The Brown handover ceremony

anne allan

Speech Day at Hogwarts?

Boredlawyer

Why should Brown have any role at all? The current labour leader is Harperson. Surely if there is to be a "hand-over" she should be the one to do it? She has done little else. Gordon should "get on with the job" of being a constituency MP or resign and get on with saving the World

Paddy

If they have any sense no one will want him!

Liz Brown

spare me the blushes

ollie

this is tinged with high farce. I hope it goes ahead - just as everyone's starting to forget about Brown, he pops up and reminds the majority why he should be locked up in a padded cell.

strapworld

Great theatre. They could use it like a 1950's type bathing beauty contest. Gordon Brown, with a brylcremed quiff, his ready smile putting all at ease, would welcome all the contestants to the announcement of the new leader.

Gordon would then give the assembled crowd of well wishers a pen picture of each, whispering in a stage whisper in each contestant's ear that they were 'My Favourite' aka Bruce Forsyth! and then after a song and dance he would, after a drum roll by the Brixton Youth Steel Band, announce that Dianne Abbott had been elected the new leader. Quickly apologise and say 'Just joking' and give the correct name.

The winner will be carried on a golden chair up to a grand throne where Gordon Brown will place the great chain of authroity of Leader of the Labour Party on the shoulders of the winner.

The massed male voice choirs of the Trades Union Congress led by Brnedan Barber will sing The Red Flag to a great ovation from the crowd.

great theatre. cannot wait.

Chris lancashire

He is cowed, he is in hiding.
Most bullies deflate spectacularly when beaten.

Roger Daley

You can't shake hands when you are wearing a jacket with the sleeves tied up at the back.

Chuck Unsworth

Well whoever is endorsed by Brown is forever tainted. Candidates and the Labour Party would do well to remember that.

David Ossitt

“He doesn’t want people to think he is cowed or hiding.”

Why not?

In the past, he always has been.

Baron

the man and his predecessor should be barred from appearing in public, the months and years ahead will show why to those who're still blind to what they did.

Mal

Just what the new Labour leader needs. A picture to remind all of his/her association with a character that most of the country see as a loser, an incompetent and a coward.
High farce indeed. If this goes ahead then it will speak volumes as to the connection they don't have with the public, and their deluded state of mind.

wrinkled weasel

They can't let go, can they? The limos and the bag men and the police escort?

McDoom cannot get over the fact that, suddenly, everywhere smells of sick and wee and diesel fumes.

Annabel Herriott

"And when the Foreign Office find a treaty gone astray.
Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way,
There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair -
But it's useless to investigate - Mcavity's not there!"
So why change the habit of a lifetime? You just stay snugged away in Scotland McCavity - you can add nothing further.

David Booth

All one can say to the new Labour Party leader is ; Barge Pole, Brown, Touch, Not.

Simon Stephenson

Was your photo of Brown taken at the moment when he was told that the MC at his handover ceremony was going to be Daniel Hannan?

Tarka the Rotter

It's the handing over of the Black Spot...

Walsingham's Ghost

Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha....

Just what David Miliband wanted to hear!

WG

Noa Zrk

So the Cowedenbeast wants a final swinesong!

lescam

"He doesn’t want people to think he is cowed or hiding"

You could have fooled me. Ever since being crowned King of Labour (having first ensured he faced no competition for the job) he has spent the entire time hiding in his hole whenever things turned awkward. Like all bullies, he is a coward and afraid to show his ugly face except when he could claim some sort of credit. In this instance I would be delighted if he crawled back under his stone and never re-emerged. Kirkcaldy is more than welcome to him.

Roger Davies

Will they let him out for a day?

anne allan

Strapworld - lovely scenario: however, you forgot they announce the results in reverse order.
They also need a cheesy singer (Postman Pat?) and chorus of leggy lovelies that could be lead by a high kicking Chris Bryant in gold lame underpants.

Senor Frizby

When will this black mass take place? Will they be playing 'Bat Out of Hell' as Brown disappears in a ball of flames and Millipede 1 offers his little brother as sacrificial lamb at the alter?

Can't wait!When will this black mass take place? Will they be playing 'Bat Out of Hell' as Brown disappears in a ball of flames and Millipede 1 offers his little brother as sacrificial lamb at the alter?

Can't wait!

Yam Yam

No doubt we'll be offered a few final tractor statistics and non mea culpas before he follows his predecessor off to the lucrative lecture circuit.

JohnAnt

Ah, but then won't the new Leader get to say a few words too? Such as 'We know many mistakes were made by my predecessor, so many that we lost the election, and I am determined not to make the same ones'?
Can you think of anything more toxic to swing voters than the memory of the new Leader of the Oppo grinning inanely and pretending to shake Brown's hand? And sounding if anything more insincere than Brown himself?
That could lost Lab the next three elections - if they actually last that long as a party before the Official Receiver is called in.

ian boyd

Should the torch be unavailable come the glorious day, one of those flimsy plastic bags full of just-visible dog shit would have all the right baton credentials.