June 6th, 2009

Mandelson’s Vanity Overcame His Good Judgement

Gordon Target

Mandelson owns Gordon Brown to a degree greater than any influence he ever had over Tony Blair.  He is in a sense now more powerful than the Prime Minister, for Gordon Brown’s job is at his disposal.  The only reason Mandelson has not taken the title of ‘Deputy Prime Minister’ is because Harriet Harman would have resigned if he did,  since that title was, much to her annoyance, denied to her.  The last thing Gordon needs is another W.A.G. (Woman Against Gordon).  So the great intriguer now has the title First Secretary of State and Lord President of the Council, the Baron Mandelson, of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham.

He saved Gordon on Thursday night by calling Blairites who were thinking of jumping and cajoling them into staying and publicly supporting Gordon Brown, even though in private they despair of the Prime Mentalist.

Mandelson knows Gordon is not up to the job, knows that he is not even half as good as Tony Blair, knows that he is a weak, dithering and now broken man.  Look at Gordon’s face and you see a man racked with psychological pain, his face betraying his failure.  The Lobby is dismayed that Gordon dares to blatantly lie to them when claiming to possess high moral purpose.  The worst thing about Gordon’s lying are the lies he tells himself.

All this serves Mandelson’s purposes, for it means that he himself can govern just as a cunning old regent controls a young prince.  The strength of Mandelson’s position as effectively the surviving Blairite ringmaster means that if he holds the Blairites on the leash, Brown survives, if he unleashes them, Brown falls.  That power has seduced Mandelson, he has always dreamed that one day he would be able to say “l‘État c’est Moi”.  Now he has engineered himself into a positon where he can say “le premier secrétaire d’État, c’est moi”…


656 Comments

  1. 1

    Next pm, lord mandy lmao

    • 9
      So you think we live in a democracy! says:

      So you think we live in a democracy!

      A Goverment of the unelected,

      1. Mandy (NWO stooge – no mandate)
      2. Kinnochio EU stooge – no mandate)
      3. Gordoom (party appointed PM – NWO stooge)

      What mandate do these people have?

      Unelected global banker loan shark stooges in the EU making 80% of our laws.

      Still think you live in a democracy, still think the Tories will change a damn thing?

      • 17
        The whole goverment is window dressing says:

        The whole goverment is window dressing

        Flint says her opinion in goverment was never sought.

        Think about that for a moment!

        This is a dictatorship run by the NWO through the EU, through Gordon and then passed through the mouthpiece minister who has no input at all, no scope to change a single line or do further research or listen to the people.

        We have NO goverment at all, your vote is pointless all the while you vote Lib Lab Con, The leaders are controlled, Goverment is bypassed and we wonder why the goverment never does anything the people want!

        Because the goverment is the unelected brussels mafia in turn run by international private bankers.

        Flint says she was female window dressing, while she plays the crass brainwashed new Liebour sexist card, what she fails to notice right under her nose is that the whole bloody goverment is window dressing!

        • 35
          Treason says:

          A legal case for Treason

        • 48
          Anonymous says:

          Great point.

        • 114
          Scorched Earth says:

          We seem to be forgetting that the Blairites moved too fast and too uncoordinated and as a result Mandy lost his dream job as Foreign Secretary.

          For all his scheming he failed to get that. But he still wants it BADLY.

          So he will keep Brown where he is and in a month or two or three when it’s far too late for a challenge little Milliboy will find himself smacked down hard like he was at the Conference and Mandy will step up to the Foreign Sec. job and Darling may find himself on the backbenches as Balls gets his reward for his pathetic sniping and smearing.

          Mandy won’t dump Gordon unless it is to his advantage and he does not have the same hold over Johnson or Milliband who now sees the snake for what he is and Mandy wants his job and Milliboy is in the way.

          Not forgetting the Party and backbenches despise Mandy. And always will.

          He is suffered because of his supposed skill in Campaigning but he has now alienated the Blairites by manouvering for the Foriegn Secretary job when they wanted a coup and if he dumped Brown he would truly be out in the wilderness.

          Brown and Mandy are locked together with their arms around each others throat but neither can afford to strike the other as they both will fall.

        • 194
          NotaSheep says:

          A few years back I would have said this was paranoid rubbish, now I think you may have a point.

        • 611
          Ivana Seat says:

          Flint complaining that she was overlooked because she is a woman overlooks the fact it was her sex and not her talent that got her where she is today.

        • 649
          Churchill's Cattleprod says:

          But haven’t you read Melissa “Oh Mr Porter” Kite’s sycophancy today about how these evil Blairite bitches were planning to topple The Great Leader from his lofty perch by carry out mass resignations.

          Thank God Peter Mandelson was there to help the stalwart yet manly Gordon Brown overcome these despicable plotters and foil their desperate plan to destroy Britain by removing the one man who can save us from economic ruin. I say, and I know the BBC agrees with me, that we should elect Gordon Brown to be President For Life.

      • 78
        Anonymous says:

        NuLabour have made more use of the upper chamber to place minister than any other government since 1950s.

        Really enoblement hasn’t meant anything since Tudor times.

        But grasping status is characteristic of those who rise in the Labour hierarchy.

        Reminds me of Idi Amin………

        • 146
          Tarzan says:

          What is quite astonishing is that a Labour Government should have an unelected Peer as de facto Prime Minister !!

          The last Peer as PM if my memory is correct was the Tory Salisbury in about 1900…!!

        • 148
          Awaiting Moderation says:

          The cynical elevation of Lord Nosejob and Lady Windbag indicates Brown’s utter contempt both for democracy in general and the Parliamentary Labour Party in particular. The idea that there is no-one in the Commons capable of being Europe minister must surely stick in the craw at Monday’s PLP meeting. If it doesn’t, they’re all brain dead.

        • 160
          Susie says:

          Indeed. The Labour Party. The Party of “ordinary, hard-working families”. The Party funded by the unions. The party of Tony Benn who was a peer and rejected his title in order become an MP.

