May 20th, 2009

Jonah Brown Visits Sellafield, Nuclear Leak Discovered

Jonah Goes NuclearThe Prime Mentalist visited Sellafield earlier this year (January 23). A report recently released by a Board of Inquiry reveals that on the very same day of his visit a radioactive leak was discovered.  Jonah’s curse goes nuclear.

Jonah World CupThe leak was classed as at “level two” on the Nuclear International Event scale – the highest at Sellafield in many years.  Not a good precedent for another international event – the World Cup.  This week Gordon held a photo opportunity to support England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.  So that is that jinxed, football definitely “won’t be coming home”…


144 Comments

  1. 1
    Wight Tory says:

    Fist – shit Gordo’s got to me too!

    • 4
      EC1 PhD says:

      Just back from the Isle of Wight walking festival. Four days of showers – bit like this Government.

      • 17
        Martin in Essex says:

        How come the GMTV studio is still standing then if he is such a Jonah. This prick Brown spends so much time in there I believe he has it it down as his second home.Mind you it is stuffed to the rafters with Labour supporters.

    • 28
      Gordon Brown says:

      Bend over and learn to enjoy

      • 47
        The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

        This would be the same GMTV that was fined heavily for defrauding their viewers?
        Obviously Mc Mental taught them a trick or two

      • 71
        Anonymous says:

        They did suffer a power cut early morning at GMTV one day last week.

    • 88

      No problem, just change the name. What about Windscale, that’s got a certain charm?

      The Penguin.

  2. 2
    jgm2 says:

    On the upside with brown behind the World Cup bid we are bound to lose so that’s another few billion quid we won’t need to spend on stadiums all over the place.

    • 8
      Scouse says:

      Anyone know how to hotwire a Challenger 2?

    • 34
      Proud Dundonian says:

      “So that is that jinxed, football definitely “won’t be coming home””

      Thank God for that: what with the Olympics in London and the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, we need another circus like we need a hole in the head.

    • 37
      Kick it into the Long Grass says:

      Or.. he’s a sleeper ?
      Scotland wins bid for World Cup.
      4 new stadiums built in west central Scotland with taxpayer funding.
      All constituencies are marginal NuLabour holdings.
      Voila. Ticks all the main boxes.

  3. 3
    The Master says:

    The Curse of Jonah: you couldn’t make it up! Did he visit the Queen yesterday? Oh to be a fly on the wall. Keep up the good work Guido.

  4. 5
    The Master says:

    Guido on 5live speaking sense. Like the idea of Primaries

  5. 6
    Right Bastard says:

    Chernobyl 2?

  6. 7
    Give me 650 lamp posts and a roll of piano wire and I can fix democracy says:

    Any chance McTwat could visit Scotland please?

    • 11
      Captain Scarlett says:

      How long will HM allow this circus to continue?

      She must be aware the mother of all parliaments has become an international laughing stock!

      • 39
        no longer anonymous says:

        She’s getting her revenge for the Parliamentary upstarts in the Civil War.

  7. 9
    Anonymous says:

    Maybe the reactor was trying to do us all a favour?

    • 129
      'kinell says:

      Jonah’s getting desparate .

      His new trick to keep the population amused is glowing in the dark.

  8. 10

    Guido on 5 live.
    Open Primaries? Are you sure?

    I’ve had this safe seat for twenty years. No one wants change here. There are no complaints at my surgery. Mainly because i hold it in westminster, where people can’t attend, but still. No complaints.

    • 24

      On the news they are describing you as “Conservative political blogger” again Guido.
      Nicky Cambell’s little joke ?

      • 43
        Kick it into the Long Grass says:

        Nicky Campbell = little scots tosser complete with shoulder on his chip.
        (The hint’s in the surname)

      • 50
        Right-wing social engineer says:

        There is a place reserved for Mr Campbell up against the wall.

      • 65
        Plato says:

        Well guess it’s slightly less egregious than fascist blogger which he called him last time!

