Gordon Brown takes UN job as unpaid education envoy in hope of following in Bill Clinton's footsteps | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173407/Gordon-Brown-takes-UN-job-unpaid-education-envoy-hope-following-Bill-Clintons-footsteps.html)


Gordon Brown is making a political comeback on the global stage by taking a job at the United Nations.
The former Prime Minister has become the UN’s special envoy for global education, it was announced yesterday.
Mr Brown has rarely been seen at Westminster since losing the 2010 general election, taking part in just two debates and 15 per cent of votes.


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Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, pictured speaking during the Global Progress Conference in Madrid, Spain, last October, has accepted a role at the UN


His new role is likely to lead to Conservatives to call for him to stand down from his Scottish seat of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
He will take up the unpaid role from September after being appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
Mr Brown said he hoped to emulate former UN chief Kofi Annan and Bill Clinton



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and fantastically ...


Education breaks the cycle of poverty and unlocks better health and better job prospects.’


more like consigning his policies to the dustbin will do a better job of it!


Mr Brown will call for a fund to finance schools and train two million teachers around the world.


oh brilliant, thats international education screwed then.



What the F are the UN thinking ?

Has the UN completely lost the plot? - no, they never had one other than protecting racist third world leaders and glorifying the incompetent and inept.

You have to remember that they have just made the world's worst living despot a UN Tourism 'Ambassador'. I refer of course to Robbing Mugape.

What the F are the UN thinking ? - nothing. People like that don't think, therefore, they aren't!

Says all you need to know about the UN these days.
The Armed Forces and Education, my two careers, trashed by this arrogant idiot and his cronies. I emigrated as a consequence.


Appropriate that he was made a UN Ambassador after Mugabe - they're deep mining under the barrel now.


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He's obviously got one eye on greater things.

At least Harold Wilson had the grace to resign, and move out of public life, when he realised he was "slipping".

I bet his First Class travel and 5 Star hotels won't be unpaid.

Next thing, they will be creating some highly paid non-job for a failed politician and calling him 'Peace Envoy'.

Oh, wait a minute.......

Has the UN completely lost the plot?
If it's possible to lie in two words, 'United Nations' does it. Rather than unite nations, it has a bleak history of setting nation against nation. The fiasco of Mugabe is just the latest in a long line of politically motivated scenarios that, alas, have little to do with uniting nations.

Mr Brown said he hoped to emulate former UN chief Kofi Annan and Bill Clinton

Get his son to take bribes for contracts and his secretary to give him blow jobs?

UFO

well i can see how Mugabe could fit as a tourism ambassador, he does have a knack of motivating people to go where they had no intention of going.. look at what he did with his electorate and their political re-education.

so, by some degree he has previous form...


Tosspot Blair has actually done very little in his role as peace envoy apart from line his own pockets, and what he has done in his official role has been considered as detrimental to middle east peace.

to some degree, he's fitting with his previous form...

and Brown, well perhaps the UN hasn't heard of the 'Curse of Brown' which is no recent thing.. From Lehman Bros. to Andy Murray, to ASLEF no matter what Gordon Brown has supported and got involved it's resulted in a disaster..

So, with Gordon now a UN Ambassador, what we can we expect.. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse?.. Mugabe, Blair, Brown.. they just need one more..

just need one more..Gorge W perhaps???:}

Now now, SOPS, we all know that won't happen because "W" is the wrong colour.


He's not "red"......

There are plenty of potentials :

Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, that nice Mr. Gaddaffi (posthumously of course), Francoise Hollande who's about as red as you can get,and Herman van Rompuy.

There are plenty of potentials :

Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, that nice Mr. Gaddaffi (posthumously of course), Francoise Hollande who's about as red as you can get,and Herman van Rompuy.


or Barosso.. now there's a red with potential for the UN, the EU my not be a big enough playground for this commie.

Francoise Hollande who's about as red as you can get,


Who is she, then?

Who is she, then?

:D

Very good, 10/10.........

Now, now, chaps! Settle down. Just think for a minute. Where could poor old Broon go?
He doesn't like to show his face in The Commons.
He's no bl00dy use to anyone, he's no . . (isn't there a song about that? - usually sung with irony, but not in the case of this gentleman).
One expects a sinecure; think Kinnock, Blair et cetera.
At least it isn't as ridiculous as having McGuinness as Minister of Education.

At least it isn't as ridiculous as having McGuinness as Minister of Education.

oh now there's a thought.. McGuinness as UN ambassador for
Diplomacy and Peaceful Integration.

I'll go for Peaceful Integration New Territories.

What's yours?

Where could poor old Broon go?
He doesn't like to show his face in The Commons.

But he does enjoy taking the full salary though.

Councils have a rule that councillors must attend a percentage of meetings otherwise they forfeit their seat.

Should this not also apply to MPs?

Attendance at the House of Commons by individual MPs is not recorded.

Should make them clock on and off, then we can see who has earned their salary and those that are taking the pi$$.