          Is now run by a Peer, with no less than 7 other Peers in its Cabinet.

          And they have the NERVE to call Conservatives, Tory Toffs and Bullingdon playboys?

        • 232
          ivan says:

          All the more reason the upper house should be filled with those that have inherited their peerage – not those boosted for political (nose in trough) ends.

        • 257
          barefootcontessa says:

          If you made it up they’d think you were mad.

        • 292
          Doctor Mick says:

          Benn is the living image of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

        • 298
          Follow the money says:

          It’s very simple – follow the money – all is revealed.

        • 642
          going down the pan says:

          WHY ! do we have to wait 3 days for the euro results ? is it to give the government time to alter our papers , for those of us they feel dont understand politics . and to correct the result that they feel is right for the country ?

      • 135
        Plato says:

        As the government is a joke – here are some tasteless ones.

        you have been warned

      • 209
        Fausty says:

        This government hasn’t reformed the Lords in its 12 years in office because the ability of a PM to bribe a recalcitrant with a peerage is too great a tool to discard. They will probably attempt to reform it after they’ve set the election date, to prevent the next government from using it in the same way.

        Brown will not resign because he has too much to lose if he does.

        And it’s not in Mandy’s interests that he goes just yet. Mandy being the only woman in the Brown government with any power.

        Great blog today, Guido. Superb comments too. Fab to see those crosshairs on McMental’s skull.

      • 226
        Scott says:

        I’m surprised there hasn’t been more comment about the democratic deficit at the heart of this administration.

        New Labour has always been deeply distrustful of democracy. Their ambivalence first revealed itself when they launched their initial assault on Labour’s internal party democracy in the early part of Blair’s leadership and it has been a constant theme of this administration ever since.

        • 260
          Tarzan says:

          There are no journalists left who have not been bought off by New Labour…

          Just a bunch of brain dead hacks..

          That’s why the only discussion worth speaking of is here on Guido’s blog…

          It’s becoming quite historic in fact and influencing a lot of people..

          Well done Guido…

        • 320
          JMT says:

          There was a time when top notch people became Journolists.

          The second-raters became the PR flacks.

          Somewhere along the line the status quo has reversed – the second-raters are now the journalists. All they do is rewrite the press line handed to them:
          politics, climate change etc.

          Not ONE of the idle bastards can be bothered to actually investigate and write a good story. Want to know how its done? Think Watergate.

        • 393
          Mr Ned says:

          I have been screaming it on every blog I have visited.

          The labour party is a profoundly anti-democratic party. The act like they hate the electorate.

          When we are finally granted a general election, it is in the interests of future generations that we remember tha massive sacrifice made by thousands of young men on D day and get out and vote these enemies of democracy in the labour party out of office FOREVER!

        • 601
      • 332
        Finnpog says:

        New Sunday Times headline story

        http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446324.ece

        Balls went “nuclear” when he wasn’t promoted but Goat Peter was.

        Balls now saying that HE is the victim of a smear campaign!!

        More popcorn anyone?

        • 363
          Youtube if you like.. says:

          World of Warcraft 5. Hmmm, sounds like a good movie. Beer?

        • 366
          Dr Nuts says:

          No, other half is cooking some up for me.

          I’ve never had this much fun watching politicians self-explode in my lifetime.

          The best bit for me – the BBC refuse to get involved, getting ever more divorced from reality. I’m sure the Conservatives have noticed and are sharpening blades. This isn’t over with the next GE, that’s the start for round 2!

          I’ve never been a keen supporter of Labour – but if it wasn’t that the peasants were getting hurt with the unelected Lords Lording it over us (I thought we lived in a democratic country), I’d vote Labour again – just to watch the comedy keep going.

          This is a classic 3 men in a boat – 1’s pushing the other out, and the 3rd is drilling a hole in the bottom of the boat, with a second hole to let the water out! Insane comedy – TV Political Sitcom writers will be using this period of Labour rule for the next century for material!

        • 432
          Mr Ned says:

          Well labour have no room to complain about Millionaires row now. They are appointing them unelected to the fucking House of Lords.

          We need to get rid of these enemies of democracy.

      • 532
        Goat says:

        Dark Lord HandleBum of Boy will be out and that is a start. Gordon McBroon will be gone. That Kinnock thing will also have fucked off. What’s not to like?

      • 595
        Atlas shrugged says:

        Look you silly idiot, you miss the point.

        Of course a Conservative government will change plenty.

        Simply dont expect ANY Conservative government to change the fact that unelected banster load shark stooges in the EU are indeed making 80% or more of our laws, to change.

        That would be a REAL revolution. Which is something absolutely no established establishment party can or will so much as contemplate.

        If we are actually allowed a Conservative government or indeed any form of elected government again. Cameron will change the curtains at No10, things will seem more conservative in general, and The BBC will most surely go back to its good old self of pissing off the government.

    • 79
      freddie flintoff says:

      fuckin hoon

      • 101
        Brown To Have a Stroke - 3-1 odds on says:

        That will teach the BONG-EYED BASTARD to trust MANDY !

        Go on MANDY shove it right up his arse ! Hit the meltdown button

        • 153
          Tarzan says:

          Mandy will wait until he has all his personal ducks in a row..

          But he will “arrange’ the timing with Cameron (thru’ Stanley Fink and Lord Levy who are business partners and great political operators)

          Then BANG…!!

        • 156
          Benny Goodman says:

          And you never believed in Tam Dalyell’s “Jesish Conspiracy” ?!

        • 174
          freddie flintoff says:

          i fuckin hate him and his fuckin bullys i want them cut sliced diced and fuckin mashed i want there heads on a spike i want them as my door mats fuckin hoons

    • 175
      Alphonso de Gonzo says:

      Spot on!

      Francis Urquhart in the House of Cards. When the kingmaker becomes king.

      Or, as he chanted around the playground as a schoolboy, “PM for PM!!!”

      Where can I place a bet…..

