Filed under: conservative, Labour, liberal, life, politics, Scotland | Tags: clegg, communications, david cameron, election 2010, george osborne, gideon osborne, gordon brown, horse trading, lib lab pact, plaid cymru, Scottish Politics, UK election, web, welsh national party
shit happens.
I’d like to think we can read quite a lot into this. Particularly that Brown is getting out of the way of a Lib Lab pact, perhaps even including a deal for Scotland and Wales. This is turning out to be a very interesting game of deceit and counter-deceit. The great thing is that at least Clegg is taking his time to show his hand, but, I repeat, if he eventually does do a deal with the devil I will never EVER vote Liberal again. I feel I am not alone in this respect. This is a very fundamental election because it could shape the long term future of both the Liberals and the Conservatives. The only ones that cannot really lose (apart from in the short term) is Labour. Absolutely fascinating.
Oh God, how much would I laugh if Cameron loses this one. And poor old Gideon.
Filed under: conservative, humour, jokes, Labour, liberal, life, politics, Rants | Tags: clegg, david cameron, gordon brown, Hung parliament, liberal, liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, photos, the kingmaker, tory, UK election
As the “Kingmaker” and co got more and more tired masks started to slip today.
Cameron looked more and more like the toff boy wank with loadsamoney and no talent that anyone with half a brain recognises.
But Brown emerged scowling, prowling, defiant, indignant, unremitting, warrior-like to a press conference yards in front of the door of number ten.
He looked like a leader that had one more fight in him. He should have been sponsored by Nike,
Clegg “the Kingmaker” (wank phrase of the year) meanwhile looked all pasty faced and tired, needing his bed as he faux-negotiated with Cameron. (I think/hope that’s all just a front for the real deals that are being done behind wanky boy’s back)
So, come Monday I just wonder if the real deal will actually turn out to be the Lib Lab pact that most Libs hoped for; and the result might possibly still be a minority govt.
But one that sends that bunch of pansy public schoolboy tosspots back to where they came from.
(Wealth and mummy – at least they’ll be able to afford the ignominy.)
It’s actually getting more exciting again.
And that’s what the commuters on the tube thought yesterday…
Filed under: conservative, Labour, liberal, life, politics | Tags: david cameron, death of the tories, election debate, election outcome, election result, gordon brown, Hung parliament, hustings, ITV debate, Labour, Lib Dem, liberal, liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, tory, tory decline, UK politics
"You're Shite.. And you know you are."
And so, the great British public is about to have its say. In the first election in a lifetime there are political choices to be made. Real ones.
In one night at the hustings (the first ITV leaders debate) politics was changed forever, because Nick Clegg emerged as leader of an electable party. The momentum has been maintained and now it’s the Tories who will suffer.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Nick Clegg is particularly inspiring, but look what he was up against.
The real catastrophe for the Tories was that they did not put their ace in the pack in charge. In fact I would go as far as to say that we may be about to see the death of the modern day Tory party as a result. There can be no question that Kenneth Clarke is the most gifted Tory politician (if William Hauge wasn’t such a geek that mantle may have been his but he “peaked” too young) and should be leading the party. I believe that if this scenario had unfolded Clarke would have a commanding lead in the polls and would be PM elect.
But that hasn’t happened. Cameron (the fool) has withered as this campaign has progressed. Clegg (the pretty boy) has appeared from nowhere in a sort of protest vote and has effectively split the Tory vote.
The outcome will be, I believe, a Tory lead in seats but a Lib Lab pact with the main condition being the adoption of proportional representation as a much fairer electoral measure.
The result of that will be a strengthening of the Liberal vote (and to some extent Labour) and a weakening of the Tory vote.
Oh, and I expect a very strong showing from the BNP.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Brown bullying, Christine pratt, gordon brown, mrs pratt, National bullying helpline
Mrs Pratt thought she could shame the Brown government by grassing up Gordon as a bully who intimidates his staff. This despite the fact that the charity she heads, The National Bullying Helpline, presumably operates under a form of ‘patient confidentiality’. Whether Brown is a bully or not (I suspect he’s just a hot head) Mrs Pratt should have kept her big gob shut and done what her job required. Offer victims of bullying confidential and discrete advice.
