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The Gordon Brown who said of Tory interventions in 1979

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"now he is responsible for peddling last-minute and half-baked proposals which are incapable of commanding consent"

The absentee MP Gordon Brown who is never present for his day job cos he's away on corporate speaking junkets.

He claims that he only does those to raise money for charity.

Not strictly true though is it?

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EXC: Gordon Brown Office Has £10,000-a-Week “Expenses” Raises Over £3 Million, Gives Less Than £1 Million to Charity
  • Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown has £10,000-a-week expenses
  • Not a registered charity, two thirds of funds raised spent on expenses
  • Less than £1 million given to charity out of over £3 million raised
  • Vanity project lets Gordon and Sarah enjoy jet-set premier life-style of first class flights and five star hotels

Gordon Brown has since leaving Downing Street raised over £3 million to support charitable projects yet has given less than a £1 million to charity. Nearly three-quarters of the money raised has gone on his office and globe-trotting travel expenses that run at over £10,000-a-week – allowing Brown to vainly swan around in Davos like old times. Gordon Brown always insists that he does not profit from the arrangement and that all the income goes either directly to charities or to support other charitable public service projects.

The Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown is not a registered charity, it is a private limited company. Guido’s investigation reveals – by piecing together some 133 declarations made in Gordon Brown’s parliamentary register of interests – a picture of the until now private accounts since the company was set up by Sarah. Brown has declared to parliament that the total amount paid to the company since 2010 is £3,605,197. According to a recent announcement on the company’s website, only £912,702 has so far been given to charity after three years. Leaving over £2 million to be accounted for when according to the latest available records the company had only £160,978 in cash at the bank.

http://order-order.com/2014/01/24/exc-gordon-brown-office-has-10000-a-week-expenses-raises-over-3-million-gives-less-than-1-million-to-charity/

He claims he'll push for House of Lords reform.

Presumably he'll try to reform it once he's sitting in it.

An untrustworthy wretch of a man.

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Gordon Brown's Better Together speech the day bef: http://youtu.be/J39bBV7CBJk

Despite what the rest of the Tamb say, I agree it was a very good speech, and displayed the passion that has been missing from the No campaign... But he did tread into areas that shouldn't be used for political gain.

However... I agree with my Yes friends that I feel it will do little good coming from discredited Brown, the anger he invokes in the over 60's, No's only comfortable demographic, has to be of concern to No's?

On a side note, my lovely local MP Katy Clark (the last true socialist left in the Labour party) was very displeased to find out that her constituents had received a leaflet politicising Browns daughters death.

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Brown's been politicising his daughter's death since him and Cameron started their dead kid off at the last Westminster election.

Both of them said they would not use the death of their children for political capital and then started pimping out their grief the moment it seemed like they had a chance.

Both of them are liars who will say anything for a vote.

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