Well actually I meant those who at least attended because really do any of them earn their salary? All I seem to see is both sides of the house guffawing and jeering at PMQ's and once thats over then everbody scarpers leaving few scattered around the place who give a good impression of trying to do something.

wings folded wiggy

Well done to you both for pointing out my minor typing error. You must be very proud of yourselves. Pat on the back and go to the top of the class, lads.

Rueters July 14 2012: Concerns about the Chinese economy becoming unsettled due to explosive growth overwhelming its environment and infrastructure were settled when it was announced that the former Scottish Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, would assist in its education policies.

It is understood that Mr Brown will assist by teaching his famous 'buy high, sell low' strategy, blaming Sue when things go TU, and keeping one eye on things.

Mr Brown is revered in his native land for presiding over exponential growth*. A recent poll placed him just under the famous peer, Lord Haw of Haw, in terms of popularity and service to the nation. He has also been awarded the Vidkun Quisling medal with oak leaves, and is a hero of the Soviet Union (Kirkaldi branch).

Mr Brown read for a PhD in the history of the Labour Party in Scotland from 1919-1928. The world was stupefied by the revelations, whose importance are secondary only to the theories of relativity and that DNA stuff. Brown's playboy lifestyle included a bevy of beautiful women. In 1985, he narrowly missed out on being voted Scotland's most eligible bachelor by Hamish McBride, the barefoot Big Issue magnate of Govan.

Famed for his charisma and sense of humour ("British jobs for British workers" almost as funny as the parrot sketch), Mr Brown will bring a well-needed recession to China in its time of need. Should his measures prove inadequate, China may well also recruit his former boss, Sir Tony Blair, who'll quite happily authorise a few wars which should cost a bob or two.


* In ASBOs, council houses and p*ssed off chavs

Some/Most people seem determined to criticise Brown whatever he does - he really can't win. Compared to Blair and his multi-million pound career in after-dinner speeches, he's really not that bad. Anyone questioning his motivation is surely blinded by their hatred, he's always passionately campaigned against poverty and spoken of his belief in education as the way forward.

So freeloading as a UN Ambassador when you cannot even carry out the most basic duties of an MP by actually turning up in Parliament whilst collecting a ridiculous salary (plus expenses) for not turning up is ok with you?

Some/Most people seem determined to criticise Brown whatever he does - he really can't win. Compared to Blair and his multi-million pound career in after-dinner speeches, he's really not that bad. Anyone questioning his motivation is surely blinded by their hatred, he's always passionately campaigned against poverty and spoken of his belief in education as the way forward.

yep, beacause the man is an economic king midas in reverse, everything he touches turns to s**t.

Oh and his campaigning against poverty.. what a joke.. the mans economic policies have done more consign the people of the UK to poverty than if the people themselves had just flushed their hard cash down the toilet.

Gordon Brown (http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/reports/2008/09/gordon-brown%E2%80%99s-economic-failure.html)

The report demolishes what is left of Gordon Brown’s reputation for effective economic and public sector management. It shows that Britain’s performance has been poor across the board, and left more vulnerable to the downturn than our international competitors, as a result of his policies.
Click here to read the report (http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/gordon_browns_economic_failure_embargoed_00.01AM%20FRIDAY%2019%20SEPTEMBER.pdf)

Just the man for an Ambassador role at the UN, right alongside despot mugabe. :hmm:

All UK state pensions will be reduced because of what B**** did with tax relief. He also sold of the gold reserves; how much is gold worth now?

The man is a no mark who was given far too much power by sycophantic acolytes.

Back to the thread - Kofi Annan is known in some corners of the UN as Mild Kofi.

I doubt any plan he champions will work.

SGC

he's always passionately campaigned against poverty

I could not agree more, when it comes to himself.

Assuming that you work, ManUtd1999, just how often are you expected to show up?

Brown whatever he does - he really can't win

Encapsulated perfectly. Brown is a worthless, useless failure,.He cannot win because he is a failure. He's like the loony in the pub yopu avoid. That he was ever PM is as shameful as an accident in one's underpants

Don't get me wrong, our current PM is no better - I suspect that he's a Labour plant. The only difference I've discerned is that we have another loon whose wife is far more photogenic and has made a policy of destroying the Conservative party. Quite why he is doing this is beyond my ken.

SO

wings folded wiggy

Well done to you both for pointing out my minor typing error. You must be very proud of yourselves. Pat on the back and go to the top of the class, lads.


I do not presume to speak for wiggy.

He/she can answer from their own point of view.

From my perspective, when you post a highly partisan, provocotive remark, the least you could do would be to accurate.

We all make "typo" errors from time to time, and I do perhaps more than most.

I therefore seek no glory in pointing out your error, but think that your zeal overtakes your fluency.

From my perspective, when you post a highly partisan, provocotive remark, the least you could do would be to accurate.

does that extend to politicians who make partisan remarks that are not only grossly innacurate but bordering on lies?

Just the man for an Ambassador role at the UN, right alongside despot mugabe
Are you really comparing Brown with Mugabe?

