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Prime Minister Gordon Brown, like U.S.
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minster
Binyamin Netanyahu, have been placed in office to
do the will of God in regards to the prophetic
stream of time dating back to Isaac (and the
promises given to him and his father Abraham)
forward to
the Last Days according to the biblical Book of
Revelation.
Specifically the
promise that the descendants of Abraham through
Isaac would be a great nation who would control
the gates of their enemies and that no weapon
formed against them would prosper. These people
called "The Lost Tribes of Israel" were never
lost to God, but migrated away from the Mideast
to the British Isles and then to America. They
don't look or act like Israelites (This is how
they seemed lost) but in fact are directly in
the Davidic bloodline that Jesus was born from.
Hence the most power and Christian nations they
have become.
These 3 countries
are the fulfillment of God's plan to use His
chosen people the Israelites and the "sheep of
another fold" in the Isles afar off to be a
witness to His power, Christ's right to the
Throne of
David (which is now the Throne of England),
and to the humanly restraining force to oppose
Satan and ultimately
Antichrist in
the Last
Days. |
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In November 2007
Brown was accused by some senior military
figures of not adhering to the 'military
covenant', a convention within British politics
stating that in exchange for them putting their
lives at risk for the sake of national security,
the armed forces should in turn be suitably
looked after by the government.
In a speech in July 2007, Brown personally
clarified his position regarding Britain's
relationship with the USA "We will not allow people to separate us from
the United States of America in dealing with the common
challenges that we face around the world. I think people
have got to remember that the relationship between
Britain and America and between a British prime minister
and an American president is built on the things that we
share, the same enduring values about the importance of
liberty, opportunity, the dignity of the individual. I
will continue to work, as Tony Blair did, very closely
with the American administration."
Brown and the Labour party had pledged to allow a
referendum on the EU Treaty of Lisbon. On the morning of
13 December 2007, Foreign Secretary David Miliband
attended for the Prime Minister at the official signing
ceremony in Lisbon of the EU Reform Treaty. Brown's
opponents on both sides of the House, and in the press,
suggested that ratification by Parliament was not enough
and that a referendum should also be held. Labour's 2005
manifesto had pledged to give British public a
referendum on the original EU Constitution.
Brown argued that the Treaty significantly
differed from the Constitution, and as such did
not require a referendum. He also responded with
plans for a lengthy debate on the topic, and
stated that he believed the document to be too
complex to be decided by referendum.
Drug policy
During Brown's premiership, in October 2008, the
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)
recommended to the then Home Secretary Jacqui
Smith that cannabis remain classified as a Class
C drug. Acting against the advice of the
Council, she chose to reclassify it as class B. After Professor David
Nutt, the chair of the ACMD, criticized this move in a
lecture in 2009, he was asked to step down by
the current Home Secretary Alan Johnson.[83]
Following his resignation, Professor Nutt said
Gordon Brown had "made up his mind" to
reclassify cannabis despite evidence to the
contrary. "I know that my committee was very,
very upset by the attitude the prime minister
took over cannabis. We actually formally wrote
to him to complain about it," he said. Gordon
Brown had argued, "I don't think that the
previous studies took into account that so much
of the cannabis on the streets is now of a
lethal quality and we really have got to send
out a message to young people - this is not
acceptable". Brown's concern about the growing
use of skunk cannabis, which he described as "more
lethal", was criticized by the professor as being
absurd. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme
Professor Nutt said, "Until Gordon Brown took office
there has never been a recommendation about drug
classification from the council that has been rejected
by government". The professor's predecessor at the ACMD,
Sir Michael Rawlins, later said, "Governments
may well have good reasons for taking an
alternative view... When that happens, then the
government should explain why it's ignoring the
particular advice".
Plots against leadership
In mid-2008, Brown's leadership was presented with a
challenge as some MPs openly called for him to resign.
This event was dubbed the 'Lancashire Plot', as two
backbenchers from (pre-1974) Lancashire urged him to
step down and a third questioned his chances of holding
on to the Labour Party leadership. Several MPs argued
that if Brown did not recover in the polls by early
2009, he should call for a leadership contest. However,
certain prominent MPs, such as Jacqui Smith and Bill
Rammell, suggested that Brown was the right person to
lead Britain through its economic crisis. In the
Autumn, Siobhain McDonagh, a MP and junior government
whip, who during her time in office had never
voted against the government, spoke of the need for
discussion over Brown's position. McDonagh was sacked
from her role shortly afterwards, on 12 September.
