Gordon Brown

A biblical message for President Obama - and Gordon Brown

Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | yesterday

Psalm 109:8 . Hat Tip: Kelly.

Gordon Brown abandons Tony Blair to snatch EU second prize

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

A Belgian federalist and a former chairwoman of Hertfordshire Health Authority were ushered into Europe’s two grandest jobs last night as it stumbled on to the world stage.

MPs expenses: Gordon Brown agrees to introduce new laws after backlash

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Gordon Brown has backed down and agreed to introduce new laws to clean up Parliament in the wake of the expenses scandal.

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Gordon Brown fights for his elderly care reforms as rebellion grows

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

The rebellion over Gordon Brown’s care plans for the elderly increased yesterday, forcing him to defend the policy against accusations that it risked causing financial chaos.

Even Barack Obama understands that there is a need for deficit reduction and maybe even tax cuts, any chance of Gordon Brown twigging this?

Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

The Guardian report that: "Barack Obama has warned that the US economy could head into a “double-dip recession” unless urgent steps were taken to rein back America’s mounting levels of public debt. With the US unemployment rate now running at 10.2 per cent, the President said his administration faced a delicate balance of trying to boost the economy and spur job creation while...

X Factor: Gordon Brown doesn’t really hate John and Edward Grimes!

Unreality TV (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Gordon Brown has made an attempt to retract his derogatory comments made about X Factor’s John and Edward Grimes last week. In a radio interview, Brown branded the boys as ‘not very good’, Labour then followed up by producing a mocked-up poster of David Cameron and George Osborne as the Irish teenagers under the [...]

• Jedward are talented, insists Brown - Liverpool Echo.co.uk
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Gordon Brown blunders into new etiquette row

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

When Gordon Brown is granted his next audience with the Queen there may be a slight chill in the air. Mandrake can disclose that the Prime Minister raised eyebrows at Buckingham Palace with his choice of attire for the Armistice Day service at Westminster Abbey.

Gordon Brown hard at work tackling the important issues

Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

I note that Gordon an "end to celebrity culture" has once again felt the need to modify his position on a deeply important question. Apparently "Gordon Brown has admitted that he regrets the way he worded his recent criticism of X Factor duo John & Edward. Earlier this month, the Prime Minister branded the pair "not very good" as he discussed the ITV1 talent show in a radio...

Gordon Brown on Jedward and why he's backing Stacey to win X Factor

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Gordon Brown yesterday revealed that his family were backing Stacey Solomon to win The X Factor. The prime minister said he and his family were backing the Essex girl – the only woman left in the show after Lucie Jones was thrown off. He also made it clear that he did not think much of Irish twins John and Edward Grimes. Brown admitted he got into trouble for saying the twins were "not...

Analysis: Gordon Brown's support for Tony Blair may have been a ruse

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Upon hearing of the death of one of his rivals Talleyrand Napoleon's foreign minister is said to have asked: "What did he mean by that?"

CBI boss Richard Lambert's memo to Gordon Brown: when you're in a fiscal hole, stop digging

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Richard Lambert says even the Conservatives are not ambitious enough about cutting the Britain's deficit Richard Lambert can see for himself the hole into which public money is being poured. Outside the CBI's offices in London's Centre Point, excavation work is under way on the £16bn Crossrail project to link Heathrow to the City and Canary Wharf. The leader of Britain's premier employers' organisation...

X Factor's ‘Jedward' talents lie outside singing, says Gordon Brown

Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

PM insists X Factor twins John and Edward Grimes are ‘very good' at some things after publicly criticising their singing.

Speech provided by Gordon Brown was ‘badly spelt and full of errors’, claims Queen

NewsBiscuit (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

[caption id="attachment_19512" align="alignleft" width="158" caption="No.10 claim it was written in Comic Sans"][/caption] The Queen has slammed the quality of the handwritten speech that the Prime Minister asked her to deliver at yesterday's State Opening of Parliament. ‘It was illegible and incoherent, like he’d just dashed it orf,’ fumed...

Gordon Brown's next six months: The great calculating machine

The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

A nakedly political Queen’s Speech marks the start of the election campaign “THERE are times, perhaps once every 30 years, when there is a sea-change in politics,” said the last Labour prime minister to lose a general election. “It then does not matter what you say or what you do.” Three decades and another sea-change—in 1997, when the Tories began their own long...

Caption competition: Gordon Brown welcomes Willie Bain to parliament

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Labour's newest MP is greeted by prime minister and wife at No 10 During the Glasgow North East byelection, opponents of Labour candidate Willie Bain produced a poster asking: " Do you really believe Willie Bain lives in his ma's hoose? " (He works in London two days a week .) Looking at this picture of the diminutive MP meeting Gordon and Sarah Brown yesterday before being sworn in as an...

Royal Bank of Scotland "accepts responsibility" in Coutts Bank $1,000,000,000 Charities Fraud - FBI SOCA Carroll Case

carrolltrust | 24/09/2009

Royal Bank of Scotland Coutts Bank named as the primary offshore financial centre of operations in the Carroll Trust international criminal syndicate case, now the subject of major criminal allegations of conspiracy to defraud racketeering money laundering in Britain's longest running largest organised criminal conspiracy corruption case. Lord Home Chairman of RBS Coutts and the newly appointed chief

Manifesto for change

rex6666 | 30/06/2009

A few months ago, the BBCs Top Gear and Sun columnist Jeremy Clarkson , unveiled his manifesto for running Britain as PM. And since then we've had a string of celebrities contemplate running as independent MPs in wake of the scandalous MPs expenses saga, first broken by the Telegraph newspaper . Yesterday Gordon Brown was trying to reclaim the political agenda by announcing a raft of measures on social...

51 MPs sign Autism and the Carer's Allowance motion in the House of Commons, UK

autismnews | 30/06/2009

British Parliamentarians of all parties in the House of Commons in Westminster have backed an early day motion on Autism and the Carer's Allowance. EDM 1551 was tabled by Lee Scott MP who has been campaigning tirelessly in the House of Commons on autism and Asperger's Syndrome. Autism campaigners in the United Kingdom have been urging the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Government to increase the...