April 8th, 2009

Guess What Happened Next?

Police brutality is in the news again.  Here is Gordon being brutal towards a copper.  How can anyone watching this (video here) not think Brown is socially autistic?  The Prime Mentalist is an emotionally retarded weirdo.


260 Comments

  1. 1
    Clapham Commoner says:

    What a freak!!

    Does he have friends?

    I mean “real” friends; not hangers on craving for advancement, like Balls and Miliband.

    • 33
      Dem O'Crat says:

      Hindsight now teaches us that John Prescott (Welshman) would have been a better Prime Minister than Brown (Scotsman). O’Bama (Irish) might have been OK, but Mugabe would have been more democratic than the ones we’ve had.

      • 138
        Anonymous says:

        Brown strutted across there like a peacock on heat
        “look at me, look at me! everone I am with Obama”

        what a twat.

      • 226
        Medical student says:

        Brown has the classical signs of pre-Parkinsonism. At least that’s what one of my lecturers, an expert in neurological diseases said to us last week.

      • 238
        njleaton says:

        Unless you can find video of previous PMs such as Major and Thatcher shaking the hand of the bobby outside number 10 then presumably we can assume they were also emotionally retarded wierdos.
        If Brown HAD broken tradition and shook the hand of the bobby, you’d be complaining that he was copying Obama.
        FWIW, if the bobby had offered his hand to Brown before Brown had turned his head back towards the door, he’d probably have got a handshake anyway. But he was too late.

      • 246
        Clachnacuddin says:

        I thought O’bama was giving him a tip.

    • 65
      Andy Carpark says:

      Tom Bower’s celebrated biography tells how in the old days, Brown used to recreate in his Westminster bachelor pad by sharing a sofa with Charlie Whelan and (!) Ed Balls and bellowing at televised football. And that, so far as we know, is it. The sum total of his common humanity. Come to that, whatever happened Charlie Whelan?

      • 93
        Carlos says:

        Am I the only one who thinks that sounds camper than Christmas?

        “OOOh, look at us, dahhhling, we’re real men, watching football and everything! Now, give us a cuddle, Ballsy……”

      • 102
        Anonymous says:

        Well and truly plugged into the UNITE union, directing funds to NuLabour, except when he’s salmon fishing back in bonny Scotland

      • 159
        talwin says:

        For those who read Bower’s biography of Brown much of his all-round ghastliness and lack of social skill is revealed as being present for virtually all his adult life. He has always been one unpleasant bastard.

      • 185
        Tom (not) Bower says:

        Andy

        You got in first,I was going to post re Tom Bowers biography “Gordon Brown”

        Brown comes across as a bitter twisted disturbed person.

        I think the people on here who post that he is a delusional fuckwit are closer than they think.

        What a complete loser we have for a first minister.

        Everyone should seek out and read Tom Bowers book

    • 90

      O/T

      OXFAM posting on labourlist?

      I’ve <a href=”http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2009/04/right-said-fred.html” fisked it

    • 98
      anonymouse says:

      Guido,
      I do think you are a little unfair. As JC told the world the fucking idiot only has one eye, it’s not that he is emotionally retarded, he just can’t see. You are in danger of joining the window licker, I think you should withdraw your thread.

      • 124
        Clapham Commoner says:

        I think you are being too kind.

        Think back, for example, to Brown’s speech to last year’s Labour conference.

        Having delivered a speech that would save his political neck he walked over to his wife and, errrr…., shook her hand.

        Is this normal?

      • 126
        Alfred T Mahan says:

        Isn’t it his left eye that’s blind? So as the rozzer was on the right, he’d have been able to see him as well as he sees anything.

      • 129
        Anonymous says:

        I think you should withdraw the thread too.

        This is a stretch even for you Guido. Who EVER shakes the polis’ hand, when they come in and out of No10, or anywhere else for that matter?

        It’s not about “being emotionally retarded” or anything else. Let the guard get on with his job without distracting him. It’s GB’s front door for God’s sake. He’ll be in and out of it how many times a day?

        Plus, he can’t see… And he spoke to the PC. What more do you want?

      • 147
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        128. If you listen carefully you can just hear ‘Fuck off Noddy’

      • 151
        kerrigan of the yard says:

        First, Brown has clearly seen the cop and seems to have exchanged a word with him.

        Second, quite a few of the garden girls at No10 jumped shipped to elsewhere in government when Brown took over because they couldn’t stand his outright rudeness and steaming rages.

        My current missus now works with a couple of these ex No10ers.

      • 161
        talwin says:

        Lucky copper, I say. He’ll shiver when he reflects on how close he came to the curse of Broon.

      • 168
        Frank says:

        The guy is a complete tosser and no amount of excuses will alter that.

        Look at the way Obama lets his wife go into number ten ahead of him and how the tosser goes in before his wife. Look also at the way Obama allows his wife off and on aircraft ahead of him and how the tosser insists of going first.

        Brown is a social shit head

    • 99
      Sunday Mirror Reader. says:

      I read the Sunday Mirror last Sunday and everything seems to be on course and wonderful… what world do you guys live in?

    • 123
    • 139
      Dementicon Prime says:

      I don’t need friends.
      I am the master of the Universe.

  2. 2
    Dick the Prick says:

    Hang on – fair’s fair – he’s blind as chuff – don’t reckon he meant to diss the lad. Plus, it’d be a bit freaky had he shaken the dude’s hand. He’s still a tosser though just not for this.

    • 27
      Anonymous says:

      hmm, I’m inclined to agree. He IS a wank, though.

    • 57
      DK tells me to do bad things says:

      Flush Gordon whispers to the Policeman: Only I, Gordon the Great , am allowed to touch his holiness the ONE. Anyway, I know all you pigs are secretly tories!! I know! My evil spies send me reports!

      Obama: Gorgon, you sound a wee bit paranoid there laddie. Come and sit on my knee.

      Flush Gordon: Sorry master. Can I go to the poopoo first?

    • 66
      no longer anonymous says:

      Bearing in mind where his finger usually wonders I suspect the policeman was relieved.

    • 188
      THE ESSEX BOYS says:

      Hey Dick. We know a nurse who refused to shake Brown’s hand when he visited her hospital because he knaws his nails and is obviously a toxic hazard.
      It even appeared on the tv news if only we could get a copy!

  3. 3
    Gordon Brown says:

    It started in America

    • 91
      G. E. Treal says:

      The rest of us all know that it started in Scotland.

    • 145
      Georgasm says:

      Liar. It started in yer dad’s underpants.

    • 215
      JacqOff Smith says:

      Gordon’s actions were within the rules. He has done nothing wrong. It is his right not to shake the hands of policemen. Besides, he probably had a biro in his hand, ready to fill in the expenses sheet for his next Sky Sports subscription claim.

  4. 4

    First off the policeman isnt there to shake peoples hands as they come in

    Secondly how would he see the hand being proferred? Forget being visually impaired, he also had his back to him.

    • 6

      Did you actually watch the video?

      • 31
        Anonymous says:

        Actually, I thought the policeman spent a couple of seconds debating whether he wanted to shake McLoonie’s hand. In the end he offered it a fraction too late to catch Brown.

