Brown hasn’t contacted Cameron or Osborne about IMF job

Dan Cohen

Clearly ruining this country wasn't enough for him...

Austin Barry

This is madness. It would be like putting Dr Shipman in charge of the NHS.

Daniel Cohen

Clearly he was not happy with Just ruining this country...

Fex Urbis

Perversely I really miss Brown, I miss his misguided, slightly stupid pontificating on matters he had only the most tenuous grip. I miss the 'I saved the world', 'Obama Beach' cretinisms. Above all I really miss having no-one to really hate, I'd really like him to get really, really, really close to the IMF job only for it to be snatched away from him at the last minute.

Dame Helena Handcart QC

Can he not be found a quiet parish in Fife - quieter even than the one he is currently neglecting - and just be made to go away?

Lonesome Dave

Given what we've all seen, of his particular (shall we say) 'skill sets', Brown would struggle to run a bath!

Andy Carpark

A ha. A ha ha ha haha

A ha ha ha WAAAAAAAAH-HA-AHAHA-HA!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HAHAHAHAA

stepney

The Brown solution to a country on its arse like Greece would be to massively increase public spending by borrowing insane amounts of cash on unfavourable terms..

Can you think of anyone, anyone at all more unsuited to the job of helping countries with massive debt problems?

Might as well give the iceberg the captaincy of the Titanic.

Ian Walker

I think it would be a genius appointment. You simply ask Gordon what he would do, and then instanly do the opposite for guaranteed success.

Sir Graphus

Of course he's pitching for it, though he denies it. Not a squeak out of the fellow for months, then a top job in international finance comes up, and he makes all sorts of comments on international finance.

Mandy (reported in the Daily T) is another chap who isn't putting his name forward in exactly the same way.

Resist both for opposite reasons.

Tiberius

Phone rings.

"Hello".
"Hello, David, it's Gordon".
"Hello, my old teabag, how the devil are you?"
"Oh, you know, still having nightmares about that bloody woman".
"Well what can I do you for".
"Look I know it's a bit of an ask, but I want the IMF job. I tried some charity work in Kirkcaldy but to be honest I kept saying the wrong thing like when I told the old soldier who had lost all his limbs that it would cost him an arm and a leg to have his wheelchair modified".
"Yeah, I see what you mean - but it's tough at the bottom as you no doubt remember. But, come on, how can you expect to get that job after the debt you left me?"
"Oh stuff you then. And tell Osborne he's a fag. You'll be sorry when I beat you to saving the universe - To Infinity, And Beyond!"

TrevorsDen

Brown campaigns for personal aggrandisement and elevation by promising to spend other peoples money.

Nothing new there then.

sylva pique

I wonder if Gordon actually needs the endorsement of those two guys and moreso your article is just speculative. David Cameron just like you jumped into the bandwagon and started campaigning against this guy.He has not make his intention known yet for Christ sake leave him alone.

Ian Walker

sylva pique: Leave him alone? If it was up to me, I'd have him tried for treason. While he was Chancellor and Prime Minister, every single edict, utterance and law was motivated out of pure spiteful hatred for anyone who bothered to try and better themselves, topped off with a sickening mix of economic illiteracy and brazen untruthfulness.

It's a joke that you can get a £60 fine for careless driving, your kids taken away for careless parenting, but if you make a total pigs ear of the economy of one of the Western world's richest countries, you get considered for a job dishing out advice to all the others.

I'll leave him alone when the stench of all things Brown has finally disappeared from everything that he ruined. I wouldn't hold your breath.

James Mcguigan

Fex Urbis yes I know what you mean I used to go to bed with delicious anticipation of what he might do or say next.

Andrew Kennard

The only useful role I can see Brown playing at the IMF is in its training routines. I think he would be excellent in a role playing exercise playing the weak, beholden to his clientele politician who has brought his country to its knees which the IMF inspectors must face time and time again when they are called in to assist a bankrupt country.

General Zod

Of course he hasn't contacted them. In his deluded mind, he is the financial genius who saved the world. The world is waiting for him to take charge of the IMF and he does not need the approval of that posh young man who used to be cheeky to him at PMQs.

Chris lancashire

It's not just his own government, the Swedish Premier was the latest to say that having made a dog's breakfast of the UK economy makes him unfit for any financial position (loosely translated from the original Swedish).

