Osborne : PM is Mad Hatter
Like Guido, George Osborne basically thinks Brown is bonkers. He has in the past described the Prime Mentalist as “autistic”. In Shadow Chancellor’s speech during the debate on the budget he returned to the theme once again, calling Brown a “mad hatter”:
I hear sneers and dismissal from Government Members about the IMF’s figures, but I thought that the IMF was going to be the new early-warning system for the Prime Minister. In a stroke, the IMF destroyed the credibility of the premise on which the Budget and its borrowing figures had been built. The claim is that within just two years, the British economy is supposed to bounce from the deepest recession that it has known since the second world war to levels of economic growth and household consumption seen only at the height of the boom; we now know that, frankly, in the view of almost every independent forecaster, that is a complete fantasy. No wonder that one paper this morning described the whole thing as “Alistair in Wonderland”. I guess that that leaves the Prime Minister as our mad hatter—and given the expression on the face of the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, he is the white rabbit.
According to Matthew d’Ancona “the subtext “at least Dave is sane” will underpin most of what the Tories say until polling day.” Good. No amount of talk as to the merits of quantitative easing, credit flows or the broken society will ignite passion, or hope to “seal the deal”. Talk instead of the Prime Mentalist in Downing Street, who has now almost run out of people to blame, yet won’t himself say sorry. Inflaming that popular anger with Gordon will “seal his repeal”.
Osborne is right to to tap into the popular contempt people feel for Gordon Brown.
I’m getting on with the job.
Gordon is going to wipe you out Pan Demic. Don’t you know that Britain is the best prepared country in the world to deal with you!
It started in America
I bet you didn’t tell St. Barak of Obama that when he dropped in on the G20 Gordon.
It started with the Pilgrim Fathers from Boston. We should never have let the Mayflower sail from Plymouth Devon
It’s not just contempt, it’s outright loathing.
They should send a squad of police and a psychiatrist into Downing Street, arrest the lot and have them sectioned.
To the old tune – “They’re coming to take me away, ha ha he he, to the funny farm, where..” Sod it can’t remember the rest.
They’re coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
They’re coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I’ll be happy
to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they’re coming
to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they’re
coming to take me away, ha-haa!!!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time… (fade out)
You’re welcome
With acknowledgments to the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: -
I’m the urban Scotsman, baby, I’ve got greed
I’ll grab all the tax I need
I’m the urban Scotsman, baby, you can cry
I’m a real destructive guy
I don’t cause pleasure
I don’t spare pain
If you were to find your feet I’d knock you down again
I’m the urban Scotsman, baby, as fake as Blair
I’m not all there
I wake up every morning with a frown upon my face
My natural misanthropy spills out all over the place
I’m the urban Scotsman, I’m intransigent and mean
It’s so obscene
I’m the urban Scotsman, as a wrecker second to none
It’s a lot of fun
I never let my hair down
I often make a boob
I’m a porno magazine, a vagrant in the tube
I’m the urban Scotsman, baby, I’m round the twist -
I won’t be missed
To John Galt:
Can I have that for my iPod?
The first parody song for a while that scans and works.
Have you ever considered the number ’10′ on Gordon’s door has a wonky ’0′ because it looks right from further down Downing Street?
“It looks crap close up, but ok down there”. Only politician’s could have that sort of logic.
Useless trivia of the day.
Apparently it is a letter ‘o’, not a number ’0′.
Correct. Do you know any other house in the country that has used a letter instead of a number? Bonkers.
21a Baker Street
221B Baker Street actually old fellow. Have you been injecting again?
‘Ere stop meesin’ about!
Zzzzzz
Oh FFS!
At least Dave is sane!
Is that the best these useless Huhnez can do?
Why are they scared of trying to get people voting FOR the cons?
Is it really too much to ask that they tell us why we might want to vote FOR them?
