Where's Gordon's Courage and Leadership?
Whenever New Labour were in trouble Tony Blair would lead from the front, whatever you may say about him, he never feared to open the batting however sticky the wicket.
When New Labour were first elected Tony Blair risked campaigning during the Uxbridge by-election in May 1997. Blair led from the front even though the Tories were sure to hold the seat. Gordon, author of two books on courage, has ordered 80 ministers and SpAds to go to Crewe and Nantwich this weekend to campaign. He however plans to stay well away chewing his nails.
Gordon avoids elections wherever possible, he chickened out of a contest with Blair for the leadership in 1994, he engineered a coronation unopposed for the party leadership in July 2007 and he bottled holding a mandate producing election in October 2007. Nobody has cast a single vote for him to lead his party or his country.
Gordon is a truly pathetic figure, on Friday morning Labour will have to face up to their mistake. If they can't win Crewe, where they are testing to destruction the "don't vote for a toff" approach - "tough on toffs, tough on the causes of toffs" - backed-up by illiberal knuckle dragging dog-whistle policies, they can't win nationally with Brown. Crewe is 165th on the list of Tory target seats... that should concentrate the minds of 164 Labour MPs...
UPDATE : Blair also visited the tightly fought Eddisbury by-election to campaign in August 1999. Before he stood down Blair told the Labour Party in his final speech to their conference that "there are no rules in politics." Quite.
When New Labour were first elected Tony Blair risked campaigning during the Uxbridge by-election in May 1997. Blair led from the front even though the Tories were sure to hold the seat. Gordon, author of two books on courage, has ordered 80 ministers and SpAds to go to Crewe and Nantwich this weekend to campaign. He however plans to stay well away chewing his nails.
Gordon avoids elections wherever possible, he chickened out of a contest with Blair for the leadership in 1994, he engineered a coronation unopposed for the party leadership in July 2007 and he bottled holding a mandate producing election in October 2007. Nobody has cast a single vote for him to lead his party or his country.
Gordon is a truly pathetic figure, on Friday morning Labour will have to face up to their mistake. If they can't win Crewe, where they are testing to destruction the "don't vote for a toff" approach - "tough on toffs, tough on the causes of toffs" - backed-up by illiberal knuckle dragging dog-whistle policies, they can't win nationally with Brown. Crewe is 165th on the list of Tory target seats... that should concentrate the minds of 164 Labour MPs...UPDATE : Blair also visited the tightly fought Eddisbury by-election to campaign in August 1999. Before he stood down Blair told the Labour Party in his final speech to their conference that "there are no rules in politics." Quite.
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I have never seen a man look so ill at ease in a role as GB.
He has been told to smile - but looks slightly psychotic when he does (and hasn't yet worked out that you smile at good news and look concerned at bad)
His reputation for economic competence has unravelled.
I don't think there is anyone who has seen their ratings fall so far and so fast in modern political history. In six months it has really been Hero to Zero.
I don't believe that Labour have the guts to oust him. There might be a backroom move to suggest that his health is beginning to suffer and stepping down to care for himself is the right move - but he will not go gracefully.
He is fast becoming the new Ted Heath - someone destined to be a very bitter, twisted and lonely figure carping from the sidelines.
If he goes to Crewe Labour will definitely lose. Maybe even Gordo is starting to acknowledge "the Jonah effect."
Am awaiting the result of the Man United/Chelsea game with interest. Gordon's hobnobbing with Grant likely to put the mockers on Chelsea's chances.
OT but very relevant.
stagflation can occur when an economy is slowed by an unfavorable supply shock, such as an increase in the price of oil in an oil importing country, which tends to raise prices at the same time that it slows the economy by making production less profitable. Second, both stagnation (recession) and inflation can be caused by inappropriate macroeconomic policies. For example, central banks can cause inflation by permitting excessive growth of the money supply, and the government can cause stagnation by excessive regulation of goods markets and labor markets. The global stagflation of the 1970s is often blamed on both causes: it was largely started by a huge rise in oil prices, but then continued as central banks used excessively stimulative monetary policy to try to avoid the resulting recession (stagnation), causing a runaway wage-price spiral.[6] In contrast to central bank responses to the oil price spike of the 1970s where similar policies were pursued on both sides of the Atlantic, the 21st Century begins with America going one way to fight recession and Europe going the other way to fight inflation.
Groundhog day!!
I campaigned quite heavily in Uxbridge. The Tories were terrified, a popular MP had just scraped in by under 2000 votes. The lib dems had more votes than the Tory majority. Labour were throwing the kitchen sink in and on the night a gang of Labour activists came round to the Tory campaign office in Randall's department store saying very drunkenly that they won it.
