Rwanda bill: 'It looks like it's been a waste of money so far' - Gordon Brown

Former prime minister Gordon Brown shares his thoughts on the Rwanda bill with Kay Burley and asks "if it's not working, why is all this money being spent on the policy?"
First though, he talked about a scheme he is leading to help those impacted by the cost of living crisis, saying he is seeing poverty he thought he "wouldn't see in his lifetime again".
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[@davidpayne3938]

I think Gordon Brown was a bit misunderstood when he was in office but time has proven that he and Alistair Darling knew exactly how to handle a crisis.. What fantastic work he is doing for charity.. He's a true Labour party person in helping people that are at disadvantage..🇬🇧👏

[@brockit79]

He and his government got the blame for the actions of a few bankers [sic] over in the USA, in fact Fishy was part of that.

[@user-eg4dv1bm2e]

It's night and day compared to the current lot.

[@lesleywild8706]

What a bigot Gordon Brown is.

[@pipoo1]

His reputation on the international stage is far higher than here at home and that’s largely due to the UK media. And as for his famous private remarks about Gillian Dufy, he wasn’t wrong about her and these are the people whose votes have led us to disaster after disaster in the past 10 years.

[@dvidclapperton]

People seem to forget thet even if Csmeron was PM in 2008 that the UK would still have entered what was a totally unavoidable global recession. Cameron and Osbourne both stood up in the Commons and 100% backed Brown's economic measures before the UK entered recession. It was only when it was obvious that the UK was entering recession like the rest of the world that Cameron suddenly changed tack as though the UK would never have entered recession had he been the tory PM which is complete nonsense. It was certainiy not a UK only recession either what the tories claimed, And the tories approaching the 2010 general lied that the UK was still in recession when the UK had alresdy out of recession before the end of 2009. Brown brought the UK out of recession, not Csmeron. It onky lasted 5 qusrters. The UK was also in s deep recession in 1992 under Major to prove that deep recessions do happen in the UK under tory governments. We are still in a cost of living crisis right now even if the tories are trying to claim it was sll over. The tories crowed avout the 3.9% figure, but now it's jumped 4% it's a huge shock to their system. The tories are lykng about the figure snyway, it's a lot higher than they are claiming. It was only less thsn a year ago that Uk recession was at its highest value since the 1980's and that was under Thstcher's tory government too.

[@squid4104]

He'd be buried in the modern political landscape...Gordon sounds too much like a "human being"

[@sohalvr]

Oh how different the country could have been after 2010. Let this be a warning for anyone still remotely tempted to vote Tory this year. Look what they did after 2010, and we're paying the price 14 years later. Labour's messaging might be off and the leader might be not so charismatic, but their heart is in the right place.

[@T5Zplayer]

It was Darling who proposed the austerity plan that Brown was forced to agree to. That was picked up by Cameron. Labour had left nothing but debt. Love the way the extremists on the left try to rewrite history.

[@Dollarg11111]

And labour is good 😂😂😂

[@Dollarg11111]

Labour is going to out the nail in the coffin for this country

[@mattyn870]

@@Dollarg11111 look at the increase in the number of billionaires in the UK since 2010. Their class thrived whilst the rest of us struggled

[@lonelyherzegovinawarrior153]

​@@Dollarg11111a nail on coffin? Comservatives rule since 2010..

[@elihouse1994]

My opinion of Gordon Brown has gone up enourmously. He seems to have really mellowed out with age.

[@JCJ2002]

Gordon Brown is a profoundly decent man. I regret never having the chance to vote for him.

[@ravd8082]

he bankrupted the country 😂😂

[@AmateurHEROduelist]

No one had the chance to vote for him, that was his big problem. Well it's been a lot worse in that regard since Boris.. No one gets a vote

[@ianbaker8243]

​@ravd8082 Imagine they hadn't bailed the banks out for just a moment... Homeowners would have had their houses repossessed. Interest rates would have had to go up, and the money supply would have been shutdown... The Tories wasted years with austerity when they should have invested in infrastructure which has led the UK to have stagnant growth. The problem was the Greenspan deregulation started with Thatcher and Reagan in the 1980s and continued through until now... This basically makes the rich richer and creates a new kind of feudal system.

[@aardjazz]

no that was the clowns in the city who we had to bail out@@ravd8082

[@laxeystu8096]

​@@ravd8082 He did not bankrupt the country The finances are in a far worse state today than they were in 2010, and we're not 'bankrupt ' today

[@astridfjord7791]

Will always respect Brown. 2008 crisis was a global crisis not of his making.

[@zenex1741]

If there is any ONE thing that the majority of people would say the Tories are best known for, it would be wasting money.