      • 235
        Scorched Earth says:

        Not in 1000 years will Mandelson ever be P.M.

        The power behind the throne yes but like “Hot” Karl Rove he is simply too deeply unpleasant and loathed to ever make it that far.

        The PLP would resign en masse and most of the Cabinet would abandon ship on the spot. He has blithely destroyed to many MP’s reputations and squashed too many in his or his masters way for that.

        Mandy is also just an attack dog when everything else is stripped away.

        He tried before in the Ministerial merry go round and he just couldn’t hack it.
        If he gets the Foreign Secretary job in a few months he will fuck it up sooner or later. Because what Political nouse or skill he has is in the dark arts and not in the day to day Ministerial management and hard graft.

        • 295
          Doctor Mick says:

          He is Iago

        • 312

          The worst thing about Gordon’s lying are the lies he tells himself.

          That is such an undeniably true phrase. Its true, sad and disturbing.

          He knows he isn’t good enough. He lives in daily fear that someone close to him will just say what he knows in his heart to be the truth.
          “Gordon. You are a coward. You are afraid of failure. You carry on blindly because you are too frightened to admit that you are not capable. You do not know how to escape yourself. Let me help you Gordon.. Let me help you rest. Here. Let me give you this pillow.Lie still.. Its Peter, your friend. Let me help you rest.. A long, long rest.Close your eyes..rest.”

        • 362
          freddie flintoff says:

          he got hoons about him

        • 461
          summer_breeze says:

          ” He is Iago ”

          Well, for heavens sake, don’t bend over to pick the handkerchief up. ;-)

        • 650
          Anonymous says:

          anyone remember talleyrand

      • 584
        Man on the Clapham omnibus says:

        Goldman Sachs, AIG……..?

    • 493
      More emails from Draper via Guido says:

      Sunday Times says:

      It is understood that the communications between Mandelson and Draper come from a cache of documents acquired by Fawkes that included the McBride memos. The blogger yesterday sold the Mandelson e-mails to a tabloid newspaper for a five-figure sum.

    • 640
      going down the pan says:

      i think his title should read john doe found floating in thames !

  2. 2
    Magnus says:

    Queenmaker?

    • 28
      fitaloon says:

      It really doesn’t matter what the E-mails are about, only that they again show Brown, Mandelson and Labour in a bad light. this is all the public will see and believe. The constant water torture being dealt in the media means that Brown will break eventually.

      Today was supposed to be a “quiet” day before the bad news tomorrow. But no it continues. There is a limit to how long it can last. Even yesterdays worst appointee “Slow Bob” will begin to realise that his job will not last long.

      The drip drip drip water torture of Gordon will soon be over as he breaks finally anc convulsionally

    • 104
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      Do you mean Queanmaker?

    • 269
      freddie flintoff says:

      see post 177

  3. 3
    Anonymous says:

    Julie Kirkbride`s birthday was yesterday! Who were the drinks party guests?

    • 387
      Fruity Aroma says:

      Who paid for the birthday photos and the bag of oranges this time?

      • 491
        Anonymous says:

        Who do you think? You did sucker! Look at the expenses over 12 years not just four. Have you EVER known Julie Kirkbride pay for ANYTHING out of her own money?

        • 509
          Anonymous says:

          It is somewhat curious is it now how the name of Miss Kirkbride appears to emerge from the shadows whenever anything sordid or corrupt come into play. It would seem to suggest that everything associated with Miss Kirkbride needs very close scrutiny indeed. One might begin to contemplate that there is much more to this Kirkbride story than has so far been revealed.

        • 515
          Anonymous says:

          I agree. No. This whole expenses business has not been fully investigated and it is obvious that the abuses go back over 12 years not 4. Andre MacKay has visited his `family home` in Bromsgrove a `handful` of times in recent years. How many times has Lord Mandy visited? Does Mandy know Ian Kirkbride by any chance?

        • 518
          Anonymous says:

          Ian Kirkbride is an interesting man. Why have the media not interviewed him about all this?

        • 527
          Anonymous says:

          If you think Mandy is vain, what is permatan MacKay?

      • 494
        Anonymous says:

        Who do you think? You did sucker! Have you EVER known Julie Kirkbride pay for ANYTHING out of her own money?

  4. 4
    Anonymous says:

    Ooooh, the crosshairs are back…. Good show!

  5. 5
    Dylan says:

    He’ll make sure Gordon resigns at a time when he can step into the place of caretaker PM, since he now will never be foreign secretary it is the next best thing.

    • 180
      Susie says:

      That creature? Prime Minister of Great Britain?

      I think we’re about to reach the bottom of the history of our nation’s swamp.

      • 262
        Bonzo says:

        We already have a “creature” in No. 10. You don’t get much lower than being booed by veterans.

  6. 6
    Murphy says:

    I can see Brown on Mandlesons knee saying gottle of gear

    • 73
      Burdizzos for Balls says:

      Yes . Brown only functions when mandy has his ???? up his arse.
      Bit like a glove puppet really.

      • 77
        urinalpeeps says:

        Gordo might even bring home a french tickler for mandy.

      • 125
        Boudicca says:

        Reminds me of the ’70s Anthony Hopkins horror film, Magic.

        A ventriloquest with suppressed schziophrenia uses his dummy to say all the dreadful things he himself cannot say; but gradually the dummy takes over and controls the ventriloquest eventually leading to attempted murder.

        Seriously, a Prime Minister who cannot sack a Minister is, in the classic phrase, in Office but not in Power. Brown is just a shell; Mandelson is now de facto Prime Minister.

        Where is Her Maj. Surely she can insist on a Dissolution of Parliament.

        • 214
          Anonymous says:

          She’s at the Derby. The real ‘D’ day celebrations for her.

        • 242
          Her Majesty says:

          I’m here, but like all politicians, I don’t give a toss. Isn’t it obvious that I too have been doing nothing but feathering my own nest for years?

