The man who would be shadow international development secretary

Robert

For god sake he is looking for a seat in the house of Lords, he wanted to be head of a charity they want winners not losers, he wanted to be a head teacher, nothing like aiming for the top, but a lot of heads of schools do not like back stabbers, he now wants to show he loves Africa, fact is he is looking for a role, and since he's not going to become a great after dinner speaker. lets shove him in the house of Lords where he can stagnate until he is to old to care.

David Booth

Should the next leader of the Labour party think he can rehabilitate Gordon Brown in the eyes of the public might I suggest that he practices first by trying to polish a turd.

Baroness Helena Handcart QC

Just think of it...Gordon could do for the developing world what he did for Britain. He'd cement his place in global history then, right enough: further broken promises mountains of debt added to the misery endured by untold billions.

Brother David would be toast if he allowed that snake into his shadow cabinet. Gordon simply cannot get over the fact of being thumped by the electorate because he was a useless and nasty prime minister. He'll do anything - even pretend to be helping the cause of international development - to get a foothold, a sniff, of power.

Within a few months there'd be some sort of coup and, hey presto, he'd be back at the Box on Wednesdays smiting Cameron with the rod of righteousness passed down in the manse.

There is something of the serial-killing preacher in The Night of The Hunter about Gordon. Always will be. The boy can't help it.

TomTom

Brown is the role model for every African dictator building the model economy. Live on foreign aid and expropriate White or Asian assets before absconding

se1man

he wants to do something for Africa?

then let him clean public toilets in Mogadishu.

maddy1

Why do we have to put up with these well heeled do gooders doing it on our behalf but without our mandate? Brown was instrumental in grafting, the bizarre countries, Rwanda and Mozambique with their appalling human rights records, on to Commonwealth. Why not disappear into Africa and become the Good Man like so many others before him if he so concerned? He will not be missed here by the majority! Brown needs to ask Mrs. Mandela who has never done a day's work in her life and was married to a hospital porter how she has acquired a multi million dollar property portfolio. The answers to these sort of questions would go along way in solving both our own and Africa's problems!

Tarka the Rotter

The man should not be promoted to the House of Lords as a life-legislator after what he did to the country. No way. If he has to be given something at all (debatable!!!!) then make him HM Ambassador to North Korea.

Robert Eve

Cares deeply about African development - says it all really.

TrevorsDen

Its just a headline catching plant of a story.

But if true - Brown would have to be elected first. Do the PLP elect the shadow cabinet or is it the wider o
party?
Either way Brown would have to be elected first.

It sounds like a good job for Balls to me.

Tankus

How about him just doing the job that he is paid for !!!!!!

Dorothy Wilson

So the job he wanted as Leader of the World has materialised. Now what a surprise!

strapworld

But how could any new leader turn their backs on the man who saved the world? A man whose commitment to the poor and deprived is well catalogued. Who is a world famous author, not many have achieved the book sales of Gordon Brown! A superb negotiator and concilliator- his record of keeping a rebellious cabinet together is legendary.

Come on give him the job he is best suited for. Labour Party Treasurer!

wrinkled weasel

I would give him another chance. He seems like an honest and open kind of guy with a good moral compass and a strong desire to serve.

(From Lord Wrinkled Weasel, Planetary Plenipotentiary to Earth, Green Lizard Wumbly Pumbly Courgette)

Mal

Brown just wants to spend more taxpayers money on schemes designed to make him look good, but will never produce any tangible results. If he wants to be 'passionate about Africa' then he should join a charity and do voluntary work in Africa and help real people. Not on his agenda though is it. The country, and politics needs rid of this man.

ollie

"Both Milibands have stated that Labour lost in May because the public rejected the government’s personalities,"

If that is true, why on earth are these two appalling people vying to become the leader of their party? Brown was the tumour at the very heart of Labour's cancer - but these two weren't far behind.

yank

With respect to her majesty Elizabeth, we her former but still admiring subjects propose a peaceful exchange of comity and goodwill: Brown for Obama.

Said exchange, including all appropriate formalities, signatories and hoohah, to take place in mid-North Atlantic, by way of ship-to-ship bosun's chair. We'll send over our chair, safely stored in a bilge full of rusty seawater these past 40 years, so as to ensure the proper outcome, and assume similar accommodations to be made by her majesty's RN, to ensure a proper outcome on her end.