[@IJayAmLegend]

..waisted straight into their offshore bank accounts, never to be seen again, in the UK, who's plebs, apparently, respect having their assets stripped.

[@T5Zplayer]

Brown??? PFI contracts? Russian banks?

[@Tinywars]

And Labour don't? Okay then.

[@zenex1741]

@@Tinywars Not anywhere near on the scale that the Tories do.

[@FRM101]

@@Tinywarsnice handle

[@TheWebstaff]

He looks really good and healthy. Its like he's aging backwards.

[@palacefan4286]

Agreed, he actually looks a lot better here than he did a few years ago.

[@Moopheus]

What a disaster that has come over this country

[@nik2k13]

And this guy is one of the causes

[@dvidclapperton]

Brown didn't cause the pound to fall to US$1.03 or UK inflation to soar to double figures very recently. Brown was last PM far too long ago for such figures to be linked to him or caused by him. Calling him the man entirely to blsme for the curent problems, and Callaghsn and Wilson for the 1980's UK inflation rises, the fall of the pound in the 1980's and 1992 recession is ridiculous.

[@ravd8082]

@@dvidclapperton he bankrupted the country sold our gold reserves

[@dvidclapperton]

@@ravd8082 Quoting another post from someone slse in this video:- ------------------------------------------ davidpayne39383 days ago I think Gordon Brown was a bit misunderstood when he was in office but time has proven that he and Alistair Darling knew exactly how to handle a crisis.. What fantastic work he is doing for charity.. He's a true Labour party person in helping people that are at disadvantage..🇬🇧👏 --------------------------------- I totally agree with him. Brown's private comments about Gillian Duffy that were made public by the far right press because his microphone couldn't be switched off (deliberately set up that way by the far right press) and weaponised against him for political gain for the right even though he was correct. But his supposedly private comments should never have been in the public domain in the first place. It was despicable that that was how Cameron became PM in 2010.

[@dvidclapperton]

@@ravd8082 Cameron's "We're all in this together" from Msy 2010 that overexsggerated whst he was inheriting is looking very shallow now after near 14 years of tory government where the state of the economy is far worse now than what he inherited back then.

[@ashokkarimi66]

To look back now when he was the PM life wasn’t that bad compare to what conservatives did last 16 years

[@T5Zplayer]

Fact free brown nosing then

[@nothingtosee7718]

It’s much better than under Labour that’s clear… the difference is the global economy. Clue there is global, nothing to do with U.K.

[@blazzz13]

@@Madie839 Compared to Cameron and the shower that's followed, he is a giant

[@robg5111]

He is such an under-rated politician. Respect

[@stuartweston99]

Gordon Brown is a decent, honest, intelligent and caring man. I respect his devotion to helping less fortunate people. We need more politicians like him!

[@annenunney9907]

What about some decent wages and more council houses my god

[@jonathanfell688]

Stop voting Tory

[@outoforbit00]

Labour wants us completely dependent on handouts so that we all become utterly incompetent, just like what international NGOs did to Haiti.

[@RegiyThornton]

Housing contracts awarded to their maté’s companies

[@mattbooth307]

We should've returned Gordon Brown to Downing Street in 2010. It was a mistake to throw him under the bus. He saved the country during the great financial crash and we rewarded him with his P45. Labour at the time tried to warn us about David Cameron, but they didn't want to sink as low as they were during the campaigns. We didn't deserve Gordon Brown!

[@olaa5534]

People thought Labour caused the recession so the electorates cursed them at the ballot box by putting Dodgy Dave at the helms of No 10 Downing Street. Along came austerity, Brexit, Looting of funds, Trussonomics, Higher Taxes, Lady Mone saga........The list is endless.

[@chatham43]

Very true. What was Nick Clegg thinking getting into bed with the tories!

[@mattbooth307]

@@olaa5534 Thanks to the Tory lies at the time, yep. They were being brutal about it and Labour didn't step up to that plate and be brutal back. Shame, because they might've fared better.

[@Project-Masculinity]

The Liberals at the time wouldn’t go into a coalition with Labour due to Gordon “Stupid Woman” Brown, so they went with The Tories He was in power when the Post Office Scandal was going on but he has no recollection of anything…it’s the Post Office covering it up …lol

[@Project-Masculinity]

Oh, didn’t he bail out the banks just like Obama… that’s where your taxes and student loan repayments are going to ..

[@megaworldbuilder4369]

He’s not ruling out a return to cabinet… saying “I won’t get the call” is not the same as “I am not interested in political office again”

[@actually-will1606]

Wish we had more Gordon Browns and less Rishis

[@annajanecollins812]

Last PM who actually has a brain!

