If you will just temporarily set aside your r/uk views that anyone who knows, worked with, voted for, was part of, lived through or read an article about Tony Blair’s government invading Iraq being an irredeemable person who deserves to burn for eternity, Gordon Brown is about the most competent chancellor (along with Vince Cable) that we could want, have, or secretly imagine.
You should listen to anything either of those men have to say on current issues, because they’re about the only ones qualified to have a valid and practicable opinion it.
The only thing I find wrong with this is the word “temporarily”.
I’d vote for him.
Gordon brown is providing more leadership than our current chancellor and prime minister put together.
Maybe we need to assemble a Tempt Government of past ministers? Quite a bit of talent knocking about, Blair, Brown, Major and May. One last job…
“You son of a bitch I’m in”
Every PM since Brown has been a light weight who got to the position through privilege rather than competence.
Brown knows how bad the situation is getting, hense his urgency, whilst the fight for the next PM is between 2 people fighting for support from a narrow constituency whose only motivation is to keep themselves and their kind on top of the pile and don’t care about power cuts, austerity or the poor freezing to death, because as we all should know, that’s their own fault for being poor.
Haven’t we invaded countries for doing that before?
I really hope he has been coaching Starmer who needs to reappear like the ultimate warrior running down the isle
Holy shit Gordon, where did this come from? Some temporary common sense!
Gordon Brown could have been a great prime minister for everyone if he had have had a bit of charisma. Great man all the same.
I don’t mean to be funny, but I don’t see how that would help. Consumer energy firms buy wholesale gas on international markets. Whether they are nationalised or private, that doesn’t bring down the cost of natural gas.
This is great but why are we hearing it from Gordon Brown and not from Keir Starmer or Rachel Reeves? Where is their leadership? God knows we need it. They should be sticking it to the Tories.
You mean energy firms like bulb who are in special administration, while the guy at the top is making millions🤔
They can all offer lower bills, they’re making billions in profit.
So when the going is good, businesses cream it in and when things go bad, they get bailed out? And that won’t encourage them to operate even less responsibly, knowing that will happen? If we were heading to utopia, we would be nationalising energy, banking, internet, mobile coverage, insurance and public transport and anything else that’s a licence to print money and is bailed out when it all goes wrong. Dystopia it is then. It’s your round. No, it was definitely my round last time.
Step in the right direction. Hear! Hear!
Guest Presenter PM of Ed Balls for the next six months please. Martin Clunes as Chancellor.
We should get Brown and Blunkett in asap.
One eye between them and they can still see more than Liz Truss.
Based Brown.
‘temporarily’?
So what, socialise the losses during these bad times, then as soon as there’s the remotest chance of them making profit again, sell them all off?
About what I expect from Labour tbh
Can someone less pissed and more informed than me explain why the price cap can’t be reversed and why no one has even floated the idea? Who dictates the cap and given we know the cunts are making record profits, why is there not an easy solution to say we’ll have that cap back?
Should be re-nationalised, there you go Gordon I’ve fixed it for you
Who’d have known Gordon Brown of all people would make a comeback 14 years later
But I thought the “free market” would assure lower prices.
Seriously annoying that it’s Brown who’s saying this and the person who’s meant to be saying it is nowhere to be seen. Never has much faith in Starmer (although I was happy to give him a chance when he first became Labour leader) but now? Absolute joker.
This government pursuing socialist policies to help the working classes?
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If you will just temporarily set aside your r/uk views that anyone who knows, worked with, voted for, was part of, lived through or read an article about Tony Blair’s government invading Iraq being an irredeemable person who deserves to burn for eternity, Gordon Brown is about the most competent chancellor (along with Vince Cable) that we could want, have, or secretly imagine.
You should listen to anything either of those men have to say on current issues, because they’re about the only ones qualified to have a valid and practicable opinion it.
The only thing I find wrong with this is the word “temporarily”.
I’d vote for him.
Gordon brown is providing more leadership than our current chancellor and prime minister put together.
Maybe we need to assemble a Tempt Government of past ministers? Quite a bit of talent knocking about, Blair, Brown, Major and May. One last job…
“You son of a bitch I’m in”
Every PM since Brown has been a light weight who got to the position through privilege rather than competence.
Brown knows how bad the situation is getting, hense his urgency, whilst the fight for the next PM is between 2 people fighting for support from a narrow constituency whose only motivation is to keep themselves and their kind on top of the pile and don’t care about power cuts, austerity or the poor freezing to death, because as we all should know, that’s their own fault for being poor.
Haven’t we invaded countries for doing that before?
I really hope he has been coaching Starmer who needs to reappear like the ultimate warrior running down the isle
Holy shit Gordon, where did this come from? Some temporary common sense!
Gordon Brown could have been a great prime minister for everyone if he had have had a bit of charisma. Great man all the same.
I don’t mean to be funny, but I don’t see how that would help. Consumer energy firms buy wholesale gas on international markets. Whether they are nationalised or private, that doesn’t bring down the cost of natural gas.
This is great but why are we hearing it from Gordon Brown and not from Keir Starmer or Rachel Reeves? Where is their leadership? God knows we need it. They should be sticking it to the Tories.
You mean energy firms like bulb who are in special administration, while the guy at the top is making millions🤔
They can all offer lower bills, they’re making billions in profit.
So when the going is good, businesses cream it in and when things go bad, they get bailed out? And that won’t encourage them to operate even less responsibly, knowing that will happen? If we were heading to utopia, we would be nationalising energy, banking, internet, mobile coverage, insurance and public transport and anything else that’s a licence to print money and is bailed out when it all goes wrong. Dystopia it is then. It’s your round. No, it was definitely my round last time.
Step in the right direction. Hear! Hear!
Guest Presenter PM of Ed Balls for the next six months please. Martin Clunes as Chancellor.
We should get Brown and Blunkett in asap.
One eye between them and they can still see more than Liz Truss.
Based Brown.
‘temporarily’?
So what, socialise the losses during these bad times, then as soon as there’s the remotest chance of them making profit again, sell them all off?
About what I expect from Labour tbh
Can someone less pissed and more informed than me explain why the price cap can’t be reversed and why no one has even floated the idea? Who dictates the cap and given we know the cunts are making record profits, why is there not an easy solution to say we’ll have that cap back?
Should be re-nationalised, there you go Gordon I’ve fixed it for you
Who’d have known Gordon Brown of all people would make a comeback 14 years later
But I thought the “free market” would assure lower prices.
Seriously annoying that it’s Brown who’s saying this and the person who’s meant to be saying it is nowhere to be seen. Never has much faith in Starmer (although I was happy to give him a chance when he first became Labour leader) but now? Absolute joker.
This government pursuing socialist policies to help the working classes?
Good one.