        • 318

          ” They’ll put you somewhere dark and moooooo-dy…”

        • 358
          Fausty says:

          I’d imagine that her maj has done a deal with the EU. The recent snub by Sarkozy and Brown is bound to get up her nose. Can she retaliate, though?

  7. 7
    Anonymous says:

    Well mandy doodle dandy! Fancy that.

  8. 8
    Anonymous says:

    Kirkbride`s birthday was yesterday! Who were the drinks party guests?

  9. 10
    Anonymous says:

    Anon-7.32–Are you sure…bit of a queer relationship that.

  10. 11
    Alan says:

    He is actually First Lord Crony, First Lord Russian Advisor and First Lord Mortgage Advisor, and any other Lord the prime mentalist needs.

  11. 12
    • 233
      W.W. says:

      Not only can he not win the next election, I can’t even come 2nd.

      The man clealy has had some kind of breakdown, somebody should put him and us out of our misery.

      Couldn’t have happened to a nicer man.

      W.W.

  12. 13
    Patriot. says:

    As I said on another post; when Blair is President of Europe, and Mandelson is running Britain…..God help us !!

    • 19
      Engineer says:

      Only until next June.

      The Euro-elections results will be interesting. A high vote for euro-sceptic parties combined with a reasonable turnout would make the integrationists task a bit more tricky.

      • 254
        Anonymous says:

        Makes no difference the MEPs do nothing that matters!

      • 487
        I've Shagged Darling's eyebrows says:

        Whoops…..http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6434451.ece

  13. 14
    Dr. Sexy says:

    Third!!!!!!!!!!1

    Brown is a turd. Scottish PRICK

    Resign now

  14. 15
    Smoking Fury says:

    Well F U C K

    MincingBUm

    McSnotty

    and the all the NooBoringLiar Coterie.

    Liars they were

    Liars they are

    Liars they always will be.

    Shame on them!

    And for what Grouniad McSnot did today at the D-Day event – everlasting shame and opprobrium on him.

  15. 16

    mandy is out of control.

    • 338
      Helmut Kayzer says:

      Is it true Mandy takes it up the gary? If so, shouldn’t he be concerned over his seat in the House of Lords?

  16. 17
    Patriot. says:

    WRONG !!!! Mandy is very much IN control !!!

  17. 20
    MI5 says:

    Excellent pithy analysis Guido

    Spot on

    But since we all know he is the REAL PM

    Don’t you think he is just comdemninhg himself as the REAL PM who led New Labour to their disastrous ending…

    Is he now blinded by power and vanity as you suggest ?

    Or is he just using the contacts and power he now has to set himself up in the future to make a huge fortune like Tony Blair ?

  18. 21
    Warwick Hunt says:

    Does any1 have a video of Brown booing booed by the veterans. Hope u can get hold of 1 soon GF.

    Warrick

    • 50
      Anonymous says:

      SKY are showing it on their news feed

    • 53
      ex Libris says:

      God Bless YouTube…

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgG8nX58gnA

      Enjoy!

      • 189
        Susie says:

        I loved Charles’ barely suppressed wince… (I just knew he was think “another ghastly little man”).

        • 229
          Brown to be knighted with a sword - foul play ensues; says:

          He was actually thinking;

          “Boy,am I going to get Mum to cut this fucker’s head off pronto,or my name is not Charlie”

        • 344
          Helmut Kayzer says:

          He’s got Obama on the brain. Fucking loser.

      • 228
        Dick Scratcher says:

        I used to be proud to be British

        • 281
          Obama's bitch says:

          Gordon turns it into a NWO speech – again!

          Our troops didn’t know if they would be led by British, American or Canadian blah blah blah.

          No self rule, no democracy, let’s surrender to the NWO bankers dictatorship clunk, clunk, click whirrrrr

        • 383
          Fausty says:

          You should still be proud to be British. These treasonous ****s do not represent us.

      • 316
        Mandy says:

        I didn’t hear any booing in this clip, I did hear the Prime Mentalist refer to it as “Obama beach” though. What a cretin.

        • 353
          Helmut Kayzer says:

          “Thick, one-eyed fuck-head” is a more apposite term, I reckon. I’ll bet his breath stinks as well.

      • 475
        Anonymous says:

        how much more of a Hoon can he become ? at this rate a portal to another universe is likely to open up whenever he speaks.

  19. 22
    secretary of state for disbelief says:

    You just couldn’t make it up could you?

    • 437
      Secretary of state for Obama Beach says:

      Obama Beach – a Hollywood blockbuster by a mad bad Scotch McPrune.

  20. 23
    Archullus says:

    GB’s legacy to the nation

    I suspect GB will hold on until he is ruined. I would have said “or until the nation is ruined” but his big hand in all of the three of the “elephants in the room”, and looks to have whammied us good and proper for the forseeable future.

    GB’s three big elephants in the room:
    - the pension funds raid left a broken pension model
    - gee whiz worship of City bright lights, or should I say too light a touch on financial regulation
    - PFI borrowing The PFI schemes, largely ignored are hidden borrowing by the government. There are 100’s of these schemes and the two I know of were coming in between £60m and £120m each. The political pressure to keep the long term liabilities off public sector balance sheets was in the very early part of GB as chancellor. Credit agencies who rate government debt complain about this hidden borrowing as it isn’t shown anywhere. Yet another costly problem that tax payers will continue to fund, for decades.

    Political parties at our expense(s)
    From here it looks like Cameron’s to lose, but must admit to fearing that he is more of the same. More of the same what? The same baggage
    that comes with first past the post political system. eg heavy legislative program which justifies MP attendance at Westminster.
    Yet the political party in power may not represent as much as 25% of the public…
    if there is a 60% of voters turnout
    and the political party voted into office has 40% of the vote,
    the political part in power represents 40% of 60% = 24% of the public.
    Then there is the cost of legislation. It must be researched, debated, enacted, put into practise, with ongoing costs for administration, compliance. Many of those who voted (even those who voted for the party) may disagree with what is being passed into law so there will also be enforcement costs.
    To the political classes this must justify more and more control going to Westminster; justify their demands for larger support services / wages / expenses; feeding their power lust, and fuelling their disconnection from ordinary people… and here I trail off into a meaningless incoherent ramble

    PR is a way to put off action in favour of a talking shop. No bad thing IMO given the amount of legislation that comes with first past the post system.