[@laxeystu8096]

As much as one can admire Brown's motivations, and his work, and think what a good example he by todays standards, as soon as the conversation turns to something he was accountable for he is adamant it wasnt his responsibility They never lose their touch

[@stevensmith5983]

Great interview, really refreshing to hear about something that I personally think is really important that the government needs to do more.

[@ibrstellar1080]

Really? It's just another MSN scripted interview by a Blackrock owned media outlet.

[@dvidclapperton]

UK Cost of living crisis is a long way from being all over. The totally dishonest are trying to claim that it alresdy is all over even though clearly it's not, they're doing everything to deceive the electorate once again, but only the stupid among the electorate will fall for it now.

[@dvidclapperton]

Brown tells the truth. The UK is still in the middle of a cost of living crisls right now.

[@user-pp7jo6wk3e]

Brilliant. Shame I'm not involved. Goldmine.

[@PeteAstbury-cl7xb]

01:00 Multibank? Sounds like a dystopian nightmare, not something to be celebrated. I'll celebrate when the last food bank closes because they're no longer needed. Everytime we get a new one it's a national humiliation. The UK is supposed to be 6th richest country in the world, so where's the money? It's not in the hands of normal people.

[@yvonne3218]

Come back Gordon brown a man with alot of common sense, he cud pass some on to the tories ,he really does think of other s .❤

[@patrickcharters5631]

What else but disaster coming from the tories

[@shaunwalker2557]

ask him about his comments he made when PM telling the Police and councils where the grooming's and rapes occurred to do nothing for the benefit of diversity..

[@rajeevkc9990]

2024 might be Gordon Brown’s comeback year as a chancellor

[@muhammadchaudhery1731]

100% right waste of money and time.

[@rajeeb3500]

Gordon brown is a solid person . This country would do well with him back in some kind of authority

[@syedadeelhussain2691]

Giving things people want is also a form of wealth redistribution with less adverse consequences. Much better than income taxing rich individuals and corporations that create wealth.

[@suds2808]

UC needs the option of being paid fortnightly and not monthly. Wouldn’t cost the gov anything to make that change and would help lots of people who can’t budget.

[@lukemundy4023]

We need to abolish UC and every other benefit that people have been abusing in this country ,, those people need to get off their asses get a job and contribute for once in their miserable lives , if we did that the boats would literally turn around then some of our local councils might be able to get themselves out of the red

[@mediastudiesnetwork]

A brilliant man

[@olixz]

Look at what Gordon Brown has done since leaving office versus dodgy Dave and lobbying.

[@IbrahimMohamed-kw7vi]

That's the difference between an English toff and a humble scotsman

[@jonathanbennet2580]

Brown is the only PM who acts like a human being

[@MrArchie800]

If I were a 30p Tory I’d probably say that Gordon Brown was ‘woke’ and I’d quote the former chancellor (some guy called Sunak) who said “it would be silly for the government to provide more help to families struggling with the mounting cost of living crisis.”

[@mootedtols4865]

The last decent PM

[@nakhan4132]

Shortage of housing must be addressed so families can work their way out.

[@ibrstellar1080]

If we have a net migration of 1.4 million every year how are ever going to find enough housing and with millions of acres of prime Farm land going to rewilding and solar energy Food will become more expensive and make it even harder for everyone.

[@jaimecosta2966]

Brilhante

[@peacelilly75]

Jesus Christ whats happened to the Uk

[@just_watching_you_tube]

Brown is a great statesman. How lucky we were to have him as our Prime Minister during the financial crisis to get us through it. He always put his service to the country first.

[@affy45]

Best UK prime minister

[@Scotland_Scorpion]

There are people who live in genuine poverty, who dont claim benefits and dont have a social worker. So they wouldnt get a referal for this. Proud people who dont complain and who make good decisions with their limited income and expenditure.

[@MrLaking123]

the governments need to look after their own people

[@robertstraw9881]

When have Tory's ever done that?

[@chatham43]

...absolutely....charity begins at home..throwing money at foreign wars does not feed our people..!

[@robertstraw9881]

@@chatham43 Neither does voting Tory for 14 years.

[@TrevorTaylor-jk3ng]

Ive never seen so many people in tears in all my life little old ladys in supermarkets crying wondering how they're going to make ends meat putting food back on the shelves because they cant afford it the country is dying they're feeding and housing migrants and throwing our own out on the streets this is not how a country should be run i really feel for our people as our country goes down the drain

[@spitfirefrench]

Spending advice from the man behind ‘Brown’s Bottom’

[@Dcc-yk2lo]

Brown's bottom actually shows why having our national assets in gold is a terrible idea, and proves that he was right to sell them.