        Excellent timing, if you ask me. He made Brown look a tit and didn’t have to contract dysentery.

        Brown, of course, could have helped him out by offering his hand first…

      • 32
        Pirate-patcheye says:

        Me patch is on me left eye – I can see out of me right eye.

        Where’s me parrott.

        I’m a a socially inept Hoon.

      • 35

        OK. Good point about the eye.
        But the video demonstrates why Obama IS a proper politician.
        He thought to shake the hand of a lowly door keeper. In front of the world’s press to be sure, but he still remembered to do it. Its a human gesture. A humble gesture. A gesture that makes the recipient feel noticed. . Look at the surprise,then joy on the Cop’s face. He will be telling everyone he meets that story for years,spreading the Obama magic.
        While brown…He wouldn’t have thought to do it. then when he tried, he got it wrong.
        Its symptomatic of why he is a lousy Prime Minister. In every possible interpretation of the role.

      • 45
        Anonymous says:

        I watched the video and although the McBroon did leave the policeman hanging it was probably unintentional and he was walking on by the time the policeman had his hand out. Attack the hoon for what he has done to the country not for this. On a slightly different thread read Chris Mullens book and McBroons spastic behaviour was obviously well known years before they elected him as PM. Shows why the labour party deserves oblivion.

      • 50
        Jacqui Smith says:

        I think you’ll find that not shaking a policeman’s hand is within the rules.

        On the other hand, taking pictures of a policeman are illegal.

      • 53
        Anonymous says:

        Brown had started walking off when he put his hand off, I’m surprised if he’d have seen it. This is a bit rubbish. Basically politics does ‘You’ve been Framed’.

      • 95
        Anonymous says:

        Does Obamarama shake hands with the marine guards at the White House?

      • 222
        Hysteria says:

        I reckon this looks worse than it is (although why is it that a “refusal” to shake habds klooks and feels so uncomfortable?)

        Anyway this just looks like a mis-cued handshake – my guess is most of ud have done this at some time. But as others have said Brown seems unable to spot the moment 0 he should simply have copied The Chosen ones’s actions.

        Saint Tony would have got it right – but dying to see the video of his first visit to No10 as EU President !!!!

      • 225

        He will of course say that he had other things on his mind-!

        But yes I saw the video and he’s still visually impaired and the policeman still isn’t there to shake folks hands.

        But yeah I mean, its a miscued handshake, hardly front page stuff, you may or may not have been on to something with the smith institute and the gold. You may really hate him but you’ve done worse than this in your own interviews and I still tune in ;)

        Shoot down the character of politicians all you like – but when it comes to his mental state I think I’d rather trust a psychotherapist with a degree from UCL Berkely…oh wait…scratch that…

      • 229
        Hysteria says:

        my keyboord kant blody spell

    • 113
      simon r says:

      Yes Obama does shake hands with the Marine Guards – he did so to the guy standing by the presidental helicopter when he went to board it the other week. Think what you like about the guy’s politics but he has social skills and likes to make people feel at ease – unlike this Labour lot that just look down on us.

      • 162
        Alinsky says:

        Well he was trained as an agitator so he needed some interpersonal skills grubbing for grant money.

      • 166
        talwin says:

        Look. I’m sure coppers outside No 10 are not about pressing the flesh of every head of bleeding state or VIP who comes their way.

        And, at the end of the day, this little incident is all about judgement or in McMental’s case, as usual, the lack of it. Of course he doesn’t have to shake hands with the cop every time he goes in and out of No. 10, nor anywhere else for that matter. But it’s about adaptability, versatility, sociability, ‘feel’ – all demonstrably alien to Brown. And so, for example, we get a visiting pres. doing continental kissy-kissy on Mrs. B, leaving Brown totally flummoxed, hasn’t a clue what to do & falls between two stools, aiming clumsily executed wet-fish smacker at petrified presidential WAG. Again Brown ends up looking foolish and inept. Another time Mrs. Brown appears on stage and he shakes her fucking hand! And so on. He never quite gets it right. He needs a course on hand-shaking and puckering up.

        In this case, rightly or wrongly, Obama does the hand-shake thing. Copper (poor bastard) not sure what to do now, probably feels he shouldn’t leave Brown out or imagines that the rapidly approaching Brown is bound to follow up with a handshake. And this is where Brown should have had the nous to follow Obama’s lead: where adaptablity & social skill should have kicked in. He’s supposed to be in charge for Christ’s sake!

        However, there’s some comfort for Brown here. In this case he can, with some truth, say it’s the fault of the USA.

      • 195
        Adrian P says:

        I suppose then we can forgive the fact that he, along ( with McDebt ) is a mere puppet for the Global Elites, bringing us to our knees.

        NOT BBC Radio 4

        Bot the BBC Nine O’clock News

      • 253
        Stig says:

        “…aiming clumsily executed wet-fish smacker at petrified presidential WAG.” What a fantastic description from Talwin. Was LMAO. :)

    • 255
      proportional representation is coming a tory PM is not says:

      Obama passed other police on his way in to no.10 and didn’t offer a handshake. Was the fact policeman standing guard at door to no.10 black, relevant? Or was it merely a continuation of recent diplomatic photo opportunities where the US has been deliberately undermining their Uk hosts, as witnessed by Hillary’s hand being placed onto the back of our inept and completely out of his depth Milliband?

    • 256
      proportional representation is coming a tory PM is not says:

      Obama passed other police on his way in to no.10 and didn’t offer a handshake. Was the fact policeman standing guard at door to no.10 black, relevant? Or was it merely a continuation of recent diplomatic photo opportunities where the US has been deliberately undermining their Uk hosts, as witnessed by Hillary’s hand being placed onto the back of our inept and completely out of his depth Milliband?

  5. 5
    Four-eyed English Genius says:

    Who in their right mind would want to shake that hand, knowing where it might have been?

  6. 7
    Blair's Grassy Knoll says:

    I see they have an embedded device for scraping the Home Secratary before cabinet.

  7. 8
    Ian Tomlinson says:

    I fought the law and the law won…

  8. 9
    It doesn't add up... says:

    Guido, your David Osler link gives a 404 error

  9. 10
    Jim says:

    I’m not fan of Brown’s but I think a lot of strange stuff he does when dealing with people is down to his sight, or lack of. I reckon he just doesn’t see a lot of things. As someone whose Dad has slowly gone blind due to failed cataract ops, I recognise the same mannerisms in Brown that happened to him.

    • 16
      horses douvres says:

      he certainly didn’t see the economic meltdown coming

    • 21
      Anonymous says:

      I’ll bet your dad isn’t a complete Hunt though.

    • 105
      Not Derek Draper says:

      Fuck off .If he was that blind he couldnt find the door or walk across the road without help.You are just making excuses for this hoon.
      And before you ask my father is totally blind but that doesnt stop him relating to people like a normal human being unlike Brown.

      • 160
        Jim says:

        Are you always this stupid or are you trying particularly hard today?
        It is perfectly possible for someone with partial sight to be able to make out the general situation, and people, without seeing the detail, such as an outstretched hand. And when you are totally blind in one eye (as Gordo is) you have a big loss of periferal vision.