    Brown must really hate it that he has to have an election. Eventually.
    Wonder if he thinks he could do a better job if there wasn’t the bother of having elections.

    pinched from the Clarets mad website

    http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=104&fid=297&sty=2&act=1&mid=2125783828

    • 99
      Anonymous says:

      No my friend PR will just reinforce the current system of having our country by appointees from two small incestuous oligarchical organisations who’s collective memory doesn’t seem to go back much beyond 1914. They forget and we forget they haven’t always been and there is no reason why we think they should continue into the future. We need compulsory voting with first past the post, recall laws buy judicial petition, and manifestos that are contractually binding.

      • 288
        Susie says:

        Indeed I’ve just voted en-mass for a collection of MPs and found out that their leader is some sort of Zionist warrior. No way would I have voted for him as an individual MP, but under PR if I want to vote for the party of my choice, I have to take what I’m given.

        Dreadful system.

    • 389
      Fausty says:

      Add to that Brown’s refusal to grant a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty – the single most important issue which seals Britain’s fate. Brown thinks he’s won. He hasn’t seen rebellion – yet.

  21. 25
    "I believe I'm a cunt" says Gordon says:

    Guido, no comment from you on Dolly’s selling of old emails from Mandlebum to the NoTW?

    • 81
      Snotty says:

      Dolly really is the gift that just keeps on giving!

      • 142
        Plato says:

        Mr Fawkes still has his FOI request response in his Inbox…

        • 361
          eagerbeaver says:

          It’s hard to stop laughing at the moment.

          If Dolly has been putting Fondlebum’s emails in the public arena we can only look forward to the day he releases the ones from Boozer McBride and 6 Dinners Watson

      • 402
        Please change the channel says:

        Bored with that expression, already.

    • 207
      Tin Cunliffe says:

      Any links? That sounds a laugh

    • 238
      anon says:

      The Times says it was Guido who flogged them to a tabloid.

    • 256
      Tin Cunliffe says:

      http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446325.ece

      Well well, the times says:

      “It is understood that the communications between Mandelson and Draper come from a cache of documents acquired by Guido Fawkes that included the McBride memos. The blogger yesterday sold the Mandelson e-mails to a tabloid newspaper for a five-figure sum. ”

      sorry. I read that badly “Mandelson and Draper … acquired … Guido”

  22. 26
    Anonymous says:

    If the past few weeks had been in a work of fiction it would have been dismissed as implausible. Endless entertainment!!

    • 237
      You just cannot make it up says:

      Stephen Spielberg

      Alfred Hitchcock

      Charlie Chaplin

      If you got them together to direct for;
      “The Man Who Should Never Have Been PM”;

      they would have got nowhere near the script that Brown has written for himself these past few months.

  23. 27
    Patriot. says:

    Why did he bring back his “implacable enemy” ??? He was ordered to ! How was he handed the Premiership unoposed ??? It will all come out when Blair becomes President of Europe !! Paranoid ?? You bet your life I am !!!

  24. 29
    Marian says:

    What a bunch of morons Brown and his acolytes are if they think that they can delay going to the polls in the UK general election to save Flash Gordon by kidding the people of the UK on that the economy is going to recover soon, for this recession has got at least another three years to run.

    In the US prime mortgage debt is just kicking in and is at least as large as sub-prime,the prime scenario is caused by loans that at the time were sound, now due to loss of equity are toxic and massive job losses making repayments unlikely.

    Meanwhile here in the UK the Bank of England is quietly printing money in order to buy UK bonds that no one else wants. Once foreigners work out that the only people buying UK gilts is the Bank of England, they will put two and two together and realize it is inflationary and then run for the exits. Consequently the UK is about to experience the mother of all currency collapses. It is impossible to say exactly when, but certainly within a couple of months.

    The state of the UK’s finances are so horrendously dire under Brown’s mis-rule that it is highly possible that Standard & Poor will slash the UK’s triple star rating. When this happens the UK’s repayment costs which are already £21billion per/annum in INTEREST alone, will rise considerably and effectively bankrupt the UK.

    When it happens nobody is going to be thinking about replacing Brown, which according to Labour Party rules is nearly impossible anyway, they are going to be thinking about lynching him from the nearest lamp post.

    • 297
      Susie says:

      He just wants to hang for another year’s inflation-proof index-linked pension and so do the others.

      When inflation’s ratcheting up at 10–20% a year because he’s told the BoE to print money (£80 billion this year) they’ll be laughing as their pensions will be going up to match the rate. He’s going to need an SAS battalion to protect him in his old age.

    • 415
      Fausty says:

      We have no constitutional mechanism to oust him. And he has many reasons to resist resignation. We’re stuck with him until the next general election – the timing of which is his call. We need to ensure that we are never again stuck with a PM we want to oust.

  25. 30
    Smoking Fury says:



    Guido – agree with MI5 – excellent analysis.

    But just a tad anxious about the cross-hairs.

    In a normal person that shot could wreck pretty profound damage.

    But where is the brain and vitals in that thick skull?

    Ah . . . . all depends on the ammo -

  26. 31
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    So many people tell me how sorry they feel for McMental
    NAH
    Burn the Hoon at the stake and then pish on his ashes

    • 41
      Anonymous says:

      You’ve got the finger spot on BoC.

      Sympathy – that’s the next ploy.

      One of the final strategies of any crook

      The ‘Oh-poor-me’ syndrome – ‘but don’t I do well to carry on’

    • 399
      Helmut Kayzer says:

      No, don’t make a martyr out of the Hoon, he doesn’t deserve such an accolade. Just get Mandy to fuck him up the arse and give him AIDS.

