Hum.

I am not sure I am keen on the new, slimy, sucking up "I'm everybodys friend" Gordon Brown that is being flaunted around the public at the moment.

Thoughts?

Ughh. Slimy is a really good word. Don't like him! Don't trust him! Why is everyone so scared of him. I can't believe there is no opposition in his own party. I suppose they are only thinking of their jobs, no one has got any guts. They deserve him and I hope they lose the next election big time, can't wait.

He makes my skin crawl :rolleyes::rolleyes:

He can only keep us this charade for a while then he will be back to his normal self :rolleyes:

Out of the frying pan into the fire comes to mind.

No charisma at all. He looks scruffy and untidy - wouldn't matter if they did a Trinny & Susannah on him, he'd never carry it off.
Appearance is important in the world of politics - he will be representing us throughout the world and he just doesn't suit the role.
Don't like him, but mainly.......... don't trust him.

No charisma at all. He looks scruffy and untidy - wouldn't matter if they did a Trinny & Susannah on him, he'd never carry it off.
Appearance is important in the world of politics - he will be representing us throughout the world and he just doesn't suit the role.

Hmm not convinced about the appearance comment have you looked at our politicians of late ( I mean the last 10 years) 

Heaven help us if we pick our country leaders on looks :-D  Can you just imagine. We would have Dr Kovac ;-)

Well, I don't like Tony but he does always look smart and wears clothes that fit and suit him (apart from that sweaty armpit speech...remember that !).
It's not facial looks, it's the overall appearance - and GB looks baggy and scruffy !.

TUT :rolleyes: I hate the way his chin gets drawn into his face when he takes a breath...makes you feel like you do it yourself and get pulled into his tick! LOL :D

Gordon who?  Will be nice and non descript to go with the other two whose names escape me.  Yet I remeber Wilson, Heath, Callaghan etc

Did anyone see Channel 4's Dispatches a few days ago ??? It was very worrying :( :( He seems to be a real control freak and very childish if he doesn't get his own way :( Some friends said that he was a charming man socially - which he may be - but I'm very worried how he will perform as PM AND, also, how he will represent the UK abroad :( :( :( There is no way that I would consider voting for him.

See http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/gordon+brown+fit+for+office/509052

Daisy

Mind you - I quite like Boris Johnson in a funny sort of way................can you imagine him representing the country !.

Val

I do as well ! I think he is hilarious and would certain re write the meaning of diplomacy :p :p

>I think he is hilarious

Me too :D :D Total antithesis the two of them :D :D :D

Daisy

>What do we think to Gordon Brown?

I try not to. I read he's raised or introduced 100 new taxes in his time as Chancellor. Just think what he could do to the country and the economy with even more power. :(

I hate this new fake smile. It's obvious his PR people have told him to look friendlier and get rid of the dour image but - oooh, icky.

WHAT WHAT WHAT!!! He can SMILE??? :P

<<Poop!>>
<<Poop!>>
He is Toad of Toad Hall!

:D :D :D

This brings back very bad memories of thick green makeup and green tights when I played Toad in a musical at my School I got sick and tired of pooping :p :p

>He can SMILE???

As the Stranglers said: "Never a frown, with Gordon Brown"! :D

If you saw the constituency he represented up here you'd realise why he was dour!  ;)

I think Labour have basically handed the Conservatives the next general Election but David Cameron needs to take a very strong stance and get some fire in his belly or he'll just end up blending into the background.   I do hope we see William Hague giving the 'banter' to GB come PM's question time!  :D

Well, anything's an improvement over the last smarmy git- even though not much of one...

I like him, he is less likely to rely on spin than the last PM and has managed to keep the economy under control a darn sight better than any other chancellor of the last few decades - without the massive unemployment of the 80's Tory governments too.

If you saw the constituency he represented up here you'd realise why he was dour!

And whats wrong with Kirkcaldy Christine - some of us were born there you know :D (and even went to the same High School as GB- though years later of course :D )

I think he deserves a chance at the top job - lets face it he can't be worse than Tony (I love George Bush) has been these last few years - and if he pulls the troops out of Iraq he will be seen as a hero!

It's not just Kirkcaldy he represents it's Cowdenbeath too. In my former life as a working person, I used to pass his offices on my deliveries!

