Brown on zimbabwe - is he a man or a mouse?

Question

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7468818.stm

Gordon Brown has described Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's regime as a "criminal and discredited cabal" which "should not be recognised by anybody".

Well thats what everyone has been shouting at HIM for the past few years - so what is HE going to do about it he is (supposedly) the UK's PRIME MINISTER after all...

FFS - doesn't the bloke realise that he is supposed to be IN CHARGE?

Answer 1

No one has been a bigger criticof Gordon Brown as I have!But What can he really do?Nothing!Why?Anything he says and does would play into the hands of that geriatric thug Robert Mugabe!Africa must decide!How do you want the world at large to view us?!As a civilised area of the globe!Or one that supports murder, intimidation and mutilation!In other words!Darkest Africa at it's very worst!Only southern Africa can remedy this situation!It is now time for the Black African nations to stop sitting on their hands and do something!

Answer 2

What do you expect him to do? Recolonise it for the white farmers? He has done what he can do that is tighten sanctions and more blacks will die of starvation. Is what we all want.

Answer 3

What do you suggest he do...go in with all guns blazing? He is in 'charge' of the UK , although he wasn't exactly voted for.

I admire him for speaking out.

Now we need the UN to step in.

You haven't been shouting at Brown for a few years. Tony Blair was in charge of the country before him.

Get your facts right and implement a plan to give Democracy to Zimbabwe.

Is it that easy..........

Answer 4

What can he do? What do you suggest? Mugabe's regime is exactly as he stated, but that does not mean other states have the arbitrary right to puff their chests out with military force, especially the former colonial master.

I don't think there's been anyone saying that the UK should not be recognised as a sovereign state, by the way.

Answer 5

BROWN COULDNT RUN A BATH

Answer 6

Like it or not, Zimbabwe is an independent country, thousands of miles away,  so there's very little the UK can do directly.  If we tried to intervene militarily Ebagum would just use it as proof we were still colonialist oppressors.

Answer 7

The trouble is that there really needs to be an African solution to the problem.  His neighbours need to initiate things - Zimbabwe is land locked so how do you get to it ?

Answer 8

Brown should do the decent thing and resign so that we can sort out this country, rather than continually trying to bail out other countries !!

Answer 9

Oh come on P P.  Don't insult mice like that.

Answer 10

Zimbabwe is an independent country.  Brown may not like what's going on there, but it's really none of his, or our, business.

If someone could spring that chap, Mann, from prison in Equtorial Guinea, get the son of a former PM to finance a helicopter(for humanitarian use only) and gather a rag-bag collection of mercenaries, Mugabe could be swept from power...