Of course they should have waited for the count.
However the main point is not that Blair didn't have guts but that there seemed a strong chance that Labour could have done a Mitcham and snatched the seat.
Brown Just does not have the slightest shred of any leadership ability at all.
Blair, Foul shit that he was, at least was a leader... would you folloow him into battle? probably you would actually...
Brown, he would not be there to follow; he's the bloke who makes sure he has a cushy job atb the back "sorting out the rations" when the action is on. (actually he's the shit who is nicking the other blokes rations when they are out fighting.
String the cunt up from a lamppost.
Excellent post Guido.
Exposing the lie (PM's don't do by-elections) that Labour are using to explain why PM Gordon won't go to Crewe and Nantwich.
There can be no doubt now that Gordon does not have the courage to face the people.
Check out this wonderful Grauniad own-goal on the subject of Crewe by Lucy Powell know-nothing ZanuLab PPC for somewhere nearby. She drivels: "The view, in Crewe at least, seems to be that local people want a local champion, someone who will stand up for them in parliament, who is in touch with their concerns and will deliver for them. In this Labour town, they're not convinced that the Tory candidate will do this. Driving around campaigning in Bentleys isn't helping"
Er, 'scuse me, luv. Which factory employs so many of your target voters, to make something of which they are very proud? Bentley. Now go and apologise to them.
Tony Blair also visited the Eddisbury by-election in August 1999. Labour didn't take it from the Tories, but it was close.
As I've argued elsewhere, you'd think that a man fighing for his very political survival would have been on the first train out of London. I guess he just doesn't want to win Crewe that badly?
Actually no, scrub that... we all know its his Macavity thing again. He knows he's going to lose the seat and doesn't want any of the blame sticking to him.
Sorry, forgot to provide the link to lovely Lucy's Crewe / Bentley bollox:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/05/theres_crewe_and_theres_nantwi.html
At the last general elkection 24,278 people from Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath voted for Gordon Brown to be their MP, when Blair had said that he would stand for a full third term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
So why is Brown now the Prime Minister of a nation of 60 million people, without one single vote being cast?
The NuLiebour fuckers should all be swinging from lamp-posts. In fact they might even have some use after all - tie a few bits of old rusy iron and broken glass to them as they swing in the breeze, and they might make cheap wind-chimes.
Anonymous said...
"Excellent post Guido. Exposing the lie (PM's don't do by-elections) that Labour are using to explain why PM Gordon won't go to Crewe and Nantwich."
It is not a lie. There has been a convention for the past 40 years that PMs don't campaign at by-elections. The convention was broken only once by Blair.
What a pathetic, cringing, wretched figure Brown looks as he stands increasingly exposed as a shallow, self-obsessed, profoundly dishonest, sociopath promoted miles above the level of any real abilities he may have.
It is clear that he is a dead man walking. The British people have seen him in all his terrible, grotesque nakedness and are appalled and disgusted by the sight.
He must go, and soon. We are heading into very stormy waters, largely of Brown's own making, and we need much better than this vacuous oaf at the wheel.
I see on the news this morning that even Brown's fantastic and far-sighted plastic bag 'initiative' has fallen on its arse. What a disaster he is.
Great post Guido.
As well as being Jonah GB is also Macavity as well.
He has ducked every single opportunity to obtain the mandate and it can only be said of him that when the going gets tough, no-one knows where he is.
Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see the fucker strung up with the rest of the ZaNu Liebore cunts, but a part of me would like to see him stay on until the next General Election.
If he does there's a fair chance that Labour will be almost totally destroyed and hopefully we'll have seen the last of socialist cunts for a very, very long time.
Just my tuppence worth.
So that is now 2 by-elections that Tony Blair is known to have campaigned in when he was the Prime Minister.
I just have a feeling in my water that Blair would have been giving Crewe the same treatment, not cowering in some bunker at number 10, like bottler Brown.
Mitch - interesting OT analysis. The reality is that the recession or stagnation is already here. If the economy grows at sub-1% and inflation is 3+% then in real terms it is contracting. Similarly, the economy in terms of purchasing power, in terms of the Euro, in terms of the US$, in terms of a barrel of oil, is getting smaller. Expect to see 1970's style wage/price spiral getting into gear in the public sector this summer. Who knows, we may even have the return of the "social contract" when the unions effectively ran the counry (into the ground).
There's a letter in the Guardian this morning headed "We still believe Labour can win". It's signed by 12 Labour wonks. Two are described as "rebuttle researchers" and one "head of Rebuttle Unit".
I wonder how big the unit is and whether our regular mongs belong to it.
Is Gordon a member of the Not So Solid Crewe then?