      • 74
        Jenny Taylor. says:

        Campbell met his first wife Linda Larnach, who was eight years older than him, in Scotland. He later nursed her through a cancer scare and ME, and took time out from his career. He was then criticised when he broke up with her and she gave interviews in which she said his career break had been a publicity stunt

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Campbell

      • 76
        Kick it into the Long Grass says:

        Nicky’s on here all the time. Goes by nom-de-plume “Master Baiter”

  9. 12
    Lee Enfield says:

    Do you notice how NOBODY was sitting next to him?

  10. 13
    Anonymous says:

    There’s been a huge panic over at the Guardian. They’ve finally noticed that they’ve been supporting the insupportable and now they’ve initiated a big debate:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/politics-and-reform

    • 36
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      Standard lefty fayre when they think Labour are going to get a hammering in the polls. Bring in PR then at least they’ll still have a bit of a say in what goes on if they can con the Libdems to tag along.

      Even they won’t be that stupid after Miranda stitched them up last time.

    • 49
      Kick it into the Long Grass says:

      Finally noticed their advertising revenue is about to hit the blocks.
      Aaww. Diddums.

    • 59
      Right-wing social engineer says:

      Guardian writers should be paraded though London in stocks and forced to eat their own excrement.

    • 134
      Guardian of the Flame says:

      The Grauniad has indeed acted as a house journal for too many Labour apparatchiks, but I don’t know why they bother. Every time they print the ramblings of another NuLab minster the CIF community practically bursts into flames. In fact, it is blindingly clear that those elements of the lib-left that can actually read, and understand the concept of civil liberty, hate Gordon and his cabal as much as we sensible folk do.

  11. 14
    BrianSJ says:

    The McBride story in Seen Elsewhere shows that ‘they just don’t get it do they’ is still the case with ZNL gentleman’s club for gentlemens gentlemen.

  12. 15
    Civil Servant says:

    Whatever happens, don’t let him visit the particle reactor at Cern!

    • 38
      anonymous says:

      They could set him up as the target. Find new particles – the gorditron. Let a few of those mothers collide and its the end of the universe.

      • 102
        Sir William Waad says:

        The gordon is a remarkable particle. Despite being a massive and exceptionally dense fermion it is a spin-2 particle. It is left-chiral with the unusual property of repelling nearly everything except for a few particles called ’suckons’, which we can envisage as tiny balls. In terms of quantum chromodynamics it is grey and strange but has no charm. The gordon is known to be unstable and to have kinetic effects on items of office equipment. It is expected to decay into a smaller particle but scientists are unsure when this will happen and whether the new particle will be the johnson or the cameron.

        Detecting the gordon has cost some 200 billion pounds but scientists cannot promise that it will ever be of any practical use.

      • 106
        Einstein- Smurf says:

        The gordon is expected to be found at the edge of the universe

  13. 16
    Cassandra says:

    Have heard that sweet Hazel Blears is on the way to Salford possibly instead of making a scheduled statement to the House at 1.30.

    Resigning today ???

    • 19
      Right Bastard says:

      One can only live in hope.

    • 20
      Captain Scarlett says:

      Hope so!

    • 21
      Heads on poles says:

      Maybe it is discount day at the Vets for chipmunks.

    • 25
      Mrs Kindleysides says:

      Surely if Blears resigns then Darling, Cooper, Balls and Smith will have to resign?

      Until this happens, the british public will not rest.

      They have all been up to no good feathering their own nests at OUR expense.

      • 35
        Master Baiter says:

        Caroline Spelman, outside the rules.

      • 41
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        Your faith in logic is understandable but sadly misplaces.

        We are talking politician here, where words mean what they want them to mean.

      • 42
        Bore alert says:

        Master Baiter, why do you bother?

      • 47
        Master Baiter says:

        Nadine Dorries, outside the rules

      • 61
        Captain Scarlett says:

        Master Baiter – you are soooo thick!!!