I despair of CallMeDave and his mini-minions, more like David Davis and Dan Hannon please. I might not agree with everything that they say, but at least they give me the opportunity to form an opinion
CallMeDave is just Tony Blair lite. Can we please have some new politicians? Preferably competent ones, but at the very least can they not steal from us? And yes, CallMeDave will be thieving just like the rest of them. I can’t believe I’m going to have to vote for the twat.
Nightmare scenario. Blair decides to return to British politics. The Novice makes way for the Master. Blair takes over as Tory leader, and wins his fourth successive general election, utterly crushing Brown!
The country would vote for Winky McFucknut to get rid of this C**T.
So you’re happy having a complete fuckwit in charge of the country?
And where did I say that, you utter fucking twat?
I despise broon and his renta-hoons, I just think CallMeDave owes us more than ‘at least I’m sane’.
The arrogance of all these Huhnez is amazing
Nope, I can honestly state I loath Brown completely.
Agreed, Dave may be sane but currently he seems incapable of kicking NuLiebour swiftly and hard in the gonads. This country is crying out for some decent leadership!!
Give us Dan the Man!
Ask George Osborne’s family to paper over the cracks.
Oops sorry
‘Ere stop messin’ about!
Zzzzzzz
Oy! that’s my line
sop messin’ about!
It’s a bit harsh to describe Osborne as a ‘sop messing about’, but you wouldn’t be the first.
Zzzzz
Why are all ginger haired people insane?
Are you saying Gordon is a closet ginger?
Check his expenses for hair dye…
Would explain a lot if he was.
Remember the old days?
I was told his pubes were red by P M
He looks a Ginger in your picture, Guido. Or have you been using that imaging software again? I think we should be told.
I’m a ginger Huhne of the first order and everyone hates me too!
Me too! But I’m a rabid chipmunk!
And you’re not as funny as you used to be.
Serves you right for taking this piss out of me so much- you arrogant ginger wankstain.
Cyclops McFuckwit must be a ginner
Just been for a jobbie myself. Do you think had I decided to call it Mr Brown and not flushed it away, it would have been more successful at running the country than the current Mr Brown?
Certainly more popular I would have thought.
McGobbler has flushed all our jobbies away and we’ve got nothing to show for it.
Brown is ‘in office but not in power’.
Thank you and good night.
I love this. I think it should be a requirement for all members of the Conservative Party to say ‘At least Dave is Sane’ to any Labour voter they meet. Should bring the old turnout rate for the lunatic Brown down.
I’m giving a NuLab nobody a good kicking on today’s Daily Politics over their shameful treatment of the Gurkhas.
Thanks very much.
Better 100,000 loyal Gurkhas with Army pensions than a 100,000 Albanians hell bent on trousering as many benefits as they can.
I’ll take 100,000 ghurkas in exchange for twats like you.
I’d be proud to have ‘em. And, if asked, I’ll billet an entire family myself.
They’re the last remnant of an imperial mercenary army. They belong in Nepal and we belong in Britain. We don’t want 100,000 Albanians here either. Or 10,000,000 Pakistanis. This is the only issue Brown has ever been right about.
Go. F**k. Yourself.
Any order you like, just do it.
Rather 100,000 Gurkhas than one twat like you.
We will do everything in our power to fuck up the economy
and we have organised our (gestapo) sorry police to batter
the living daylight out of protesters. Smithy our great H/S is
at this moment filling in her hubbies expence claims for light
entertainment whilst sitting in her sisters £24 000 spare
dog kennel. However never fear for she has dreamed up
some even more draconian measures to curtail our freedoms
US has taken General Motors in to government ownership.
Oh, shit…
Had a failure you did not forsee?
Can’t get to where you want to go?
Call us and we guarantee absolutely no response for the next 30 years
We are the fourth emergency service
Anybody remember right back at the beginning of the crunch? When the Rock went tits up, Guido used the old British Leyland ‘plughole’ logo morphing into a Northern Rock script?
