What is Gordon Brown's legacy?
Post categories: BBC News website
| 18:30 UK time, Tuesday, 11 May 2010
OK, things can't always go quite right. Notwithstanding record traffic to the BBC News website and the epic news events which continue to unfold as I write, we had a small glitch earlier today when we inadvertently published a page template which carried the headline "What is Gordon Brown's legacy?". And nothing else. This caused a bit of mirth on Twitter and elsewhere.
What we actually meant to publish was this rather more detailed and informative round-up of what commentators are saying on that subject. The inadvertent blank page has been removed. Apologies.
Steve Herrmann is editor of the BBC News website.
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At 19:00 11th May 2010, MaxWax wrote:For people to believe this was an accident you would have had to have had a better record over the past few days for neutrality of reporting events. Some of of your political correspondents have been unable to disguise their anti-Brown views.
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At 09:06 12th May 2010, polly_gone wrote:Just another glitch, was it? Then why write about the mirth it caused on Twitter or elsewhere? You silly boys at the BBC will rue this day in the not too distant future. What goes around comes around.
I had little time for Brown but he was a distinct improvement upon his predecessor in terms of integrity, not saying much I know, but it needs to be said nonetheless. And in terms of his record in office then pray tell me, compared to Blair, Thatcher and Major, then what really was so different? Did Blair already know that the US economy was about to implode before he jumped ship?
And what about all the Tories with their US friends in the Republican party who had already sized up Obama as the fall guy? Seems like Brown did a good job making sure he went out with a Bush sized smile on his face, proving there is no bigger fool than an old Tory fool.
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