This spineless, halitosis ridden pile of shite didnt even write those books on courage he used a ghost writer.
Go on Gordon get on with the job
KILL YOURSELF!
Show some courage for once
The problem that Gordon now has is that in the whole 10% tax band fiasco he was either stupid or callous:
He was stupid if he did not realise that he was upping the tax burden on the poorest - and what an attack on Labour Party fundamentals that would be;
Or he was callous if he reckoned that the poorest would have nowhere else to go to vote, and so he could put his efforts in winning the leadership by producing a rabbit out of the hat that would keep the marginal slightly better off voters sweet.
That he could be saying a few weeks ago that 'nobody was loosing out' is plain incredible. He clearly either did not understand the result of his actions, or he hoped that Labour MPs would sit by and watch the last plank of their principles be turned to worm-wood.
For the Labour Party Jonah indeed.
Can we have you on curfew all the time? You're posting at 7.56am on a Saturday and churning out loads of decent posts! Perhaps your Rolex is a blessing in disguise.
The difference between Tony and Gordon is the difference between leadership and stewardship?
Tony showed his kind of leadership marrying an ugly working class trollop with chips on both shoulders. Most people wouldn't have given her a second glance.
@ Anonymous said...
"There has been a convention for the past 40 years that PMs don't campaign at by-elections. The convention was broken only once by Blair."
Twice... (Eddisbury also) and its not a convention as such, just a tradition. One that began because it was unseemly for a PM to visit a constituency where an opposition MP had died (the usual reason for by-elections of old). There's no reason why Gordon couldn't go and many why he should.
@ Ex-Army Bloke...
You've nailed Brown perfectly ;-)
I'd add my little paraphrase:
"When the going gets tough, the tough get.... a sms message from Brown to see how its going."
Interesting piece in the Telegraph:
Labour ministers on being told they had to attend the Crewe by-election this weekend...
"Apparently I'm supposed to give up a chance to see my kids to try to save face for Gordon. It's ridiculous – it's lost and we're not going to change that now,"
"If it's that important, why's he not going himself? Because he knows it's pointless."
You just couldn't make these up :-)
Guido.
I read the other day of a marble bust of Julius Ceasar found in a French river. It showed an ageing Juliius with a receding hairline.
( It was the same day of the Brown Press Conference. You know when the tame political correspondents ask tame questions of their hero! The fourth estate!! more like a bloody state!)
Anyway, the news of the Julius bust got me thinking about the shaggy unkempt style of the Brown mop and wondered if a change of ahirstyle would help him! A Ceasar brushed forward style with laurel leaves etc etc. That got me thinking of toga's etc and that eventually got me thinking of just which Roman Emporor Brown emulates.
It has to be NERO!
That man was a total disaster.
Perhaps, Guido, a new name for Brown. NERO???
More Labour discord and breakup
Mayor of Doncaster quits Labour group
Criticise Gordon all you like but please don't compare him unfavourably to Blair. Cherie's memoirs must have done Gordon a real favour as no matter how unpopular Gordo is, it has reminded people that at least he's an improvement on the gruesome couple that inhabited no 10 before him.
ex army bloke - yes I actually believe people would have followed Blair at one time " over the top" He had the aura of leadership about him.
And er, regarding toffs, the point is Blair WAS a toff. He went to what one paper is referring to as the Eton of Scotland ( don't think many other public schools in Scotland would recognise that, but still). But the thing public schools do, is teach you to be a leader - something sadly lacking in GB.
Back last year when the floods were at their worst, GB actually visited one of the areas. As a sycophantic newspaper reported, he got involved in ordering portable loos.
As a matter of record, they never turned up - until weeks later.
As to-day's Guardian says:-
"A central plank of Labour's campaign is that the Tory candidate, Edward Timpson, is "one of them", a posh boy who has not got a clue how people in a down-to-earth place such as Crewe think and feel.
Labour has mocked Timpson by dressing activists in top hats and morning suits, continually pointed out that he lives in a £1.5m mansion, and has gleefully drawn attention to the "exotic South American llamas" that roam the fields around his country pile.
But a quick visit to the Timpson pad 15 miles north of Crewe reveals that not all is as it seems. Certainly, his house is lovely, enjoying splendid views across to the giant Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank. But the lush fields that feature in the Labour photograph of his home are not his. And the llamas belong not to him, but to a local farmer."
The "people" are not fooled by Labour's lies and spin or their weasel words(after all we've had over a decade of it and we want rid of the pack of them) as they'll find to their cost on Thursday
Guido says:
'Before he stood down Blair told the Labour Party in his final speech to their conference that "there are no rules in politics." Quite.'