I think Mrs Pratt may have bitten off more than she can chew.
Does anyone else think she looks like a Daily Mail reading card carrying Cameronite? Twit!
The great thing about all of this is that Brown is rebuilding his position against the great wet blanket of New Tory.
Filed under: life, politics, Rants, stories | Tags: gordon brown, misspelling, mrs janes
Gordon Brown spells a poor mother’s son’s name wrongly and all hell breaks loose.
Jeana was firmly on the mother’s side, but then, if one in ten people spell her name correctly I’d be surprised.
Me? I think he deserves a break, after all he did take the trouble to write personally to her and not put it through the civil servant machine.
Frankly, it’s hard to tell if it was misspelt or otherwise. Looks to me like he wrote…
Davots
New Ma Domes
I enclose a letter minah gus o’donnell lu revise foo portishead advisers caneloni has apologise varseverally are left his pot etc….
Filed under: Arts, humour, jokes, life, politics | Tags: cassetteboy, gordon brown
The loan shark gag is appaling but hilarious.
“Only a Digital Britain can unlock the imagination and creativity that will secure for us
and our children the highly skilled jobs of the future. Only a Digital Britain will secure the
wonders of an information revolution that could transform every part of our lives. Only a
Digital Britain will enable us to demonstrate the vision and dynamism that we have to
shape the future.”
Rt Hon. Gordon Brown MP, Prime Minister
OK. Let’s see some action then.
Filed under: life, politics, Rants, stories | Tags: Brown, brownism, credit crunch, david camerobn, economic downturn, economic recession, gordon brown, recession, the brown bounce
It’s really quite an extraordinary phenomenon this. Abject fiscal failure has placed Gordon Brown not in the political knacker’s yard but has driven something approaching the greatest comeback since Lazarus. And, unless you failed to register my paradox, I’ll repeat it.
It is failure that has been the catalyst for his success.
Any government that can double the national debt in six months to the highest level since 1946 when, let’s face it, we had a nation to rebuild, literally, and GROW their share of the popular vote must have some form of godlike genius about it. Some form of shamen on the frontline. A Ronaldo in attack.
Is this the Labour government you know?
Nope.
Or, is this a government in free fall, facing the weakest opposition in political history.
Yes.
Yes.
And thrice, yes.
That is exactly what we are talking about here.
Come on folks, could you honestly imagine an announcement at the Whitehouse press conference welcoming the Prime Minister of England (sorry Great Britain), as Mr David Cameron and not imagine, off camera, a bunch of snickering aids texting each other saying. “Who is he exactly? Is he, like, important?”
Gobstoppersooker, or whatever it is he does in that oral cavity, at least has the presence of ‘Brownism’. His shock haired apprentice must think “Poor old Davy C, if the poor sap ever gets in I know how he’ll feel.”
Salmond preens. Aloof. Concocting his latest ascerbism.
It is indeed rich political times in which we live.
Filed under: Arts, humour, jokes, life, photography, politics, stories | Tags: Brown, brown's eyes, chancellor, gordon brown, labour party, microphone eyes
A contact of mine, Andy Teo, a GP in Hampshire, hence his name spotted this on the telly the other night.
It made me laugh.
Nice one Andy.
Filed under: life, politics, Rants | Tags: bail out, bi-partizan, bi-partizan agrement, credit crunch, financial meltdown, george bush, global economy, gordon brown, harry reid, the economy, the house, the senate, us bailout, us economy, us election, us house, us senate, wal street
So, US congress reluctantly votes to bail out the world economy by getting tax payers to pay for Wall Street’s greed.
Meanwhile in the UK, the Labour party nationalises Bradford and Bingley witn taxpayers’ money.
Any thoughts on who lost out in all this greed?