Ian Walker : couldn't agree more.

toni

As it's already been reported that DC and GO won’t support him, it's hardly likely he'd ever demean himself to approach them; and I’d imagine that
urination and conflagration would justifiably be GB’s first thought in that context.

Mark Cannon

“The first point of recapitalisation was to save banks that would otherwise have collapsed. We not only saved the world..” [Laughter . ]

- Mr. J. G. Brown, during Prime Minister’s Questions

Were we standing on the brink,
Gordon Brown,
Whereas now we’re safe in the pink,
Are we, Brown?
Were we crashing, diving, falling,
At the news from New York City?
Groaning "Worldwide growth is stalling"
Crying "Save us, please have pity!”
When the Hang Seng took a nosedive,
And the Dow Jones tumbled down,
Was it you who kept us alive?
Was it, Brown?

The rot started in the States,
You say, Brown,
Did you cut their interest rates,
Did you, Brown?
As investment banks were failing
And as repossessions rose,
Did you hear the people wailing
As you picked your bogeyed nose?
Did you jump into a phone box
And don your superhero’s gown
Your trousers tucked into your socks
Really, Brown?

Did you fly into the air,
Gordon Brown?
O’er the wasted lands laid bare,
Brown, O Brown!
Where their Main Street banks were busted
And their pensions had gone west
Did they turn to one they trusted
Did they think that you knew best?
Men don't think it half so hard when
The pound falls ever further down,
Since the markets are still open
Saved by Brown.

It would greatly, I must own,
Soothe me, Brown!
If you left this theme alone,
Mighty Brown!
As we face a bleak tomorrow
With a mountain range of debt;
You seem not to share our sorrow
But, grinning, do not get it yet.
You’re the source of all the trouble
Not our saviour, just a clown.
As we watch our problems double
Chuck it, Brown!

James Sproule

I could be wrong (a self assessment that has never crossed Brown’s mind), but I doubt Cameron and Osborne’s objection to Brown is primarily political. In the years he was Chancellor and later as PM, he made no effort for be civil, let alone friendly to either the PM or Chancellor. Indeed when Brown was Chancellor, his arrogance knew no bounds. On numerous occasions he did his best to dismiss and humiliate Osborne, going well beyond mere political differences to demonstrate that he Brown was intellectually superior and that he could not be bothered to even consider the views of the Conservatives.

I should imagine George Osborne is enjoying a plate of rather tasty, and very cold, revenge this weekend.

RKing

He just needs to walk across the atlantic (yes walk) and all will see that he is the great messiah who has already saved the world!!
Let's all sing!!!
Mine eyes have seen the coming of the saviour of the world.... dah dee dee dee dee dedahh......

oldtimer

The IMF have said that they want to achieve concensus in making this appointment. Without the support of the UK government, he will not be selected. Besides which, he fails to meet the criteria for the job. Earlier today Blair`s ex speech writer, Michael Collins, said that everyone knew that Brown couldn`t run a bath let alone and organisation.

Barry Bilge

Before he attempts to be head of the IMF he could at least bother to spend some time representing his constituents in Westminster. He couldn't do it when he was Chancer or PM, now he can and should.

whatawaste

In the past heads of the IMF either were Europeans or Americans, but equally their respective economies were also strong. Bail outs were organised for the likes of Brazil and Argentina etc.

Now the boot is on the other foot and it would be a direct conflict of interest for a European dictating terms of yet another EU bail out of one of its basket case econmies. Although Brazil has a socialist government they have not made a pigs ear of its finances - I remember Brown touring Latin America at the height of the crisis with various leaders castigating Brown to his face.

What we are seeing now is the arrogant bullying elite of the EU sneering down at the rest of the world as if to say "we are better than you, so sod off"!

lescam

Ian Walker
May 20th, 2011 2:11pm
"I'll leave him alone when the stench of all things Brown has finally disappeared from everything that he ruined".

Well said, couldn't agree more. Just thinking about Brown gives me high blood pressure. What I really think of him would never be printed, but I would genuinely like to see him go on holiday................for a week's skydiving in Afghanistan. Without a bulletproof vest.