That phrase keeps coming into my head too. A Blair comeback is not impossible, if unlikely.
I know many of your readers here are still looking for the lamppost with Blair's name on it, but oh how interesting and exciting politics would become again if only ...
And yet I believe that for Blair to lead again (from the Lords this time) he'd need the blessing of the present PM.
Do you see that happening? Really?
Forget the grey suits - any white-coated visitors spotted at Downing Street recently?
You might like to have a look at my Wikipedia 2050 fun entry here.
http://keeptonyblairforpm.wordpress.com/labour-party-wikipedia-entry-2050/
Unless someone with vision - remember that(?) - gets hold of the major policy issues NOW, we're all for the high jump, imho.
Cameron? He too is avoiding the really important hard choices. Riding only on Blair's coat-tails he would still be an also-ran after the next election when/if Blair got back in there and explained where we are going wrong.
It is a common failing to confuse intelligence with charismatic leadership, I have no doubt G Brown is a highly intelligent man.
However, charismatic leadership is all about:
1. inspiration
2. tub-thumping
3. gung-ho speeches
4. general rabble rousing from the stump.
Gordon (it takes a heart of stone not to have some pity, but luckily the Tuscan heart is pure Carrara marble when it scomoes to GB) is all about:
1. perspiration
2. thumb-gnawing
3. grollies like peaches
4. generally looking like Barney Rubble on steroids.
I suggest he reads the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner and then ponders on the meaning of the Albatross.
There is just something missing everytime I see him on TV. I can't put my finger on it. Maybe he has no 'soul'. Something just isn't quite right. Spooky really.
Guido, you are inadvertantly (I hope) making Blair look good by comparing him with this oaf. Stop it now! By all means show Brown for what he is, but Blair in many ways was worse (how many dead in an illegal war? etc etc).
Has anyone thought to actually work out what the hell is going on in that Newsnight clip where someone claps and Brown breaks out of his freaky smile? Are we honestly seeing a PM who needs to be given hand signals for when he has to smile? Isn't that quite frightening?
>> rothbardian said...
What a pathetic, cringing, wretched figure Brown looks as he stands increasingly exposed as a shallow, self-obsessed, profoundly dishonest, sociopath promoted miles above the level of any real abilities he may have. <<
How true - but, Guido, how about this for your next competition, ask people to suggest any special abilities they think that he does have! This should be a tricky one.
While searching the Newsnight page for the scary smile clip, I came upon something by their business reporter Paul Mason. Googled him and found him to be a notorious Trot - is that a suitable background for a BBC business expert?
@ Anonymous 9.50am
If a convention's been broken it's no longer a convention.
Obvious.
Nice own goal in the Grauniad, silly bitch has just upset all the workers at Bentley Motors (VW), and their component suppliers. The follow up phone call from Cyclops will bring tears to her eyes.
Like a capsule of Anus-ol a fearless group of ministers and ZaNuLab apparatchiks arrives in Crewe to solidify support.
Make no mistake, the weak in mind and thought Nantwhich and Crewe voters will return in their thousands to support the great leader (who is undoubtedly, and unexpectedly detained on important matters of state) and his cohorts.
However, if the charismatic, male and female tribunes of the people , formerly known as Gordon's Gophers include such sparkling intellects, and warm hearts as Hazel 'Motormouth' Blears, Harriet Harpic, Enver Hodge, Tessa No Mortgage Jowell, Ed 'kicks ya' Balls, Alistair 'Tax Rise for the Motorists' Darling, Geoff 'Buff' Hoon alias TCH,and Caroline 'Heart of' Flint; then Gordon can sleep soundly in his bed until 02.30 on Friday morning, when he wakes up screaming and foaming at the mouth, along with 170 ZaNuLab MPs who realise that the game is up.
Never forget, in his fear of elections, he also engineered the unopposed coronation of Bendy Wendy.
What a success that has been too - made of the same stuff...
Tony Bliar = CUNT!!
Shit Brown = CUNT!!
Front Bench= BUNCH OF CUNTS!!
All shit heads and shit bags.
Cameron = CUNT!!
Osbourne= CUNT!!
Shadow front bench = MOSTLY CUNTS!!
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!
Gordon's at the Church of Scotland today speaking about world poverty.
He might be a crap leader but he is a first class Jonah.
After visiting China in January, Jonah sent them a Chinese New year Messsage in February, wishing them good health and good fortune for the year ahead. :(
Whitby Bridge said...
@ Anonymous 9.50am
"If a convention's been broken it's no longer a convention.
Obvious."
Obvious? Really?
So according to you, once a LAW has been broken then it is no longer a law.
