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- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -8/+50It is testament to the failings of Digg that this story is not on the homepage yet. It's now been over seven hours since Brown became PM - one of the most important world events in recent weeks and it's on the homepage of almost every other news outlet.
How can Digg possibly think about being a serious news website when stories like this only make it to the front page hours or even days later? - Easty, on 10/11/2007, -1/+24I hope that he straps a gasmask on in his first cabinet meeting.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is automatically the leader of the party with the most members of Parliament elected. The party itself decides on a leader and there is never a direct election for the Prime Minister as we believe wholeheartedly in policy and practice over personality.
Gordon Brown won the leadership contest which was held (or rather not held, because there were no other candidates) following Tony Blair's resignation as Labour Party Leader some time ago. Today's events were Mr Blair formally resigning as Prime Minister and as a Member of Parliament. - KomodoDave, on 10/11/2007, -14/+34I'm glad Blair received such a warm farewell from other MPs; he did a sterling job. It'll be weird to no longer have him as PM... I've spent half of my life with him as Prime Minister.
It'll be interesting to see how our relationship with the US fares now that Bush's administration is in upheaval, and Brown is the UK leader. - rhylan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Because we vote in elections for our local representative's, who in turn represent the party they stand for. We don't vote for the Prime minister, we vote for the political party.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19Just depends whether he really uses this chance to show everyone what Britain is all about...over the past few years the government has made some really stupid decisions. We need to become Great Britain once again and show America how it's done ;)
- endlessraining, on 10/11/2007, -9/+27Good game Tony, good game.
- PhQnix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19The party in power, Labour, voted amongst themselves for Blair's successor and chose Gordon Brown. This is the system as voters in Britain voted for the Labour party and thus the party makes the decision on behalf of the people.
- Easty, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16It's a shame, really. After all his work in Northern Ireland, Iraq is what's going to be what Blair's most remembered for.
- jimsterbell, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18I like Brown, he has always seemed to be more liberal than Blair and i think he honestly cares about how the UK appears to foreign countries. I really think he will be great for this country even though public opinion is against him before hes even started, i guess thats what you get for controlling peoples taxes for 10 years.
- M3RCINIAN, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18The future's dull; the future's Brown.
- Nev9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11If the article was about Gordon Brown getting an iPhone it would have been on the front page straight away.
- lysdexia, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Blair will forever more be remembered for telling us that Saddam could hit us with WMD inside 45 minutes.
He lied to the nation.
Countless thousands are now dead. - loganhid, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16Tony Blair - The good times, the bad times and the ***** times....mostly ***** times.
- matthewjn, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11I guess you have been watching Dr Who recently :) LOL.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Ah, so you're saying that Americans don't give a ***** about the rest of the world? Well that's a load of--
Oh, wait. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11I don't see why everyone is saying "we didn't vote for him". I live in his constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath and I can tell you right now that he has no problems with public support.
You voted for your local Member of Parliament. No one ever votes for the election Prime Minister so your argument is completely void. You didn't vote for Tony Blair either. - kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10Yea strange that Americans only interest in the rest of the world is blowing bits of it up. Maybe if they paid more attention to people outside of the US they wouldn't fall for all the government propaganda they are force fed.
Have you seen their news networks. there crazy. There is no good news outlet in the US. the first time I saw fox I thought it was a spoof show, then found out it was real. - timpkmn89, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Scratch that and read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown#Bid_for_Labour_Leadership - swaggadocio, on 08/20/2008, -0/+7benbread: What are you talking about? The NHS is one of Great Britain's greatest assets. What experience have you of its services of late? Case in point, my father recently had several major heart attacks and was literally on the brink of death. However, thanks to the care and dedication of doctors not having to think about dealing with HMOs, whether their patient's insurance will cover a particular treatment or whether the patient actually HAS insurance, my dad is recovering and doing well. To minimise waiting for heart medicine, the government actually purchased a private hospital that had been refurbished and re-equipped about 2 years ago. This place has the absolute latest in medical technology and very accomplished physicians. All this is FREE to a UK citizen. Something you obviously take for granted. I'm sure American Diggers will appreciate how lucky us Brits are, as regards health care.
- rnwen2750, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9GB... Huh. Please tell me his middle initial's not W.
- timpkmn89, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Gordon is his middle name, his full name being James Gordon Brown
- Gullop, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10NHS is far better than what it used to be and far better than many other countries.
- bobbob1016, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Being an american, I'm glad to see non-american political news everytime it is on the front page. I don't know much about who's running there, so long as it isn't Harriet Jones, because "doesn't she look a little tired?" It's a Doctor Who quote for those who don't know.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Are you really fat and called chad by the way, I really loved it when al-queda shoved a jumbo up your collectives asses.
Osama-bin-laden say "am in ur base killin ur doodz" - Harrison88, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I'm guessing your not British then? American maybe? Do you know much about Brown, the Labour party or how our Government system works? You obviously don't know much about the EU. We don't even have the Euro so how can we be a "substate of the EU"? Blair just fought off European pressure to move control of policies, taxes, and things like that to Brussels.
Maybe you should fix your own Government before judging ours. I'm not saying Blair or Brown have done everything correct, take Iraq for one bad thing depending on what you believe, but they've done a lot of good. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Clearly you're quite ignorant. Britain is so much more than England.
