201p 1,059 Posted September 13 https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/the-world-is-sleepwalking-into-a-financial-crisis-–-gordon-brown/ar-BBNgi2m?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Austin Allegro 5,627 Posted September 13 (edited) 3 minutes ago, 201p said: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/the-world-is-sleepwalking-into-a-financial-crisis-–-gordon-brown/ar-BBNgi2m?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout 'Had on, Cap'n Mainwaring, had on just a wee while....we're doomed, ah tell ye....DOOMED!' Edited September 13 by Austin Allegro 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Malthus 1,381 Posted September 13 3 minutes ago, 201p said: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/the-world-is-sleepwalking-into-a-financial-crisis-–-gordon-brown/ar-BBNgi2m?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout He has a serious brass neck making any public statements 😡😡 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dgul 5,287 Posted September 13 Yup -- that's because Brown's just an idiot, albeit one responsible for many of the country's ills. He's not the one with the picture in the attic. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
snaga 1,720 Posted September 13 (edited) perhaps we can blame his inability to recall events on alzheimer's? or am I being too kind? Edited September 13 by snaga 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chewing Grass 5,021 Posted September 13 Mustn't be drinking teenagers blood in the cabinet office with the great undead one anymore. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spygirl 9,399 Posted September 13 Does that to you, hiding in the closet wearing your wifes stockings. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Option5 1,897 Posted September 13 2 minutes ago, spygirl said: Does that to you, hiding in the closet wearing your wifes stockings. Doesn't everyone? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Roger_Mellie 1,214 Posted September 13 At least he's stopped smiling. That obviously coached rictus grin he used to wear looked ridiculous. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Strawberry 1,770 Posted September 13 That bigoted man 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dgul 5,287 Posted September 13 16 minutes ago, Option5 said: Doesn't everyone? wife's stockings -- no way. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Option5 1,897 Posted September 13 (edited) 4 minutes ago, dgul said: wife's stockings -- no way. Yeah, I've got my own and they're hold ups Edited September 13 by Option5 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Horrified Onlooker 1,315 Posted September 13 If ever there was a man that didn’t deserve to grow old. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OurDayWillCome 2,215 Posted September 13 2 hours ago, dgul said: He's not the one with the picture in the attic. He does have a picture in the attic, but there’s only so much the Devil will allow his picture to absorb. If Gordo wasn’t such an evil prick he would still look like a teenager. Fuck knows how bad his picture is, it must be grotesque beyond grotesqueness. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Errol 780 Posted September 13 He looks like he is either very ill, or has just recovered from a serious illness. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JackieO 3,723 Posted September 13 (edited) Official portrait 2009 These days my 83yo dad looks much much younger than McRuins 67yo self posted above... Edited September 13 by JackieO 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
swiss_democracy_for_all 6,210 Posted September 13 It's the guilt IMO. He can't possibly not know what he's done, after all he's reputed to have high intelligence (difficult as that may be to believe). Imagine having socialist principles, and going into your declining years knowing that all you did when in power betrayed all of those principles and all the people you were meant to represent, and helped all the people who you thought were your enemies. He can do maths. He knows what's coming. He knows he's going down in history as the worst ever chancellor and the worst ever PM, and he knows now there's nothing he can do about it. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PatronizingGit 1,480 Posted September 13 31 minutes ago, swiss_democracy_for_all said: It's the guilt IMO. He can't possibly not know what he's done, after all he's reputed to have high intelligence (difficult as that may be to believe). Imagine having socialist principles, and going into your declining years knowing that all you did when in power betrayed all of those principles and all the people you were meant to represent, and helped all the people who you thought were your enemies. He can do maths. He knows what's coming. He knows he's going down in history as the worst ever chancellor and the worst ever PM, and he knows now there's nothing he can do about it. Browns budgets always fell into the baffle them with bullshit rather than blind them with brilliance category. Still, the beeb lapped it up. I think Browns 'popularity' (if it even gets to that level) is due to labour wanting a kind of statesman, wise old man character. Clearly Bliar, the warmongering zio-bot neocon can't be that, and the previous labour leaders are either dead or Kinnock. So Brown is all thats left. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
unregistered_guest 1,248 Posted September 14 5 hours ago, PatronizingGit said: I think Browns 'popularity' (if it even gets to that level) is due to labour wanting a kind of statesman, wise old man character. Clearly Bliar, the warmongering zio-bot neocon can't be that, and the previous labour leaders are either dead or Kinnock. So Brown is all thats left. There's always Ed Balls... Oh wait, I see what you mean. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
twocents 5,056 Posted September 14 (edited) They just keep wheeling them out. It doesn't help Britain but then few if any mainstream politicians do. The established and well known doom mongers haven't really been right so far - or at least not to the extent that they predicted. Although there's been a lot of political turmoil and manipulation of statistics and reckless and insane policies such as mass immigration along with the ban on free speech etc which has resulted in a similar mood and feeling to what you might expect during a serious economic collapse. I doubt he will be a trigger for anything and in fact with his track record a bit of a manipulated statistical boom might suddenly happen which might be the excuse they need to raise interest rates to give themselves some room for the next serious downturn. Edited September 14 by twocents 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PeptoAbysmal 303 Posted September 19 If losing all of your depositors money on dodgy loans and investments comes with a pat on the back and an £800,000 per year pension, why would anyone in the banking industry aim for just mediocrity. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spunko 7,138 Posted September 19 On 13/09/2018 at 20:07, Roger_Mellie said: At least he's stopped smiling. That obviously coached rictus grin he used to wear looked ridiculous. Don't know what you're talking about! https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-29-2015/mZVofT.gif 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SillyBilly 568 Posted September 19 I don't think you become PM without the ego to boot. I bet he thinks he did a great job. And that the current solution to any ill is doubling down of what he did do. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spygirl 9,399 Posted September 19 On 13/09/2018 at 23:31, swiss_democracy_for_all said: It's the guilt IMO. He can't possibly not know what he's done, after all he's reputed to have high intelligence (difficult as that may be to believe). Imagine having socialist principles, and going into your declining years knowing that all you did when in power betrayed all of those principles and all the people you were meant to represent, and helped all the people who you thought were your enemies. He can do maths. He knows what's coming. He knows he's going down in history as the worst ever chancellor and the worst ever PM, and he knows now there's nothing he can do about it. Bollox. Hes as thick as shit. His Phd was post war labour leaders. About 5. He is innumerate. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
