I heard Brown yesterday say that he would stay as PM if he was re-elected. He seems to have forgotten that he was never elected as PM in the first place.
Brown is a very good example of the dangers and folly of allowing anyone positions of authority over a country without being elected by the people. If people get a chance to elect someone who turns out to be useless, then they have no one to blame but themselves. That is the way the system works.
But Brown was not elected.
That is the main reason, in my view, why people are so against New Labour now that Brown has taken the UK from an economy in a really good position (remember the Golden Inheritance of the last Conservative government?) and almost bankrupted the UK and leaving us with debts that will take twenty years of austerity to pay off!
Brown has messed up this country big-time! And he was not elected by the people, he was foisted on us by this Labour government. Both will take the blame for the mess that the economy and the country is in.
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