Brown Must Manage the Next Twelve Days With Dignity

Sam Davidson

I feel otherwise. In my opinion, the only way he can hold onto his votes (and his dignity) is by foreswearing his bloated, unjustified pride and publically and wholeheartedly apologising for his practical and ideological mistakes in government. It won't win him the election, but it might give him a shot at redemption.

Mazza1230

Brown spurned many chances to exit with dignity. His grasping nature prevents him from seeing what is plainly obvious.

He can now carry the can for this entire debacle.

DavidDP

Oh well, Elvis put paid to that.

Noa Zrk

Until he leaves the building, do you mean, Martin?

Beer Moth

"Let's not forget that the Labour Party should not have been able to lose this election."

How far back are you going Martin? The reason why we have all forgotten any semblance of Labour popularity, is because it was all so very long ago. 13 years is a lot of weeks in politics, and if you make such a barn's arse of the job for so long, then little wonder that you lose your shine.

The Libdem 'surge', can be attributed to the bizarre conflation of a massively unpopular and discredited government, with a Tory opposition which has been stupid enough to let itself become immersed in, and influenced by, that same cohort which has brought Labour to the edge of an electoral black hole. Congealed twins.

And so, the Libdems, as third party, are easily seen as a drastic alternative. Not so of course, but our largely comatose electorate has nothing to put in the way of such narrative.

MaxSceptic

Brown will command my respect only when he spontaneously combusts.

saltirethinking

Frankly,I don't want any dignity from or given to this man.
He has systematically bullied and lied his way to become the un elected prime monster of this country.
He should be thankful that,as bad as things are, this is not Romania.

In2minds

"the Lib Dem surge has happened partly because no one is quite convinced that the Tories are ready for government."

What does that mean, that the LibDems ARE ready? (my God!)

Michael Booth

Martin, the Gordon Brown you see and describe is not the one the rest of us see. The man has no dignity - pride, yes, he has that in bucketfuls - but dignity? Nope. The damage this man and his acolytes have wreaked on this country will last for many, many years, yet he will walk away with a fat pension, a title and probably a EU Commissioner's job...it stinks.

Rhoda Klapp

Dignity? Dignitas might be preferable.

Boudicca

What dignity? The man is a pathological liar. He has no mandate to govern. He is a bully with a totally unjustified belief in his own intellect and abilities.

Anyone with any real dignity would have realised that his continued presence as PM was going to do massive damage to his Party. They would have admitted their errors and their inadequacies and stepped down with grace and dignity two years' ago.

He has no dignity to display.

Vulture

@martin ;
The person who has to walk away with dignity is YOU.

Your increasingly pathetic attempts to pretend that the bunch of crooks, creeps, bullies and cheats that lays claim to the name of the Labour party is worthy of the support of any sentient being is laughable.

Bruin should go with the nation's bootprint on his fat arse, and their mocking laughter ringing in his ears. And you should go with him.

Graham Booth

'Whereof, however obscure the night may be, I await the daybreak, and they who dwell in day look for night'

My sentiments exactly. Oh; the author of this quote? Why our wretched Prime Minister's namesake, the 16th Century Italian mystic and philosopher Giordano Bruno.

Noa Zrk

Rhoda Klapp @ 2:39pm

Excellent, but I suspect that, given the blog's title and obvious irrelevance to CHrs, you may just have walked into Mr 'wind-up' Bright's plan of Baldrick-like cunning. If so Martin (and we should be told), the 50 points gained here will slightly offset the umpty thousand you are currently down!

arkletten

I have been predicting for over ten years that if Gordon Brown ever became PM he would destroy the Labour Party.

The man just doesn't recognise his own limitations. That's his worst fault, his arrogance. He is no leader, he has no charisma, he is a divise and destructive influence who can only achieve what he wants by bullying. He has no people skills. He has zero ability to persuade or to get people to work together as a team.

He is the death of Labour.

Noa Zrk

arkletten April 25th, 2010 8:43pm

"I have been predicting for over ten years that if Gordon Brown ever became PM he would destroy the Labour Party...He is the death of Labour..".

So what is the problem?

arlkletten

The problem is that he takes his party down with him.

The problem is that his party were unable to unseat him - which is condemnation in itself - yet still there are decents in the British Labour Party who never had a hope of being able to unseat him.

Simon Stephenson

I agree with Michael Booth.

Let's be honest here. Gordon Brown has a personality so sociopathic, and consequently a zealotry so unshakeable, that he should never have been allowed to take up a position where he was directly responsible for other people's well-being. Yet he's become Prime Minister, for God's sake!

It's a terrible indictment of our political system that our nation should have be so damaged first through being led by Blair, a vacuous non-intellectual with polish, and then, in Brown, by a devious, closed minded human-hater. As far as the political system is concerned, I was much taken by the conclusion to Janet Daley's article in last weekend's Telegraph:-

"The British have traditionally taken a robust view of the democratic process – and of the sort of argy-bargy which tends to accompany it. They have generally had a self-reinforcing belief in the ability (not to say the right) of ordinary people to make serious and conscientious judgments about how they should be ruled. That belief is now threatened by a gulf between those who are old enough to remember when elections were about real, fundamental political disagreements (that is, who were sentient adults before the Blair era) and those who are not.

Those who understand that arguing about principles and policies is the currency of liberty, and not just an unpleasant waste of time, are at risk of being pushed to the margins of national life by a new generation for whom politics has never been anything but a question of style and personal appeal."

Chris lancashire

If Brown does muster dignity in the next 12 days it will contrast starkly with the last 13 years marked by an unusual mixture of arrogance and cowardice.

ndm

-- Let's not forget that the Labour Party should not have been able to lose this election.

I don't think that is a point we should ever have remembered. Labour has won three elections in a row and it was always going to be hard to win a fourth. This is particularly true following the disastrous betrayals of both party and country by Tony Blair whose greed for power kept him at Number 10 well past his sell-by date.

Noa Zrk

"The problem is that he takes his party down with him".

Good.

The Labour party has become home of active communists and socialist workers whose are ideological and practicing enemies of the UK and the freedoms and beliefs that it represents.

The 'decents' to which you refer support this treachery, implicitly or otherwise by their continued membership and by their inactivity have forfeited any right to sympathy or respect.

arkletten

Well you may have a point, Noazark.

Reading today's Telegraph article about the insulting of the Pope (remember, he was invited over, he is responding to an invitation to visit)it shows clearly what a sick heap the Foreign Office has become under Labour. I thought these people were supposed to be diplomats?

A 23 year old gay Oxbridge graduate is allowed to draw up a 'dream' wish list of Benedict events, and a 31 year old secular Muslim, his boss, another Oxbridge graduate, approves the memo to be sent to Downing Street.

Both of them fully paid up members of the PC generation; and also (because shallowness, hypocrisy and inconsistency are hallmarks of the PC generation) of the mocking, cynical, 'it's cool to be cruel' Jonathon Ross club of reality TV fans. Anything for a laugh.

Have standards in public life really reached such a low point under Labour?

Christians can be rubbished but not it seems extremist Muslim zealots.

Both of them totally clueless about the Christian culture of this country, never mind Catholicism.

kein

We had this problem in 1642 and again in 1653.We solved them then and no doubt will again.

Rhoda Klapp

So how's that dignity thingy workin' out for ya?

dmatr

#fail