Maybe, with you as his lawyer, Guido should have tried that argument in court this week.
Courage don't make me laugh.
Brown has all the courage of the Cowardly Lion! and the brains of the Scarecrow!
Him touring the studios to make himself out to be a leader, is a bit like Hannibal Lector touring them making out he is a vegetarian.
How long till the next disaster? A week, I give it two weeks at most before they screw something else up.
W.W.
Brown on Newsnight, Derren Brown off camera:
http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk212/nobodyatall_2008/?action=view¤t=brown_newsnight.flv
simon in oxford said:
"He is fast becoming the new Ted Heath - someone destined to be a very bitter, twisted and lonely figure carping from the sidelines."
Yes but one of Ted's reasons for his morose personality was being in denial about his sexuality whereas...........bloody hell simon,I do believe you've cracked it.
When GB. looks in the mirror THERE IS NO REFLECTION. Oh my fuck!!
Guido said> "[...] backed-up by illiberal knuckle dragging dog-whistle policies [...]"
Has Labour taken on the services of Lynton Crosby then?
Excellent header piece Guido, and excellent posts that follow. Very reassuring and calming to see that Flush Gordon is Busted.
As Broon won't go to Crewe himself, an alternative would be to arrange for two coachloads of Gordon Brown lookalikes to descend on Crewe one morning next week. They could practice the art of the psychotic smile on the journey there and perfect the 'nervous idiot' bitten finger nail look. On arrival they could mingle with shoppers, scaring old ladies with their pasty, sagging jowls and amusing young children by demonstrating the art of nasomucosophaghy.
Now there's a media event!!!
If Our Glorious Leader continues to nibble his fingers so, the green scales will inevitably begin to show through...
Then it will become obvious to all that he is the Creature From the Black Lagoon. David Icke, I apologise on behalf of the entire British nation. You were right and we were wrong.
"He is fast becoming the new Ted Heath - someone destined to be a very bitter, twisted and lonely figure carping from the sidelines."
But at least Ted was cultured and had his music and yachting. What's Brown got? A heap of remaindered books on 'Courage', acollection of dried bogies and an eye in a jar.
I suspect Ted Heath was also very fond of his Crew(e) and they were of him. Having watched 2Blade Runner - The Final Cut" recently, I am inspired to offer Jonah a bit of campaigning advice. He can avoid being on the ground in Crewe whilst supporting the Tamsin by commissioning a giant airship with a huge plasma screen on the side projecting his "caring image" to the voters 24/7, who thereby should be sufficiently programmed by next Thursday to vote Labour in their masses. Even with Jonah's malevolent influence, it is unlikely there would be a "Hindenberg" type disaster.
tony blair got it wrong, there are rules in politics.
rule no.1) people do not vote for spastics or midgets.
er, that's the only one really.
and as gordon brown is a total spastic who was
"elected unopposed" he does not, and never will, hold a mandate to lead the country.
lord hailsham's theory of elective dictatorship has rapidly evolved into a terrible beast. gordon brown represents the essence of the triumph of the political class - he has succeeded, due to his party's erosion of checks and balances, and with help from weak-willed, compliant labour mps, to create an unelected dictatorship.
note to brown: you must go to the country. put the interest of the country first for once you cunt.
and talking of losers, 'mad bomber'mccain fails the rule no.1 test because he is a midget-spastic with a real funky looking face. that means he hasn't got a hope of beating the tall and distinguished looking barack obama.
GO OBAMA!!!!!!
obama is definitely the man.
Ghastly Gordons gone to Scotland to bring about the downfall of Labour there,he's a walking curse, but sadly he's coming back,look for his new epic, Relaunch V "THE RETURN OF GHASTLY GORDON"
Imagine the scenes on the lookalikes bus to Crewe, hundreds of middle-aged blokes maladjusting their ties, gurning at each other as they try out their GB jaw-slalom, gnawing away at their nails and grinning like they're in The Hills Have Eyes, all this with the floor of the coach increasingly strewn with snot and pausing only to enjoy some dried-up egg and tomato sandwiches provided by the agency.
Fellini eat your heart out.
I wouldn't indulge in anticipaTory gloating. Wait until the result is in. The local polls have sometimes been very close.
BTW, any update on Naomi Campbell? Face, body still in order?
I know it is off topic, but as you have Cherie's book on your website - this raises a smile:
http://www.recycledart.org/content/cherie-blairs-memoirs-speaking-for-myself-beau-bo-dor
Seems Jonah Gordon decided not to go to the FA cup final...he knows he would be booed by all...
A Winston Churchill's words on MacDonald have a contemporary ring.
"I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder". My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench."
