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Offline Ralph Wiggum

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Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« on: May 11, 2010, 01:49:55 PM »


Gordon Brown has announced he is resigning as UK prime minister.

Mr Brown is on his way to officially tender his resignation to the Queen, and recommend that Conservative leader David Cameron should succeed him.

Speaking alongside his wife Sarah outside No 10 Downing Street, he said the job had been "a privilege" and wished his successor well.

His decision comes as the Tories and Liberal Democrats are poised to agree a deal to form a government.

Labour's attempts to negotiate a deal of their own with the Lib Dems, after last week's inconclusive election result, ended in failure on Tuesday.

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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2010, 01:53:18 PM »
Good Riddance, ya moonbat sonuvabitch...

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2010, 01:55:12 PM »
The Tories will now bw blamed for the coming economic meltdown
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2010, 02:23:20 PM »
Buh bye Gordon Brownshit! Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2010, 02:38:22 PM »
The tories will now take the brunt of the blame for the coming financial meltdown and cuts in spending. The Conservatives could become a minor party in the next elections.

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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2010, 03:19:14 PM »
Quote from: FGL on May 11, 2010, 02:38:22 PM
The tories will now take the brunt of the blame for the coming financial meltdown and cuts in spending. The Conservatives could become a minor party in the next elections.


There will be a coalition government so the 'blame' will be spread. Labour will spend the next few months tearing themselves apart with a leadership election. The Conservatives are the only real contenders for the right of centre vote, it's actually more likely that either Labour or the Liberal Democrats will implode first, the Lib Dems because their voters are split on who they consider a second choice. The 'Liberal' part of their heritage is actually classical liberalism and not the American meaning of liberal.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2010, 04:29:44 PM »
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PM Cameron gives short speech before entering Downing Street, no teleprompters in evidence.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2010, 04:45:44 PM »
The difference is Cameron can actually lead. Let them blame the Tories, they were doing that when they were out of power anyways, just like Obama is still blaming the Bush administration for everything to this very day.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2010, 05:48:04 PM »
I have to wonder if US/England relations just took a turn for the worse.
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What is not publicly known is that there was less agreement when, soon afterwards, the discussion turned substantial in Cameron's Commons office. Obama began by saying that he hoped to work closely with the EU. But, in a crude attempt to demonstrate his Atlanticist credentials, Cameron went on to indulge in what one source has described as an "anti-European diatribe", repeatedly referring to the "anti-Americanism" of EU member states. Cameron apparently told Obama that he would not encounter a more pro-American politician than himself.

If Cameron thought this would impress Obama, he was wrong. It would appear he had failed to study the multilateralist candidate's Berlin speech 48 hours previously. Obama had condemned "voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe's role in our security and our future", and went on: "Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe . . . But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together . . . In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more - not less. Partnership and co-operation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our . . . humanity. That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another."

On meeting Cameron, Obama was, according to diplomatic sources, "distinctly unimpressed", contrary to some reports (excitedly spun by the Conservatives) which suggested that the two men had formed an instant "bond". Instead, I have been told, Obama exclaimed of Cameron after their meeting: "What a lightweight!" He apparently also asked officials about Tory Euroscepticism. Soon, word about the rather awkward encounter between the two self-professed candidates of change made its way quietly round the upper echelons of Whitehall.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2010, 05:50:56 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on May 11, 2010, 05:48:04 PM
I have to wonder if US/England relations just took a turn for the worse.
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If they have, we have only The ReichsMessiah(piss be upon him), and his policy of piddling on the backs of every ally we've had for the past 100 years to blame for it.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2010, 05:55:55 PM »
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I have to wonder if US/England relations just took a turn for the worse.

Obama is determined to burn bridges between the US and Israel. It is not surprising he would burn bridges with England too.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2010, 05:58:49 PM »
2012 can't come fast enough.  I know he won't be re-elected...that brings me some peace in all of this.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2010, 06:23:23 PM »
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"What a lightweight!"

That's funny coming from The Won.

The ultimate pot calling the kettle black.
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Re: Gordon Brown resigns as UK Prime Minister
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2010, 06:12:17 AM »
One less idiot in power good
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