        We are talking specifically about cabinet members here and NOT members of the opposition.

        Besides, the avarice of Spelman and Dorries no where near reaches the excesses of the female members of nulabour’s front bench!

        Just carry on spinning you spineles and brainless git!

      • 78
        Dr Feelgood says:

        Master Baiter is picking on female MPs – is this a sexist agenda to deny women equal representation?

      • 85
        jgm2 says:

        The misogynist gene is strong in Labour. It explains their utter hatred of Margaret Thatcher. How could a woman do this to us? A woman! To us!!!

        It’s why when John Smith went tits up Blair/Brown were able to stage a coup on Beckett and it is why Harman has no chance. Fuck all. Nil, zip, zero, of becoming PM on anything other than an interim basis while they organise a real replacement.

      • 87
        Master Baiter says:

        Dr Feelgood’s avowed dislike of perceived sexism is unconvincing. He never picks up on any other commenters on racism or sexism. He is a true hypocrite.
        So leaving sexism to one side —-
        Should Caroline Spelman and Nadine Dorries have the Conservative whip withdrawn, or is Cameron as many think, all mouth and no trousers?

      • 105
        Dr Feelgood says:

        Master Baiter has done it again by assuming that I am male. Your hate speech just keeps tumbling out like filth from a broken sewer.

        I have often picked up on other’s hate speech if it goes unremarked – I am especially unhappy about anti-Scottish remarks here and frequently comment on that.

        We can’t sweep sexism and racism aside in the way that you would like, they need to be fought wherever we find them.

      • 107
        Captain Scarlett says:

        Master Baiter – You’re having a laugh aren’t you?

        Cameron has been taking the lead on the expenses issue and Brown just copying everything he does. Yes, Spleman and Dorries should be deselected, but they are not as much an issue as cabinet members who get paid twice as much.

        You lies and deceptions are so blatent they are not even worthy of spin!

        You’ve lost the plot and your mind.

        One thing I blame Maggie for was closing the asylums. If she had not done this then people like you would be locked up in your room wrapped in your snowy white straight jacket.

        Now go away and try eductaing yourself, as Doncaster comp clearly didn’t do a good job where you are concerned.

      • 111
        jgm2 says:

        But what Labour apologists really hate is the thought that those guys with the green crayons that they like to imagine hammering away on their computers whilst listening to the Horst Wessel are the ones who precipitated all this.

        Guido with his revelations on Draper and McBride – establishing The Telegraph as the go-to place for your embarrassing political leaks.

        They were right – the election will be won (or in their case lost) in the Blogosphere.

        That’s what really kills ‘em. Twelve years of complete media domination turned over in a month. All the papers into them except The Mirror which would clearly sanction machine-gunning football supporters if Brown proposed it.

        The BBC is even wobbling a bit although I expect the imminent arrival of P45s for many of them will have them back onside for the final election push.

        Ha hahahahahahaha. That’s what kills ‘em. We wouldn’t be beaten by their tsunami of lies. We found new ways to get the truth out and it kills ‘em. And the thought that we’re all sitting there at home exulting in their downfall crucifies ‘em.

        Ahahahahahahaha ha ha.

      • 124
        Master Baiter says:

        Like Cameron You can choose to duck and weave all you like. You can try to use lame lightweight insults, all you ike the question is simple and unanswered, but repeated below.

        Should Caroline Spelman and Nadine Dorries have the Conservative whip withdrawn, or is Cameron as many think, all mouth and no trousers?

        Cameron should withdraw the Conservative whip, now, especially from Spelman who’s case has been investigated already and she has been found guilty.

    • 27
      EC1 PhD says:

      She’s gone to bury her recent purchases in her garden before resigning.

      • 55
        Martin in Essex says:

        I wonder whats under Jacqui Smiths patio? I believe there are complaints from the neighbours about her husband burning his collection of porn in an oil drum in the back garden. He did try to get rid of it at a garage sale but nobody would buy it because the pages were all stuck together although there was a rush to buy Jacquis old knickers.

