Brown Meme
Praguetory has tagged me with Matt Wardman’s Brown Meme. Unlike a lot of memes, this one seems to have the potential for an interesting debate, so here goes:
* 2 things Gordon Brown should be proud of.
- Helping to make Labour electable
- (Most of) Labour’s constitutional reform agenda in their first term of office - although none of it was as systematic or as well thought out as it needed to be.
* 2 things he should apologise for.
- Helping to make Labour electable (too cheap I know - this one doesn’t count)
- The tax credits fiasco
- The PFI fiasco
- The monstrous centralising target culture
* 2 things that he should do immediately when he becomes PM.
- Declare an intention to establish a fully elected second chamber - and follow through quickly.
- Restart the SFO’s Al-Yamamah arms deal investigation
* 2 things he should do while he is PM.
- Establish a Citizens’ Constitutional Convention
- Reform municipal taxation, decentralising local government revenue, scrapping council tax and introducing a system of site value rating as part of a package of measures of fiscal measures which local authorities could use to raise their own money.
I have to tag eight people, which will be Anthony Barnett, Stephen Tall, Tristan Mills, Duncan Hames, Jock Coats, the Millennium Elephant, Tom Papworth and Ming Campbell.
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June 14th, 2007 at 11:08 am
[…] James Graham thinks that Gordon Brown should be proud of (Most of) Labour’s constitutional reform agenda in their first term of office (although none of it was as systematic or as well thought out as it needed to be), and should immediately restart the SFO’s Al-Yamamah arms deal investigation. He also managed to smuggle more than 8 in. Tut. Tags: got to be gordon, policy suggestons, gordon brown pm, prime ministers, meme […]
June 14th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Thanks, James - response here: http://oxfordliberal.blogspot.com/2007/06/that-broon-meme.html
June 14th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
[…] Labour MPs have decided that it’s got to be Gordon; in this instance at the request of James Graham. In the interests of readers, I have tried to avoid repeating answers I have already seen, with […]
June 15th, 2007 at 9:35 am
What’s all this about? What’s a meme?
June 15th, 2007 at 9:54 am
You could click on the link marked “Brown meme” or you could Google it.
June 18th, 2007 at 11:19 am
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June 19th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
[…] 2007 at 5:21 pm | In Gordon Brown | Anthony Barnett (London, OK): James Graham tagged me in his response to Matt Wardman’s interesting meme on what Gordon Brown should do when he becomes PM. […]