What inflation? What debt?

Perplexed

There is something seriously wrong with this man. He NEVER gives a direct answer to a question, seems lost and just repeats the same clap trap over and over. He is a bloody charlatan and if we don't address this then this country is heading for dire straights.

TomTom

Brown is a non-thinking chanter of mantras rather like a Muslim at prayer. He does not know what he is saying but simply intones the rehearsed phrase.

Brown is a historian turned TV interviewer who recites factoids but has no depth of knowledge and would be skewered by anyone who knew his brief.

The fact is that Brown has been exposed as being wholly unsuited to the job. Blair was not up to it either, but Brown cannot even exude the charm of the Artful Dodger and so looks even more bereft than Blair.

The Labour Party is going to unravel and disintegrate as it has been the vehicle for one man to climb the greasy pole and now Blair has gone leaving Brown as the dunderhead to blunder along to destruction as Callaghan Mk II

Astonished

One thing's for sure: Blair was right keeping this man from Number 10 for as long as humanly possible.

Max Kaye

Brown's attitude to the Olympic Torch reminded me of how he behaved when he (eventually) signed the Lisbon Treaty:
1. dither, dither, dither
2. half-hearted compromise
3. piss-off everyone.

He really is psychologically flawed.

As for the behaviour of the Chinese 'torch relay assistants' . After the way our 'marines' were treated by Iran, every foul regime knows that Britain can be treated like a prison 'bitch'.

Prodicus

Deluded or malevolent, either way this man is becoming dangerous and a cause for national concern. And he should watch his back, given the number in his own party who think so.

EyeSee

Blair lied about weapons Saddam hadn't got and Brown lies about money he hasn't got. It is about staying in power and telling people what they want to hear to keep them quiet. Why didn't people object to the idiot Brown before? He has based most of 'our' properity not on real wealth (despite inheriting a load from the Tory years) but by encouraging personal debt and doing his bit, by borrowing massively as Chancellor, but hiding it Enron style. Because we felt wealthy he was left alone, hence the lies being required. Being apathetic politically means not looking out for even obvious cases of abuse, now we can see the result.

TrevorH

Blair should haver sacked Brown after his first election win, either that or forced his resignation by offering him the job of Defence Secretary.

Perry

And thus establishes him as the true heir of Bliar?

idle

I was reminded of Brown by the train guard last night who assured us that, despite taking 20 minutes to get from Waterloo to Clapham Junction, the train had arrived at Guildford "on schedule" and that this was "thanks to the driver".

We all knew we were over ten minutes behind schedule. When he came to inspect my ticket later, I asked him to explain himself. He hedged, gibbered and prevaricated, and said that we were "perhaps 4 minutes behind schedule". I refused to accept this and told him to stop lying. He looked at me as if to say: "please, Sir, you're spoiling everyone else's contented ignorance"

Ann

Blair didn't lie about any weapons, and repeating this canard won't make it true. I regard Blair as a disaster for this country in many areas, but Iraq was the one thing he got right. All the intelligence services, from Israel to the USA, thought that there was a --fair likelihoood-- that he had regionally dangerous weapons - it's a fact that he had been developing them before - and it would have been stupid and irresponsible to do nothing about it.