Considering what happened since – a GM going 89 percent to government and unions and the nationalisation of other banks – it seems pretty far sighted now….
PS LDV (the old Freight Rover/Leyland Daf Vans) has gone west today, as well. Bet Tony Benn wishes he hadn’t forced Leyland to merge with ailing BMC in 1968…we’ve been watching and paying for the consequences ever since.
Shall I start a No10 poll for ‘At least Dave is Sane’?
I’ll clear all my debts as soon as the property market recovers.
Might be a while. The property market was a huge bubble, I don’t think it has fully popped yet. I keep waiting for the full correction to take place and I can’t imagine it will be held off much longer – the brakes are coming off when it comes to inflating & spending more printed currency.
Keep Matthew D’Ancona off the television.
Putting pants on your head and pencils up your nose.. It’s the right thing to do.
Carry on putting George Osborne on the television.
Sorry to mention it.. but this is good…
http://www.labourlist.org/gordon_expect_a_tough_pmqs_inside_outside_labour_party
Labour list are calling for brown to go !!
What a carry on, really!
Zzzzzzzzzz
Watch George Osborne at PMQ’s trying to take me off!
A right carry on if you ask me.
Infamy! Infamy!
They’ve all got it in for me!
No one is asking you.
Kenneth, time for your Barclays!
Orf wiv der ‘eads, right? cho wanna slap? leave it out!
Meanwhile Three srrested in Pyramid scheme scam. http://thatsnews.blogspot.com/2009/04/three-arrests-in-suspected-pyramid.html
Errr, hang on… if that’s the case, when do they come for Brown and Darling?
Ah, you just don’t understand economics, you see, inflation and monopolising the money can’t be a pyramid scheme it would’ve said so on BBC news, stands to reason.
QED
What Brown’s been doing since 1997 is no different to what Madoff did; continually borrowing more and more money in an ever deeper spiral of debt by lying to all the people who he was borrowing from.
Actually, there is a difference; madoff only managed a few billion, but Brown managed trillions.
[...] few people left who cannot diagnose mental illness in others without the relevant expertise. Now, according to Guido, diagnosing mental health issues is within the remit of the shadow Chancellor of the [...]
Your keyboard really really is fucked you know
Labour could yet change leader before the election, if they can find a way of stopping Mad Hattie the man hater winning.
Like it! Your choice is Mad Hatter or Mad Hattie…
This is appaling. Using mental illness as a tool for point scoring is disgraceful and would set society back even further.
Blame MacMental refusing to go quietly.
Your dolly started it. At least we have evidence.
Oops. Your therapy dolly may not have quite started it, but he responded very enthusiastically when a labour colleague did. Purer than pure?
Point noted. The minute McBroon is formally diagnosed, stripped of office and receiving treatment he will have my fullest sympathy. For that. Not for anything else.
And do you think the Labour Party have some sort of liability insurance so that UK PLC can reclaim some of the losses?
Being contrarian is never easy, and I’m about to come over all pompous.
Much as I’m paid-up to the ‘anyone but NuLab’ school, I agree that everyone needs to be a bit circumspect about this.
After all, we rose up in righteous outrage when NuLab Central tried to spread nasty stories about Mrs Osborne’ stability.
We can’t have it both ways – objecting to NuLab’s nastiness but happy to employ or approve of the same unpleasantness when directed against them.
Come on, chaps – we can unseat these swine without having to stoop to their gutter level. Indeed, it would set an example to the incoming regime of the sort of standards we wish to see restored to public life.
Here endeth the first lesson.
RKPT, I agree, to stoop to the nulab level is to become one’s own enemy.
joking aside *ahem* & given what’s at stake for all of us, we have a genuine interest in getting some clarity on Brown’s pathology
autism may not be quite the correct diagnosis, though it’s an interesting hypothesis that we explored a bit further here
whatever the answer, Matthew Parris makes the chilling observation that Brown’s condition is stable …
There are all sorts of systems of government.