  27. 32
    Sir Michael Shite's rent boy says:

    As I pointed out elsewhere, the first queen will be in charge when McMental has to go off on his hols (or will it be the Priory in the bed next to Susan Boyle)

    Oh and the BBC are running a half hour political broadcast for McSnot right now on BBC 2. The BBC are a fucking joke.

    Have you seen the kuntz supporting Brown? Hattersley, Kinnock and Pound. Three shits in a pan.

    • 36
      Anonymous says:

      Add a touch of garlic, a gallon of petrol . . . and a lighted match

    • 412
      Helmut Kayzer says:

      It’s just toooo funny for words! Bring back the Kinnocks! Yeah, that ought to work! What planet is Psycholps living on?

    • 536
      The Yorkshire Ripper says:

      Yup, no mention of McBust’s fuck up on the beach either by the BBC. Pathetic, line toe-ing snotty shits. Utterly useless – is the DG frightened already of that shit-stabbing First Minister? Get a fucking life you lot and get reporting the reality instead of cowering behind those useless, self-serving fuckwits dealing in all-out crookery.

  28. 33
    Anonymous says:

    the last time you put crosshairs on someone, they were gone a few days later… is there something you’re not telling us?

  29. 34
    Patriot. says:

    “First Secretary of State and Lord of the Council”…..hmmmmm, not to far removed from ” Lord Protector” !! Thank God the Armed Forces hate Labour; not sure about the Police “Services” though !!!

    • 91
      mandy@draper.com says:

      Nice. A Lord Of The Council at a time when the cabinet is resembling Lord Of The Flies

    • 164
      Awaiting Moderation says:

      The beat coppers know where their true loyalties belong, even if it means stringing up a few university educated, politically correct, rapidly promoted deputy chief constables. The New Labour infestation in the police force is wafer-thin.

      • 354
        Anonymous says:

        Oh please me old lobve – don’t talk about ‘univarsity’ – boring, lying, bullshiting, metros – fuck them all -NO – hang them!

  30. 37
    Old Labour says:

    Mandelson and Brown were lovers many years ago. In fact Mandelson once said to Brown “I love you but I can destroy you”.

    How true, yet how very, very squalid.

    • 38
      Anonymous says:

      Who was the giver and who was the taker?

    • 56
      Anonymous says:

      Hey Old Labour – for completeness – it would help if we knew at which stage of ‘The Act’ (sic) this was said

      (a) prior – a bizarre kind of promise – as in I’m gonna f * * * the ***** off you!

      (b) during – those tender little asides during pauses

      (c) after – a menacing threat perhaps – in retaliation for freutarted performance.

      Mustn’t go any further or we might touch forensic matters

    • 460
      Klato says:

      And the evidence for this, Old Labour? Sounds like wishful thinking on your part. There’s way too much homophobia and misogyny on this blog. As far as I’m concerned our political representatives can fuck anything they want (apart from the country, of course): providing they are competent and have a modicum of honesty. Sadly, I can only think of about two dozen MP’s who fit this description.

  31. 39
    Grrr says:

    A fancy title worked with Hessletine. Mandy’s is a bit of a mouthful though…..

  32. 40
    Anonymous says:

    I guess that Gordon is just Mandelson’s bitch, or should that be his gimp?

    BTW How much did Dolly make from selling those emails to the Screws, I wonder?

    • 66
      Anonymous says:

      not as much as paid by the telegraph

    • 71
      Anonymous says:

      It must have been a good few bob because he was in the Westminster Arms earlier flush with cash and drunk as a lord.

      • 171
        Lordshit says:

        Lord Draper. It has a nice ring to it. A bit like my arse really. But more dirty.

  33. 42
    eddyh says:

    Mandleson is a tart. He will f**k with anyone who pays him.

  34. 43
    Seething says:

    What price democracy?
    Mandleson must be behind the injection of unelected peers to the cabinet!
    Besides G. Brown
    Bar. Royall
    Mandleson
    Adonis
    Malloch-Brown
    Drayson
    Scotland
    Sugar
    Kinnock

    On the list so far, Who’s next?

    • 54
      Anonymous says:

      unelected = unaccountable = uncontrollable

    • 176
      Awaiting Moderation says:

      Who’s next? All the Brownite loyalists who lose their seats at the General Election, that’s who. Voting them out won’t be the end of ZanuLabour because they’ll arise from the dead like vampires in the dissolution honours list. You can be absolutely confident that Brown’s zeal for ‘democratic reform’ will fall well short of an outoing PM’s powers of patronage.

  35. 44
    Anonymous says:

    Come to think of it Mandy is a member of Labour’s royal family and a right old queen to boot. His granddad was Herbert Morrison.

    • 201
      nell says:

      I don’t know too much about Herbert Morrison but I suspect he would not want to acknowledge that mandy, this (lower case) ‘machiavelli’ of this ‘failed’ Brown government, was his descendent.

      • 221
        Infanta of Castile says:

        My mother says Herbert Morrison was an utter, utter hoon. Or at least that is what she would say if she wasn’t from the era when ladies didn’t use words like that.

        • 388
          Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

          Personally I can’t stand his music. Always whinging songs with a sore throat sound.

      • 495
        Fausty says:

        Please get a blog of your own. I’d be happy to read it.

  36. 45
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    He looks very tired and quite ill

    • 49
      Boris says:

      and drugged…

      What do you think he is taking ?

      • 63
        Anonymous says:

        Elephant tranqualisers

        • 118
          Stronghold Barricades says:

          I was certainly thinking something from the class 1 cabinet

          Anyone done comparisons with other druggies

      • 67
        Dr. Pillrammer says:

        Stelazine for the psychosis and beta blockers to stop the shakes.

      • 127
        13eastie says:

        Truth serum.

      • 184
        Anonymous says:

        ..the piss ??

