Petition calling for Gordon Brown to resign

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There have been many joyous postings on the Downing Street website in recent weeks to show the world that No 10 is a happy place.

Scores of pictures of the Downing Street garden in bloom have shown that staff are enjoying the wonders of spring. And of course there are lots of pictures of Gordon Brown holding earnest meetings with world leaders as he works hard to save the world economy.

But what is this? A suggestion has slipped on to the website that all may not be well beyond the iron gates of Downing Street. In fact there is a demand that the prime minister should be evicted.

By 7.00 last night nearly 10,000 people had signed a petition on the Downing Street website calling for the prime minister to resign. The petition, only posted five days ago, simply states: "We the undersigned petition the prime minister to resign".

The petition was posted by Dr Kalvis Jansons, an academic mathematician, who describes himself as a disillusioned "traditional Labour supporter". The "final straw", which persuaded him to post the petition, was the prime minister's initial reluctance to apologise for the emails by his former special adviser Damian McBride smearing the Tories.

Jansons, from Hitchin, Herts, who has taught at University College London, deliberately worded the petition in simple and brief terms to avoid it being blocked by No 10. In a message on the site, he wrote: "There are many reasons why we might want Brown to resign, but rather than having lots of narrow petitions on this topic (most of which have been rejected), I wanted one for all of us."

Jansons told the Press Association: "I wanted a simple, clear, generalised petition which would cover all the bases and comply with their rules. I wanted it to be something that could unite the country."

His aim was to make his petition the most popular on the site. A call for the RNLI to be protected from maritime radio licence fees is the most popular petition at the moment, with 28,000 signatures. Other petitions on the site call for an end to plans to part-privatise Royal Mail, preventing any increase in university tuition fees and opposing restrictions on vitamin supplements.

The prime minister will probably be cursing the internet whizz Benjamin Wegg-Prosser, Tony Blair's last director of strategy in No 10, who dreamt up the idea of hosting petitions as a way of connecting Downing Street to voters. He was branded a "prat" by the former transport secretary Douglas Alexander, a Brown ally, when a petition criticising road pricing attracted 1.8m signatures in 2007. Blair wrote an email to the petitioners explaining government policy.

Petitioners are promised a government response if they attract more than 200 signatures on a "serious" subject.

If you want to sign.. heres the link..


_http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/
 
he's got to be better then any conservative MP, it was them that buggered country up in first place :)
 
LoL, another Number 10 petition, I love it how people take these seriously.

Here's a idea, if you don't like the elected party...why not vote them out?

He didn't just walk in there by himself.

The voting public of the UK voted THE PARTY in.
If you didn't use your vote, you have absolutely no right to complain.
 
all those mp's have their noses in the trough, it doesn't matter what colour they are red, blue, yellow or green, they may go into it with the best of intentions but they are all touched with the "mememe" syndrome.

because of the above i am prity a-political and really have no alliance with any party, when i have voted it has been purely on a local issues.

@Napster "he's got to be better then any conservative MP, it was them that buggered country up in first place" do you really believe that labour or liberals are any better than the tory's ?

example 1 brown has single handedly prolonged the sh*t we are in now, when he was chancellor of the exchequer he removed virtually all the restrictions on the bankers allowing them to basically do what they wanted with no checks or governance.

this will be felt and paid for by us all for far longer than anything that thatcher did or contemplated.
 
LoL, another Number 10 petition, I love it how people take these seriously.

Here's a idea, if you don't like the elected party...why not vote them out?

He didn't just walk in there by himself.

The voting public of the UK voted THE PARTY in.
If you didn't use your vote, you have absolutely no right to complain.

There is another petition on the site for him to stay in his job.. at lunch time today it had 3 votes.. 2 where celebraties and 1 was gordon brown himself.. but his name seems to of been removed now :(

I thought this petition was funny thats why i posted it.. i liked reading some of the names people used..
 
Rather him than david cameron. It's not like this whole thing wouldn't have happened if the conservatives were in power. This has nothing to do with gordon brown. I think both parties are shit tbh, but labour is better than conservatives, at least they're bareable.
 
Rather him than david cameron. It's not like this whole thing wouldn't have happened if the conservatives were in power. This has nothing to do with gordon brown. I think both parties are shit tbh, but labour is better than conservatives, at least they're bareable.

I don't know about that m8, you are entitled to your opinion and I know the Cons are also a bunch of Cnuts but this is the worse government I have ever seen....even worse that Maggie (imho).

I don't get a chance to vote for the main parties but what seedy said is spot on, the voting public voted Labour in and they then chose their leader, if you really don't like them then don't waste your time with online petitions, vote against them in an election and get the fekkers out....sorry for lingo but I just hate this government.
 
And labour never messed it right up in the 70's, the country was almost bankrupt due to them.

They've given it another bleddy good go this time too...

I'm with Jaffa on this though.
 
.even worse that Maggie (imho).