Can someone please remind me of the correct name for government by the criminally insane ?
A viable target.
Not certain, but the Americans were insistent on calling it democracy. Perhaps some rare variant?
A psychocracy surely_
An idiocracy?
A zogochocracy
works ere’
Is throwing nokias and printers etc ‘purer than pure’? Certainly not saner than sane.
We have a “Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change”? For Climate Change FFS? Cretins.
Not long ago The Daily Mash had an article where Harriet Harman was intent on banning gravity. Priceless.
To be fair Brown just sits at the pinnacle of a pyramid of contempt that most people feel for this government. Below him though is the next tier of contemptability.
People like Jack Straw, minister for torture, the man who introduced photo drivers licences as the softener-upper for biometric passports and compulsory ID cards. The lawyer. The man who kept his evil fucking mouth shut when the lawyer Blair was doing away with double jeopardy, jury trials and the right to silence.
Then there’s Jacqui Smith, Minister for expenses and political arrests. The woman who bottled under pressure from Brown and had a fellow MP arrested under the official secrets act for revealing some embarassing facts about the Labour governments incompetence…
And I could go on detailing the infinite idiocies of most individual ministers off the top of my head. Milliband. Whiny arsehole. Blears. Whiny arsehole.
But then we come to the third tier. The remaining 350 or so Labour MPs. Folk who in 1992 must have been puking into their cornflakes when John Major defeated Neil Kinnock. Did they really decide there and then to bankrupt the UK to teach us all a lesson? Did they, while still students or, at best, teachers or minor union apparatchiks sit around detailing the long list of ancient rights they would trample once in power? To teach us all a lesson for their bad morning in 1992?
Oh yeah, brother and we’ll make sure the fuckers have to carry ID cards. Yeah, and as for this ‘right to silence’ shit…. And that ‘double jeopardy’ nonsense has no place in the modern world…
Really? Really? Well what the fuck happened? When did such idiocy become a fucking good idea? At what point were your wide-eyed ideals compromised? When the Dear Leader threatened to nobble your reselection if you broke ranks? When you realised that all you had to do was whatever you were told and you could pay your missus 40K a year and claim another 100K tax-free for travel, clothes, TV’s, bathplugs and adult entertainment?
I despise Brown. I yield to nobody in my contempt for the man. But you couldn’t fit a cigarette paper between my contempt for him and any one of the other 400 gangsters, cowards and imbeciles who, by their inaction and acquiescence, allow this disaster to persevere a single day longer.
Which takes me back to this. Why is not more made out of the fact that this catalogue of failure and corruption hardly fulfills TB’s opposition promise to be ‘purer than pure’? It would be such an easy and obvious focal point for criticism, for all conservatives to target.
*Standing Applause*
Marvellous analysis – just what the jiggedy-fuck has the Labour Party become?
What would have John Smith and Robin Cook have thought of this legacy?
Self-centred, self-absorbed, self-serving, trough-nosing, duplicitous, hypocritical, snide, anti-freedom, anti-constitutional, invasive, Stalinist, spineless, immoral, incompetent and inept.
We’d keep the red flag flying here but we appear to have
a) left it on the train
b) out-sourced it at 10x the original budget and our suppliers can’t make it work
c) banned flags for health and safety reasons
d) lost it during a £7 million office rennovation
e) signed up to a non-flag flying treaty in Brussels without telling you.
It was not just TB’s own personal promise that a labour government would be ‘purer than pure’. I do not remember many of his party dissenting from that pledge. Most of the electorate in ’97 were fooled into expecting this impossibly high standard. On the contrary, what the public actually got was what even I would have innocently imagined to be an impossibly LOW standard. The unrealistic promise to be ‘purer than pure’ (which ought to have been blasphemous from the perspective of people with the religious pretensions of TB and Brown) was itself the first lie with which Labour deceived the electorate, by Labour’s own failure to question that promise. However, Labour undoubtedly did succeed in fooling the bulk of the public, and continued to do so on that and other issues. The resultant mess is no more than the just deserts of anyone voting labour in 1997 or subsequently. I’m inclined to say that Labour’s mess is what any non-Tory voter deserves. I seem to remember someone saying in 1997 that the British people were sleepwalking to disaster, someone else retorting how arrogant those Tories were, and the electorate in their folly siding with the latter.
