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Don't Mention the Legacy!

Monday, 23rd February 2009

As the Cabinet meets in Southampton today there is one issue that will be strictly off the agenda: the Brown legacy.

I have it on very good authority that Gordon and those around him will not even allow the subject to be discussed in case it suggests that he knows the next election is lost. People coming to him with new ideas are told not to use the "L word".

I think this is very unwise. How can the Prime Minister expect anyone to come to him with innovative recession-busting ideas unless they can talk in terms of the legacy such projects will leave behind? No. 10 needs to get real. We are living through exceptional times that demand exceptional imagination.

Unless this government starts to talk openly about establishing a legacy it will have none, whether the next election is won or lost.

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Rhoda Klapp

February 23rd, 2009 12:10pm Report this comment

A trillion pounds of debt isn't a legacy?

(How many similar posts before the mods put up the first tranche?)

mac

February 23rd, 2009 12:49pm Report this comment

Never mind 'L for Legacy'. There are plenty of other L-words which ought to be repeated endlessly in Brown's hearing. For example:

Liar. Loser. Lunatic. Loco. Leper. Lemon. Limp. Lubricous. Lumpish.

Of course Brown doesn't want the 'Legacy' word mentioned. It's toe-curlingly embarrassing to him because it's synonymous with Unprecedented, Unforgettable Failure.

And then some.

EC

February 23rd, 2009 12:50pm Report this comment

Ah Southampton! Aren't the Crimean conditions in the hospitals of this NHS backwater enough of a legacy!!!

cuffleyburgers

February 23rd, 2009 1:21pm Report this comment

How typical of the viewpoint inside the westminster bubble.

The country is racing quite literally towards bankruptcy having had its soul ripped out by labour wreckers and looters and Brown is concerned about his LEGACY?

How about being concerned about a generation of children who will grow up illiterate, to limp along on benefits until they die, jobless, of a preventable, hospital-acquired infection while their parents mutter about the good old days, when government was in London, and you could have a conversation in the street without being held under surveillance...

New Labour? Same old lies, incompetence and corruption now with added fascism.

mac

February 23rd, 2009 1:33pm Report this comment

That's 'Lubricious'.

Kevin Barry

February 23rd, 2009 5:59pm Report this comment

Must agree with cuffleyburgers: does Martin truly believe the cabinet is so self-obsessed that it will not countenance a proposal simply on the basis that it is a very good idea and potentially solves a very serious problem? The Language of Legacy seems to be somewhat peripheral, at least it ought to be.

kevin

February 23rd, 2009 11:05pm Report this comment

was that lynch

RW

February 24th, 2009 7:07pm Report this comment

The CCHQ poster - new baby, Dad's nose, Mum's eyes, Gordon Brown's debt - says it all. Isn't there some way we can collectively disinherit ourselves? I mean, all gang up together and somehow force Brown to cut us out of his will? Who wants his bloody Legacy anyway? Isn't what he's managed to do to us in the here and now bad enough?

David Ossitt

February 25th, 2009 7:43pm Report this comment

Brown does not need to worry; he has earned himself a place in our country's history that will be remembered for as long as we have a Parliament.

He will be remembered as the Chancellor of the Exchequer who in his term in office did his very best to damage the United Kingdom, possibly beyond repair.

He will also be remembered; for being the most incompetent Prime Ministers of all time.

Blair was a shallow fool; a charming con man.

But Brown has not got a single redeeming feature he is just a bumbling bully, who lacks all of the social skills needed in his job.