Talk:Gordon Brown/Archive 1

message: Why isn't this article protected? Turk brown 11:50, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Protection

message: Is (or was) Gordon Brown a member of the ? He is listed as such on that article , but there's no mention of it on this article. The Co-operative Party website has a quote from him on the main page, but he's not listed on the Parliamentary Representation page .  --Vclaw 23:29, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He is not a Labour and Co-operative MP (which would mean the Co-operative Party sponsoring him as a candidate at each election), but he may well be an individual member of the Co-operative Party. David | Talk 16:35, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Although not a Co-operative Party member he does support co-operative aims, as an economic if not a political force. --Barliner 10:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Co-operative Party

message: Brown's April 20, 2006 remarks were characterized as "Green" by the BBC News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4924656.stm - 201.78.233.162 00:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Green" views on global development and sustainability 

message: This article mentions a few times, as is reported in the media frequently as well, the 'rifts' or differences between GB and Tony Blair. Perhaps someone with more expertise, time, and drive than I could expand on such rifts in a new section? Crunk 20:42, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a source. Timeline: Blair vs Brown, BBC News Online TransUtopian 18:47, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 'rifts' with Tony Blair

message: Why aren't the references/notes, and external links, and info/succession boxes showing?--AladdinSE 04:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At the 20th and last footnote the end < ref > had the / before the last > instead of immediately after the first <.--Johnbull 04:45, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing sections 

message: A paragraph should be written on the increase in UK house prices presided over by this "most successful" Chancellor.  The average UK home now costs eight times average income.  Cost of living expenses have also rocketed.  Great economic policy.
Hear Hear - First time buyers are in hell thanks to this fifer!
GOrdon Brown has been a great chancellor for .....Gordon Brown. In 10 years of Governemtn office he has gone from being wealthy to being a millionaire. Whilst ruining the pensions of hundreds of thousands, his own 'pension pot' has grown to about £4,000,000 - in addition to his 'blind' trusts et alia.
The fact that the economy is the strongest that it's been in years is completely irrelevant?
::Just reference your sources and be non-POV.  thanks—Gaff ταλκ 19:25, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK housing market 

message: Is there a suitable place in this article to mention Brown's 1999 Sabhal Mòr Lecture?  Perhaps in the context of his views on multiculturalism and pluralism? --Doric Loon 21:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sabhal Mòr Lecture

message: To woo the economic power house that is The City, Mr Brown gave the Bank of England Indepedence. Or did he? The majority of currently serving members of the MPC were appointed to the panel by Mr Brown himself! I won't mention the four billion pound disasterous Gold Sale (or the subsequent purchase of foreign currencies such as the free falling dollar). The tax credits that are SO complex not even the treasury can understand there operation, creating a sucession of £2billion overpayments per annum. An endless barrage of tax hikes across the middle class from energy tax, insurance premium tax, national insurance tax, stamp duty tax etc etc etc resulting in the UK Treasury taking over 42% of our GDP which is now more than Germany whilst UK workers are struggling with the cheap East European labour markets many being taxed at a simple 15% flat rate! Oh i suppose i should mention the extra £20 Billion investment into the beleagured NHS resulting in a productivity gain of just 2%. I'm sure we are all happy to see our tax money so well invested! 
Furtive or Incompetant? Somehow he manages both! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rmgilbert (talk • contribs) 
:And now we are in the longest period of sustained economic growth the UK has ever seen :) I'm sure you understand that a flat tax results in an overall regressive tax structure, which increases economic inequality. Also, productivity is not synonymous with total output, so a 2% increase in (I assume you mean labour) productivity does not mean that output increased by 2%. In fact, increasing productivity means better value for money. Molerat 21:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mr Furtive or Mr Incompetent? 

message: GB has no criticism section. Cameron's and Blair's, on the other hand, are extensive. Of course Brown is a Labour, and not a Conservative, politician, but that would in no way have anything to do with this oversight, would it. It's time. I'll start when I can.
longlivefolkmusic 03:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, perhaps there should be a criticism section. But the criticism should be based on and should cite reliable sources. It should not be a repository for the personal analysis of editors like User:Newtownards. I have reverted this editor twice but I cannot take on this determined POV pusher alone. Viewfinder 22:54, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read WP:V.  Additions to articles need to be verifiable by reliable sources.  It doesn't matter if you or any other editor assert that your additions to an article are factual, it has to be backed up by reliable sources.--Isotope23 17:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No criticism section? Why not? 

message: Article implies Brown saying people applying for citizenship should be required to do some community work.  Article says this is what criminals get in the UK, and the rest of that section has a sarcastic tone, I'm going to change it, it may also be original research to compare what he says to community service which is what criminals get.Merkinsmum 12:03, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: community work

message: During prime ministers question time Brown was on camera.  He picked his nose and ate the snot three times.  After this he wiped his hand on his tie.  This occured in the week prior to the 25th of March 2007.
It is available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwgTvM1DtQo
::It is not clear to me from the video whether he is actually picking his nose or merely responding to itches on the exterior. Viewfinder 01:13, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ...Or so it seems, regardless, it has little to do with the article.
Highcount. 11:25, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something of an internet phenomenon - "The Bogeyman" 

message: What did Brown teach when he was in glasgow and edinburgh working as a lecturer??  I think this should be added to the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.43.98.89 (talk) 15:06, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: lecturer

message: Is there a source that Gordon Brown is still church of scotland?  If so, it should certainly be in the article - Brown's Father's calvinist christianity is frequently cited in the media etc as the source of his morality and thus view on politics etc, making it relevant to him as a figure.  However, do we know that he personally still practises? TJ 16:36, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion 

message: :The Labour defeat in the Dunfermline and West Fife 2006 by-election, after a campaign largely led by Brown in a constituency in which he lives, cast doubt on his ability to win elections on his own without Blair wooing middle-class voters.
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I disagree with the statement above - this was not due to losing the middle classe (as shown by the decline of the Conservative bi-election) but a loss of its traditional working class vote.
I feel this should be changed, but can't find a source to back up the fact that it was a loss of its traditional support.    Davidprior 07:13, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prospects of succeeding Blair 

message: I presume a new section on the coming Labour Leadership race will be needed - the article looks a little out of date today, given that Brown is formally running for the Premiership.  Does anyone have adequate neutral editing priviledges to write such a section? Helen-Eva 11:02, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Labour Leadership Race May 2007