Welsh windbag Kinnock on Gordon Brown's performance (06Jun09)

[BazzerObama]

A true welsh windbag who failed miserably in his bid to become PM. I remember the fear about him acheiving power, the Sun headline said "Will the last person to leave Britain please turn the lights off". Never had a 'proper' job, him and his Mrs riding the euro gravy train, have even given jobs to their kids. Ginger Whinger!

[bittenof]

you welsh cunt

[Ohyewildthong]

It's so stupid that this man never was PM yet got a peerage yet Major who was PM and won elections only ever recieved a Knighthood of the Garter, says a lot about Labour putting their cronies in the House of Lord, that is why we need hereditary peers back.

[monorail1990]

To be a Knight of the Garter is a higher order than to be a life peer, actually. And on what basis do we need hereditary peers back? That you don't like the current composition of the Lords? If anything, we need to remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers once and for all, and then abolish the antediluvian relic that is the House of Lords.

[Ohyewildthong]

No members of the peerage come before Knights of any order in the order of precedent. Also it aloughs him to talk and vote within the legislature.

Secondly, hereditary peers have always been of a very high standard and did the job for one reason only: Because they wanted to serve the people.

Plus the hereditary peers are the best atendees in the lords.

[monorail1990]

You're right about Lords coming before Knights of the Garter, I apologise. However, your view about hereditary peers is misplaced. "They have always been of a very high standard." - a statement that is almost as generalised as it is innaccurate. Hereditary peers were, and still are, there for one reason -that reason being the fact that they were born. A ridiculous qualification on which to be a member of a second chamber. You might as well select Lords by postcode lottery.

[slimes23]

Major didn't want a peerage. (BBC News 08/09/00). End of discussion.

[Ohyewildthong]

@slimes23 Read the story properly. It says Major said if he was offered one. However he wasn't even offered one.

[slimes23]

It's customary to approach individuals like former Prime Ministers informally over the issue; so in practical terms he was offered one. This is done to avoid the new-years hon ours list becoming a farce.

Kinnock declined his Knighthood in a similar way. Either way, it's not true to say that this is an example of cronnieism.

[nasilemak2008]

this is the man that brought us the liars blair and brown and the homo, peter "im not gay" mandelsohn (jewish thief)

[filtonkingswood]

A complete softcock nancy boy only interested in the sound of his own voice and tax payers money going into his pockets.

[edmund184]

The 1987 Labour manifesto argues for total economic withdrawal from the European Union.

Now Kinnock lives off it.

A hypocrit and a crook of the very first order.

[slimes23]

Not true. You're thinking of the 1983 manifesto and in any case it was the EEC then not the EU. It was Kinnock who shifted the Labour party towards a pro-european stance.

[sidensvans54]

What a Liar ,, Raking in a fortune with his wife.

For doing sweet FA.. Brown nosing gormless.

Laughing all the way to the Bank.

Labour..My arse.

[ljlondon]

Kinnock and his wife should both be in jail for SISO fraud in Brussels -

[ukeuro23]

still living on planet twat Kinnock

[ukeuro23]

Kinnock and many members of the current government just prove that socialists love lining their own pockets...the very thing they accuse the opposition of...Kinnock you are a greedy hypocrit

[allithred]

thick sheep shagging twat,his whole family work the system, kids aswell

[shakercoola]

This interviewer is thick as they come. No it isn't ironic his wife has taken a post. SkyNews is rubbish.

[brizuk]

Euro Fraudster !

[7299MM]

It is Lord Kinnock of Bedwetting....I mean Bedwelty.

Along with Hattersley a TRAITOR and a TURNCOAT.

Abolish the House of Lords was the policy of the 1987 'dream ticket'.

What did they do?

Accept peerages.

F***ing hypocrites.

[VincesVinyl]

Niel Kinnock is a super-turd. How could anyone ever care about anything he has to say?

[everclear21]

What a knobend! He's got bullshit coming out of his mouth

[croemar]

This politician must be on drugs

[luvdupraver]

From 2 m 45 s

Interviewer:

"What are the circumstances under which you would advise Gordon Brown to step down?"

Kinnock:

"Maybe the next election but one, after his further victory."