      • 116
        Builders Crack says:

        I bought a couple of pair of Jacquis old knickers at that sale and have since found them far superior and cheaper than B&Qs rubble sacks.

    • 29
      Kick it into the Long Grass says:

      Mysteriously dies after coming off her motorcycle on a flyover near Birmingham.
      Clear dry conditions.
      Visibility good
      No witnesses.

      • 66
        Anonymous says:

        Perhaps they will give her a new identity as an obnoxious self serving dwarf just so nobody will recognise her.

    • 40
      Papasmurf says:

      So the attack on her at the McDoom news conference finally did it for Hazel. Offred her resignation… off to constituency to inform the local party she is not going to stand at bthe next election……but is off to the Lords because she has agreed to keep silent ofr the good of the country and McDoom.

    • 54
      the unknown streetcleaner says:

      She is going to have to make a resignation statement.
      And squirrel nutkin might decide to bite – after all she has the support of her CLP.

  14. 18
    Heads on poles says:

    The man is a walking disaster.

  15. 22
    angry french john says:

    McBastard has the Midas touch in reverse. His gold turned to shit! Oh that yesterday it had been him resigning instead of/as well as Gorbals

  16. 23
    Ian C says:

    Jonah Brrrooon has also struck with Lloyds Banking with Vic Blank departing from Lloyds after the disastrous take over of HBOS

    Bet Vic wishes he had not parlezed with Brrrooon over a glass or two of vino collapso

    Even more Jonah has also been instrumental in:

    1) no speaker sacked for over 300 years – done
    2) no noble Lords sacked / suspended for 300 years – done
    3) downgraded democracy by postal voting reforms without the necessary
    checks and controls – done
    4) commons in total disarray – done

    Not to mention illegal wars, sound economy shredded, billions poured down the drain into NHS & education with little check on “bang for buck”
    Billion spent on reducing school truancy – result truancy up
    Open borders to help swell Brrrooon’s client base and allow his indiginous client base to stay in bed
    Armed forces sent to war with inadequate equipment

    Not much left for Brrrooon – the man with the anti midad touch – to turn his eye ( literally) to

  17. 26
    Kick it into the Long Grass says:

    He’s a Raith Rovers supporter FFS.
    Enough said.

  18. 30

    I hope he wishes celtic well in their bid to hold on to the league championship.

    • 58
      Kick it into the Long Grass says:

      seconded :-)

    • 101
      Mr & Mrs Gorbals & family, Des Brown & family, John Reid & Brian Wilson says:

      See ye at re gem, then ?

      • 141
        Honourable Speaker Martin says:

        Need a lift in my taxpayer limo ?
        Got the guy with the grey cap and everything.
        Lets drive past those sighthill flats on the way.
        Give the Lidl shoppers a wave.
        That way they will be impressed and vote for me or Paul at local elections.
        After all, a 10,000 majority can’t lie, can it ?
        Ah, watch me buy class.

    • 110
      Dr Colossus says:

      Sitting in the war criminals box (er.. I mean directors box) along with john reid and des browne no doubt.

      • 136
        Mr Michael Martin (MP for North East Glasgow)'s Local Labour Party Election Agent says:

        Anyone catch the irony of Defence Secretaries visiting & defending our brave servicemen in Iraq, Afganistan etc and singing their praises whilst there then visiting & defending … every second week…singing about … murder of same servicemen ?
        Don’t know how some politicians have no honour, decency or shame.

  19. 32
    Tarquin says:

    from BBC:

    “Curiously, the only person not on message was Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who kept insisting football would be coming home. ”

    It’s all coming true

    He’s not even English, surely a curse on him should mean WE get it to spite his own countrymen

  20. 33
    Master Baiter says:

    Call a General Elecation in May 2010.

