Gordon Brown Speech.

Leekbrookgull · Sep 18, 2014

Not a fan of him as a rule but fair cop to him, his anti independance speech is powerful and could be enough to keep the Union ? :facepalm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_heYiAIaTI

levski seagull · Sep 18, 2014

I hope the jocks vote YES so that he will have 2 election defeats on his C.V, he will surely go down in history as the worst prime minister the UK has ever had.

nicko31 · Sep 18, 2014

Brown IMO was an underrated PM, Blair did so much damage he was always on a hiding to nothing...

Leekbrookgull · Sep 18, 2014

Brown for me never is/was P/M material,however there is a lot in what he says.

Raleigh Chopper · Sep 18, 2014

nicko31 said:
Brown IMO was an underrated PM, Blair did so much damage he was always on a hiding to nothing...

I thought it was the other way round IMO.

Colossal Squid · Sep 18, 2014

He's actually a very intelligent man and knows his onions. He was just left with an absolute mess to clean up and never had the charisma to blag his way out of it with the voters.

This idea that he's a bad politician is ridiculous. Given the anger towards the Labour government after Blair had been found out as a liar they should have been utterly humiliated at the last election but instead the contest really ended up with no winner.

He was fiscally very prudent, even allowing for the decision to sell off gold reserves which later shot up in value, and it's indicative of modern politics that he is seen as some sort of bogeyman just because he didn't have a toothy media friendly smile and was in charge of a sinking ship long after the damage had already been done.

Good on him for not slinking away into the background and sticking to his principles as a politician.

lawros left foot · Sep 18, 2014

He definately wasn't our worst, unluckiest perhaps, what with foot and mouth the same month he started , then the financial meltdown in 08. Wasn't he praised for his economic plan to prevent an even worse global crash by most of the worlds leaders?

Triggaaar · Sep 18, 2014

Colossal Squid said:
He's actually a very intelligent man and knows his onions. He was just left with an absolute mess to clean up

As chancellor, wasn't it largely his mess?

vegster · Sep 18, 2014

He was unfairly saddled with the blame for the ( worldwide ) economic recession by the tories yet it is often said by other world leaders and economists that his prompt action and lead stopped it from getting considerably worse. Nice to see he has the fire in his belly to make such a moving speech which comes from the heart, unlike Cameron's whiny begging speech.

If he had been the focus of the Better Together campaign instead of Darling it would not be this close. He would have shot down most of Salmond's economic arguments during the televised debates.

The Birdman · Sep 18, 2014

He showed the nerd up Millaband well done Brown showed a lot of passion.

Leekbrookgull · Sep 18, 2014

Forget before,this speech ok edited but is it a No vote winner ?

Don Quixote · Sep 18, 2014

levski seagull said:
I hope the jocks vote YES so that he will have 2 election defeats on his C.V, he will surely go down in history as the worst prime minister the UK has ever had.

Bit spiteful, don't you think?

vegster · Sep 18, 2014

levski seagull said:
I hope the jocks vote YES so that he will have 2 election defeats on his C.V, he will surely go down in history as the worst prime minister the UK has ever had.

Thankfully the Tories were unelectable under Hague, Howard and Ian Duncan Smith, perm any one from three there that would have been worse.

SeagullinExile · Sep 18, 2014

If only he showed that much passion when he was PM. However, he was passionate about selling our gold reserves

jgmcdee · Sep 18, 2014

SeagullinExile said:
If only he showed that much passion when he was PM. However, he was passionate about selling our gold reserves

Please could you let me know what will happen to the price of gold over the next 18 months so that I can plan accordingly? Thanks.

SeagullinExile · Sep 18, 2014

jgmcdee said:
Please could you let me know what will happen to the price of gold over the next 18 months so that I can plan accordingly? Thanks.

It generally only goes up with the odd peak and trough - Always a solid investment long term :thumbsup:

Vegas Seagull · Sep 18, 2014

jgmcdee said:
Please could you let me know what will happen to the price of gold over the next 18 months so that I can plan accordingly? Thanks.

Pathetic post.
Thicko Brown had a LOT a gold to sell, swamping the market amounts, so what did he do? Unbelievably he TOLD everyone this and all the buyers lowered their offers to rock bottom levels as he had shown his hand. Numbskull

Vegas Seagull · Sep 18, 2014

SeagullinExile said:
It generally only goes up with the odd peak and trough - Always a solid investment long term

It's fallen from $1800ish to $1250ish per ounce now, in the last couple of years

Leekbrookgull · Sep 18, 2014

Can we go back to the Speech ?

Pavilionaire · Sep 18, 2014

Good speech, unlike so many other NO speeches this one seemed to come from the head AND the heart.

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