Gordon Brown had many faults and many of his policies were wrong, there's no denying he was hopelessly unsuited to the role of PM. However, his reputation will increase with time (I suppose it couldn't get worse!).

I read an article a while ago (can't remember where before you ask) that made a lot of sense in saying that PM's are judged in history by the one major event which occurred whilst they were in office. For Brown this would be the 2009 financial crisis and, while you can blame him for causing it all you like, it's hard to argue that he didn't deal with the situation well given the circumstances. He pushed for a bank bailout which was copied in the US and Europe, and he pushed for action as the world stood and watched the markets implode. I wouldn't like to see Cameron and Osborne in a similar situation.

Another point for the defence of Brown is that he kept us out of the Euro - and for that we should be forever grateful.

I read an article a while ago (can't remember where before you ask) that made a lot of sense in saying that PM's are judged in history by the one major event which occurred whilst they were in office. For Brown this would be the 2009 financial crisis and, while you can blame him for causing it all you like, it's hard to argue that he didn't deal with the situation well given the circumstances. He pushed for a bank bailout which was copied in the US and Europe, and he pushed for action as the world stood and watched the markets implode. I wouldn't like to see Cameron and Osborne in a similar situation.

And how bad would the banking situation have been without his "softly softly" approach to regulating the banks, allowing them to take the very risks that brought them to their knees as well as the LIBOR affair?

And judged on ONE event? Sheesh, there's a list of things for Brown. Especially the Lisbon Treaty, ratified without the promised referendum, or the signing up to the EU bail out in 2010 AFTER "losing" the general election and whilst the Tories and LibDems were negotiating their coalition, or the massacre of the UK defence budget whilst the forces are stretched beyond belief whilst not getting the equipment they truly need, or.... or..... or.....

How big a list do you want?

I have no more time for Brown than many of the above posters, but I do believe he usually meant well, which is a lot more than can be said for Blair.

People of his ilk make sure that they have plenty of favors to call in when they walk out the door, Directorships Consultancies Book Deals Chairmanships heads of Quangos and generally a seat in the Lords, that's why they are owned by the rich and powerful and do their bidding, no good helping out the oinks, what can they do for you.
Britain is as corrupt as any banana republic only in a different way.
:suspect:

Are you really comparing Brown with Mugabe?

Gordon Brown had many faults and many of his policies were wrong, there's no denying he was hopelessly unsuited to the role of PM. However, his reputation will increase with time (I suppose it couldn't get worse!).

I read an article a while ago (can't remember where before you ask) that made a lot of sense in saying that PM's are judged in history by the one major event which occurred whilst they were in office. For Brown this would be the 2009 financial crisis and, while you can blame him for causing it all you like, it's hard to argue that he didn't deal with the situation well given the circumstances. He pushed for a bank bailout which was copied in the US and Europe, and he pushed for action as the world stood and watched the markets implode. I wouldn't like to see Cameron and Osborne in a similar situation.

Another point for the defence of Brown is that he kept us out of the Euro - and for that we should be forever grateful.

haha ! you're kidding right ?

Gordon Brown was like drunk driver at the wheel of the UK economy, yes he swerved to avoid a school bus and ploughed into the queue at the bus stop instead..

and you say oh but his intentions were good and noble ? he was as a chancellor and PM an unmitigated disaster. and the UK population will be picking up the tab and dealing with the mess NL left behind with this clown, who got behind the wheel of the economy a wrecked it, taking lives along the way.. his qualifications on getting behind the wheel.. writing an effing commie economic ideological manifesto entilted the 'Red Book'.

Brilliant!

From my perspective, when you post a highly partisan, provocotive remark, the least you could do would be to accurate.

Pot, kettle, black.

As an aside, I know perfectly well that Francois Hollande is male and that Francoise is a female name (I also know that the 'c' should have a cedilla underneath it but don't know how to do that), so don't need the little lesson from you unless you'd like to tell me how to do a 'c' with cedilla.

Tony Blair's epitaph will be "Iraq"

Gordon Brown's will be quite a lot longer, including:

PFI
Credit Crunch
Failure to regulate the Banks having said in opposition he would.
Cutting the MoD's budget 5 times in wartime and lying about it.
etc

Every single one of these was known to be stupid at the time.

I am not having thehorseh!t about the Credit Crunch being unexpected. A lot of people, including myself, saw it coming a mile off and took appropriate steps.

Tableview, Alt 0199, Ç, C cedilla, Alt 0231, ç, c cedilla is what you need. :ok:

Ço I çee. Thank you! It will be useful when I type in Catalan, Romanian, Czech, and Turkish, amongst others.

Your question appears to be flawed, as it assumes they ever had 'the plot' in the first place!;)

" People of his ilk make sure that they have plenty of favors to call in when they walk out the door, Directorships Consultancies Book Deals Chairmanships heads of Quangos and generally a seat in the Lords, that's why they are owned by the rich and powerful and do their bidding, no good helping out the oinks, what can they do for you.
Britain is as corrupt as any banana republic only in a different way. http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/cwm13.gif

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