Is the real reason English people don't want Gordon brown to take over the job of PM because he is Scottish

Answer 1

Errrrmmmmm, NO! people just do not trust him, he has been at the centre of numerous scandals( mainly in his personal life) and he likes to up the tax on everything he can.

Answer 2

Yes to your question. However, it is not a foregone conclusion that Gord will become PM because as far as is known the Labour Party want to have an election for new leader. Okay, so Gord is high in the polls to win such a race.

In a recent poll (quite unrelated to the above but one which tells you something about what the English want) it has been shown that the majority of English want their own parliament.

Answer 3

Yes and No!

For one thing he is a traitor to the British people - he is borrowing money to fund his crazy schemes, politicians pensions (whilst you and I will have to work longer) and in doing so is trying to fill the void his 'fiddling' of the public finances has left!

Secondly, he is not going to be a Prime Minister - he has no mandate to run the country - he was not and will not be voted in by the public! He may assume the role - but until the public vote on it, he will be a non starter, has been - much as he is now!

Do you not think it slightly strange that the only reason Labour are still in power is because they allow Scottish MP's to vote on matters relating to England BUT not the other way round! They are clinging to power by the back door method!

Good riddance to New Labour - tax fiddling hypocrites all!

Answer 4

No. Nothing to do with him being born in Scotland, that's not his fault.

We don't want him as PM because he wasn't elected as prime minister either by the electorate or by his party.
Also, he's been a very bad chancellor who is almost wholly responsible for the current pensions crisis and who has increased the tax burden by about 15% per head (of the taxpayers that is, not the scoungers).
He has squandered our money and has given away billions to the EU by reducing our 'rebate'.

The man is untrustworthy and would make a disasterous PM.

Answer 5

Yes. It is bad enough that Brown is part of a UK Executive that exercises complete control over England when he himself is democratically unaccountable to the English people over vast swathes of Government policy, but when he becomes Prime Minister he will head up a UK Executive that effectively makes England a Scottish electoral dictatorship.Its just NOT on!!!

Answer 6

I think this depends a great deal on who you are and where you live.

If you live in the North and Scotland, many of the lucrative manufacturing contracts have gone there whilst firms in the South are closing down or moving out of the area.

I live on the south coast and finding it very difficult to find work. If I move up north then employers will be kicking my door in to employ me because there is a shortage of suitably qualified engineers. (Which is why they look to abroad for people.)

I have no intention of moving to the north only to find I have to move back when the labour party is voted out of office and the work moves south again.

I am of the view that this New Labour idea has shot itself in the foot. They are not trustworthy and seem to care more for the rest of the world than they do for their own people.

They allow unqualified, inexperienced idiots to manage things to destruction then allow them to do it again elsewhere.

Give it time and first aiders will be allowed to perform heart surgery.

I get sick and tired of being told I'm over qualified for a job by some twonk who doesn't have two O-levels to scratch his rear with.

It seems to me that under this government investing in my education to MSc level was a waste of time and money yet this government have said for years that there is a shortage of skilled and highly qualified workers.

I think it will only get worse with Gordon Brown running things.

Answer 7

The problem is not so much the Scottish question, but the Scottish Socialist question. Go back only a few years, and the more belicose union leaders (who often flirted with communism) were extreme leftist Scottish Socialists, who saw everything in terms of social justice backed by legislation.

That same agenda has, at its roots, the history of Scottish Calvanism, which has been a constant thorn in England's side ever since the English Reformation, and which is still part of the Scottish psyche, even if people have abandonded religion or relegated the word communism to the political trash-can.

Why should any government want to pass 2,000 new laws, create a virtual police-state, install tens of thousands of cameras, attempt to control and micro-manage every aspect of public and private life, set up multiple layers of accountability, react in a knee-jerk fashion to every crisis, endorse every tiny piece of political correctness, create partnership enterprises and dream up so-called government initiatives?

The following snippets are taken from various web-sites: all of them connected with Presbyterian/Calvanist/Church of Scotland affairs.

1. Everyone is guilty of sin and deserves to be punished in hell for ever.

2. After the ending of the First Civil War, the Presbyterians became the dominant faction in the House of Commons

3. Church of Scotland.......you can find out more about the areas that we're involved in - from the Fairtrade campaign to asylum seekers to the Make Poverty History campaign.Tied into these issues is our parliamentary office.

4. Where consensus has been reached at a General Assembly, a collective view is put forward by one of our councils or committees.

5. The list of priority partnership areas has been drawn through independent research carried out by the Scottish Centre for Research on Social Justice.

6. To find out about the central department with a remit for society issues, such as parliamentary affairs, racial justice and moral issues, read more about the Church and Society Council.


There are so many things in Scottish religion which mirror what has been happening in the British Parliament, and perhaps the worst aspects of it all, are the beliefs in the value of endless legislation, in collective decisions, in lobbying, in ideological partnerships and the idea that the electorate need to be converted and preached at, in order to bring them to socialist salvation.

In other words, it is a belief in politics itself, in big government and government interference in every aspect of life.

That is not management, but state-sponsored, self-defeating internal-terrorism and vain-glorious power-mongering for the sake of it.

Mr Blair certainly sees the big picture, and the picture is the image he sees reflected in the mirror.

Is there evidence which suggests that Mr Brown is much different from the party which created him and the leader which he will replace?

Answer 8

If you think Tony is bad, just wait till big smiling Gordy takes over.

WHO ELECTED HIM TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE PARTY ANYWAY? OK it's a wee bit like elections in North Korea.

Our only hope is that he loses his seat.

This is quite likely.
Remember that the new so-called green tax (let's stop the unwashed masses from flying tax) is going to really hurt Scots who have to fly south to make their connections.

It is not that he is Scottish; it is that he is a great big humourless puddin' who tells us that inflation is under control and lets fuel prices, travel costs, and council tax increase to the extent that poorer people, especially the old, find it difficult to make ends meet.

There is no alternative, I'm afraid, but to vote Tory. (and SNP at the Scottish elections).

Answer 9

Yes, for me anyway, I'm (only slightly) ashamed to say. Can you imagine the furore if an English man were leader of the Scottish parliament? There would be riots on the streets of Edinburgh.

Answer 10

I think the main bone of contention is that he has been practically given the job by Tony Blair. If he is going to be PM then he should be voted into power by the people. If Blair decides to step down before his term is up I think there should be an election.