Say what you want about Maggie but she had a pair of swingers that Brown could only have wet dreams about !




Name me a better PM in recent time ? (this should be a laugh).
 
he's got to be better then any conservative MP, it was them that buggered country up in first place :)
True, in my view. but Labour did little to change the culture that the Con's(apt name i always thought) brought in. They perpetuated the culture of greed. which is, ultimately, what brought us to this point.

LoL, another Number 10 petition, I love it how people take these seriously.

Here's a idea, if you don't like the elected party...why not vote them out?

He didn't just walk in there by himself.

The voting public of the UK voted THE PARTY in.
If you didn't use your vote, you have absolutely no right to complain.

well said! too many complain, not enough vote!

And labour never messed it right up in the 70's, the country was almost bankrupt due to them.
actually not true. the miners strike caused real problems. but at the time miners were paid not much more than road sweepers £25 per week. not really on for one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. (most would agree)

Then the OPEC country's decided, quite rightly, that they wanted paid, properly, for the oil they had. it was a shock, to the business world, to have to pay a fair price for their product. instead of reducing the, enormous profits. they placed the entire increase on the consumer. result, an economic mess. that was only solved when Maggie destroyed our manufacturing infrastructure.
 
And labour never messed it right up in the 70's, the country was almost bankrupt due to them.

In 2009 its the same story m8 it wont be long before the country is Bankrupt
 
Oooh party politics.

Let me sharpen my shouty pencil.

No, wait. Its so boring.

Gordon Brown is not the cause of all the countries ills.

Party politics is as vapid as a very light vapid thing in a vacuum.

Nearly all self interested careerists (with a few exceptions), the party in power are always the sleaziest, stupidest, unscrupulous, twats ever known to man, and the other parties are like Christ on a bike zooming in to save country.

Then they change hands, and the roles are reversed, and everything pretty much stays the same.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.
 
And labour never messed it right up in the 70's, the country was almost bankrupt due to them.

There are some convenient memories out there.
I remember when Thatcher got in, within months we had 3 million on the dole closeley followed by inflation at 15% and the bank of england interest rate at 8% repossessions were rife and that was without a worldwide recession.
Iwas a young man then just starting a family, a lot of my friends never recovered.
 
I agree with the 'conservatives' are the culprits for all this country's mess posts.

Instead of fixing/repairing the union situation, they destroyed it by bribing the workers of the time give it up for cheap council houses and big redundancey payouts, making a whole new generation from the mid eighties work with no holiday and sick pay, and frozen capped crap wages creating a even poorer underclass, while house prices and the cost of living soared at a never seen before rate..... class divide, no other explanation.

Single handedly destroyed industry in this country and turned it into a retail nation who only care about shopping and massively over inflated house prices.. didn't see the internet coming which has all but destroyed the british retail industry. Notice that all other major European Country's still have a strong and healthy manufacturing industry? that's because they didn't have such crap governments.

Promoted 'capitalism without a face' so now we live in a hatefull greedy stabby society. Bussines's would rather employ ready trained immagrants for their own quick profit rather than think about the long term health of the nation... or even their own bussiness.

Started destroying the NHS, got as far as eye hospitals and free NHS dentists, yes the fake labour government restored it a little bit, but it's a token gesture. This new term should see the Tory's more or less finish it off. Not in their manifesto ? well killing off NHS dentists wasn't in their 'manifesto' either when they were last in power.


No doubt about it, all the warnings that were ignored at the time have all come true. Thanks Maggie :(
 
its funny how politics always brings in a healthy debate.
i think most people are angry at the way the banks screwed up but more to the point with the way labour or brown dealt with it.
a few weeks ago i was tempted to boot my telly screen in when i heard that tosser peter mandleson say "its time we got off the bankers backs"
is this guy serious?? i think it demonstrates how out of touch our current party in power really is.

i remember leaving school in the eighties and how grim it was under thatcher rule. i think everyone would agree that reform was required when she came to power but it didnt have to be so extreme.
the left wing militant unions had too much power!!
if they ran out of toilet roll, a strike would be called for.
and remember the miners strike?
the unions were so arrogant that they didnt even put it to a ballot..
public spending went through the roof as did the subsidy spending and p*** poor management.

the end result was to cut everything to the bone and strip us of all our rights.
it was only when the nhs came under threat that we finally said enough, and booted the tories out. so we know from previous experience what lies ahead if the tories get in. "i dont trust them and never will"

david cameron bangs on about how bad things are but i dont see him coming up with any bright ideas. i think the tories may edge it in the next election due to frustration and the lack of direction from this government. plus younger voters who have never lived under tory rule may be tempted to vote for them. all i can say then is "god help us".
 
........younger voters who have never lived under tory rule may be tempted to vote for them. all i can say then is "god help us".

Amen to that! Unfortunately a lot of people of voting age are too young to remember the horrors of the last Tory administration. :grayno:
 
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