feeling, I guess.<BR/><BR/>It might be that in future all prime ministers will be known as Gordon Brown regardless of who they were before they assumed Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-90405645423111837952008-09-18T11:04:00.000+00:002008-09-18T11:04:00.000+00:00I remember you thought the PM was ''sinister'', li...I remember you thought the PM was ''sinister'', like evil, but now he's simply disastrous.Ian russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11106519805045337505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-32806696978510268732008-09-18T10:40:00.000+00:002008-09-18T10:40:00.000+00:00In America it was the 1929 Wall Street crash and t...In America it was the 1929 Wall Street crash and the Great Depression which were blamed for everything. In Germany it was the Jews. In England it is Gordon Brown and a deep-seated prejudice against scapegoats. <BR/><BR/>But those who reduce the entire complexity of the phenomena of finance to certain personal equations will have to concede that between the forces of finance and history there is Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-23219567884115863842008-09-18T08:49:00.000+00:002008-09-18T08:49:00.000+00:00Poor old Gordon has become one of those dents your...Poor old Gordon has become one of those dents your car receives in a car park, every day you notice it, seconds later the irritation is forgotten. Gordon is obviously not a wisdom dent nor an incisor, more of a rotten molar.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-24589081448112648432008-09-18T07:06:00.000+00:002008-09-18T07:06:00.000+00:00Sorry, Bryan, it's because in your very heart and ...Sorry, Bryan, it's because in your very heart and soul you know that he would be PM if there was an election right now. And more that that, will win next time. It is that shivery feeling in your bones.Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442327549417743472noreply@blogger.com