[@woolmer608]

It will be an even bigger waste of money if we don’t send anyone to Rwanda because they are under no obligation to return any of the £240 million we have paid them.

[@HomeGrownVeg]

The Rwanda bill looks like a 'dogs dinner'. Most expensive dogs dinner ever.

[@colinwaynefewtrell3697]

Like Blair and Browns Governments

[@wessexman4239]

Slimey Brown who sold the Gold for a pittance, just as useless as the tories ! Labour full of BS

[@ph43draaa]

The last competent PM

[@T5Zplayer]

Where did he stash the money he received from the Russian banks?

[@annajanecollins812]

Agree 👍

[@user-ln3lh2pz8h]

No value for money in that Rwanda Plan. And its inhumane.

[@sandrahuntington1602]

Gordon Brown was a waste of money too

[@robinburn4974]

Why are they dragging Brown back?

[@Tinywars]

Ask Gordon about HIS decision to sell all our gold reserves dirt cheap.

[@Dcc-yk2lo]

Brown's bottom actually shows why having our national assets in gold is a terrible idea, and proves that he was right to sell them.

[@bradleywilson5641]

@@Dcc-yk2lohe sold all the gold at an all time low then the rescission happened and lost billions on it 😅

[@user-uc8sr7ly6b]

Rwanda, best known for its circ' 1,000,000 refugee Tutsi murdered by the Hutu people (government instructed genocide) in 1997, may not be the best place for UK to send its refugees.

[@Da1Dez]

It feels so nostalgic hearing Brown talk.... the late 2000s were a different time, none of the stuff we talk about nowadays.

[@colinwaynefewtrell3697]

What about selling the gold reserves for 1/3 rd the price . + Raping the pension funds . And letting in millions of immigrants to vote Labour to keep them in power . Then Bankrupted the country . Take off your Rose Tinted Labour glasses 🤓.

[@Frohicky1]

Like the Millennium Dome?

[@dianeirvine7624]

Surely he’s not thinking of making a comeback

[@paulsaintclair9761]

I knew poverty was coming to UK decades ago ..... I realized this in the Major (PM) years ..... when should I give up on the West ??????

[@bortstanson2034]

Ahh the good old days when actually intelligent and decent politicians were the norm instead of mendacious clowns and twigs from Blackadder comedy

[@shauncorless8965]

He should know about wasting money he sold are gold reserves for £350 million ,,,at the worse time in gold history now would be worth over 35 billion ,,and rising man's got the midus touch in reverse ,😮

[@matthowardtv]

He saved the economy, but couldn't save his career

[@ravd8082]

he bankrupted the country😂

[@matthowardtv]

@@ravd8082 we're still here

[@tt-ew7rx]

The Tories are clearly not good value for money.

[@nioengland]

The government could always employ the "charitable" Miliband brother.. we hear it has good experience with handling migrants and a much cheaper option too

[@californiadreamin8423]

Hello, Hello , is anybody there ?

[@nioengland]

@@californiadreamin8423 OMG skiddo

[@omicSheep]

UK is a waste of life...... 😢

[@brianbrown9389]

governments love charity its a way of them avoiding their responsibility for looking after the people they were elected to help.

[@jon-xd7tl]

Every day, in every way, the government has a responsibility to make my life better and better.

[@outoforbit00]

Exactly

[@dvidclapperton]

@@jon-xd7tl This tory government since May 2010 hasn't made people's lives better and better. In fact lives have worse and worse every day in every way since May 2010.

[@user-jt4bx5kq8h]

democratic government with ' no' corruption

[@DD-pn3cb]

GOD BLESS ,,,,,,, GORDON ,,,,,,, SHOWING HIRS HUMANITY....???? HUMBLING

[@wilde1049]

Eff me pink ! Gordon Brown talking about wasting money..... 😮

[@gollygosh40]

redemption can be unattainable when one smells

[@geraldineedgecumbe9771]

Grim Reaper appears What’s anything got to do with this creature

[@handyjayes1]

A waste of money eh? Well Gordon bloody Brown is another king of wasting our money so he should know, and he's correct of course.

[@jamessmithson-br7rm]

Good advice from the sidelines, but shame he sold off all our gold at bargain basement prices 😂

[@ashleybishton742]

Rawanda can give us our money back if we wanted if it didnt work like.

[@backgroundknowledgeisevery3089]

In English, please.

[@siypic]

Wheres' our gold..... ?

[@lukemundy4023]

where is your proof of purchase

[@jaseayathorai3762]

Excellent work.

