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Long before Gordon Brown finally became British prime minister after Tony Blair retired from office, I and many others had already drawn potential parallels between Brown and James Callaghan , a previous old Labour prime minister who took over from Harold Wilson when he retired suddenly in 1976.
I’d told myself that Gordon would [...]
The controversy surrounding Gordon Brown’s sound bite slogan ‘British jobs for British workers’ is perhaps predictable. The Australians have a vaguely similar slogan that is encountered within Australia which is ‘Australian owned business’ (which could be accused of meaning very little as we need to define who qualifies as an Australian outside anybody who happens [...]
What is going on with our Gordon lately?
First Gordon Brown praises Margaret Thatcher as a great conviction politician, then he says he’s the new Thatcher (in terms of having deep conviction I presume).He then starts a written correspondence with the ageing uber Tory (Dear Saint Maggie, I would be most pleased if you would come [...]
As people say, a week is a long time in politics and in a few weeks time we could even find ourselves in the midst of election fever if Gordon Brown decides to light the blue touch paper and signal a general election. The opinion polls don’t show such a decisive gap between Labour and [...]
It’s just weeks since Tony Blair walked away from being Britain’s Prime Minister and his arch nemesis Gordon Brown took the helm. Today we got advance notice of 23 bills that will be in the Queen’s speech and which we all now get a sneak peek of Brown’s legislature plans. The planned bills include:
Housing market [...]