    • 43
      Anonymous says:

      That should be election.

    • 46
      Baited Master says:

      Why not now?

      • 63
        Master Baiter says:

        The Conservatives need a year to deselect their sitting MPs who broke the rules and their questionable candidates with unsavoury connections.

      • 79
        Anonymous says:

        Labour will need 2 years to deselect because it will take that long to get their heads out of the bankers arses.

      • 84
        Dr Feelgood says:

        It will take a year for Labour MPs to find where their constituencies and all their homes are. They gave up looking for their arses with both hands some time ago.

      • 112
        Rick the Roman says:

        We can deselct all the Liebour troughers – at the ballot box – CALL AN ELECTION

    • 53
      Mrs Kindleysides says:

      By May 2010 there will be nothing left of the country. We are rapidly sinking due to the sheer incompetence and stupidity of our so called Prime Minister – what a joke he is!

    • 56
      The big D says:

      Only if DC makes a mess of the one called in 2009.

    • 95
      Cassius says:

      Master Baiter:

      Couldn’t agree more. Conservative MP’s need to get rid of their “unsavoury connections”. In most cases these are the pairing arrangements they have with Labour MP’s on the opposite benches.

    • 122
      Tom Verlaine says:

      Elecation won’t go to my head

  21. 45
    the unknown streetcleaner says:

    One for Guido:

    http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/05/damian-mcbride-is-not-being-expelled-from-labour.html

    McBride is not being ditched

    • 69
      Damian McBride says:

      If you are in reality Nadine Dorries, put up or shut up.

    • 89
      Groucho says:

      Of course not. His ‘work’ was sanctioned from the very top and his skills are far too valuable to discard.

      He made the mistake of getting caught but you can be sure he will continue to work behind the scenes

    • 113
      Rick the Roman says:

      McBride has proved that he is Liebour to the core – up to his eyes in sleaze, spin and smears – fits in so well with the rest of the party

  22. 51
    Reactor Rod says:

    another government leak – surely not!

  23. 57
    Ever Vigilant says:

    What is the procedure to section someone? Our prime minister is in need of medical help and we should make every effort to find him a place in a secure instittution.Someone reading these blogs must know how to help him and they are morally obliged to do so.

    • 68
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      It is impossible to believe that in the midst of all this he is able to concentrate on running the country. Jokingly one might say that’s an advantage, but this is a serious matter.

      • 82
        jgm2 says:

        Seriously it is an advantage. While he’s tying himself in circles trying to spin his way out of this expenses debacle he’s not conceiving even more fucked-up schemes for getting us further in debt.

        I’m serious. The less time he has to turn his collosal self-proclaimed genius to bear on anything, the better.

        Thiiiiiiings can only get betteeeeerr!!!

  24. 62
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    BBC seem to be a bit tetchy at the moment.

    I think they have just realised what might be heading their way.

    Prepare for the crunch of gears as they go into reverse and it turns out that they thought Martin, Brown and Nulab were a joke all along, but might not have made it clear enough.

    Polly has already converted. Brown the saviour has become Brown the clown and urgent reform all round is needed, of the type that only becomes apparent about 10 years.

    They really do think we are totally thick, don’t they.

    • 73
      Kick it into the Long Grass says:

      They did a great hatchet job on Mr Gorbals last night by interviewing typical staunch voters in his constituency.
      One could talk but didn’t seem to know what a trough was.
      Another interviewed from a public house with a pint of beer in front of him.
      Others interviewed outside a particularly “attractive” shopping centre.
      .. And his election agent.
      THE MESSAGE ?
      Keep voting NuLabour and the likes of him.
      He’s brought you all such benefit over 30 years as MP you just got to keep him – or his son Paul – in power.
      Conservatives won’t make you poor, but NuLabour will KEEP you poor.
      Wake Up Scotland !

    • 98
      Centre Parting says:

      BBC want license fee increase which Nulab will sanction to buy their support.