And a slight modification of his views on Atlee -
An empty train drew up at Crewe station and the Cabinet stepped out.
Anon 10.27 - Interesting that New Labour can't even spell its own job titles. Shows the quality of current education. Try "rebuttal".
The Crewe and Nantwich by-election is a test of of the Labour party's credentials. If Brown campaigns there it becomes the test of his leadership that we all suspect he might fail. If, on the other hand, Brown stays away it becomes a test of the party. Should Labour lose, this will reflect badly on the party as a whole, and could be far more damaging than another verdict on an unpopular prime minister.
What really disturbs me is the disgusting campaign that Labour are running against the Tories. The "Don't vote for a toff" campaign implies that it is perfectly acceptable to discriminate against someone based on an accident of birth. Whatever next? Perhaps they will target each constituency differently come the general election. Expect to hear "Don't vote for a black man", "Don't vote for an Englishman" or "Don't vote for a shortarse" from your local Labour party soon.
Nasty, nasty stuff.
Brown's got a wife and two kids which is more than Ted ever had. I blogged Brown being the new Ted Heath in September 2007 on www.tapestrytalks.typepad.com
In Crewe, Labour supporters who wants a change of leaders should vote Conservative. Cameron must be praying for a marginal win, and not a thrashing which might unseat Brown.
You can have as many 're-launches' as you like, but if what you are launching is a brick, it will always sink!
When they are decimated at the next election, David Milliband is going to be New Labour's William Hague (without the charm) Followed by Ed Balls (Ian Duncan Smith)
By which time the Labour party will have ten members and six MP's.
But we will still be paying for their fuck ups.
W.W.
An "unelected PM"? Worrying that so many of your posters have no sense of history, Guido. In the 1950s and 60s - and again in 1990 - the Tories gave the country a total of four unelected PMs (Eden, Macmillan, Douglas Home and Major, in case you were unaware).
As for PMs visiting by-elections, it's great that so many Tories now think that all PMs should follow Tony Blair's lead in visiting by-elections. But GB is right to reinstate that particular convention - which I suspect none of his successors will want to change.
@ thick as thieves 1:33
Brown "has succeeded, . . . with help from weak-willed, compliant labour mps, to create an unelected dictatorship"
I completely agree.
Fact 1: There has never been such a useless, compliant, easily led and pathetic PLP in living memory, just following their boss and unable to stand up with courage for their principles.
Fact 2: There have never been so many women in the PLP. It is stuffed with them and many of them were only selected because they were women.
Is there a message here?
And Cameron is doing this too - saying he wants more women MPs - not because they are good, but merely because they are bloody women. Fashion, fashion fashion, conventional thinking,
Let us have people in power who are good regardless of gender or race. NO-ONE should be preferred because of their gender or race. It is an outrage.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission should be abolished - it builds in legal discrimination. People should be treated as people not as a gender or as a race.
PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has praised Cardiff City boss Dave Jones for his “great job” in taking the Bluebirds to tomorrow’s FA Cup final.
Be afraid Cardiff, be very afraid. The curse of the one eyed one is upon you!!
"didnt even write those books on courage he used a ghost writer."
That is absolutely hilarious - what evidence is there for that, Beast?
Who would Gordon resemble if you pencilled in a black moustache, about an inch square, under his nose.......?
OT a bit. Anybody hear the outrageous Your and Yours report on Wednesday lunchtime?
Some old Labour fart councillor called Roger Jones was tipped out of office in Irlam, Greater Manchester. In fact after winning seven elections on the trot, he came third in a seat won by the new, anti-road tolls, Community Action Party.
Funnily enough, Jones was the Chairman of the Gtr Manchester Passenger Transport Authority and the main cheerleader for the massive Gtr Manchester tolling scheme.
Well, the crack team of chippy lefties that make up You and Yours (motto: 'well, don't you think there should be new leglislation....') got stuck in on this obvious failure of democracy.
Jones had claimed that a telephone survey of constituents commissioned by local property giant Peel Holdings had helped undermine him.
On air, the thin-lipped and outraged Scouser Y&Y Winifred Robinson, accused Peel holdings of committing the crime of pointing out to the locals that the labour candidate was keen for drivers to pay £100 per month to drive to work.
It was, of course, a clear undermining of the Nu-lab style democracy, despite Y&Y having to accept that Peel had not broken the law.
Y&Y also managed to conduct the whole piece without pointing out that the CAP pressure group had actually won the council seat with 1152 votes - three times the number of constituents that had been phoned by Peel.
London-centric media has ignored the huge Greater Manchester toll scheme, but it shines a light on the demise of nanny-knows-best, tax-grab NuLaboursim and how the party is killing its self slowly by shitting on its own supporters.