That said, the "technological innovations" you speak of are probably all invented by Britons - Television (and to an extent therefore, the computer display, which you're using right now) was invented by John Logie Baird, from Scotland. Telephone was invented by another Briton, Alexander Graham Bell. ATMs were also invented here. - KayDex86, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9Gordon Brown & Tony Blair.
Two cheeks of the same arse. - shackleton1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Hi. Try to learn a little about our electoral system. Brown has been elected by MPs. Those MPs were elected by the people. That's how our system works, and has always worked.
- Electric_Sheep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6But Gorden Brown wasn't his deputy. John Prescott was deputy prime minister.
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5That's a ceremonial thing. After a general election, the Queen asks the leader of the winning party to form a government. The same is done after a party leader resigns. The new leader of the governing party is summoned to Buckingham Palace to be asked by the Queen to form a government.
- Worldchrisis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6The party that was voted to a majority in Parliament selects a member of the Party Leadership to be Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is never directly elected.
- MindTrigger, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Gordon Brown.. laugh. Anyone want to watch his globalization / New World Order Speech? Yes, he actually says "New World Order" several times in this speech.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5cqh26CC0 - warriorscot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6In terms of brains Brown is way ahead of Blair the man is an actual genius and not in a thing that you say way in an actual university at 16 way if anyone can do the job its him, he is smart and he is not one of those fake labour im really rich from a rich background people he is from a normal family from an industrial town, I am looking forward to see what he can do. Its time to have someone actually qualified to run a country rather than someone who just sounds like they are.
The NHS is better than it was 10 years ago, it just needs a firmer hand and have the hangers on shook loose all the middle managers posts that serve nothing but wasting money and ironically the crappy US health system is part of the problem by inflating drug prices so much if they had a decent medical system across the pond and checks and balances on the drug companies the problem would largely go away as the worst problem is drug costs. - kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Royals what have they to do with Tony being a war criminal.
How would getting rid of the royals help make me more free. People can blabber on about how having an elected head of state would be more democratic, so what. All the royals do is wave at the crowds and sign bits of paper for the government. I would prefer to keep the ones we have rather than voting in some big Brother wannabes - benbread, on 10/11/2007, -8/+12I've always been a bit of a skeptic of Brown, but hopefully he'll be able to shake up the UK and government particularly the NHS.
- REBELinBLUE, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You don't vote for the prime minister, you vote for your local member of parliament. The party that takes the most seats forms a government and the leader of that party becomes prime minister. If by some stroke of luck the party leader doesn't win their seat they are not prime minister (although a friend of mine studying politics says what would then normally happen is an MP with a safe seat would resign and the party leader would run for that seat in a by-election, the deputy leader of the party would be the PM until that is resolved)
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6No, I think you'll find that it is the United States which is the "laughing stock of the world". I'd much rather have Gordon Brown as Prime Minister than George W Bush. I don't see where democracy comes into it. Gordon Brown is the leader of the Labour Party who are the biggest party, therefore he is the Prime Minister.
It sure as hell works better than that Electoral College thing they have in the US where in 2000 Bush won but had less votes than the other guy. - mrchimp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4It's all about the numbers. The way he measures the figures suggest he's done a really good job, but thousands around the country have had to deal with ***** like this for years because of his "big ideas". Expect more of it when he appoints another Chancellor with a fetish for big projects with no planning...
- Harrison88, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Brown doesn't like coming to a compromise with other people. I hope though that he does do what he's said and improve the NHS, giving it the independent board that it needs. He's been a good Chancellor to the Treasury but that doesn't mean he'll be a good PM. Hopefully he keeps us away from the Euro and keep control of our country in our own country, not Brussels.
It's a shame it took so long to hit digg. - kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Someone has been watching too much Dr Who
- spacebetween, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4No, I think America still holds the title. Bush and Cheney are still in office, silly! AND we've yet to elect our next monkey... President.
God help us all. - mrchimp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Hard to say... He's stayed relatively neutral on the issue, because he was supportive of the war in the first place. Bush is getting ready for him backing out of the whole mess: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/20/wirq20.xml
Man, it feels weird to have Brown as our PM... - omnithought, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Do, or do not your utmost. There is no try.
- Electric_Sheep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Rather a bean-counter that can actually count, compared to a certain U.S president.
- sonycam, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Behind, in what sense?
Yes, there's no longer an empire (but every single empire in history has failed), but the commonwealth is still going strong. Although I completely hate Blair, I think he comes across as presentable and professional, which is why I would prefer him to Bush any day as Bush doesn't seem all there. Also, the few red phone booths left are only here for tourists, they were replaced with black BT modern ones (as the red ones had a lot of glass which needed repairing) - and who uses phone booths anymore anyway?
- Sasquatch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It's not ideal. The Electoral College in the US also seems like a very odd idea from a modern standpoint
- markdr123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@krist69:
Also, no one else in the party wanted to stand. - Electric_Sheep, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3M3RCINIAN: No, you're the IDIOT.
You vote for the individual wanting to become a Member of Parliament in your constituency.
The party with the most MPs then form a government or a coalition. I know, i've voted many times. And generally the leader of the largest party becomes Prime Minister -
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