      All the creeping long time apologists – Marr, Pienaar, all that pontificating Radio 4 bad adverts for minor public schools and the ghastly Dimblebey bros. – should now do the decent thing – some chance!

  25. 64
    Thats News says:

    Oh… my… god… We are doomed. Watch out for sheep with extra legs.

  26. 66
    Anonymous says:

    Well ENGLAND’s WORLD CUP BID is now up the swannee after McBroons visit!

  27. 75
    BOFL http://ageofkali.blogspot.com/ says:

    on the tv gordie the lying mental stealing useless shit has said that he is doing something about un-employment!!!!!!

    i agree.he is CREATING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

    http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?ID=12

    7.83 economically inactive people in the uk!!!!!!!

    cant someone get him sectioned?

    • 83
      From one Unemployed Blogger says:

      Did you see the Party Political Broadcast on behalf of Socialist Labour Party last night (Ricky Tomlinson) ?

      Socialists ADMIT real Unemployment in UK around 12,000,000 people.
      Thats TWELVE MILLION.

      Then they ask you to vote for Socialist policies (a couple of strategies sounded more like BNP to me but that’s another story)

      No more boom and bust then

  28. 80
    Michael Martin says:

    A leak? Phone the police. It must have been a tory toff.

  29. 86
    Sir William Waad says:

    A toxic leak – anybody know where McBride was that day?

  30. 90
    Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma says:

    Oh fuck
    Jonah has written me an open letter wishing me all the best
    Looks like I will die in prison.

  31. 93

    Gordon’s brother works for a French nuclear power company….perhaps he could take Gordon on a tour of their power stations?

    The Penguin.

  32. 100
    Papasmurf says:

    Breaking +++++ Breaking +++++++ Breaking

    More Eastern Europeans leaving UK

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8059122.stm

    That’s it they’ve had enough the troughing is better in Romania

  33. 103
    The big D says:

    The medical abbreviation CTD (Circling The Drain) is one that can be increasingly applied to the current parliament

    The politicians still do not understand how desperately this country needs wholesale reform of government. The current examples of tinkering are insulting and will not work.

    We are witnessing the truth of the saying “Once a project has started to fail, anything done to recover the situation inevitably makes it worse.”

    If nothing changes soon the whole country will be CTD.

  34. 104
    Roert Catesby says:

    WE’VE ALL HAD ENOUGH GORDON

    JUST CALL A GENERAL ELECTROCUTION OF PARLIAMENT

    and don’t bother with the wet sponges

    • 109
      Robert Catesby says:

      “Roert” without a “b”? Are you trying to impersonate me?

      But you do propose an idea close to my heart.

  35. 108
    Mrs Kindleysides says:

    Master Baiter – I find your sexism shocking and disturbing. You are a monster sir, of the 1st degree.

    • 126
      Caroline Spelman says:

      Please don’t pick on him, he has a valid point.
      The claim I made for a secretary/nanny was clearly outside the rules and the matter has been investigated and I have been found guilty. Also I have admitted the wrong doing now.

  36. 115
    Neil Craig says:

    It is not widely known, because it is not reported, that we get about 100 times more radioactive exposure from coal power plants than nuclear ones. That is because there is radioactivity in EVERYTHING including stuff in the ground. Burning coal in standard 100 mw coal plants releases 18 tons of uranium & thorium particles into the atmosphere.

    Which does absolutely no damage because tough, again it is not widely reported, the official theory that any level of radiation is dangeous (even well below background) there has never been any evidence whatsoever to support it & all the evidence points to the hormesis theory that at low enough levels it actually improves health.

    coal plant radiation http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2009/05/menace-of-radioactivity-released-by.html
    radiation hormesis http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2009/05/radiation-hormesis.html

    It is therefore a cheap shot to go for Brown over radiation. You could properly go for him over the fact that it has been 3 years since Labour officially went pro-nuclear & that a plant can be completed in that time, but only if it were started.

