U.N. Envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban leaders https://politicaliq.com/2023/08/16/u-n-envoy-says-icc-should-prosecute-taliban-leaders/
#Taliban #Afghanistan #GordonBrown #ICC #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Women #Girls #TheHague #politicaliq #news #politics

@harphat

#michaeljacobs is a voice that should and will be listened to. He ran the #fabiansociety in the late 1990s and worked subsequently for #gordonbrown. Very helpful indeed that he has stuck his head over the parapet on this issue at a time when some of the #ultras from the early part of the #blair government seem to be in full cry to water #green commitments down.

Why does our Government continue to squander power over #MonetaryPolicy, leaving it in the hands of the #BankOfEngland?

#FiscalPolicy is only one half of the equation, and unless you have control over both, you have control over nothing!

The current #MonetaryPolicyCommittee appear to be completely oblivious to the impact of their decisions.

Ironically, the blame for this all sits with #GordonBrown.

#UKPolitics #UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1997/may/07/economy.uk

#GordonBrown and his wife in the group of ex #PrimeMinisters. #Coronation #Scotland

Anyone recall why #GordonBrown was unpopular as PM? I remember the feeling but the reasons are hazy. #10pTaxRate, #LauraSpence, ‘07 GE, #BigotedWoman don’t seem to add up to enough. Ideas? Or was it just that polls aren’t a Markov chain - he sunk faster because he was already sinking? (#MatthewParris had a column on that years ago, with a word for it, but I can’t find it.)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/24/jeremy-hunt-uk-poverty-hygiene-banks-gordon-brown?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #ethical #politician whatever you thought of his leadership. #gordonbrown

Little wonder Putin thinks he can do what he wants, no matter how many die as a result.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are still free men.

#WarCriminals #TonyBlair #GordonBrown #IraqWar #Labour #Putin

@TJ1001

Only a very foolish conspiracy theorist thinks the 2008 banking crisis that originated in the US had anything to do with the #Labour government in the UK - we were victims, that's all

And #gordonBrown made heroic efforts to limit the damage it caused - shame #osborne screwed the UK with a decade of #austerity & QE instead of handling it properly.

#GordonBrown was #Britain's second most powerful politician when #UK, along with the #US, launched the illegal invasion of #iraq
Which he supported.

So if we have to start war crimes trials, he and #TonyBlair have priority.

And indeed we have delayed too many years for this trial.

We owe it to the people of Ukraine to bring Vladimir Putin to trial for war crimes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/feb/24/people-ukraine-vladimir-putin-trial-war-crimes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#UkraineWarCrimes
#GordonBrown

#labour #GordonBrown

@MartinFarrent @MimiJ9

But if you join the #EU you commit to meeting the convergence criteria & join the Euro - like #croatia has just done

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_eurozone

By leaving we lost that permanent opt-out we had thanks to #gordonBrown - and I rather doubt the #eu would allow another were we to apply to join

Regardless - there is no #rejoin option practically acheivable for many years - if ever ... people have to realise that

#GordonBrown still the only UK PM not to claim his Prime Ministerial pension 👇🏻
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/nhs-tories-privately-funded-healthcare

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#NHS

#GordonBrown

"A system that guarantees comprehensive cover paid for by general taxation and that shares the costs across the whole population is the best insurance policy we could dream up – and indeed, if properly funded, is bound to be the best in the world."

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/nhs-tories-privately-funded-healthcare
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The suggestion put forward by #SajidJavid that #NHS patients should be charged for visiting GPs and hospital emergency departments shows the #Tories’s intention to “test the water for a different kind of NHS”, #GordonBrown says.

https://www.pmp-magazine.com/2023/01/23/tories-testing-the-water-over-a-different-kind-of-nhs/

Mark my words: this will be the end of the NHS if the Tories have their way https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/nhs-tories-privately-funded-healthcare?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#NHS
#SajidJavid
#GordonBrown

The Tories are after our NHS. They want to privatise it and sell our healthcare to US medical insurance interests.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/nhs-tories-privately-funded-healthcare?CMP=share_btn_tw

#NHS #privatisation #gordonbrown #tories

@scotsoma

When it ends - as it will finally - the #tories will start to pay the price.

If 20 years on #toriesOut still get political capital from reminding people #gordonBrown sold off some gold at a less than optimal price - without the shadow of a hint any corruption was involved - how long will their opponents extract advantage from referencing the shenanigans, lies and outright #corruption we have witnessed over this dismal #cameronToryEra of huge destruction of our social fabric?

@frankpodmore

I take your point about reversibility - have you looked at the #gordonBrown proposals to replace the #lords ? I think you will find these cover much of that ground

#starmer is a serious person - even if you do not agree with all his policies, do not make the mistake of thinking his #labour is merely #redTories like some #farLeft dreamers on here do - it is simply not true

@Rednotgrey

oddly you will not find a single #tory who will agree with you - he is the first #labourLeader since #gordonBrown they fear

the #labourLeft hate #starmer for highlighting the fact that the #UK will not vote for a #labourLeft led #labourParty

The bit on the left of the graph is where #labour trailed under #corbyn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election