We're confident that this burial-at-se.... er... that is to say... this exchange could do much to improve relations and domestic tranquility in all our lands, and we humbly submit for approval.

(for reasons of structural stability, our experts recommend the addition of 400# of lead to your chair assembly)

Cjamesk

My god, he doesn`t even turn up at Westminster since he was removed "grudgingly" from office, I was almost expecting a coup to remove him.

This is almost as bad as hearing he wanted to go and work for the IMF!!!

Send him to Afghanistan the troops could do with a bit of a laugh out there ( or target practice ), oh and maybe he could advise them on "courage" and his "Churchill" like statesmanship as Nick Robinson and the beeboids used to laud.

TrevorsDen

Brown still hasn't grown up since he was five and shamed by his dad's sermons into running a garage sale for the poor oppressed and undernourished millions overseas.

No one seems to have worked out that its best to invade Switzerland and liberate all the dictators' money from their numbered bank accounts.

TrevorsDen

Too late yank - we have already got rid of Brown.

Its the Labour party you need to open negotiations with.

Shadow ID Sec. would of course allow Brown to do what he is good at - sermonising. And promising to spend other peoples money.

He could still get away with his speaking engagements - since he is giving the money to charidee.
The whole thing combined would allow him to be smug and self-satisfyingly superior - which is all he wants out of life.

Verity

Se1man - They have public toilets in Mogadishu?

Ron Todd

Nothing Brown likes more than giving other people's money away.

And by the way you can polish a turd a programme called 'mythbusters' did it.

Major Plonquer 1

Doctor Livingturd, I presume?

TGF UKIP

"He cares deeply about African development" Well he may, or he may not, but what he cares most about is thrusting himself forward and upstaging the Tories.

Imagine some international "Poverty" conference in the not too distant future, then guess, via the Socialist International, who's going to comprehensively upstage Mitchell. Then hands up those who don't think this will get featured on the main BBC TV news.

As for Mitchell, I'm afraid your view, David, is that of a typical village wonk. No matter how much the Tories waste their time trying, being nice to the dark-skinned poor is Labour territory and any and every opinion poll will bear that out. And as for Mitchell doesn't he have some City baggage? Not that Gordon would ever make use of that of course.

Once again Dave's utter political stupidity in elevating the BDF is going to come back and bite him on the arse.

Simon Stephenson

TGF UKIP : 7.43pm

BDF?

Thank heavens for Google!

Birth Defects Foundation?
British Drilling and Freezing Company Limited?
BDF Healthcare?
The Ballroom Dancers' Federation?
BDF Solutions?
Bristol Development Framework?
Bitmap Distribution Format?
British Dental Forum?
BDF Real Estate Listings (Luton)?
BDF Hire Ltd.?
Blackpool Dance Festival (2010)?
Botswana Defence Force?
The Buddha-Dhamma Fellowship?

Is it one of these to which you refer?

Mr L

Gordon who??

hadrian

This simply confirms our worst suspicions that despite his high sounding, idealistic declarations of wishing to be a humble public servant of some sort, Broon is as Power Crazed as the rest of them and cannot see beyond the State when it comes to do goodery. Plus, of course, the prestige and loadsa dosh that goes with it all...more repugnant socialistic hypocrisy.

Baron

well, last time he’s dropped on the African continent he promised £8bn to the cheering crowds, his wanting to get the post shows consistency and determination, shouldn’t this please you?

David Booth

Ron Todd. "You can polish a turd"
Well I throw my hands up in ignorance and bow to your superior knowledge of Turdology.

As for your first point I agree with you in spades.

David Booth

My local paper has an item on Gordon Browns new found enthusiasm for spending even more money abroad.
The saviour of the known world has agreed to walk (on water perhaps) along a short length of the Fife coast on Sept 12th to raise money for a charity called "Water Aid"
This will no doubt raise Gordons caring profile and give his constituents over in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath chance to see their elusive MP albeit around his salubrious home village of North Queensferry rather than in Mr Brown's rundown and neglected constituency.

Should any readers wish to catch site of this 20th century political colossus they can obtain details on, www.coastalongforwateraid.org and perhaps turn out to wish Gordon a very very long journey out of our lives.