  37. 117
    Benjamin Linus says:

    Season Two LOST had a mention to Jonah being out of touch and you are only picking it up now?

    Spooky!

  38. 123

    Ah This explains his demeanor when he made those YouTube videos. I thought he looked a bit funny.

    Ampers

  39. 125
    Caroline Spelman says:

    It was all outside the rules.

  40. 127
    Welsh Nationalist says:

    So much for being British!

  41. 130
    Letter to Brown says:

    Have just posted a letter to the criminal Brown – called him a coward and told him in the name of God;

    GO!

    • 137
      Nadine Dorries says:

      Hope it looked as if it was written by a drunk spider with a 6″ wide paintbrush.
      He can read those ones.

    • 138
      Sir William Waad says:

      It’ll be a real feather in your cap if he goes.

  42. 132
    Why, why, why says:

    From Matthew Engel at the FT on Brown’s news conference yesterday:

    Since he was addressing journalists, who are inhibited by professional courtesy on these occasions, rather than MPs or voters, Mr Brown had an easy ride.

    WTF??

  43. 133
    tisfedup says:

    I absolutely believe now is the time for an election to be called, I do not think that we should allow this governement the tories, lib dems or anyone else etc, to say how our democracy should be changed/reformed without first putting these ideas to the people. every party including independents should put forward thier manifesto’s including the full details of why’s and how’s that they think parliment can be improved and let us the people decide, because at the moment i truly dont believe they are thinking things through properly, I need to know alot more about this outside ‘independent’ body, because as far as I am concerned I (the British Public) should be the only one that can hold parliment to account.

    • 142
      Reactor Rod says:

      Before this country goes to another election – there are far too many outstanding discrepancies about the system of government which remain un- reconciled and need fixed first, otherwise any future party-based government will simply do a U-turn back into bad discipline and continue the pattern of fire-fighting against public anger.

      Apart from Expenses & Cash for Peerages, one example is the Abrahams affair. I understand the Labour party has yet to return the £1million to Mr. Abraham. Now the money itself is not the biggest issue, far more important is the matter of principle involved which has not been resolved to any public satisfaction regarding the possible abuse of power and planning favours that may have been granted in that case. Questions linger over the appointment of private firms of consultants involved in planning generally, particularly where this crosses the distinction and sacred boundary into public sector local government – itself a subsidiary of Whitehall.

      From Institutes to Ombudsmen investigating complaints where matters of principle end up undermined and compromised, the official statements of transparency are nothing more than lip-service. It’s simply not good enough just to change the party in power – the very system of government itself requires reform BEFORE an election.

      I agree fully this should not be done by the present kangaroo court. Nor however can it be accomplished by yet another so-called “INDEPENDENT” body. We all know “he who pays the piper calls the tune”. It is the people who must determine the NEW RULES before a new form of government is allowed to hold us in bondage EVER AGAIN.

  44. 140
    Lizzie says:

    The curse of Brown or no curse of Brown, the only chance England has of hosting the world cup is if Seff Blatter leaves FIFA…period!

  45. 143
    David Gillies says:

    Anyone remember that splendid old spooky thriller The Medusa Touch with Richard Burton? Last scene is some gauge doing something unhealthy at Windscale (Sellafield as was). Of course in the movie, all the terrible events that unfold are deliberately caused by the villain, whereas Brown’s very own Medusa Touch, unless a scientifically implausible form of Asperger’s syndrome, seems to be wholly inadvertent. Or is it…? (cue spooky music)

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    Dave says:

    On a serious note having watched a number of senior politicians now how do we know any are sane?
    Who does check the Psychological state of the PM and what measures are in place to stop him creating havoc if he were to become unhinged?







Nick Clegg said…

“Charlie Whelan and Lord Ashcroft are exactly the same. One is the baron of the trade unions, and the other one is the baron of Belize. Both are bankrolling political parties, both are trying to buy seats.”



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