How much authority has Gordon Brown lost?
This time last week, he was on You Tube telling us all that he wanted Mps to get rid of their second home allowance and be paid a daily rate instead. Now, the vote's been scrapped because no-one can agree what to do. The Labour MP Geraldine Smith was meant to come on our programme today to ask you to tell her how to vote. Instead that vote's off and she's now tabled a Commons motion challenging the principle that politicians should be able to vote on expenses reform at all. We'll speak to her later this morning.
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Has GB lost all authority? You have to ask?
Another U-turn; another nail in his (and the Govt's) coffin.
For all that is decent man; call an election and go now.
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I think GB started to lose authority long before he even became PM. The length of time it took him to oust Tony Blair and his clear desperation for the job weakened him from the very start.
The way he handles PMQ's makes him look like a fool. He is clearly only comfortable when on the topic of the economy and everything else appears to terrify him. His attempts at trying to have the common touch, look a lot less successful than the Royal Its a Knockout. This latest expenses blow makes him look like someone who doesn't even get to go to their chosen pub on their birthday. If he was on The Apprentice, he would undoubtedly have been fired long ago.
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That youtube video did it for me.GB was postively scary.
The image makers have obviously told him to smile at every opportunity to try and compensate for his stuffy and angry persona.
Blair loved the attention and being in the spotlight whereas GB doesn't do the actor/prime minister malarky.
I'll give him till the next election because Cameron and tories still haven't won me over.Did I really hear Eric Pickles say the other day that the tories were the party of the poor...............blimey !
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That you-tube vid is truly scary, Lenoard. The false smile; the bouncing about like Tigger - pass the sick bucket.
Geraldine Smith on the programme now - trying to make out it's all down to party politics spun by Cameron. YAWN.
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That video did him no favours whatsoever. Truly awful. The man is a spent force, the problem is, who will replace him? There is no one who represents my views anymore.
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as the churchill dog says so well,
OOOOHH YESS...
and as for the rest of the leaches, they are all about saving the gravy train their riding on. I do concede that there may be 5% of good politicians but the majority are in it for the lifestyle, junkets, freebies & ability to forge ahead for their OWN gains...
not many ever go shelf stacking do they?
NO because they do favours on the way up to protect themselves on the way down
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Is Clive Betts (currently on your programme) living in Cloud Cuckoo land?
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No Gordon Brown has not lost the plot about MPs allowances,its some of the greedy MPs who have lost their morals, like the bankers they are greedy.Nick Clegg surprised me when he sides with Cameron on second home allowances.Mr Winterton (Tory)was the one that pointed out the flaw in Brown's daily allowance proposal i.e no payment when they do not attend the commons, and when they are on 13 weeks holidays.These vampires must think tax payers are simpletons
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