Ignoring your obvious mistake (we don't vote for Prime Ministers), I agree it was a mistake not to call an election after he took over the leadership.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:35, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)

That was funny and deeply tragic. The amount of know-nothing morons
that screeched about not having voted in Brown, when they hadn't voted in Blair, either.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:40, Reply)

you say that, and technically it's of course true
but you can't deny that is how people think. and that was the point that brown either deliberately or dumbly overlooked: he didn't realise or didn't care that people didn't like him; he was going to be PM regardless.

result? the most unpopular PM ever.

still, at least we got the comedy gold of him slagging off a pensioner and then being stupid enough to be filmed talking about it because he thought he was on the radio.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 11:50, Reply)

I think Eden was the most unpopular PM while in office
And stop the Gold thing you are wrong
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:06, Reply)

He'd have been much better off going
"Yes, I called her a bigot. Because she clearly is, and I don't like bigots."

He lacked the balls, sadly.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:08, Reply)

Man who is not media friendly in media gaff shock

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:09, Reply)

It was painful to watch when his advisors tried to get him to smile more

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:13, Reply)

I think they just wired up the corner of his mouth and shocked him when they wanted it to happen
He should have played up on the disabled card more
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:29, Reply)

He could have nipped this whole situation in the bud, simply by giving her a straight answer to her question:
Bigoted lady: "Where are all these Eastern Europeans coming from?"
Gordon: "Eastern Europe."
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 13 Feb 2014, 12:15, Reply)