        I want Brown out as much as anyone, because he’s f*cking the country up massively. But to make fun of his lack of sight is in very poor taste, especially from people who can see perfectly.

    • 120
      piss off labour troll says:

      My father isn’t blind – he’s dead (God rest his soul) and he still has more charisma in his little finger than that Hunt has in his (almost) whole twat body.

      Anyone that even tries to make excuses for the retard can only be just as big a wanker as him.

    • 177
      Frank says:

      Well, he certainly didn’t see the recession or the bank failures until they smacked him between the eyes and he certainly didn’t see the size of Fred Goodwins pension pot until it was shoved up his arse, so maybe you have a point.

      He’s a complete wanker anyway

  10. 11
    Curly says:

    Perhaps Brown hurriedly remembered what was stuck on the end of his thumb?

  11. 12
    Parish Councillor says:

    Scottish one eyed idiot.

    Policeman was trying to be familiar with our PM

    PM’s had his back turned to the familiar Policeman

    PM was trying to talk the talk and walk the walk and act imperial but was unable to multi task

    Scottish one eyed idiot at the end of the day

  12. 13
    Max says:

    I don’t mind him being an autistic git but I do mind him being Prime Minister.

  13. 14
    Dr D Draper FA says:

    Apart from being blind as a bat, Brown was concentrating on not wetting himself in excitement at the arrival of The One, so he probably just missed the handshake offer.

    I don’t think it was a deliberate snub. I studied near some doctors, so I know about this sort of thing.

  14. 15
    horses douvres says:

    Brown is an arse hole

    “The Prime Minister hopes to make Britain “a world leader” in producing and exporting electric cars and hybrid petrol-electric vehicles.”

    We have no engineers you fucking twat

    • 46
      Ted Bundy says:

      Sadly our motor industry died during the British Leyland days of the 1970′s, union stupidity and nationalisation killed most of it off. Happy days in another Labour Government.

      • 136
        Beamer-owner says:

        Hey Ted, you may want to remember the inglorious cars (Maxi, Marina, Allegro etc.) that our finest engineers came up with. I think that had more to do with the demise of Leyland than union stupidity.

      • 154
        Ted Bundy says:

        British Leyland cars weren’t all designed bad but the problem was even the half decent ones were so badly put together they still ended up crap to the end user, that is when you could actually find one to buy. On the subject of the Austin Maxi no car has ever bettered its exterior size to interior space ratio but the thing was hideously ugly and inflicted initially with a cable gear change. Other manufacturers copied its principle ideas and came up with a much better package. It was the father of the modern hatchback. The Triumph Dolomite Sprint was the first mass produced car with a 16 valve engine, the TR6 pioneered fuel injection. Designed wasn’t the principle problem appalling build quality and lack of supply of cars through endless stoppages most certainly was. No cars built, no income, no investment for design etc.
        British Leyland ended up spending most of its time fighting itself and lets be honest who in their right mind would want to spend their hard earned cash on a car built by red Robbo and his union thugs with their communist political agenda who were continually in the news during the never ending industrial strife.

      • 181
        I-spy with my little eye says:

        Ted please get your facts right. Fuel injection was introduced on the TR5…and then they gave us the TR7…bless their cotton socks!
        Now, the anorak bit over, I would say that these cars were so butt-ugly that they couldn’t be sold, hence BL had to slow production, lay off workers etc. which then led to union backlash. In this case, the egg did come before the chicken and BL certainly laid a lot of eggs with these crap car designs.

      • 196
        Mike, Brighton says:

        British cars were crap. In the 70′s my Dad bought a brand new Rover SD1 2500 V8 (one of the first) and was very proud of it. The next day on the M62 smoke came up from the engine, my old man stopped and opened the bonnet and the car was on fire. The fucker burnt to a charred skeleton before the fire brigade and plod tuned up. I remember it well because it was the first time I heard my old man say “fucking hell”

      • 259
        Charles BM says:

        Government control of BL was what killed it, quite a few of the brands made good products and even profits; Triumph, Rover, and Jaguar all made good cars but the profits were used to support loss making mass market models such as the mini etc. These profits should have been reinvested to develop new and better Triumphs, Rover and Jags but instead were used to keep churning out crap from Austin and Morris because the government couldn’t countenance closing it and losing all those votes.
        It will be interesting to see how the government runs its latest nationalised industry; will we see large redundancies at Northern Rock, HBOS and RBS or will they lack the bottle?

    • 70
      no longer anonymous says:

      Have you seen those electric cars? What sort of self-respecting gentlemen would be seen driving around in one of those poncy little boxes?

      • 148
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        Looks to me like they would roll over forwards if you’re unlucky. Will add to the range, though, so perhaps it’s a deliberate feature.

    • 77
      Anonymous says:

      Our Dear Leader doesn’t seem to realise that electric cars are not “green”, they just lower some of the local pollution in inner cities but create more pollution elsewhere. They rely on electricity which is only as green as the power stations that supply it and the grid that transports it and consequently electric cars are far less green that burning petrol or diesel in an internal combustion engine. Tit.

      • 149
        Native Leyland chap says:

        Want a green car?

        Buy an aluminium Jag with a petrol engine and have it powered by compressed gas.

        Light, recyclable, lowish Co2 and very low pollution levels.

        Gordo’s in line for the first new Jag XJ this summer – and it won’t be electric.

      • 150
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        Yes, fluid hydrocarbons are best for transport. We should save them for that purpose and use coal and nuclear to generate power for industry and domestic use, that way we needn’t worry for yonks; well at least the next 30 years till I hand in the dinner pail.

      • 171
        Ivor Phartparp says:

        The coal fired heater in my electric car gives me a sore throat but the car is clean enough.

    • 81
      Mothers_Pride says:

      Not to mention that due to Labour incompetence we have no spare generating capacity to produce the Electricity. A few windmills just ain’t going to cut it. The Nuclear Power programme being started say around 97/98 would have just about been coming on line now. So it’s Bliars fault as much as Snotty McFiddle the then Chancellor’s fault.

      They’re all troughing Hoons!
      Labour = feckwits -
      Draper = CV Liar!

    • 85
      Hugh Janus says:

      And where does he think the electrical power for all these cars will come from, bearing in mind that we will have lost 40% of our generating capacity by 2015, thanks to NuLiebour’s failure to address the problem? Will they run on air perhaps??

    • 104
      Go and Spend it Boys says:

      Actually we have LOTS of very good automotive and electrcial engineers; they are the envy of the world. And Brawn GP have just made 270 redundant.

    • 144
      a car to remember says:

      I remember proudly pushing my Ford Anglia to the top of the nearest slope – EVERY morning in the winter/fog/damp/wet weather. And wishing the slope was a cliff.

    • 200
      It's in Berkley says:

      Wan’t that Nick Griffins Idea.

  15. 17

    Yesterday’s scoop was a good one. Then you go and piss it away with this threadbare, pathetic story. Do you laugh at blind people who fall down potholes too?

    • 20
      Clapham Commoner says:

      Yes.