I'm sure they were lovely, just like the rest of Cowdenbeath :D :D

(Sarcastic) MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeah! ;)

As the Stranglers said: "Never a frown, with Gordon Brown"! 

:P :P

Lindsay
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:D :D  Very good Lindsay :D

>Very good Lindsay

*stamps foot and goes off in a huff*
;) :p

> stamps foot and goes off in a huff

LOL, JG - just make it a good one :D :D :D

Daisy

Good one Lindsay!!  I nearly put on spooky Tony Blair thread that I am influenced by how people speak not how they look.  I really don't like the way Tony sounds so 'honest' and his clipped speech but even more annoying is Gordon Brown's habit with his mouth when he speaks.  Can't watch him speak at all because it really bugs me.  Actually I don't trust any politician now however good looking they are or however well they speak. :rolleyes:

Sorry Jan it was you who said it first!!!

Can I stop flouncing now? ;) :D :D :D

No...carry on ....a good flounce cannot be stopped too early :D

I'm flouncing on the Football topic now lol :D

Tis good to founce on occasion!

Oi - stop advertising :D :D :D

Daisy

:P!

There's another saying - 'change the name and not the letter, change for worse and not for better' (could it get any worse though ? :rolleyes:)

My thoughts on any of the present Government would result in me being barred from CD :rolleyes:

> in me being barred from CD

LOL ;) ;) ;)

Daisy

Me too!! Melodysk.

Me Three Melodysk and Bestdogs! :D

Hey-ho I stand alone here.  I was raised in a politically active socialist family and my late uncle was given the OBE for his services to the trade union industry.

I shall keep shut. :-x

Not alone Jackyjat I just don't come here for a political debate ;)

Ahh don't let that stop you jackyjat ;)  it isn't as if this government can really be called socialist in the real sense anyway :rolleyes: :rolleyes:   our consistuency (staunch socialist) voted independant for the first time in it's history, I never thought it could happen.  

Edited to say,

Personally, I'd really rather see a comedian as PM (Billy Connolly comes to mind)  they might be just as useless, but at least they'd give us a laff!

Don't think you're alone hun, my hubby was a political activist and belonged to CND, even though he worked for the Defence department as a Physics and Rocket scientist! Me, I just daredn't start as I'll get banned if I said everything I wanted to! :D

I used to think trade unions were okay till the one my husband was in wasn't remotely interested in helping him when his employer defrauded him out of £10,000 in unpaid wages, despite him phoning the branch rep every week for three months. They were happy enough to take his subs though.

JG, there are good and bad throughout the World...I used to think that all Nurses cared, until I worked with some of them! Some of them made me ashamed to call myself a Nurse! Isn't there anything else he could do?

Nope. It'd mean a criminal charge being brought, we wouldn't get legal aid, and we couldn't afford to go it alone. Naturally the Union branch secretary was full of sympathy but absolutely no advice or help, despite Ned having paid his subs every month for over 30 years. A real chocolate teapot. So we had to write off ten grand. I'll never put any faith in a trade union ever again - they only look out for themselves.

When I first went to work for a Nationalised Industry in 1973, the union rep would walk around the office giving out the newsletter and would say to me 'You can't have one because you aren't in the union' in a rather sneering manner. He had never asked me to join :( :( :( A year later I moved office and the rep there asked me very nicely (having explained all the reasons why I should join) - so I joined :) :) Mind you, although I belonged to the union (NALGO in those days) for nine years, I saw enough of what went on to make me never, ever want to join another. I am very thankful that they don't have the power now that they had back in the 70s :( :( They may have been a force for good once upon a time, but we can manage very well without them in 99% of companies - IMVHO :D :D :D

Daisy

Some Unions do still work for the best of their members - I can cite one example - my OH works for one of the large supermarket chains (the bottom slaping one ;) ) which still recognises Union representation   and it is amongst the top 10 "best employers" in the UK.   The parent company in the US - which does NOT allow union membership/participation is one of the worst employers in the USA.

The parent company is trying to incorporate US-style ways of working, but the Union is ensuring that colleagues' rights and privileges are not diluted to those of the US - if there is an accident at work, the employee is automatically to blame, etc etc etc......

Margot