      • 243
        Tattooed_Arry says:

        Largactil, Chlorpromazine (liquid cosh) is usually drug of choice in the treatment of psychosis.
        For episodic psychosis I have seen better results with Haloperidol. Interestingly Brown exhibits typical side effects resulting from this class of drugs.
        I give a short list (from “Making sense of antipsychotics (major tranquillisers)” obtainable from Mind):
        *Muscles become stiff and weak, face may lose its animation, fine movement difficult – “His legendary smile.”
        *Fingers may move as if were rolling a pill – “Fiddling.”
        *When walking may lean forward, take small steps, and find it difficult to start and stop – “Mincing.”
        *Mouth may hang open and produce excessive saliva – “Drooling.”
        *Dysphonia – difficult to speak properly – “Scottish.”
        *Feel out of touch with reality, depersonalised, derealised, more socially withdrawn.
        *Tardive Dyskinesia, uncontrollable, abnormal, embarrassing, disfiguring movements. Begin in the face – “Gurning.”

        Just look at the side-effects of these two drugs they fit Brown to a T, don’t take my word just look them up yourselves.

        • 283
          Boris says:

          Very interesting

          Looks spot on

          He MUST be drugged

          Thank you

        • 429
          Helmut Kayzer says:

          Great post and very insightful, thanks, Arry.
          I’ve long believed our Glorious Leader is psychotic, and the administration of neuroleptic medication such as those you’ve outlined above could certainly give rise to such unsettling characteristics. If in doubt, see the *original* youtube 10 Downing St “charm offensive” video shoot (NOT the revised one) and any reservations in the mind of the undecided observer will be instantly dispelled…

    • 110
      Jane says:

      In a boxing ring, the ref would have declared him TKO by now

      He is obviously out of his mind……..

      What are Mandy (and the Dowing Street thugs) hiding ?

      Are they strealing directly from the Bank of England or Treasury now ?

      They must know the guy is a loony no longer responsible for his own acts…

      This is getting serious with his Obama Beach etc

      But what are they doing in no 10 (apart from smearing)…

      Like George III ?

      • 123
        Stronghold Barricades says:

        Yes, but the “system” doesn’t allow for an MP to be thrown out, even though there have been earlier precedents

  37. 46
    Boris says:

    Looking at this photo of Brown

    He really does look frighteningly mongoloid…

    • 117
      Liam Byrne says:

      An insult to Mongols everywhere.

    • 119
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      I have a child with Downs Syndrome. You do not amuse me. If you are a human being, then you will apologise to my son and all those poor unfortunates like him, you ignorant hoon.

      • 168
        Bob Nowt4nowt says:

        It can be pretty hard here sometimes G.O.M. The result of quickfire shooting – sometime people get caught in the crossfire.

        I have a Polish wife, and the Poles regularly get a beating as job stealers on this board. It’s a bit cruel when it hits you personally, but mud can be quite indiscriminate.

        I am sure Boris is feeling pretty stupid now, so I’ll apologise on his behalf.

      • 190
        Awaiting Moderation says:

        GOM. Let us remember that ‘Mongol’ should not mean ‘Down’s Syndrome’. Then Boris and Liam can fling their moronic insults, and good people like yourself and your son can live in dignity.

        • 215
          Tin Cunliffe says:

          So you think it should really mean something to do with the peoples that terrorised most of asia and half of europe, and made the chinese build that big wall?

        • 336
          Awaiting Moderation says:

          Yes. Their feelings do not concern us.

      • 219
        Basil not very PC says:

        Way oversensitive. Stay away if loose language offends you, jerk.

        • 413
          Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

          Free speech is more important. I’m offended by the term grumpy and old as it is a condition which is untreatable.

      • 227
        Ghengis Khan says:

        Since when does looking mongoloid have to mean you have Down Syndrome?

      • 236
        Boris says:

        I apologise unreservedly

        • 439
          Helmut Kayzer says:

          KIndly retract immediately. The fear of stepping on others’ “sensitive toes” is what’s led us to this shitty, shabby state of affairs in the first place. Free speech trumps all.

    • 303
      Doctor Mick says:

      Be a man and admit what you meant. Either apologise or stand by it. Don’t weasle your way out of it.

  38. 47
    Upnorth says:

    I remember all my life
    Raining down as cold as ice
    A shadow of a man
    A face through a window
    Crying in the night
    The night goes into

    Morning, just another day
    Happy people pass my way
    Looking in their eyes
    I see a memory
    I never realized
    you made me so happy, oh Mandy

    Well you came and you gave without taking
    but I sent you away, oh Mandy
    well you kissed me and stopped me from shaking
    I need you today, oh Mandy

    Etc…………..

    • 445
      Helmut Kayzer says:

      I remember it now. Around about 1973 wasn’t it? I believe it was that bloke with the big nose what sung it. Barry somebody-or-other, his name was. The title of the song? If I recall correctly it was: “Mandy Takes it up the Arse”

      • 643
        Harlot Harridan says:

        The song written by Barry Manilow, was originally entitled ‘Brandy’
        however it had to be changed to ‘Mandy’ due to the intervention of AA lobbyists in the US, so nothing new about everything being ‘pc’ from that time on.

  39. 51
    Paranoid says:

    There are a hell of a lot of Blairite EU power brokers in this “New Brown Government” ¿Would I be paranoid if I thought that they only wanted Brown in power sufficient time for the EU Lisbon treaty /Constitution to be completely in the sack, before leaving Brown out to hang? What are the odds on Brown going the day after the Irish sign the Lisbon treaty?

    • 97
      Steve Expat says:

      Time to campaign for a “No” vote in the Irish referendum then…

    • 211
      Ingenieur. says:

      This is the most important story of the moment, and it is being overshadowed by nuLiebour’s current problems. We are now almost completely being run by Brussels and only a referendum might (just possibly) prevent the trap from snapping shut around us. The only reason why Mandy gave up his sinecure as an EU Commissioner was to come back here and deliver this nation bound and gagged into total Brussels control.