      Guido, any “man falls down pothole” clips?

      Preferably Brown.

    • 24
      Blair's Grassy Knoll says:

      I’d piss myself if McLoon fell down a pothole. I’d pay a substantial sum if it were a mineshaft.

    • 28
      Anonymous says:

      Oh come on! That’s why I love this place, one minute Guido uncovers MP’s fraud on a massive scale, the next we’re laughing at the one eyed, pissy-panted freak show that is our PM.

    • 37
      Bob A Job says:

      Now that would make my day. This government seems like a tragic Laurel and Hardy show already. How about Brown getting flattened by a building or Jacqui Smith falling off a moving train?

    • 48
      Anon says:

      I would love to see Gordon Brown fall down a pot hole, I would be so happy :-)

    • 56
      Rexel 56 says:

      Erm, yesterday’s scoop was a bit of a tease. I’m waiting for the money shot, or did I miss it?

      R56

      • 64
        Dick Tinmey says:

        You’ll have to wait until the pig ugly fucker nips off to the kebab shop then

    • 71
      no longer anonymous says:

      People falling down potholes are funny regardless of whether they’re blind or not.

      • 86
        Mothers_Pride says:

        Dick Timney…this pig ugly fecker you speak of? Is that Jackboots? or one of the other pig ugly feckers in Her Maj’s Troughing Government?

    • 87

      What’s it like, being so far up your own arsehole?

    • 204
      Blind Pew says:

      Woops I’ve fallen down a pothole!

  16. 18
    Anonymous says:

    Q) Guess what happened next?

    A) Did he tuck his trousers into his socks?

  17. 19
    Johnny Norfolk says:

    Say all you need to know about Brown. He thinks social graces is a statue.

  18. 22
    MisterE says:

    Why would he shake his hand? He’d just seen Obama, his idol, touched by a lowly commoner!

    I’d like to know what Brown said to the copper – I’m betting it’s something along the lines of “Don’t ever touch him again, boy. He’s mine, I saw him first… Barack sweetie, wait for me!”

  19. 23

    Surfing around the web I came across this in the Standard

    “Mr Blair also said Lord Mandelson is “attacked in certain quarters for being gay, and yet, at the same time, I don’t believe that has altered people’s opinion of him”.”

    I wonder what he could mean by that!!

    • 36
      Four-eyed English Genius says:

      It certainly has not altered my opinion of him. I still think he is a berk (similar derivation to hoon)

      • 54
        Cyco Billy says:

        I never knew hoon was rhyming slang. I assumed it was reverse personification, like spoonerism or malapropism done backwards. Presumably it’s short for Och aye THAT buffoon y’mean, no? It could be baboon tho.

    • 96
      Anonymous says:

      Lord Fumblebum-Slime of Boy – our favourite minister in the HoL. His sexuality has never altered my opinion of him – just another another useless tosser permanently attached to the public teat….

  20. 25
    The Prime Mentalist is an emotionally retarded weirdo. says:

    Yup, also

    socially retarded
    fiscally R.
    economically R.
    physically R.
    intellectually R.
    politically R.
    bankily R.
    benderly R.
    bonkersly R.
    grinningly R.
    honestly R.

    and that’s just fer starters.

    The Great Retard of Barkly (was it?) has lots of work to do to sort that lot out

  21. 26
    Pete-s says:

    A similar story about Brown and a police officer at No 10, has circulated around the MET for the past two years. I thought it was apocryphal, this video shows that it is has a lot of merit.

  22. 29
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    I think McTwat was so bothered that Obama had walked on and was being photographed without Mcmental at his side that McBust would have dissed Jesus himself to get back into frame with the Obamamessiah.

    Plus he had probably just been picking his noes, so a lucky escape for the Copper really.

    What is all this I hear about the Government giving millions of pounds to “Charities” to undertake political advocacy on behalf of the Government?

    Anyone got any news on that?

    I hear “Operation White Vote” is being given £3 million pounds so they can re-engage the white working class on sink estates back into the political process……no, wait…

    • 40
      backwoodsman says:

      Just another cynical way of passing our tax money to their diminishing group of friends. Plus, its also part of the exit strategy for the 80% of them who will lose their seats at the next election. A cushy tax payer funded position in the ‘third sector’, untill they can try for a job as a paid labour councilor, is the best most of these hoons can hope for.

  23. 34
    Chris P. Bacon says:

    That copper should think himself lucky – he had a narrow escape from being another victim of the curse of Jonah McBruin.

  24. 38

    Toe-curlingly embarrassing, yes. Autistic? Nah. I bet Tone would have avoided the handshake. If anything, the Copper on the door is the one who has slight problems with his EQ.

    • 42
      Anonymous says:

      Tony would have delivered a joke and a pat on the shoulder with the copper as he passed.
      But there again Tony would have been on the top step to usher Obama into No.10, not trailing along in his wake.

  25. 41
    simon r says:

    There was another good clip where after waving to the crowds on the doorstep of Number 10 during Obama’s visit they all went inside.

    Now, normal good manners would dictate this order…Brown steps to one side and with a raised hand invites Michelle to enter followed by Barack, Sarah and finally himself.

    No.

    He ushers Michelle in, follows after her leaving the other two just standing there, Barack is left to usher in Brown’s missus himself. I suspect he often ignores the missus – I wonder why ??

    Zero social skills, this coming after faffing about on the doorstep swapping places – at least Blair knew how to conduct himself in a manner befitting the head of Government at these events.

    • 184
      more culture in a pot of yoghurt says:

      nah, the naff shoulda told the bints to f off dahn the chippie to get in some fish suppers before gettin the yank nicked for assaultin plod and then goin inside ter watch Coronation St.

  26. 43
    Anonymous says:

    He really is a socially unaware, retarded buffoon isn’t he?

    You can see as he walks along with Obama, he looks wherever Obama points, the subservant tool. Incapable of independant thought. A follower, not a leader. A mental case.

    Also, as Obama shakes the coppers hand, Brown is thinking “I must follow this man. I must do as he does” – He actually changes his course to copy Obama and walks towards the policeman, yet in true Gordon the Moron style, stops short at shaking the coppers hand and ends up looking like the total fucking freaky weirdo he is.

    God knows what he said when he got to the copper?

    “Obama shake hand, Gordon no, ok?”

    “Rhubarb Rhubarb Wuuubard Wibble?”

    Seriously though – this man is not mentally fit and should not be running our country.

    • 118
      Anonymous says:

      When you watch the video Brown moves right over to the policeman after the Obama handshake and says something to him.

      Obama’s said hello and done the handshake and and now Brown’s moved over and said hello so the copper thinks that he’s going to shake his hand just as Obama did and sticks his hand out so he won’t appear rude but he forgot that Brown is a good socialist and doesn’t touch the staff.

      Brown should either have stayed on his own side and just walked by with a smile or done the monkey see, monkey do, and copied exactly what Obama did but he couldn’t even get that right and did a bastard cross between ignoring the policeman and copying Obama because he’s a complete Terry Fuckwit and social retard.

