I can't let this post from Anna Raccoon go unnoticed by some of the blogosphere. As Anna says she cannot name names, but it certainly fits in with my thoughts and perhaps many others. She is one of the writers on Old Holborn's blog who has my admiration.
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I have been saying for years, and not exclusively, that Gordon Brown is nuts.
He needs sectioning and for his own good.
Even Blair said that Gordon was not all there.
Maybe he is the one person who could persuade him to go.
His eyesight has almost gone too; that could be the way out?
Yes BL and I know you're not alone. The MSM are protecting him.
If he has sight problems then I'm sure the country would behind him, but his mental health issues (which he has had from a young age as my trustworthy source has informed me) are another matter.
It doesn't take any brain expert to see that his mental health is a problem. Body language is part of it.
So why the protection?
LVs?
SR,
Was in the MOD this week, Fondlebum has his fingers in there. I'm told several directives have come winging in during the last 2 months all signed by him.......I wonder why?
2+2=7?
Crazy D
And Mandelson stands in the shadows rubbing his hands.
Your linked article is not exactly a surprise - what is repulsive is that this apparently sick man's situation is being cravenly exploited by his own party shysters and those of the Tory Opposition. It is sickening that they mistrust the veracity of their own political principles to the point that they would rather rely on the mental and physical collapse of Mr Brown to promote their political ambition. If our politicians know then so do the others outwith the UK. Are they exploiting us as well due to this situation?
Perhaps this really is, for the first time, a politician who needs to spend more time with his young family.
I posted this article too.
It's not funny, it's not party political, it's just deeply worrying that a man in his condition should be allowed to continue in his position for any reason.
Don't know what you mean by LVs BL. Used to mean Luncheon Vouchers in my day but they're long gone.
Mmmm CD, interesting stuff. Could they be legally challenged signed by him?
Oh Mandelson's in his element I'm sure scunnert.
That's what crossed my mind Clarinda, that his 'colleagues' would allow him to continue for one and that the tories allow it for another.
It goes to show how much the tories will exploit such a sad situation.
Yes indeed CF and this is the man in charge of our military and only today spouting a lot of nonsense about why they're being killed more or less daily.
The first very obvious signs of this were when he was with Obama, Sarkozy and the Canadian president a few months ago for the memorial service. He clearly wasn't well then.
Well just read it but not that convinced, especially as Heffer started this particular hare a while back.
I've always thought that Brown is weird, but then I think it's a question of degrees of weirdness with all politicians. And bandying words like Asperger's about put me off.
I believe Alex Salmond also loses his temper, can be erratic in some of his decisions (including. erm, becoming SNP leader again) and has lots of feuds going with people inside and outside his party, but I don't think he is suffering from anything apart from a slavish devotion to politics.
Anyway, Churchill's eccentricities were well known at the time but people didn't care because they trusted him as a war leader; Brown's oddities fade into insignificance beside his obvious ineptitude as a leader.
I agree Heffer's Asperger's Syndrome was rather OTT Edwin, but I do think Brown has a personality defect.
A friend of mine knew him at uni and said his behaviour was strange then. He seldom joined in social gatherings and quite obviously wasn't comfortable in the company of women.
Churchill didn't tell blatant lies, or was it we didn't have 24 hour news to investigate them?
Alex Salmond stood down as leader the first time because he had a serious back problem. He didn't want to appear physically unfit for the job. Fortunately his doctors sorted it out but a full recovery wasn't definite.
I would agree, he has a devotion to politics and to Scotland. The problem with Gordon Brown is that he's obsessed with politics and image.
I would be surprised if Brown was not severly depressed, particularly after the family tragedies they have endured (the death of their first baby and the long-term illness of their son).
The political environment is the worst possible environment for anyone with unresolved mental health problems....on the one hand, flights of ego when things are going well and, on the other hand, crashing down to the depths of despair when the country is in turmoil. And this country is in the worst situation it has been in for decades. Many of the traits of the successful politician are on the extremes of behavioural problems...obsession, ego, the desire to control, the desire to have public respect, refusal to accept reality. Blair also has mental health problems at the other end of the scale, but he landed on his feet.
If Brown's remaining sight is failing then that will be an overwhelming worry for him, and it is simply ridiculous to carry on with a drugs regime that carries this risk.
The tragedy is that it is in Labour's interest to keep Brown in post until the election...easier to recover by discarding a failed leader, rather than exposing his replacement to a thrashing as well.
Politics aside, Brown needs to get out with his health intact. He looks shattered, and he blew all he had on the 2008 "Brown Bounce"....he has absolutely nothing left. He will be happier in academia, writing political biographies and so on.
Well said Jess. Every one of us has mental health problems at some time in their lives and those who say they don't are being unkind to themselves.
Brown has been unfortunate with the death of his first child, but that happens to many people who just have to plod on.
He doesn't have to, as you say he can drift into academia.
His sight problem shouldn't be detrimental to his position if that was the only matter, but unfortunately it's not. He is completely unsuited to the job of leading this country. He has no understanding of public comment and is totally absorbed by his own standing in the eyes of his international peers.
Sadly I don't think he has the common sense to cut and run. Common sense isn't one of his fortes.
Hi subrosa - I think what struck most people as odd about Salmond was his coming back (he said some 'old lady' told him to, if I rmemeber rightly), not his going! Your SNP sources are of course wider and more extensive than mine, but the SNP guys I know were stunned by his re-entry.
Incidentally, don't know if you saw it, but there was a curious Steve Bell cartoon in the Guardian this week on Lockerbie, Brown and Salmond - I needed the online commentary to even begin make sense of it!
Edwin, I wouldn't say my SNP sources are extensive in the least, they're actually non-existent. From what I do know, many of the SNP knew that John Swinney, as leader, wasn't getting support and they were worried the party was going to fall by the wayside. I'm sure it took a great deal of persuasion for Alex Salmond to take up the cudgel of leader again as he certainly didn't foresee that being part of his future.
John Swinney, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon are a great team, the best there has been in Scottish politics for years. I too was surprised when Alex said he would stand for leader again but then he was the only person who had a chance of saving the party.
No I didn't see that Edwin, I shall go and google it.
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