Good. It's the most democratic decision on his leadership position he seems to have ever made. He would have ramped up the hatred against both him and his noxious party even more had he stayed on despite being the election loser, something the Public wouldn't have forgiven and refused to understand.
I prefer the comments in the article. Far less bull:
will graham wrote:
Good riddance Brown you vile little man.
lance notalot wrote:
Shame he didn't have the guts to stand up at PMQs as leader of the opposition, and justify his abysmal legacy.
RoP you neglected this comment made by Dickens Jeeves who wrote:
So there he goes.. a pious speech being the mother of pious speeches! The sheer hypocrisy -
a) lying, cheating and hoodwinking all and sundry to remain in power for the good of his party and himself - not us;
b) sending our lads without proper equipment or training to be slaughtered by the Taliban - no apology there!
c) having all of us now to be subject to pornographic scans of our bodies each and every time we board a plane;
d) empowering councils and god knows who else to snoop on us and punish us with anti-terror laws when he promised that it would be never used for these purposes;
e) inflicting stealth taxes upon us - the mother of all which is the highest fuel prices in Europe (with 90% of that tax) when we are oil producers;
f) backing Teflon in his lies to get us into Iraq where we slaughtered and displaced over a million Iraquis in the guise of getting WMDs and bringing democracy to their country (when we have never had it!);
g) tarnishing the good name of our country by being complicit in the torture of innocent people 'suspected' of being terrorists;
h) backing Telflon when he abolished grants for students leading to widespread debt for our kids;
i) .. do I really need to continue?
Here is a man who has never had to earn his living - from the ivory towers of university then to politics - now sitting comfortably on a nice pension and a good living in consulting in information gained from his Office which we had to pay for!
Total disgrace.. he should be tarred and feathered and banished to Scotland where he came from.
BROWN'S RESIGNATION IN BRIEF:
I couldn't get away with it. The Bigots will have to do without my strong, decent, wise, insightful and poignant leadership now. Democracy, has, I'm afraid, beaten the man who once mastered it in arrogant Labour triumph.
Still, one thing that puzzles even me - why did I even want to rule a land, people and culture so hated by myself and other pure Reds?!