  27. 44
    Henry Crun says:

    Brown shake hands with a darkie copper? You must be joking! It is only brown people in positions that can boost poll ratings that Brown shakes hands with.

    • 211
      pc alert says:

      My original reply and rejoinder to the mediator were both chopped whilst this obvious racial comment was allowed to remain.

      I’m afraid that the site has stepped on the ball on this one and shown its true colours – shame on you.

      • 236
        Henry Crun says:

        Dear Constable Alert

        Such is the depth of your own bigotry and prejudice that you see racism at every turn and are completely unable to recognise irony when it stares you in the face.

        Here’s your refund, the door is over there.

        Bye bye, Dolly. Bye bye.

  28. 47
    Anonymous says:

    So where’s the real stories Mr Fawkes. Did you speak too soon about the MP’s renting out their flats to MPs? Did they really mean flattening their rent boys?

  29. 49
    Will says:

    It’s the copper who makes a mistake here, I’m afraid.

    That said, the biggest shame is we can’t get ‘Donald’ back from the City to stand outside No 10. A good coshing from a masked thug could be delivered to the entire cabinet on their way in and out.

    • 172
      talwin says:

      No, no, no. The cops outside No. 10 are regulars and not in the business of shaking hands with VIPs and others who go in. The cop nods (bows!??) to Obama who passes close by and initiates the handshake. Cop, rightly, responds.

  30. 50
    Tin Cunliffe says:

    Eh? Are you all french or something?

    I’m ENGLISH and I don’t shake hands with everyone, esp people I might see regularly.

  31. 52
    Oink Oink! says:

    Clutching at straws trying to make news out of this one.
    Much as I dislike Brown and what he’s doing to the country it’s obvious that the timing just doesn’t quite work regarding the handshake.

  32. 55
    Dick Cheese says:

    Surely the Monocular Auton must have been able to make out the Living God proffering his hand to plod – he’s not that visually challenged. Even a superannuated, quarter witted, parish councillor would then have had the political skills to appreciate that the warm, human gesture needed to be matched.

    That’s the problem. The repressed Broon of Doom would obviously be much more comfortable deep inside Obama’s skin than he is in his own.

  33. 59
    confused says:

    For years the gvt have attempted to drive “big” Landrovers and Jaguars off the roads coz of Global Warming, now it seems all possible is done to save them.

    OK it saves 15k jobs but why didnt they save the 30k Woolie jobs, surely pic n mix is less harmful to the environment

    • 121
      JMT says:

      If they go bust, MPs will have no cars to spend their “expenses” on.

      Besides Green taxes are only windfall taxes since their whole point is to stop behaviour/usage.

      McBroon has made them the central plank of his taxation policy, so when we drive less his sums get all screwed up!

  34. 60
  35. 61
    oldrightie says:

    Guido, I have a picture of police brutality. It’s in black and white. It could easily sum up Gordo’s control freakery consequences.

  36. 63
    King Hendrix says:

    To be Fair on Brown I think he was just walking out of sight of the coppers hand…

    • 83
      Scallywag says:

      Why be fair on the ratbag?

      He doesn’t understand the ‘fair’ concept any more than most of his government doesn’t understand the difference between right and wrong.

  37. 67
    Blair's Grassy Knoll says:

    Interviewed later PC Hoonsbrother said ” I don’t really know the form on this job – I’m on secondment from Redditch. He’s not like the Guvnor’s old boy – he relishes a really good shake……mind that shoe!”

  38. 68
    Tom FD says:

    Guido, you know the BBC lets you embed these videos now?

  39. 69
    Psycho Joe says:

    Who gives a fuck?

    Why didn’t the copper just beat Brown over the head with his truncheon/ baton/ taser?

  40. 72
    john miller says:

    Ohh, I know I’m an old cynic, but would Obama have shaken hands if the Plod had been white? I don’t think so…

  41. 74
    Derek Draper's Septic Anal Warts says:

    1. I wouldn’t normally expect a Prime Minister to shake hands with the policeman manning the door to No. 10;

    2. From the video it appears that Jonah genuinely turned away just as the policeman started to extend his hand. Jonah didn’t appear to notice the hand.

  42. 76
    Dr Wolf says:

    Brown had a mid-morning snack stuck to his finger and didnt want to risk loosing it.

  43. 78
    Scallywag says:

    What a lucky, lucky Bobby. He obviously didn’t work out quickly enough that the curse of Snottie McTwat might be on him if his offer of a handshake had been accepted.

    It can be transmitted by touch even more easily that by his mere presence you know.

    Best to keep your hands in your pockets and say nowt when that unelected, dysfunctional, thieving cretin is close by…

  44. 82
    + + + NEWS FLASH!! + + + says:



    An even more Tired and Emotional Spokes PorkPerson at 10 Drowning (in Debt) Street issued the following statement :

    Look! (© T. Bliar)

    They’re bruvvers, innit?

    Shurrup already.

    Ain’t we got enuff to contend wivart u lot acarryin’ on?!

  45. 88
    Anonymous says:

    The copper deserved a hand shake from Broon after all the sterling work they’d been doing rushing innocent people from behind.

  46. 89
    Romeo says:

    Did the copper, like the legalised thug in the G20 video, later push Gordon Brown over as his back was turned?

  47. 92
    Anonymous says:

    This was fucking last week, I want to know about all these expenses.

  48. 94
    Go and Spend it Boys says:

    Yes he would.

    Obama (and Mrs Obama) are genuinely tactile people. They also understand the importance of these gestures politically – you can get away with a hell of a lot if people think you’re nice… It’s also about self-confidence so high it goes beyond arrogance to become serenity – again something Brown lacks, witness the bitten fingernails.

    That said, I agree that Brown’s sight is now so bad he probably didn’t see the proferred hand.

  49. 97

    The real missed opportunity was Jamie Oliver’s. He could have poisoned the whole bloody lot of them and become a World Hero.

  50. 100
    Hugh Jardon says:

    Pic n mix used to give me the shits….so, in answer to your question..not in my immediate environment NO!! :-)

  51. 101
    Go and Spend it Boys says:

    Correct.

    Electric cars also require lots of energy in their manufacture so are only “green” (horrible term) if they run solely on renewable electricity and are bought to replace old vehicles which are then recycled. Buying an electric car to replace a petrol / deisel one with life left in it is not “green”. And hybrid cars like the Prius are the worst of all worlds.

  52. 103
    Hugh Jardon says:

    Guido…
    Are we doing PMQs today???

  53. 107
    Anonymous says:

    This clip was on tv news last week. Last night, tv news showed the clip of the liblabcon police slaughtering another totally innocent person to help the rich maintain their subjugation of the English.

    • 115
      M_E says:

      Hello nutter!

      Any news on that New World Order yet??
      Can’t wait to sign up……

      • 201
        Max says:

        What you want order? You call us, we on Yell. Delivery 45 minutes to one hour, ok? No sign up, just cash.

  54. 108
    peter carter-fuck says:

    McTwat sure knows how to motivate people to take a bullet for him if needs be. Copper should have shoved him over and watched him die of a heart attack, as per the Met handbook.

