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I've just been watching his speech on SKY News. I can't say that I am impressed at all.

I don't want to judge him too harshly, he may turn out to be a very competant and capable PM, but at the moment he appears dour and devoid of personality and charisma.

Does anyone else find this to be of concern?
 
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He is a numbers man, what do you expect?

For me I cane not a jot what our leader looks or sounds like, it is his vision that matters. Gordon Brown however is unlikely to have a vision that I want to vote for.
 
MookJong said:
He is a numbers man, what do you expect?

For me I cane not a jot what our leader looks or sounds like, it is his vision that matters. Gordon Brown however is unlikely to have a vision that I want to vote for.
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Perhaps, but a leader with personality and charisma would find it a lot easier to get as many of the electorate as possible to believe in that vision as well and then hop on for the ride ;)
 
The Mad Rapper said:
I've just been watching his speech on SKY News. I can't say that I am impressed at all.

I don't want to judge him too harshly, he may turn out to be a very competant and capable PM, but at the moment he appears dour and devoid of personality and charisma.
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And John Major had personality and charisma too :p
 
The Mad Rapper said:
Perhaps, but a leader with personality and charisma would find it a lot easier to get as many of the electorate as possible to believe in that vision as well and then hop on for the ride ;)
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I would believe in a vision because it was based on solid ideas not because it was presented nicely.

This country needs someone with direction, the every man for himself culture of the last 20 years has created division and sinicism.
 
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I'm laughing at it:
We could have a great drinking game: one shot/swig for all the labour buzz words:
Dynamism - glug
communities - glug
empower - glug
sense (of purpose) - glug!


Seriously:
He has made it clear that we are not going to be tough with the likes of Iran.
Very pro-EU.
Some old, same old.
 
Van_Dammesque said:
Seriously:
He has made it clear that we are not going to be tough with the likes of Iran.
Very pro-EU.
Some old, same old.
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Well he is a senior minister and a co-architect of the New Labour project so in a way its hardly surprising he's quite similar politically to Tony Blair.
 
He was incredibly dull, and sounded like even more Nanny state tinkering from him. God help us all - Blair, all is forgiven!
 
MarcLister said:
Well he is a senior minister and a co-architect of the New Labour project so in a way its hardly surprising he's quite similar politically to Tony Blair.
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Yep, this was shown when he was questioned about ID cards and yet was preaching about civil liberties and how responibilities are earned and if you play fair the government will, highly contradicting!
 
Van_Dammesque said:
Yep, this was shown when he was questioned about ID cards and yet was preaching about civil liberties and how responibilities are earned and if you play fair the government will, highly contradicting!
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Yeah the ID cards is a waste of time and money. I've had a Uni module on Professional Issues and the lecturer had weekly updates for us on the increasing costs of the project. He also told us that they'd decided to use some off the shelf code and weren't even going to test it when integrated into the ID cards project because its already been tested. Even I know that when you take some code and put it into something else the whole flipping thing needs testing.
 
SunaseIPs said:
If the people had the chance to vote would Brown get in?

Seems Blair stepping down bypasses this?!
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When you vote in a general election you vote for the party, not the leader (theoretically of course).
 
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