Whilst McDonagh did not state that she wanted Brown
deposed, she implored the Labour party to hold a
leadership election, she was sacked from her
role shortly afterwards. McDonagh was supported by Joan
Ryan (who applied, as McDonagh had, for leadership
nomination papers, and became the second rebel
to be fired from her job), Jim Dowd, Greg Pope,
and a string of others who had previously held
positions in government, made clear their desire
for a contest.
In the face of this speculation over Brown's future, his
ministers backed him to lead the party, and Harriet
Harman and David Miliband denied that they were
preparing leadership bids. After Labour lost the Glasgow
East by-election in July, Harman, the deputy leader of
the party, said that Brown was the "solution", not the
"problem"; Home Secretary Smith, Justice Secretary Jack
Straw, Schools Secretary Ed Balls and Cabinet Office
Minister Ed Miliband all re-affirmed their support for
Brown. The deputy Prime Minister under Blair,
John Prescott, also pledged his support. Foreign
Secretary David Miliband then denied that he was
plotting a leadership bid, when on 30 July, an article
written by him in The Guardian was interpreted by a
large number in the media as an attempt to undermine
Brown. In the article, Miliband outlined the party's
future, but neglected to mention the Prime Minister.
Miliband, responded to this by saying that he was
confident Brown could lead Labour to victory in the next
general election, and that his article was an
attack against the fatalism in the party since
the loss of Glasgow-East. Miliband continued to show his support
for Brown in the face of the challenge that emerged in
September, as did Business Secretary John Hutton,
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn, and Chief Whip Geoff
Hoon.
In the local elections on 1 May 2008, Labour suffered
their worst results in 40 years finishing in
third place with a projected 24% share of the
national vote.
Subsequently the party has seen the loss of by-elections
in Nantwich and Crewe and Henley as well as slumps in
the polls. A by-election in Glasgow East triggered by
the resignation of David Marshall saw the Labour party
struggle to appoint a candidate, eventually settling for
Margaret Curran, a sitting MSP in the Scottish
Parliament. The SNP, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats
have all derided the party for their disorganised nature
with Alex Salmond commenting "This is their 'lost
weekend' - they don't have a leader in Scotland,
they don't have a candidate in Glasgow East, and
they have a prime minister who refuses to come
to the constituency". Labour lost the constituency to the
Scottish National Party's John Mason who took 11,277
votes with Labour just 365 behind. The seat experienced
a swing of 22.54%.
In the European elections, Labour polled 16% of the
vote, finishing in third place behind the Conservatives
and United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). Voter
apathy was reflected in the historically low turnout of
around thirty three percent. In Scotland voter turnout
was only twenty eight per cent. In the local elections, Labour polled 23% of the vote, finishing in third place
behind Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, with Labour
losing control of the four councils it had held
prior to the election. In a vote widely considered to be a
reaction to the expenses scandal, the share of the votes
was down for all the major parties; Labour was down one
percent, the Conservative share was down five percent.
The beneficiary of the public backlash was generally
seen to be the minor parties, including the Green Party
and UKIP. These results were Labour's worst since World
War II. Gordon Brown was quoted in the press as having
said that the results were "a painful defeat for Labour",
and that "too many good people doing so much good for
their communities and their constituencies have lost
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Prime
Minister Gordon Brown
James
Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour
Party. Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after
the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after
becoming leader of the governing Labour Party.
Immediately before this he had served as Chancellor of
the Exchequer in the Labour government from 1997 to 2007
under Tony Blair.
Brown has a PhD in history from the University of
Edinburgh and spent his early career working as a
television journalist. He has been a Member of
Parliament since 1983; first for Dunfermline East and
since 2005 for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. As Prime
Minister, he also holds the offices of First Lord of the
Treasury and the Minister for the Civil Service.
Brown's time as Chancellor was marked by major reform of
Britain's monetary and fiscal policy architecture,
transferring interest rate setting powers to the Bank of
England, by a wide extension of the powers of the
Treasury to cover much domestic policy and by
transferring responsibility for banking supervision to
the Financial Services Authority. Controversial moves
included the abolition of Advance Corporation Tax (ACT)
relief in his first budget, and the removal in his
final budget of the 10 per cent "starting rate" of
personal income tax which he had introduced in
1999. During Brown's time as chancellor has also pressed
ahead with the telecom spectrum auctions, resulting in
30,000 jobs being lost in the UK high tech, and in
combination with the similar German auctions an
estimated 100,000 European Jobs sector.