  55. 112
    Hugh Jardon says:

    No we’re not!!
    I’m such a Hoon!
    I’ll have to find some other one eyed mincing loon to abuse!!

  56. 114
    anonymous says:

    I think that PC should be commended for his courage in the line of duty – shaking Obama’s hand is one thing but would you want to shake McBroon’s hand ? So perhaps he had a lucky escape.

  57. 119
    Anonymous says:

    Trolls spinning the line that its because of his eyesight.
    I dont buy that at all.How did he see that the chosen one had shaken the PCs hand if he couldnt see a hand held out in front of him.

  58. 122
  59. 125
    Dave Figgley says:

    Ha ha, mate. Brown’s gonna ‘face the nation’s questions’ on Radio 2 hard man Jeremy Vine’s phone-in. All you amateur pyrotechnicians know where to aim your home-made scuds after 1 o’clock, son. Er, don’t try that at home children.

    • 130
      Anonymous says:

      Not again.
      He got a bad reception last time.
      Maybe BBC have rigged a better audience for the replay

      • 193
        Stalin McBean says:

        I got a bad one this time too, but luckily cousin Janice called up at the end to tell me she still likes me.

  60. 127
    Anonymous says:

    Iain Dale has an entry on Alice Miles article in the times today. I wanted to comment on it, but can’t be bothered to set up an account, so will leave it here on the freer pages of guido:

    sadly she is a financial incompetent and gets her numbers wrong.

    A) The ACA is paid free of tax – so it is not worth £24,000, but £40,000. Scandalously, because it insulates MPs from the tax they set, as the tax rate goes up, their equivalent pay actually rises – at the new 45% tax rate the value goes up by £4k to £44k. In effect, by agreeing to a 45% rate of tax rather than 40%, (many would be caught given other income takes them over £150k) MPs like Cameron are actually giving themselves a £4k pat RISE!

    B) The value of an MPs pensions is calculated as 32% of salary on the Government’s own numbers. This is generally regarded as a huge underestimate.

    Thus backbench MPs are already paid £123k in salary and pension, even before troughing (paying the wife/husband from allowances/free trips and jollies/subsidised food etc) and fees derived from outside activities purely arising from their role as an MP.

    Frankly they are, with few exceptions, already overpaid, as is proven by the fact that when booted out the majority fail to earn anything like their former salary in the real world.

  61. 128
    Anonymous says:

    I hate having to be fair to Brown, and curse you Guido for making me. Obama was a ‘guest’ and appropriate to do his touchy-feely schtick with the copper. Brown is in and out of that door all the time and it would have been odd to suddenly start pressing the flesh with the doorman. The time for him to do that is when they all line up to say goodbye to him, and that cannot happen soon enough.

    • 176
      pdwill says:

      You and others are missing the point – see posting 118 for a good summary of what really happened.

      Nobody is saying that he should have shook hands, the fact is though he tried to emulate Mr Obama in acknowledging the policeman but his ineptness prevailed. The result displayed the awkwardness that is Gordon Brown and this clip simply adds to the evidence.

  62. 132
    Parish Councillor says:

    He didn’t shake hands with the copper as he is not in a Lodge

  63. 133
    Derek_Draper BA(TWAT) MBA SWB says:

    Im finding it very difficult to motivate my boys to counter the argument that
    my mate Gordon isnt a socially autistic spastic.
    Can we move onto something else please Guido.

    If I dont get at least 50 rebuttal posts in a day my paymasters get a bit fidgety and I dont want to upset the brothers.

    Thats asking nicely-if you dont you will hear from my solicitor(actually he is not a real solicitor but his qualifications are as genuine as mine).

  64. 135
    Georges says:

    He is giving “socially retarded weirdos” a bad name….

  65. 137
    ron Vibentrop says:

    It’s obvious that the policeman is guiding the Great Slug. “The door is over there you blind Hunt.”

  66. 140
    THE BEAST OF CLERKENWELL says:

    Maybe Mc mental realised that he wasnt dealing with a “Bent” Copper so wasnt interested in touching him

  67. 141
    Anonymous says:

    Perhaps Brown walks past the same Officer everyday and did not feel the need to shake the Officer’s hand?

  68. 143
    a bogey says:

    That copper wants sectioning. Why would any sane person want to touch Mc Snot’s filthy paw?

  69. 146

    I’m disgusted that a copper would want to shake Brown’s hand.

  70. 152
    UK DebtSlave says:

    The social skills of a traffic warden

    What an utter Hoon

    • 156
      Dave Figgley says:

      Give the Hunt some credit, mate. He spied the remains of that huge greenie he’d earlier excavated from his Scottish schnozzer and did the pig a favour.

  71. 153
    Albert Hall says:

    I’ve been trying to count the number of times Broon has said the word “global” on Vynes Radio 2 show. I’ve given up.

    • 170
      Ted Bundy says:

      What he is really trying to say is “Its not my fault, I accept no responsibility, the problem started elsewhere”.

    • 203
      Max says:

      Is he saying Global or Gorbals; anyway that is where the problem started.

  72. 155
    mary says:

    what’s with using the word retarded to describe something you don’t like or think is stupid? ever stop to consider how people with special needs feel when you use that cruel word? Yes, they actually have feelings!
    I just don’t get it. How many times do you have to hear that the word retard or retarded is hurtful when used as slang before you hear us.

  73. 157
    Anonymous says:

    I have just watched it and to be fair Brown appears to exchange some kind of pleasantry with said copper (0:17) , then turns and follows Obama into No. 10. At this point (0:18) he does not see the copper extending his hand, as he already changed direction while following Obama inside. So there.

    • 174
      Variety Club Sunshine Coach says:

      The problem is that the “Retards” are all in Government.

      No offence intended to anyone with Special Needs except of course Gordon.

  74. 158
    Hemulen says:

    I would just like to point out that the phrase “socially autistic” is a misnomer. An autistic person is by their nature socially impaired. And as someone who has worked with autistic people for many years, I can say that they are some of the most wonderful and remarkable people you could possibly wish to meet. Not something I’d apply to Gordon Brown, so stop attributing this meaningless description to him when there are so many more appropriate ones.

    Like “ball bag”.

  75. 163
    Ben Bow says:

    Ok, Ok, Ok . . . . this cock-up over handshakes is attributable to the lack of formal awareness about manners. It is always the senior individual who offers his hand first, not the individual who is junior or subordinate. So Obama is correct in offering his hand to the policeman. However, the policeman is so infatuated with this sudden egalitarianism, that he automatically assumes that Brown, too, wants to greet him by shaking hands, but is left floundering when Brown walks past only slightly dropping his shoulder in recognition of our erstwhile copper. However, Obama should have been briefed about some of our traditional attitudes towards policemen standing guard outside the door of No 10. And Brown should have been more alert to the hapless policeman whose hand of friendship was scorned.

  76. 164
    Spirella says:

    Having studied recent videos of Broon, I think Gordon’s taken to wearing a corset.

    • 178
      Hugh Jardon says:

      & a crotchless pants.
      At least when he pisses himself again, he’ll just wet his trousers

    • 179
      Richard Timney says:

      Yeh and Sarah’s bras and panties. But I’m of for a jolly good you know what before the Jacqui gets back.