[@PaulGappyNorris]

Still a ‘politician’ 🙄

[@bertspringdog]

nice of amazon to help,,,, or just get amazon to pay their tax lol

[@laurieharrison6856]

if he had done what was needed when PM we wouldn’t be in the grip of a failing economy .

[@jon-xd7tl]

Labour likes the economy to fail, it makes more people dependent on socialist handouts.

[@zattanna74]

it funny everyone saying it a waste of money and wont work, but i dont see anyone else giving another solution or option funny how they love to complain but dont give a solution

[@spugesdu]

Labour (and France) have presented a solution, which was turned down by the Tory government. Setting up processing facilities in Calais to prevent people getting onto rickety boats and drowning is absolutely an option, but the Tories believe that the idea of stopping the boats is a stronger vote-winner than actually stopping them. It's mis-governance at its most cynical.

[@jessicaadaora9109]

@@spugesduno the idea just won’t work, they will find another way to cross, and France will help them, because if they don’t come here they will stay in France, and they don’t want that. So the solution they offered wasn’t actually real, was expensive and wouldn’t work.

[@claudiafigueiredo4979]

Charities are a fail of goverment end off

[@andypandy4607]

Oh Gordon's back again

[@andrewdrummond1244]

The man who gave away gold stocks and quadrupled the national debt.

[@TheWebstaff]

Yeah but it was a good few years before American greed crashed the system. The one shame was that productivity wasn't improved, too much focus on financial services.

[@Dcc-yk2lo]

Brown's bottom actually shows why having our national assets in gold is a terrible idea, and proves that he was right to sell them.

[@mr_incognito9305]

Why do tories always bring up the national debt? For one, when the economy is growing as quickly as it did under new labour, it doesn't matter because it doesn't get more expensive to maintain the debt. For two, the tories have increased the debt to record heights so decrying labour is hypocritical

[@enawilson3210]

Remember tolabour brought in m minimum wages

[@T5Zplayer]

Ignoring facts then, blame or bury the truth then. Torris took over an economy that was wasted. Fact.

[@peterwatson3944]

Gordon should know about wasting money ,he done so much of it when he was in power

[@californiadreamin8423]

….he done so much…. Right , I get the message.

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

500 million to france then what we gave for rwanda for what? Rid the sewage we could of got two new battle ships for that which we need more than ever

[@user-ml5tc9yh5h]

Well he certainly knows all about wasting money ... left us nearly bankrupt. He sent our lads to war without the proper kit. Him and his mate Blair got blood on their hands!

[@powell656]

We really need to put the cost on the state. All this Lady Bountiful stuff is Victorian.Education, health,welfare is doomed if we continue along managed suicide.

[@sushi9211]

dont be fooled people, thats all ill say.

[@ynwa3476]

Coming from the man who told the market that he was selling off a sizeable portion of the UKs gold reserve , causing the gold price to fall through the floor !

[@Dcc-yk2lo]

Brown's bottom actually shows why having our national assets in gold is a terrible idea, and proves that he was right to sell them.

[@ynwa3476]

@@Dcc-yk2lo Gold stands the test of time. The more a nation has, the better.

[@MrLaking123]

I'm normally ok with migration and all that but I keep seeing videos where these asylum seekers have the best phones and the best clothes what about our own the disabled and sick and the homeless people who are struggling people who are working and using food banks this country has gone to the dogs

[@Project-Masculinity]

What happened to our Gold Reserves Gordon ?

[@patarciepaul]

What happened to our industry and infrastructure? The Tories sold it all off for peanuts to foreigners.

[@James_Doyle83]

To save money send right wing people and tories to Rwanda

[@bloggalot4718]

Money should only be paid on the basis of payment per head when illegal immigrants have actually landed in Rwandan.

[@johnhenrycook]

Just give the poor who have no way of getting a job , enough money to look after themselves.

[@lukemundy4023]

that is the worst thing we are already doing and most of them can get a job they just don't want 1

[@bradleywilson5641]

May live in jobs in hospitality I come a chef 3 years ago

[@Straighten_edge]

If only the tories spent money as wisely as new Labour

[@nik2k13]

Coming from an Ex labour leader, who helped create the immigration problem with their open door policy, diluting our culture with floods of foreigners, more and more every year.

[@bollockchop501]

He can talk about losing money he sold off all the gold

[@jaimecosta2966]

Uk worse by the day since 2016

[@65indi]

Yep and this dude really knows about waste 😂 first class

[@KittyVentura]

Nice to hear some sanity..

[@micc6462]

Keep your banks we need jobs

[@YesikaZevulanaHealingHearts70]

@micc6462.yes jobs that pay