So, we've got a new Prime Minister, then, UK...

I don't have too much to say on this but I felt we should have a thread.

I like Gordon Brown, I think under his leadership I would vote Labour, which I've never done before.

Tony Blair made me laugh today at PMQs when he was asked by some old tory stiff (can't remember who) about an EU constitution referendum. The tories were all baying, and Blair commented on that, and ended with "Au revoir, auf wiedersehen, arrivederci!"

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I'm not from the UK but I can't shed a tear over Tony Blair leaving. I fail t see how this sway to the right in the Labour party is to be a celebrated occurence. That said, I don't see Gordon Brown being any different. The harms been done now.

lol i always think of golden brown by the stranglers when he's mentioned, i think it was a joke from the big breakfast back in the day.

Did you know that Gordon Brown is actually about heroin? It's beyond coincidence.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

"every time just like the last"

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they made soup out of my research turtles.

Who would yo uhave voted before? Greens? Lib Dems? Oh don't say you're a "David Cameron"!
I think Gordon Brown will do better than Blair, even though I like Blair on a personal level but HE HAD TO GO.

Yes, the similarities are startling.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

I don't know that much about Gordon Brown. From what I've heard though, I don't see him being any different from Tony.

i always sing that song in my head when i hear his name!!! i though it was just me!!!!

Tony Blair was the finest European leader since Franz Joseph I of Austria. Personally, I'm in the middle of a week's mourning.

aw, buck up little camper! perhaps gordon brown will cling tenaciously to george w bush's buttocks too.

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civil partnerships and teh gayz?
better be mourning for him.....

Yeah, the Pope's not happy about Blair's gay-friendly policies now he's trying to convert.
gordon brown...cool.

And after reading this thread, I now will.

I'm a bit ambivalent about Gordon now. I used to really wish he'd take over, but the last couple of years have been awful for Labour, and now I feel like he's not inheriting the crown he'd hoped for. We're still in Iraq (hopefully Brown will tell Dubya to fuck off), cutbacks have been made to health and education funding, gun and knife crime among young people is on the rise...

But then again, he's strong-willed and stubborn. I don't think he'll be easily influenced by any Alastair Campbell types. I would probably vote for him, dependant upon how these first few months go, and if the Lib Dems can find a leader with some kind of political charm.

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I don't know why I ever post in these threads, but... JACQUI SMITH? blair was a great pm. brown is going to be a bad one.

I agree with whoever said the Labour swing to the right shouldn't be celebrated. I think it would be nice if Gordon could bust out some old school socialism and give Bush the finger, but in reality the next major political development I'm awaiting in this country will be the riots that ensue when the Tories get in next election. It's just up to Gordon when that is.
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um, have you been observing his career as Chancellor at all?

To be honest with you, I can tell we disagree politically, but that's not really the point of what I'm trying to say.

Yeah, that's just what your economy needs right now, more socialism.

Don't you people ever learn or do you insist on being emotionally arrested retards ALL your life?