The British people had a thriving economy in 1997 and through their malicious spite towards the conservatives in 1997 and afterwards, they are now in the midst of financial as well as moral bankruptcy. The truth is, this is a well merited judgement on what was until recently the majority. Unfortunately, the minority elect are suffering with them, but we can say ‘I told you so’ ad infinitum.
It was not just TB’s own personal promise that a labour government would be ‘purer than pure’. I do not remember many of his party dissenting from that pledge. Most of the electorate in ‘97 were fooled into expecting this impossibly high standard. On the contrary, what the public actually got was what even I would have innocently imagined to be an impossibly LOW standard. The unrealistic promise to be ‘purer than pure’ (which ought to have been blasphemous from the perspective of people with the religious pretensions of TB and Brown) was itself the first lie with which Labour deceived the electorate, by Labour’s own failure to question that promise.
However, Labour undoubtedly did succeed in fooling the bulk of the public, and continued to do so on that and other issues. The resultant mess is no more than the just deserts of anyone voting labour in 1997 or subsequently. I’m inclined to say that Labour’s mess is what any non-Tory voter deserves. I seem to remember someone saying in 1997 that the British people were sleepwalking to disaster, someone else retorting how arrogant those Tories were, and the electorate in their folly siding with the latter.
The British people had a thriving economy in 1997 and through their malicious spite towards the conservatives in 1997 and afterwards, they are now in the midst of financial as well as moral bankruptcy. The truth is, this is a well merited judgement on what was until recently the majority. Unfortunately, the minority elect are suffering with them, but we can say ‘I told you so’ ad infinitum.
Gordon Brown says:
April 29, 2009 at 12:52 pm
BRAVO, Sir!
Too few MPs, on either side, have known what it is like to sweat in fear at the impending review meeting with the MD in an hour’s time; item one: last month’s figures; item two (not listed, but there nonetheless): your future with the company. Not only is the competition trying to do you down, but the public sector lays ever more duties and responsibilities at your door.
Fewer still have had responsibility for keeping their own firm going, with all that implies for other people’s livelihoods, with their house in hock to the bank, despite a myriad of public employees with all the time in the world requiring all sorts of daft compliances.
The result? Most of our legislators think that profit grows on trees and taking up to half of it in tax is no more than their entitlement, rather than bleeding firms of their life-blood.
At least the Tories and some LibDems have now, or have had, some connection with the private sector and understand instinctively the tale of the Golden Goose.
NuLab people have mostly come up via teaching, local govt or trade unions. Not wicked occupations in themselves, but not qualifying them at all to understand what they are dealing with in managing an economy.
If only they had a level of humility to match their ignorance. Instead, being ignorant, they don’t realise that they are thoroughly arrogant.
Many good points.
One possible strategic mistake was the Blair Babes short-list. These MPs feel they owe their position (and their second homes) more to the Labour party and the head of the government than to their constituents.
Another problem was the Blair doctrine that no-one was allowed to go off-message from the government.
Both of the above result in Labour MPs who dare not follow their own conscience or make their constituents their first loyalty. They end up spineless, but not spinless.
And what are Guido’s qualifications for making a diagnosis about the PM’s mental state – he visited the palce where Derek Draper trained doesn’t quite cut it I’m afraid.
Good enough for Draper wasn’t it?
So Guido was ‘at’ Berkeley then as opposed to ‘in’ Berkeley, or was it the other way round?
This is so confusing no wonder people have got it wrong in the past.
You don’t need to be a mental health professional to know that chucking laser printers about the office is an indication of an abnormal mind.
