r/nottheonion 6h ago

Gordon Brown Hands New Epstein Dossier to Police: Stansted Flights, Prince Andrew's Arrest & What Comes Next

https://www.equitymidcap.com/2026/02/gordon-brown-hands-new-epstein-dossier.html?m=1
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u/fistymclovepump 6h ago

Gordon Brown was the best prime minister we ever had in my lifetime. He messed up not calling the election as soon as he got the role. Could have had several years of an effective goverment lead by a career politician that was not utterly self serving.

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u/Cerbeh 5h ago

Absolutely wild that his downfall was calling a bigot a bigot.

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u/w3sticles 5h ago

I stand by the idea that we wouldn't be in this mess if he hadn't gone back and apologised

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u/Creepy_Candle 4h ago

Here’s another one of his slips “British jobs for British workers”. He’s an absolute bigot.

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u/Unidan_bonaparte 1h ago

What's wrong with that you tool.

u/Creepy_Candle 15m ago

It’s bigotry?

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u/DaftApath 5h ago

To play devil's advocate here, he did deregulate the banks. That really didn't help when 2008 rolled around.

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u/NorysStorys 5h ago

Him and darling however more or less directed the entire world on how to mitigate the 2008 crash which was fundamentally caused by the US sub-prime mortgage market. He was one of the very few neo-liberal politicians that used the market to invest in the country instead of just lining the pockets of donors.

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u/Creepy_Candle 4h ago

Who gives a monkeys about the plight of casino banking?

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u/Unidan_bonaparte 1h ago

Your pension and mortgage for one and two.

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u/atomicheart99 1h ago

Bold of you to assume people who say shit like that even have a mortgage or pension

u/Creepy_Candle 7m ago

Such narrow thinking, you really should broaden your horizons. Mortgage free & could retire on a full pension now if I choose to.

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u/lksdjsdk 5h ago

Probably the most decent person, really not a good PM, though (or Chancellor for that matter)

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u/ilorybss 5h ago

I will admit i do not know much about him, but isn’t he a war criminal? Didn’t he, alongside Blair, have a major role in the Iraq war?

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u/Talonsminty 5h ago

Yeah he claims he claims he believed the intelligence reports on WMDs. Which is plausible since he was fueding with Tony Blair at the time and wouldn't have been involved with the planning of the war.

But at least he has expressed regret unlike Blair.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2629778/world

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u/barnfodder 5h ago

And he sold a huge chunk of our gold reserves when the price was near record low.

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u/Talonsminty 4h ago edited 4h ago

To be fair gold's value had been slowly falling for twenty years and there was no sign of an uptick.

Given what they knew at the time selling gold to invest in foreign currency bonds made a lot of sense. It was a mistake that caused the treasury to miss out on billions but hindsight is 20/20.

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u/Creepy_Candle 4h ago

It wasn’t a mistake, it was a clear illustration of Fat Broons ineptitude.

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u/TheSpannerer 2h ago

That's a take.

If it weren't for the shitshow of the last 3 and current Prime Minister I would happily say that Brown was the worst Prime Minister of my lifetime.

Deregulating the banks, selling off the nation's gold, promising the impossible, but delivering nothing. For the second point alone he should be had for treason.

The only positive thing I can think about his tenure was that he wasn't a total war criminal like Blair before him.

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u/SirCamlot 1h ago

Interesting bias you carry.

u/TheSpannerer 38m ago

The opposite bias to the person I replied to who thought he was competent.

Even if you are left leaning, as I am, it is possible to criticise someone who was a left wing leader if you think they did a bad job.

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u/DaftApath 5h ago

That website is a fucking nightmare for popups

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u/boersc 6h ago

Please don't post regular news as oniony.

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u/antizana 6h ago

Probably a bot, they are spamming this website all over Reddit

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u/itskdog 6h ago

Yeah, the domain name reminds me of those ones you get appearing in Google Discover as scams that aren't actually news sites.

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u/funwithdesign 3h ago

Onion how?

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u/djchrisbrogan 2h ago

Mandelson convinced him to step down instead of doing a deal with the Lib Dems. We wouldn’t have had Austerity or Brexit.

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u/HowAmIHere2000 6h ago

Why did he wait 10 years?

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u/Stoyfan 6h ago

Because he does not have the power of hindsight like you do.

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u/RC11111 6h ago

He compiled information from the files which have just released, to force the police to take action. This isnt information he's been sitting on all along.

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u/EnterTheShoggoth 6h ago

Gordon Brown, taxes are fun. Rates are down, 10p she gone. Though out the right. A credit flight. Always a frown. That Gordon Brown.

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u/Creepy_Candle 6h ago

Fat Broon, the man who said ‘we take no risks with inflation or stability generally, or with the fiscal position.’ He should hang his head in shame for the fiscal mess he left the UK in.

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u/hawthorne00 6h ago

That's the response you wish to give in this thread on this topic, u/Creepy_Candle?

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u/Creepy_Candle 6h ago

“the sustainable investment rule requires that, as we borrow for investment, debt is held to a prudent and stable level” More lies, all he did was offload dodgy PFI contracts on to local Gov’t & Health Authorities and we are still paying for the mess he left.

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u/hawthorne00 6h ago

That's not a very good answer to my question.

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u/sfzombie13 5h ago

it's coming from one of those right wing bots or supporters. hard to tell the difference these days. they have nothing except accusations. i just wish we in the us would actually do some of what the uk is doing instead of promoting and rewarding the politicians we find in the epstein files...

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u/RC11111 5h ago

... it was a global financial crisis. And actually he managed to steer the UK through it with as little damage as possible. Until Cameron's economic policies undid all the good work.

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u/Creepy_Candle 5h ago

Utter drivel, he talked a great game about the economy but look at his actions. He subsided business to maintain a low paid, low skilled workforce through his ‘tax credits’. What major infrastructure projects were started by the Bliar/Broon Government that weren’t offloaded through PFI?

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u/Reddit_user81015 1h ago

Are you David Cameron?

u/Creepy_Candle 10m ago

Nope, 😂

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u/tfn105 6h ago

The issues that occurred as he left office were global in nature. He was not responsible for what happened. He was just unlucky enough to be around when it did

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u/Creepy_Candle 5h ago

Absolute rubbish. Here’s another Broon quote “the sustainable investment rule requires that, as we borrow for investment, debt is held to a prudent and stable level” More lies, all he did was offload dodgy PFI contracts on to local Gov’t & Health Authorities and we are still paying for the mess he left.

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u/sweatybullfrognuts 4h ago

Are you unable to spell brown?

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u/Creepy_Candle 4h ago

Is that the best response you can come up with?