      • 186
        Hugh Jardon says:

        Shall I lend you a tenner???

        Tell you what, why not lean on your nob until it goes numb.
        Then try & crack one off.
        That way it’ll feel tnat you’re wanking off else someone else (Not Draper, though..because he’s a nice man!!).

      • 219
        Anonymous says:

        I believe a conspirator referred to that as “Jacquing off” recently.

    • 189
      jammy dogger says:

      He certainly does evidence an anatomically-constrained self-consciousness as he minces.

      After the next election he will be wearing a corset of public opinion – which will be much less comfortable and not removable at the end of a hard day’s lying!

  77. 167
    fifi says:

    For all those above who are trying to EXPLAIN the non-handshake, please can we not just ENJOY the fact that Brown has yet again made a twat of himself………there is such a thing as overanalysis……….I agree about the corset.

    • 169
      Bring the murdering riot police to justice! says:

      Saw this new poster today in London:

      Police Service

      YOU HAVE

      THE RIGHT

      NOT

      TO BE BEATEN TO DEATH BY US

      The police now pledge to listen and respond to residents’ concerns about neighbourhood police brutality.

      To find out more, go to direct.gov.uk/policingbrutality or text BRUTALITY and your postcode to 66101

      THE POLICING PLEDGE
      Home Office

      JUSTICE SEEN
      JUSTICE DONE
      COVER UP INSURED

      • 205
        Max says:

        Another good use of £3.5 million. Just possibly would have been better spent on a new prison or two?

  78. 173
    THE BEAST OF CLERKENWELL says:

    Spirella its not a corset
    Rather a pair of rubber lined lederhosen that save him from pissing himself in public.
    This explains why he walks like an old in the closet Poof (apart from the fact that he is one)
    Who the fuck is he trying to kid?
    He wears make up , fawns over large black men, shakes the hand of his wife, surrounds himself with knob jockeys such as Lord Fondlesthebums of Boys and Nick Brownhatter Prior to marrying his beard he spent every summer in a notorious gay cruising spot.
    Short of watching him fucking Graham Norton up the arse live on GMTV I cant think of any more evidence needed to prove that Prime Mentalist Gordon McMental is a screaming Queen.

    • 182
      Lord Peter says:

      You bitch

    • 183
      Jaaathro says:

      How, Mas’r Beast! Not that there’m be any notorious gay cruisin’ spawts in the HOON-TREE; moind there’m been some rum doings down the far end of the LOWERRRR FIELD. Few years back, oi came ‘cross a pair o’ TARTAN LEDERHOSEN ‘aaangin’ from the branch o’ the linden tree – an’ this six foot cone o’ SOILAGE parked next to it with TWO EYES starin’ out. Well oi gawt a bit suspicious on account ‘im moight be worryin’ MOY SHEEP so just to be on safe side oi gives it one up the khyber wi’ me PITCHFORK! Moy, you should o’ ‘eard ‘im squeal! O’er er fence he was, clutchin’ his arse, shakin’ his fist and drippin’ SOILAGE all o’er t’shawp. But we’m never seen ‘im down these parts again in TEN LAWNG YEAR…

    • 199
      Blair's Grassy Knoll says:

      comparethequeertwats.con

  79. 175
    Anonymous says:

    Saw this new poster today in London:

    Police Service

    YOU HAVE

    THE RIGHT

    NOT

    TO BE BEATEN TO DEATH BY US

    The police now pledge to listen and respond to residents’ concerns about neighbourhood police brutality.

    To find out more, go to direct.gov.uk/policingbrutality or text BRUTALITY and your postcode to 66101

    THE POLICING PLEDGE
    Home Office

    JUSTICE SEEN
    JUSTICE DONE
    COVER UP INSURED

  80. 187
    Ben Dover says.... says:

    I love it up the arse..don’t you know!

  81. 191
    LO LO you one-eyed Scottish idiot says:

    Helmetful of green custard is thrown, with non-PC comment.

  82. 192
    SubPrime Mincer says:

    Brown walking out in that video looked like a man who has just enjoyed an exhaustive cavity search by Obama’s security detail. Feel sorry for the US Secret Service guys who had to do that, perhaps we can send them a pizza?

  83. 194
    Thats News says:

    Guess What Happened Next?

    I thought Brown would trip over and show how clumsy he is. However, Brown did far, far worse.

    And you watch that copper get disciplined for this!

  84. 197

    jajaja very funny!!!

  85. 198
    doctor hoo says:

    He goes over and says, “Are you looking at my bird, you Hunt?”

  86. 202
    Cream Puff says:

    Actually I remember this one
    Obama being freindly to one and all reached out and shook the hand of the Policeman on the door at number 10. Brown followed, but as the officer also held out his hand to greet the mental case that is Brown, Brown just ignored and walked on in, leaving the officer with hand outstretched feeling a bit daft that our own dear leader couldnt be arsed
    Can I claim my £ 5 Woollies gift voucher?

  87. 207
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    If Brown was an awkward 14 year old you might be able to forgive him for this. But, for god’s sake, he’s supposed to be a grown man. I can’t stand the Old Bill but this particular one would have got a cheer from me if he’d ‘accidentally’ tripped him up.

  88. 208
    Move Along says:

    It’s all a mistake, the plod wasn’t trying to shake his hand, he was going to push him to the ground. Shame he missed.

  89. 209
    Anonimouse says:

    The nose picking, finger nail biting Prime Mentalist who is driven about by the security people (he of course is unable to drive) and who are always ignored advise that he suffers from BO.

  90. 210
    Gooey Blob says:

    Clearly not a very social socialist.

  91. 212
    urinalpeeps says:

    No Surprise there.
    That’s how Brown got the watch he’s wearing!

  92. 213
    Raving Loon says:

    Brown is very fat compared to Obama, hahahaha!

  93. 214
    Chelsea Boot says:

    This country is going to the dogs. What on Earth is a copper doing shaking hands with people coming and going at No 10? What next? Guardsmen at Buck House scratching their ears and picking their nose?

    If I see a Policeman with an outstretched arm, I would be very wary in case he was trying to push me to the ground as I pass him. The Police force in this country are a disgrace, and should be a top target for reform under the Cameron administration.

  94. 216
    fidothedog says:

    Considering the piss poor police pay deal, I am surprised that the officer extended his hand out for Brown in the first place.

    A baton would have been more apt, although based on recent cases that would have had to have been from behind when Brown was walking away and had his hands in his pockets.

    Although maybe with Mr Brown’s tax rises the officer was actually asking him for 10p for a cup of tea.

    • 223
      Taser Raiser says:

      Brown …. you’re a fecking riot.

    • 237
      Henry Crun says:

      fido, that £30m that Jackie Bathplugs kept moaning about that they wouldn’t give the plod in order to keep inflation down, is looking like chump change considering the trilliosn pissed away keeping RBS and the rest of the Jockuza afloat.

  95. 218
    Gooey Blob says:

    With UK inflation remaining so high, and sterling’s continuing devaluation, I suspect £10 for a cup of tea would be nearer the mark.

