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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88 Responses to “Thank you, Gordon”
ollie
Yes, thank you Gordon, for the most effective scorched earth policy ever seen in British politics.
Thanks for leaving this country in the biggest mess its ever seen.
We will never forget you, Gordon – a foaming, tribalistically retarded lunatic.
simon
It’s great to see the trendy Facebook Lefties here going back to their student union roots – and the opposition they so richly deserve. Politics is for grown ups, not Facebook and Twitter retards.
Jeanette
I don’t in for soppy words and but I believe you are a good man the press had it in for you.I sincerely wish you all the best for the future. Hope you don’t disappear off the scene altogether .
JMax
I believe you are genuine I believe the press was against you Don’t be a stranger Best wishes
Michel
Nice to know that a relative few (in the scheme of things you are very few) appreciated Gordon Brown, the bumbling Chancellor who oversaw an overheated, credit fuelled boom and did nothing to prevent a melt down. Have you all forgotten the huge rise in house prices? All the repossesions on massive negative equity? Meanwhile – all the illegal developement permitted the new race – Travellers? I would be hauled in to court if I ignored planning conditions on such a scale! All the speculators who Brown assisted in buying new homes to resell at a higher price, or to let at extortionate cost? More people bought second homes, around the coast and in our villages – under Nu Labour – making it impossible for local workers to compete and stay in their own territory. He brought about the end of the stable employee contributory pension schemes and those that survived are now mostly in deficit for billions of pounds. Thanks to Gordon? He either never understood the harm he was doing – or perhaps he did and didn’t care? Remember all the things he promised year on year – that mostly never materialised – or do you prefer to forget all that deceit? How could he, at the head of Government with all the intelligence available to him, not know what even I knew – that finacial swindlers were gambling recklessly with our savings and investments (including our pension pots and some council investments) and buying up worthless US sub-prime mortgages, etc? I think that there ought to be a public enquirey into all that went on under his and Blair’s stewardship – not congratulations! Even after we had bailed out the bankers – he was afraid to act to prevent them carrying on rewarding themselves as before! Remember all the increases in car tax and tax on vehicle fuel? The congestion charge that raked in millions and only spent £4 million on improved public transport. The threat of road charging (for roads you paid for!) rationing use by the size of the purse.(The wealthy can afford these costs – can you?)Have you forgotten the billions his party spent on starting up identity cards and biometric data bases? What was their true purpose? We are the most watched nation on Earth now! Or the billions spent on wars that most of us were against being involved in? All the “Quango’s” with hefty Chair-persons salaries and well paid support staff? All the people who died by going to Hospital to be cured because they were incompetantly managed? All those lost public records due to more incompetance by overpaid managers? All the public enquiries costing millions, all the daft apologies for what happened before in history – except for the slavery down the British mines and in the Mills by our poor white workers during much of the industrial era – they didn’t register to Nu Labour as being in need of apologies! All the billions paid out in compensating people for practically anything. Have you noticed how many “No win No fee” firms now operate – thanks to Labour’s largess? All the political correctness to a ludicrous level – which you all (seemingly) gladly paid for? It has cost us billions. I could go on. He and Blair and their cronies wasted a golden opportunity to do some real good for the working class for generation on generation. They could have set a standard of decency – but that quickly went out the window didn’t it? Look at all the sleaze that accompanied their rule, and how many took expenses knowing full well that they were involved in a scam. If all those who illegally claimed public money had been prosecuted and forced to resign – the election would have been held sooner and we would have had a whole bunch of new MP’s and party leaders! I hope he DOES leave Parliamnet soon! I cannot understand any who think him a hero. I paid dearly for every tiny concession he ever allowed me! Maybe we are going to get shafted by the new lot – but they will have to try very hard to beat the administration that has just thankfully departed! Some people have very short memories or very rosey glasses!