Andrew

Gordon Brown seems to have amazing self confidence for such a nincompoop. Still at least he hasn't attacked any chambermaids!!

David Ossitt

The French lady will get the job, thank goodness as she is an Anglophile, or as Anglophile as any french man/woman can ever be.

Woody

The BBC are certainly doing their best to get his name out there. Just seen him being interviewed on the beeb and all the old mannerisms and just the general scruffiness of the man drives me mad.

Percy

Fex Urbis & James Mcguigan

Agreed, who wasn't thrilled when he lead the leader of the free world into a broom cupboard, or his performance with a certain OAP in Rochdale, the guy was comedy gold; (only though if you managed to block out the utter havoc he wrought on this country)

Jeremy Poynton

@James Mcguigan & @Fex Urbis

My morning salutation to my beloved, were she up before me, and at the PC checking the news, was

"Has Brown's head exploded yet?"

"No", she would answer, "but we live in hope"

Liz Brown

What has happened to his fervent wish to work in education and for charity? Bloody ma, why can't he find a quiet corner in which to die
More seriusly, this position MUST NOT go to a European otherwise we will become even more bankrupt than we already are

Perry

My deres, - STOP all this wailing and wringing of hands!

He's got the job, and that's all there is to it.

Get used to it.

He ruined saved Britain, and no-one stopped him.

Now he will have a go at ruining really saving the world,

Kestrel Sprite

The best position for Brown is as a patient in Broadmoor, the secure hospital for the criminally insane.

TGF UKIP

Wouldn't be so blithely dismissive if I were you, James. Brown has long been close to and will have to continued to cultivate US Democrats, and Obama plainly couldn't give a shit what Cameron thinks. Indeed, a Brown appointment would do much to please his constituency.

Moreover, while Sarkozy may well be obligated to initially support La Frogesse, he and Merkel may relish the opportunity to demonstrate to Dave the perils of being less than fully on board with their project of full integration.

Given the DSK circumstances of departure, what an Alastair Campbell would probably have done would be to get stories planted in broadsheets round the world recalling and reminding readers of the tempers, tantrums, swearing, bullying and phone throwing along with the recollections of rumours mental instability - or is mention of that still banned in the Coffee House, James?

As it is though anyway, Dave doesn't have an Alastair Campbell, he has Craig Oliver.

You can also be stone cold certain that Gordon has also been utilising all his expertise of spending other people's money over all these past months in making many promises of IMF largesse along with many New York lavishly remunerated appointments.

GDT

if by "post @ IMF" we mean, a post to which we can attach a rope, to which we can string GB up with , then I'm all in favour of that

Axstane

Brown does not need the support of Cameron and Osborne - he has ardent supporters in Germany and in Africa as well as having met Obama in a kitchen. He also has the armour of delusion to boost his ego and so comes over confident and manages to give the impression that he actually knows something about economics.

He also has the undying support of the EU Foreign Minister, one Baroness Upton as well as the Chief Commissar Jose Manuel Barroso.

dorothy wilson

If Brown does have the cheek to contact DC and/or GO will they please remind him that the UK taxpayers are paying him to represent his constituents in the HoC. As he was, apparently, in Vegas a short time ago and is now in South Africa he clearly is not doing so.

He is, therefore, defrauding the taxpayer just as much as those MPs sent to jail in the expenses scandal. He should be instructed to attend the HoC. If he cannot deign to do that he should resign his seat.

llanycymru

Its hard to find anyone (even in the Labour party) who would support this man after the mess he made of being chancellor and PM. He should be given the "wide birth".

David Price

I remember him telling us in one interview before the election that if he didn't win he was going to work for charity, or 'teach', or some such other wonderfully worthy vocation. Now he wants to be the world's number one banker - bigger even that his mate who he enobled, Fred 'the shred' Goodwin... Bit of a turn around there Gordon!

RKing

How much GOLD would he be able to flog off if he was in charge?????

Ken

The best news of course is that despite his own absurd delusions, echoed only by
Westminster villagers, not one sane voice is in favour of Bruin. The New York Times confirms the US view, anyone but Mr I-saved-the-world: http://nyti.ms/ixpHwC

Greg

Osboure sinks Brown's chances of IMF job. Who would have ever thought that George Osbourne, of all people, would genuinely be able to claim he "saved the world"?