After an initial rise in opinion polls, Brown's time
as Prime Minister has seen his approval ratings fall and
the Labour Party suffer its worst local election results
in 40 years. Despite public and parliamentary
pressure on his leadership, he remains leader of the Labour Party.
Prime Minister
Brown ceased to be Chancellor and, upon the approval of
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, became the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom on 27 June 2007. Like
all modern Prime Ministers, Brown concurrently serves as
the First Lord of the Treasury and the Minister for the
Civil Service, and is a member of the Cabinet of the
United Kingdom. He is also Leader of the Labour Party
and Member of Parliament for the constituency of
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. He is the sixth post-war
prime minister, of a total of 12, to assume the role
without having won a general election. Brown is the
first prime minister from a Scottish constituency since
the Conservative/SUP Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1964. He
is also one of only five prime ministers who attended a
university other than Oxford or Cambridge, along with
the Earl of Bute (Leiden), Lord John Russell
(Edinburgh), Andrew Bonar Law (University of Glasgow),
and Neville Chamberlain (Mason Science College, later
Birmingham). Brown has proposed moving some traditional
prime ministerial powers conferred by royal prerogative
to the realm of Parliament, such as the power to declare
war and approve appointments to senior positions. Brown
wants Parliament to gain the right to ratify treaties
and have more oversight into the intelligence services.
He has also proposed moving some powers from Parliament
to citizens, including the right to form "citizens'
juries", easily petition Parliament for new laws, and
rally outside Westminster. He has asserted that the
attorney general should not have the right to decide
whether to prosecute in individual cases, such as in the
loans for peerages scandal.
During his Labour leadership campaign Brown proposed
some policy initiatives which he called 'The manifesto
for change.' The manifesto included a clampdown
on corruption and a new Ministerial Code, which set out
clear standards of behaviour for ministers.[68] Brown
also stated in a speech when announcing his bid that he
wants a "better constitution" that is "clear about the
rights and responsibilities of being a citizen in
Britain today". He plans to set up an all-party
convention to look at new powers for Parliament. This
convention may also look at rebalancing powers between
Whitehall and local government. Brown has said he will
give Parliament the final say on whether British troops
are sent into action in future. Brown said he wants to
release more land and ease access to ownership with
shared equity schemes. He backed a proposal to build new
eco-towns, each housing between 10,000 and 20,000
home-owners — up to 100,000 new homes in total. Brown
also said he wanted to have doctors' surgeries open at
the weekends, and GPs on call in the evenings. Doctors
were given the right of opting out of out-of-hours care
in 2007, under a controversial pay deal, signed by
then-Health Secretary John Reid, which awarded them a
22% pay rise in 2006. Brown also stated in the manifesto
that the NHS was his top priority. There was speculation
during September and early October 2007 about whether
Brown would call a snap general election. Brown
announced that there would be no election in the near
future and seemed to rule out an election in 2008. His
political opponents accused him of being indecisive,
which Brown denied.[69] In July 2008 Brown supported a
new bill extending this pre-charge detention period to
42 days. The bill was met with opposition on both sides
of the House and backbench rebellion. In the end the
bill passed by just 9 votes. The House of Lords
defeated the bill, with Lords characterising it as
"fatally flawed, ill thought through and unnecessary",
stating that "it seeks to further erode fundamental
legal and civil rights".
Brown was mentioned by the press in the expenses crisis
for claiming for the payment of his cleaner. However, no
wrongdoing was found and the Commons Authority did not
pursue Brown over the claim. Meanwhile, the Commons Fees
Office stated that a double payment for a £153 plumbing
repair bill was a mistake on their part and that Brown
had repaid it in full.
Foreign policy
Brown was committed to the Iraq War, but said in a
speech in June 2007 that he would "learn the lessons"
from the mistakes made in Iraq. Brown said in a letter
published on 17 March 2008 that the United Kingdom will
hold an inquiry into the Iraq war Brown skipped the
opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, on 8
August 2008 in Beijing. He attended the closing ceremony
instead, on 24 August 2008. Brown had been under intense
pressure from human rights campaigners to send a message
to China, concerning the 2008 Tibetan unrest.
His decision not to attend the opening ceremony
was not an act of protest, rather made several
weeks in advance and not intended as a stand on
principle.
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