Here’s a clue. It wasn’t anyone in the City or on Wall Street because lost jobs or otherwise, they’re all right Jack.
Filed under: humour, jokes, life, politics, Rants, stories | Tags: british politics, david cameron, gordon brown, Labour, labour party, labour party copnference, this is no time for a novice, westminster
Rookie says to novice "OK, you've had your fun, now get back to your playpen sonny, before I kick your arse."
It’s very true that tough times call for great experience.
Pity then that Gordon Brown is our rookie Prime Minister.
Filed under: independence, life, politics, Scotland | Tags: alex salmond, by election, Glasgow, glasgow east, gordon brown, labour party, Scottish Independence, SNP
Gor blimey. What's gonna go wrang next?
So, as predicted, Alex Salmond has delivered a further body blow to what is appearing to be an increasingly inept Brown government. But it’s hardly a surprise is it. After all Alex was crawling all over Glasgow East on a regular basis wooing the electorate whilst Brown just shuffled about apologetically in an unapologetic way.
OK, it’s a protest vote and not likely to be repeated in a general election, but you cannot argue with Salmond and his very able deputies (Swinney in a role he is far better suited to than leading the party) and Nicola Sturgeon, an articulate and likeable deputy to Salmond.
At this rate he could actually convince the country to vote for independence.
Filed under: life, politics, Rants, Scotland | Tags: conservative, democrats, gordon brown, liberal, mccain, obama, republicans, us election, US Politics
You live through the last ten years of lying politics and suddenly things go a bit tingly.
Barak Obama is undoubtedly the most exciting introduction to the Western political world since Clinton (Mr , not Mrs) and some.
And in Scotland we are graced by Alex Salmond.
In between times Bush bombs; yes, I know, it’s a pun.
Brown just goes pear-shaped – but what can you expect when his boss/predecessor was an inveterate liar?
So. Bring it on. The Presidential election I mean. Because, although I am massively predisposed to Obama, I think we all need to see the debate unfold.
Filed under: independence, jokes, life, politics, Rants, Scotland, stories, Uncategorized, work | Tags: Annabel Goldie, gordon brown, Holyrood, Independence Referendum, Labour, Lib Dem, political meltdown, referendum, Scottish Independence, Scottish Labour Party, Scottish Politics, tories, Wendy Alexander
I’ve been itching to write about this for months but have been worried about displaying political niaivety. However, even I cannot be accused of that in the face of Wendy Alexander’s kindergarten politics
It would seem that in attempting to raise a referendum bill she is simply not permitted to do so by Holyrood protocol because Smiley Alec Salmond beat her to it! Now that’s a silly wee mistake to make. Just like accepting £900 of unrecorded political support was.
But by taking a personal independence agenda into the public domain at total odds with the Labour party in Millbank she has managed to piss off Gordon Brown and most of the National Executive of the Labour Party, the Scottish Labour Party, John Prescott, The Lib Dems – who may or may not be Labour’s allies – and most amusingly of all, the Scottish Tory Leader, Annabel Goldie, who sees her behaviour as tantamount to destroying the Union.
Needless to say Alex Salmond must think he’s died and gone to heaven.
But what underpins this ‘car crash’ politics? I think it must be ego. She is well known for having zero people skills and has dodged and ducked her way through political minefields for a while and bottled a leadership contest with Jack McConnell.
She’s just not good enough. Intellectually brilliant perhaps: as the author of the Smart Successful Scotland strategy I have to say I admired the way in which this document seemed to lucidly capture the issues facing the nation. But her job is not an academic one, it’s a political one and politics appears to be the least of her talents.
A bit of a handicap as a party political leader.
You know what Wendy?
As Sir Alan should be urging Big Goggsy to say…
“You’re fired!”
Filed under: humour, jokes, life, Rants | Tags: alastair darling, bank, banking, gordon brown, nationalisation, northern rock, politics
Northern rock is a comedy.
Poor Ally. Wee Darling.
A pure dead hospital pass from Broony.
See ya. Wouldn’t wanna be ya…
