Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are as much a part of the establishment as the rest of them but they get my vote (my first in a UK election) for pointing out the bleedin’ obvious:
Brown systematically blocked, and personally blocked, political reform. I think he is a desperate politician and I just do not believe him.
Brown and Labour, at heart, are authoritarians and deserve to be thrown on the dustheap. This is the best chance Britain has had for electoral reform in a very long time.
Next time maybe Britain will be able to vote in modern democracy under a modern system of proportional representation (not the ruse that Brown was touting, the alternative vote).
Solicitor Daniel Machover, after politicians — including Gordon Brown — hatch a plan to insulate fellow politicians from universal jurisdiction:
I feel honest revulsion at the idea of a case where a judge has granted an arrest warrant and a politician gets on the phone and apologises. They have got to stay out of individual cases and legal decisions.
Of course Gordon Brown and the government he is a part of played an integral role in the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s just looking out for his own kind.
The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war is already running a propaganda campaign that it “won’t be a whitewash.”
But you only need to realise that its members were appointed by Gordon Brown — one of the perpetrators — and read the terms of reference to realise this is a whitewash before it even starts.
Jacqui Janes believes her son is dead because the war in Afghanistan is under-resourced. He’s not. He’s dead because he was fighting an unjust war. The stated aim of the invasion of Afghanistan was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members. On 14 October, 2001, the Taliban publicly offered to hand over Osama…
If Gordon Brown were to open the way for a truly independent and open inquiry into the invasion and occupation of Iraq he would quite likely find himself in the dock for war crimes.
Two things stand out as New Labour’s legacy: war of aggression (the “supreme” war crime) and the worst inequality of incomes since records began (another supreme crime considering the damage it inflicts on everybody). Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and their conspirators are little more than wolves in sheep’s clothing and they’ve had much of the…
Gordon Brown, on BBC News today, called North Korea’s rocket launch “a breach of international obligations.” Meanwhile, under his leadership, Britain continues to flout a binding legal requirement — under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — to move towards “complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.” ‘One rule for us, one rule for everybody else.’
Under his and Blair’s leadership the economy tanks. What does he do? Blatantly tries to divert attention by screaming “War on Terror.” Little more than a propaganda tool to take away the freedoms of the people of Britain.