Incidentally, Ruth kelly is not only transport minister, but also has a margin seat (Bolton West) in the proposed congestion charge zone.
Incidentally the Y&Y presenters are a self-confessed bunch of lefties.
On the website Winifred Robinson says she was born 'Liverpool in a back to back terrace near the docks. We really did have a tin bath on the back door! The house went in slum clearance so when I was five we moved to a wonderful council estate called Norris Green.'
Sheila McClennon (Wirral) says she hates 'weather presenters who assume we only care about the weather in London;.
Liz Barclay (Northern Ireland) hates 'Posh parties where I don't know anyone'.
Can't wait for gordon to crack, but I've a bad feeling that NuLabour scum with continue to multiply in the public sector.
Is it just me, or does Brownshit look like Rab C Nesbitt in that pic?
It looks like the one solid remaining legacy of Broon's political career will be the wife and children he didn't really want.
Gordon visited the Eden Centre in Cornwall last week to talk to the plants and promise to do things for country folk. The chances that anyone in Cornwall will ever vote Labour are less that nil but he thought he'd get a better reception there than in Crewe.
Yet another disastrous set of poll results in The Times.
Good to see the curse of Jonah Brown has struck again, for Cardiff City this time.
I hope snotgobbler stays in place for next footy season and beyond as I am making an absolute fortune at the bookies with the buffoon there.
The moment Jonah praises or backs a team competing at a sporting event get down there quick to bet on the opposition as you are quids in.
Manchester Utd are a certainty going to win on Wednesday after gay Gordo met Avram Grant the other day.
Off to collect my winnings, again, yipee...
Nulab would bugger up the organization of a bonk in a brothel.
and still come out fleeced..
The latest YouGov poll for the Sunday Times makes depressing reading for Gordon Brown ahead of the coming week’s key by-election test in Crewe & Nantwich.
The Tories have a 20-point national poll lead, up from 16 a month ago. Labour is on just 25% of the vote (down 2), with the Tories at 45% (up 2) and the Liberal Democrats on 18%, also up 2.
The prime minister’s personal ratings have plunged further. Only 17% think he is doing a good job while 78% say he is doing badly.
hahahahahahaha ahahahaha stop it gordon your killing me hahahahaha.
Anonymous 4:28
Please excuse the pedantry but ...
Winifrid Robinson cannot have had a tin bath (luxury!) hanging by the back door of her back-to-back terrace house because back-to backs do not have back doors (because, as the name suggests, they are back-to-back and share a back wall with the house behind). She lived in an ordinary terrace house, no doubt, even if it did share a rear close or alley with the house behind. More BBC lies and exaggeration so no surprise there.
Perhaps, Guido, a new name for Brown. NERO???
In fairness to Nero his reign got off to a good start before he went completely barmy. He had a good grasp of the economic problems facing the empire, which is more than you can say about McBean.
Brown as a person is pathetic joke.
As PM, he is a cowardly no mark , who is totally incompetent, a disaster of epic proportions.
The cunt has no shame and is screwing the country to death. Following him will be thankless task.
Could gordon become so hated in the UK that when he leaves no10 he has to leave the country?
How fucking brilliant would that be?
Are Gordon's Jonah powers on the increase?
China and Cardiff city just simply collapsed after his best wishes.
Fook knows what will happen to Cornwall and Plymouth, what will befall the Janners now that they are cursed by Gordon?
tom harris mp: we have a great sense of history which is why we despise you blood-sucking socialist scum so much. Every single thing socialists have ever done in this country has contributed to its decline.
In 1982 when you left school and were wondering what to do with your life I had already been serving my country for 10 years. I take no lectures on history from you, a career Labour politician who wouldn't know a days work from a dog turd.
If Labour upstarts like you had more respect for the older generation in this country and took heed of our wisdom, experience and life skills you might not have fucked the place up so badly.
You have been rumbled and exposed. New Labour are hated. No amount of spin, lies or socialist crap is going to change that now. Stop being in denial and deluding yourselves. You have done enough damage to this once great nation. Now fuck off and let someone else run things.
Gordon Brown has now become God's messenger... You could'nt make it up. Will someone please section him before he drives us all insane.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7405547.stm
Brown reveals global moral vision
Mr Brown argued that the joining together of the information revolution and the human urge to co-operate for justice made it possible for the first time in history for the dream of a truly global society to be realised.
He called for people everywhere to discover their shared values, communicate with each other and join together with people in other countries in a "single moral universe to bring about change".
'Mighty stream'
"This is the irrepressible revolution of our time - a billion voices for change. And I'd like to think that acting together we can become the generation to address climate change," he said.
