Tributes have poured in from across the twittersphere to Gordon Brown following his sudden announcement last night that he would resign as Labour leader.
Tributes have poured in from across the twittersphere to Gordon Brown following his announcement last night that he would resign as Labour leader, and the mounting realisation this afternoon that, as of tonight, he will no longer be our prime minister.
Here are some of the best:
@samgoodby: In other news, economic growth figures are revised up from 0.2% to 0.5%. #thankyougordon for securing the recovery.
@Bexleyheath: #thankyougordon for 10 years of economic growth and saving the economy in the recession
@Emmadas: #thankyougordon for protecting the vulnerable & the undervalued. You will be forever remembered as our best PM and chancellor.Labour forever
@lukedolan: #thankyougordon and the labour party for making it a fairer country!
@gallifreygrace: #thankyougordon for everything you have done for the country. i will be sad to see you go.
@Sean_Lab: “This Labour party – best when we are boldest, best when we are united, best when we are Labour.” #thankyougordon
@labourmatters: #thankyougordon for sure start, tax credits, minimum wage, the ban on cluster bombs, record NHS and education spending, & saving the economy
@UKLabourParty: #thankyougordon You are a remarkable man who has put the country’s best interests before your own. Lib-Lab #ukelection
@katenorgrove: #thankyougordon for your record on international development
@cjmckeon: My take on Mr Brown’s announcement: An Honourable Man Who Did The Honourable Thing http://bit.ly/aqe3us #thankyougordon
@BevaniteEllie: #thankyougordon for not flinching in the face of economic meltown,but instead leading us through with courage.
You can pay your own tribute to Gordon in the comments below or by using the hashtag #thankyougordon.
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David Jones
Thank you Gordon for the Minimum Wage, a revitalised NHS, limiting unemployment in a global recession and forging a new consensus on international development that even the Tories had to accept.
Tory,
you must be the first person in history who tried to characterise a snap election as the principled thing to do – feeble stuff.
Liz McShane
Alan Johnson summed up very eloquently on R4 this am (i will paraphrase) : we came in to the remnants of Section 28 and left with Civil Partnerships, we came in to a society where legal wage was just over £1.50 p/h and introduced the minimum wage which was opposed by the CBI, Tories, and most of The City etc
I was so sad & incensed last night that I created my first ever Facebook Group as it was too late for me to get to Downing Street to ‘Welcome’ Tory Boy :
Cameron – Not In My Name…. join up!
Lady J
Well done Liz.
Tyler
Thank you Gordon for massively overspending for all those years, and giving us the biggest peacetime deficit the UK has ever seen. Thank you for PFI, and all those lovely schools and hospitals we haven’t actually paid for yet. Thank you for indebting our children for the next 30 years or so….and last of all, thank you for the cuts the next government are going to be forced to make, which to get the budget balanced will take spending back to 1997 levels.
I mean, why did you even bother?