How can we stop Brown becoming PM?

Answer 1

I don't think he'll be PM very long. New Labour will lose the next election, as Blair always intended after winning the last one.

Answer 2

Brown will be a better PM than Tony Blair. He may even listen to public demand, and hopefully he won't legislate reactively after tabloid campaigns as Blair seems to do all the time, as that only produced poor, badly thought-out legislation.

He may not be PM for very long anyway. The next general election will be very interesting. Obviously people don't like Labour very much any more, but many also don't believe a word Cameron says (personally I think he's all rhetoric). I'd say the Lib Dems, if Sir Menzies Campbell can improve his public image, do actually, finally stand a chance.

Answer 3

You cannot do anything directly. However, you can vote for a different party at the next General Election. Indirectly, you can make it known to your local Labour MP, if you have one, that you would be less likely to vote Labour if Brown were to become Prime Minister. Ot otherwise you can just make political noises (which this question effectively is part of).

Before you start wanting to stop Brown you need to ask yourself further questions e.g.:-
1. What Party would do better if you voted against Labour?
2. Given that Blair has said he is going before the election, is there any other Labour MP who would be a better Prime Minister than Brown?

It is easier to say what you do not want than what would be better.

Answer 4

The best way is to harp on about his Scottishness, and how unfair etc it is that the Scot should be Prime Minister and responsible for introducing legislation that he is never be held accountable for.

The other way, probably more difficult, is to question his actual succes as a Chancellor, pointing out how his high taxes damage business and his handouts destroy initiative.

He is a pretty colourless performer, but his dour manner seems to intimidate some. It might be a good idea to invent a nickname for him and use that to refer to him (this is the sort of thing Hague was good at), as that might help puncture his armour, and being a politician, Brown is, of course, extremely vain.

Answer 5

quierounvaquero , I reckon the Lib Dems only stand a chance if the Single Transferable Vote is introduced. That way, you get no more "It's throwing your vote away" people who vote Labour so the Tories don't win.

Check this result out:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/hoc/constituency/0,,-1284,00.html

The Lib Dems gained 2,000 votes, and Labour lost 2,000 - enough to hand the seat to the Tories, despite their share of the vote falling. Shipley have voted in Green for councillors before now, so, given their tiny share of the vote in general elections, it's clear that First Past The Post simply doesn't allow people to express their true electoral opinions.

Answer 6

We can't in the short term.

The parliamentry labour party will elect their new leader (when TB resigns) and this person (probably GB) will become PM.

The only way the public can oust the new PM will be at the election polls.

Answer 7

It is not a foregone conclusion that Mr Brown would be our next PM. And if you don't like Brown vote for the other one - the one in India running people over, over there, and be grateful its not over here!

Answer 8

As he represents a Scottish constituency, he should not be able to be PM to lord it over the English. The Scots have their own parliament , he should go there.

Answer 9

. . . as Maggie Thatcher said when asked: "What was your greatest achievement?" -

NEW LABOUR!

love them or hate them, you've no choice, it's New Labour or New Tories - one and the same (one of the first things Blair did once in at No. 10 was to invite Maggie round to ask for her advice - fact!) and overall, considering, he hasn't done too badly - so, roll on David Cameron (sorry, did someone mention Brown?) . . .

Answer 10

Does anyone know where Lee Harvey Oswald is?