Of course, the One Eyed Stiff One had just visited Mexico and only weeks later Swine Flu breaks out, quickly followed by a earthquake.
He’s just visited Pakistan, so we can be pretty sure the country will fall to the Taliban.
Let’s pray the Brown Stuff doesn’t stay in the UK for much longer.
Maybe we could send him to Iran, Zimbabwe, Venezuala and Iran!
He’s probably trying to use the equality legislation that Harriet is pushing through parliament to extend his premiership
Just go
he’s having a sex change?
trouble is from what to what?
As I’ve pointed out on my own blog, it’s interesting that while unsubstantiated speculation about whether or not a senior politician has ever suffered from gonorrhoea is (rightly) regarded as an outrageous smear, unsubtantiated speculation about a politician’s mental health is regarded (both here and in most of the MSM) as fair game.
There are only two possibilities. Either he’s insane or he’s doing this deliberately. Neither are a good diagnosis.
LOL
A politician’s mental state is rightly regarded as liable to affect what decisions they make in grand matters such as the economy (how much gold reserves they squander just for instance) and also with respect to how they treat public servants and office equipment.
Casting libellous aspersions on the mental health of a politician’s spouse IS however regarded as utterly out of order as Labour therapists and spin doctors have discovered to their cost.
What is it with the deluded dick dribbler and his weirdly idiosyncratic pronunciation. He was at it again at PMQs with his ‘Alky-Ada’ which sounds more like some pissed- up, old bat rather than a terrorist mob.
He must have heard literally hundreds of people use the standard pronunciation that is employed almost universally, yet he still persists with his own silly version. There are lots of other examples to giggle at.
This otherwise harmless nonsense seems to be yet another component of his narcissistic personality – despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Gordon is always right and everybody else wrong. And, of course, even when you are demonstrably wrong never, ever, ever, concede that you might be, by changing. That would be, in his mad psychology, an admission of weakness and intellectual, infallible, world saving, titans don’t do weakness.
A Narcissist is never wrong because they believe themselves to be a superior being. If you have spent time with a Narcissist you will often hear the phrase “You are not listening to me” if you disagree with their ranting. They are also control freaks. By not conceding or admitting to mistakes they cause anger in others. As such they are “controlling” your emotions. They have never developed beyond the emotional age of 6, and like all 6 year olds demand to be the center of attention and have little or no empathy for others including family members. If you are angry with them, they are still the centre of attention. They will have temper tantrums like a 6 year old if their authority is challenged or they don’t get their way. They are totally self absorbed, hence the confusion with Autism. The difference being that Narcissists are inveterate liars who cannot distinguish between truth and a lie. Its just whatever suits them at the time in order to maintain their version of reality. They will also spend large sums of money they don’t have (especially if they can use yours) in order to maintain their image. Like children in a toy shop, they must have a certain item no matter how expensive or unsuitable it is. They live on Fantasy Island and every so often they make a faux pas which exposes the reality to others. They are devious, manipulative, controlling, bullying, good actors, superior, arrogant, disruptive wastefull, two faced, cold, cunning wolves in sheeps clothing who don the disguise of respectability in order to prey on the vulnerable. If you know one, run like hell. Period.
I’ve only scanned the comments quickly but has no one else *mouse’d over” the mad hatter picture?
What are you trying to tell us Guido?
Not really a theme as such. Autism isn’t a mental illness.
The Tories have no choice really, people will have contempt for Gordon and the Nulabs anyway.
Seriously Guido, is there any procedure for removing a Prime Minister on the grounds of mental instability?
If Gordon really throws a wobbler who can remove him?
I think you’ll find the Tories did it when Thatcher got too arrogant to see her own errors.
To expect any of Brown’s subordinates to get a grip is too much too ask though so we will remove him ourselves in 2010, what the rest of them need to realise that like Portillo, there’ll be quite a few of them getting cheered out of the door.