"Acting together, the first generation in the history of mankind to abolish illiteracy and give every child the right to education; acting together, the first generation to eradicate tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, malaria, on the way to eradicating HIV/Aids.
"And to honour the dream of the scriptures: that justice will roll like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."
Anonymous 4:05 PM
Who would Gordon resemble if you pencilled in a black moustache, about an inch square, under his nose.......?
Got it - Eartha Kit !
Yes, leave the country, and go back to his own
(give them full independence, rebuild hadrian's wall and fuck them all off back up there)
(Where'e my english parliament?)
"Crewe is 165th on the list of Tory target seats... that should concentrate the minds of 164 Labour MPs..."
Surely more than that, unless the Tories just win by one vote? If the Screws poll is accurate, I'd say we could cull at least 200 of the sleazy, corrupt, incompetent wastes-of-space in 2010.
George Clooney's latest film Leatherheads has made back a mere quarter of its $60 million budget at the box office. 4 days after its US release (3 days before its UK release), Clooney met Gordon Brown at Downing Street.
you know Blair was 1000 times more destructive than Brown, Blair was just better at lying and got out before the shit hit the fan.
still i love to read the Tories keep refering fondly to Blair who had about as much substance as that other prick Cameron, just another career politition out for the political class.
Blair destroyed Great Britain as you will come to realise over the next 15 years, Still i expect most of you cunts will have fled the country by then with the money you stole from the working classes who were given a shit two tier education system of which the tories had done nothing to redress when their beloved cunt thatcher was in power, but back to brown he is but a pathetic footnote in the sceme of things, still carry on tory boys you just underline how very sad and short sighted you are.
and to prove my point, Labour have been a disaster for this country since they came to power and yet the Tories have only now started to play catchup as no one votes anymore as you are that shit! yet you claim to be winning the argument, the truth is the main parties lost the argument a long time ago and only maintain power through a captive mainstreme media which includes guido.
They should put snotty on Mr and Mrs that would be great he could try and pick her out of a lineup.
What's happened to Stanislav, the Polish plumber? I miss his rants.
A propos of not a lot, what an evil bitch Caroline Flint is:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caroline_Flint&diff=213049598&oldid=178501067
"Tony Blair’s expenses shredded"
Hahahahahahahahahaha
That's better than if they weren't shredded. More consternation. More anger. Take a flame-thrower to these hypocritical ZaNu Labour parasites.
Mitch....
In regards to stagflation/inflation read Francisco d'Anconia's speech on "the root of all evil" in Atlas Shrugged (Part 2 Chapter 2).
It is simply the symptom of broken promises and theft.
wasnt Tony great said...
I could argue that Brown is the greater evil but lets just say I agree with you. We know Tony Blair caused huge harm to this country. Those that are now highlighting his 'good points' are doing so with irony because the great saviour Brown has actually turned out to be just as bad.
Just think of it as rubbing Gordon's nose in it.
As for the two tier thing; I'm a product of the lower rung but I'm still getting out of here if things don't improve soon.
Anonymous 4:28
"Please excuse the pedantry but ...
Winifrid Robinson cannot have had a tin bath (luxury!) hanging by the back door of her back-to-back terrace house because back-to backs do not have back doors"
Rubbish. Back-to-backs have back doors"
Speaking of Brown the picture in this article just calls out for a caption contest.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/18/crewebyelection08.economy
http://tinyurl.com/5gc5ke
"Nobody has cast a single vote for him to lead his party or his country."
Wasn't 2005 "Vote Blair, Get Brown"?
We should spare a thought in all this for poor Mr Balls, who has so inextricably tied his fortunes to his master's.
From what I can remember, a tapeworm has a head called a scolex, furnished with a ring of hooks which embed themselves in the intestine. The (sometimes extremely) long body of the worm depends from this scolex, conforming to the coils and contours of the intestine, absorbing nutrients and shedding copious eggs, which are passed out with the faeces (i.e. policies).
Once it has taken up residence, a tapeworm can only be dislodged by the most extreme measures -- what they are exactly I don't recall; but the most extreme, of course, is the death of the host. It cannot live independently.
However! The eggs are resistant, can remain dormant for a long time, and, if ingested by the unwary and unclean, will quickly develop into an adult worm.
As is well known, a tapeworm is a most debilitating parasite. Multiple infection (cf. the rest of the Cabinet, esp. Yvette, Hazel, Harriet) can even caused starvation and a horrible, lingering death.
Anonymous 12.42am
Interesting to see how politicians massage their images. See what has been expunged, eg her first marriage, the name of her school changed to imply something grander than a comprehensive, boris johnson's