Ironically, the Guardian lets that old beast of the ‘New’ Labour Party have that headline. I say ‘ironic’ because this is what they had to say about him in 2009:

When he was chancellor, his appetite for deep reading and private pondering was often seen as a strength. “Brown plays his cards against his chest,” a civil servant told me in 2004. “Very important decisions won’t be on an official piece of paper until days before the deadline. In Whitehall, the question ‘What will Gordon say?’ hangs over everything.” But for a prime minister, presented daily with unexpected dilemmas, this sort of late decision-making can be disastrous. Brown’s critics cite, for example, his slow response to the long-approaching storm over MPs’ expenses, which has allowed a more nimble and shameless Cameron, despite the arguably worse behaviour of his MPs, to emerge with credit; the government’s ponderous U-turn over the treatment of Gurkha veterans; the protracted controversy over the 10p tax band; and, above all, his dithering over calling a general election in autumn 2007, when he was enjoying his prime-ministerial honeymoon.

Then, of course, at the end:

After years of separatist political movements, from Scottish independence to Brexit, is this crisis illustrating the dangers of separation? “It becomes a moment where we have got to make a choice,” he says. “If we can’t cooperate on this, then it doesn’t say much about the world and I do think people in the end will.’”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jun/03/gordon-brown-scandal-unpopularity-election

Many readers will remember Brown’s infamous intervention in the Scottish Referendum. It revealed the contempt for Scots who had stayed and not gone to London, characteristic of the ‘house jock’, but, as with everything else, it was slow and ponderous:

Gordon Brown has been hailed as the man who saved the Union, after his late intervention [the day before] in the referendum campaign halted a slide of Labour supporters who had been planning to vote for independence. “Gordon Brown saved David Cameron’s bacon, and Labour’s too,” said Lord Mandelson, who had a long-running feud with Mr Brown after Tony Blair became Labour leader in 1994, but who was surprisingly recalled as a Cabinet minister during Mr Brown’s stint as Prime Minister. A Scottish Labour source said the No camp’s bigger than expected winning margin showed Mr Brown had not prevented a breakaway on his own. “There was a silent majority out there but we had no way of knowing that. Gordon played a critical role,” he said. “Our polling showed Labour voters were shifting over to Yes in big numbers. Gordon stopped that drift.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/scottish-independence/scottish-referendum-result-gordon-browns-place-in-history-rewritten-after-decisive-intervention-9744892.html

Is there anything he won’t be jerked back to life for?

Gies peace Gordon!