What is your opinion on an unelected prime minister of Britain who can gorge himself on 19 courses?

Question

in japanand then has the audacity to tell us we should live on leftovers.

Answer 1

oh for **** sake why are people sooooo small minded and petty don't you think there more important things in life than what the ******* pm eats he wasn't the 1 that made the meal was he it is impolite to refuse food in japan. that would of gone down really well wudn't it who in with a real life gets so angry about silly c**p like this it's stupid

Answer 2

At that dinner, there were 19 courses served.  In Japanese society is it considered an insult not to eat at least some of each course that is put before you, you do not have to eat it all, but you must try each dish as it is presented.  He would have been considered as insulting his host country if he had done anything else!  You need to learn about other cultures before you condemn your P.M.!  He did exactly as he was supposed to do.

Answer 3

Sorry, but don't start on how he is unelected. Many PMs in the past have not been. Why? Because at the polls you vote for a PARTY not a PRIME MINISTER. The party then chooses its leader, not the people. Brown was elected by the Labour party (well, he was automatically PM because no-one else stood against him but still).

But I'm guessing you did have not been to Japan?

I lived there, so let me tell you that refusing to eat the food they have prepared for you, and are probably exceedingly proud to present to you, would be inconceivably rude. It would be like punching your host in the face. It's a different culture, something Brown obviously understands, and the average guy back in the UK doesn't. Yes it looks hypocritical, but remember, Japanese people don't waste as much food as we do, so maybe they have the luxury of showing off like this occasionally.

Answer 4

I'm sick of this. Gordon Brown is a legitimate prime minister.

In the UK we elected the LABOUR PARTY - not Tony Blair or Gordon Brown. We do not have a presidential style government, like the US, where we elect a president.

If I voted for Labour during the next general election, I would vote for Labour's candidate in my constituency. I would NOT be voting for the next prime minister - as opposed to Americans who directly elect their president.

Understand?

Stop reading the Daily Mail!

Answer 5

whether elected or unelected, not very impressed. and how much was left over of that meal?

Answer 6

Please do not let me have to read Mr. Rosenkrantz opinions because the truth is, that Brown Has not been elected by the ENGLISH Public. I would much sooner Gordon Brown,eat Japanese food than waste our food  resources on himself.!!!

Sorry Mathew20 But Gordon Brown is ILLEGITIMATE

Answer 7

Not too bothered if there's plenty of weedkiller in each course...

Answer 8

Not really any point in giving a ****, is there?

Answer 9

There have been many unelected Prime Ministers in England.  I am now without political opinion, after years of thinking I knew best, only to conclude that they really are all the same.  Now I vote for the least bad at elections.  I suspect the 19 courses were an official state offering, and I think that asking us to waste less is hardly suggesting that we eat leftovers.  Perhaps he could have suggested that we all knit ourselves pull-overs.  I fear that you are a victim of the papers, like most people are.  (The papers don't tell the truth, neither does the TV!)

Answer 10

he must be a muslim............you people better wake up or you are doomed.

Answer 11

Sorry, but 19 courses in Japan hardly equates to gorging. Japanese cuisine is not the same as "Western" cuisine.

And why do you say he is unelected? The electorate chooses the party that is to form the government, not the Prime Minister himself. Brown is an elected MP, became PM through a mechanism that is recognised and accepted, and is therefore entirely legitimate and elected.

Everyone knew Blair was going to step down, but the Labour Party was elected all the same. In what sense, then, is he unelected? It's what people voted for in the last election.

Answer 12

We had 10 years to gain an impression of Gordon Brown before he became Prime Minister, so moaning about him now is probably just a reaction to what the media have "fed" us.

19 courses might sound a lot, but in Japan they would be little more than tasters. He was not the only one who ate at the banquet. Personally, I think he was right to publicise how much food we throw away on a daily basis. Over the years, we have become more idle and this is yet another symptom. It is no good moaning about not having much money or that food prices are going up when we throw so much away.

As for being unelected, when did this country ever elect a Prime Minister? Probably never. It is the leader of the Party that has the most MPs elected that becomes Prime Minister (with the Queens assent). All we do is vote for an MP for our area. It is the Party MPs who decide their leader and subsequently PM. In Gordon Brown's case, he was elected unopposed.