  96. 224
    Gladstone Screwer says:

    Brown’s fawning over Obama reminds me of a few years back when Fergie was following Tiger Woods around. The poor sod couldn’t move without that walrus appearing in front of him. It was pathetic in the exteme, cringeworthingly embarrassing, and this is no different.

  97. 227
    Anonymous says:

    Meanwhile, back in the real world, the most senior anti-terrorism officer in the country, Bob Quick, managed to show the details of a future/pending anti-terror raid to the entire world’s press while getting out of a cab outside number 10.

    This from the same guy who terrorised Damian Green and his family for simply doing his public duty.

    Jacqui smith “praised police for their professionalism”

    I say that showing the world’s press the details of a pending anti-terror raid is much more serious than leaking embarrassing information about general government fuckups; if anyone should be arrested without charge and dragged off by the bollocks for a 9 hour interrogation without even a bothering to have a warrant, then it’s Bob Quick, not Damian Green.

    stupid fuck.

    • 231
      Hysteria says:

      yup – of course being a fine and upstanding officer he will be resigning any day now…no – really – I’m sure of it – any day now

  98. 228
    comeoffit says:

    If you slow down the footage you can see that just as the policeman begins to extend his hand, Gordon Brown turns his head and most likely does not notice the officer’s offered hand. Obama’s handshake is a ‘nice to meet you variety,’ in contrast to Brown who lives there and was happy to have a quick word with the man. There’s plenty of fodder to hang Gordon with, this is just pathetic nitpicking…

  99. 232
    Michael says:

    With most of today’s headlines showing the police in such a bad light and their version of events about bottles being thrown while going to Ian Tomlison’s aid probably being untrue, guess what happened next? Some dramatic anti-terrorist raids with heavily armed police thwarting a major al-Qaeda plot! Sorry to be cynical, but I wonder about the timing. Considering Bob Quick’s previous gaffes, maybe he was viewed as conveniently expendable. One prominent local Muslim hit the nail on the head when he said that it is often the case that those arrested in high profile operations like this are often released without charge. I think it suits the powers-that-be to keep the public anxious about various threats, highlighting or underplaying them as necessary. Take the arrests recently in Plymouth under anti-terror laws of suspected G20 protestors. It sounded very dramatic with headlines including phrases like “bomb plot”. Guess what happened next? They’ve all been quietly released with no charges (as there’s no threat to the public!). Meanwhile, an alleged plot to repeat the Columbine massacre at a Manchester school barely merits a paragraph! Is it because it was the work of a couple of disgruntled teenagers and not a massive internation conspiracy that justifies any / all legislation against our traditional freedoms?

  100. 233
    Anonymous says:

    There are two forms of Islamic threat against the West. One is the direct action type of bombs, planes into buildings etc. For the most part these are planned by low IQ twats who would be hard pressed to organise breakfast. However, these people are a rival to the other, far more serious and deadly in the long term, group. The latter are organised to infiltrate Western institutions and subvert them while claiming to be helping fight the terrorists. The police, being thick low-life thugs, gratefully collude with the latter and help them by arranging occasional disrupting raids on the ‘bomb now’ group.

  101. 234
    Anonymous says:

    Skake hands WTF. There was a time when Pc Plod would have thrown a salute but not expected to exchange pleasantries.

  102. 235
    SK says:

    Has it occured to none of you that he’s semi-blind? Perhaps he didn’t see him? Why would he go up to him and say hello without shaking his hand unless he hadnt seen him?

    Don’t let a mans extreme short-sightedness get in the way of a good story.

  103. 239
    Anonymous says:

    Guido, what is your problem with Autism? You seem to think that if Brown has that particular condition, he is somehow disqualified for leadership.

    Autistics are NOT sociopaths – while we may be unable to understand other people’s emotions and interpret them correctly, this does not mean that we are incapable of distinguishing bad behaviour from good, or understanding that our actions have moral consequences. On the contrary, autistics are often distinguished in foucsing entirely on the pursuit of abstract goals, to the detriment of their own personal success, which is why so many of the world’s great thinkers display autistic tendencies. Ayn Rand and Thomas Jefferson were definitely autistic to some degree.

  104. 240
    Anonymous says:

    Policeman looks to be a member of our ethnic minorities, for the time being at least, maybe the Scottish Scunner decided shaking hands would not look so good among the Fifeshire electorate!

  105. 241

    [...] title: Guess What Happened Next. Stay classy, [...]

  106. 242
    The Man says:

    The cop got to shake President Obama’s hand. I’m sure he wasn’t too put off that he didn’t get to shake hands with Brown, or any other UK nobody for that matter.

  107. 243

    Genuinely a laugh out loud moment watching this.

  108. 244
    Essexboy says:

    He is without a shadow of a doubt a retarded weirdo… not to mention a complete and utter twat.

    “SK” at 235:

    “Has it occured to none of you that he’s semi-blind?”

    Er, given the way this useless retard and his band of socialist creeps have run the country for last 12 years then I’d say its pretty likely that the fat tosser is completely f**king blind… not to mention deaf and dumb too.

  109. 245
    Anonymous says:

    What a dilemma for the copper, a chance to shake hands with Barack Obama balanced against having to offer to shake hands with the other twat!

  110. 247

    How bloody rude can you get?………….mind you Brown wanted to get indoors very quickly with Obama…..Have any of you lot seen the way that Brown turns into a love sick puppy when ever Obama is around?……..

  111. 248
    wadey says:

    Some months ago I commented (Ian Dale’s site I think) that there was something very odd about Brown’s inter personal skills but nobody picked up on it. Watch carefully when they do these hospital photo shoots. In one a Doctor is explaining something and he (Brown) just wanders off to chat/get photographed with a nurse. Bad manners of the very worst kind.
    Can you imagine Willie Whitelaw or Tony Benn doing that?

  112. 249
    wadey says:

    Perhaps the Bobby will push him over next time

  113. 251

    [...] and Anonymous says: April 8, 2009 at 12:37 pm [...]

  114. 252
    Anonymous says:

    The policeman offered his hand too late. Brown missed it. So fucking what.

    To read anything else into it – says a lot more about you than it does about Gordon Brown.

  115. 254
    Anonymous says:

    If you watch the clip, I mean really watch the clip, you can see that Brown has started to turn before the hand was even raised and, by the time it was fully extended, it was well out Brown’s line of sight. He’s a human being, not a sodding Iguana. He doesn’t have eyes on the side of his head. In fact he’s rather lucky to have a functioning eye at all.

    Are you really any better than McBride or just another spiteful, obsessive ad hom mudslinger?

  116. 257
    ToryToff says:

    You people call yourselves tories? The copper is hired help, riff-raff, should be seen and not heard; certainly not touching honoured guests. I mean what next, you’ll be calling for the minimum wage to be increased.

  117. 258
    Anonymous says:

    Let’s face it, the policeman did not really want to shake Brown’s hand at all, he only held it out as an after-thought having already grasped the flesh of Obama.

  118. 260
    Anonymous says:

    So if McBride had kept his abuse to this level Guido wouldn’t have objected?



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