      They have been plotting this deal for forty years or more (see Treason post, no.34 above). They are now within an inch of their goal and running scared that they’ve finally been rumbled. Brown forced the Lisbon Treaty through Parliament and the Queen’s Seal is on it. NuLiebour needs to do absolutely nothing and the Treaty will come into effect, probably next next New Year’s Day. International Law will then declare it irrevocable, whatever party may come to power after that. Cameron will cry crocodile tears that he is not able to re-negotiate any part of it.

      The only hope is an early referendum in this country. We cannot and should not rely on the Irish or the Poles to derail the Treaty for us – the EU will find a way around any obstacles they might present. Fight for a referendum, or lose our nationhood and become slaves to a totalitarian system.

      Ingenieur.

    • 321
      Susie says:

      Yup you got it.

    • 503
      barefootcontessa says:

      The terrifying thing is that when brown DOES go, and he will; how are things going to be better? They are going to be just as bad. With all that crap in the cabinet , and all those hanging around waiting to step down. There isn’t a good one amongst them. Not from any of the three major parties. The country’s doomed, on a catastrophic downward spiral, and the expenses scandal will soon be all covered up and hidden away. Thanks DailyTelegraph for trying, and managing at least to scare them all witless.

    • 517
      Fausty says:

      No, you would not be paranoid in thinking that.

      The power brokers have a lot riding on this treaty. Brown is not going to go voluntarily.

  40. 52
    henry II says:

    Who will rid us of this turdulent beast?

  41. 55
    Anonymous says:

    Has someone put acid in the water supply , the world is pretty surreal at the moment .

  42. 57
    a.nonn says:

    What is clear from the NotW tomorrow (Mandy’s e-mails to Draper) is that Brown and Mandy hate each other, despise Britain and its people, (and their own party) and are solely interested in gratifying themselves at the financial and moral expense of others. It is all a giant w**nk on their part, and if anyone with access to them had the guts to tell them so, they wouldn’t care anyway.

    • 69
      SMOKING FURY says:

      Nah . . . just two star-crossed lovers

      It’s the old love-to-hate-the-thing-you-love stuff.

      If you bring on the ol’ violins I could expound.

      There again, I’ve had enough – time to get into some serious drinking – and smoking . .. HEAR THAT NANNY STATE??!!!

  43. 58
    anon says:

    Mandelson leaked those emails in revenge for Brown not giving him David Miliband’s job.

    • 60
      Anonymous says:

      It looks like a shot across the bows to Gordo from Mandy.

    • 68
      Steve Expat says:

      Mandlebum or Dolly leaking the emails – the newly appointed second-in-command or the unemployed with a heavily pregnant wife…?

    • 249
      anon says:

      Not according to the Times, it was Guido who flogged them.

      • 397
        Parliament of Pigfuckers says:

        Perhaps Dolly – being destitute and a pathetic cuckold and a “tramps’ mate” (as Viz put it) with no pride – contacted Guido and sold the dirt via him to try and distance himself from this naked act of treachery towards Don(na) Mandy of the Brussels mafia.

        Who would be surprised if this pathetic creature did a Dr. Kelly act? The Ponce of Darkness will make an example of him.

  44. 59
    Sympathy for the Mandy says:

    Did jagger have Mandleson in mind when he wrote the opening lines

    “Please allow me to introduce myself, Im a man of wealth and taste “

    • 82
      Alan Philip Bonggg says:

      But who has sympathy with that devil?

    • 100
      Jane says:

      and no morals or scruples or beliefs except his own advancement..

      but that does not matter in his mind…

      his grandfather had no influence over his education if you know into his background…

      he just used the Morrison name…

      poor old Herbert…

  45. 64
    amando ianucci says:

    This really is too far fetched to be credible.

  46. 70
    eagerbeaver says:

    Mandelson is a Hoon – pure and simple.

    This unelected queen is a blight on our political landscape.

    • 327
      Susie says:

      And our media. The queers at the BBC think he’s the second coming (ahem) he’s the Uber Gay to them.

    • 451
      Helmut Kayzer says:

      It’s more complex than that. He also takes it up the arse.

  47. 72
    Andrew Maclie's sunbed says:

    CLASSIC Mandlebum – get EXACTLY what you want from the Prime Mentalist and then fuck him over good and proper !!

    Like him or loathe him, the Dark Lord is class act…

    Just get ready for him as “interim PM” when the men in white coats arrive for the Prime Mentalist – it’s only a matter of time.

    Hitler was exactly the same at the end – twitching, messianic and delusional.

  48. 74
    SMOKING FURY says:

    Hey Guido – why mustn’t I mention smoking or drinking or Nanny State???!!!

  49. 75
    Sing-a-long-John says:

    Mass resignation of labour MP’s is the only way

    • 268
      Four-eyed English Genius says:

      A minigun at PMQs might help!

    • 427
      Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

      If it was me I wouldn’t resign but would try and do from now onwards what my constituents wanted locally and to refuse whippin’ or voting against my concience. But I don’t have a Labour head so its difficult to put oneself into their shoes. I ’spose it would be decent to allow an election though ‘cos then the voters could pick someone else who would do what they wanted and refused to be whipped and promissed to vote with conscience.

  50. 76
    Anonymous says:

    ‘Brown cannot win next election’, Mandelson ‘told Labour aide in leaked emails’

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190834/Fresh-blow-Brown-half-grassroots-Labour-supporters-want-General-Election.html

  51. 85
    p says:

    Mandelson = Baron Harkonnen

  52. 87
    troll says:

    Is the preciousssness about to fingered again by the dark lord?

  53. 89
    Simon Wentworth says:

    What is now clear is that Mandelson is the real PM and burnt-out Brown just a flaccid puppet. How the left must squirm.

    • 434
      Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

      I thought he was a puppet long ago. I’ve got one and if you put your hand up the rear, reach for the mouth area, one can place the thumb in the lower jaw and make it flap up and down. The other fingers remain in the head and you can use your wrist action as required such as flipping the head around over the shoulder when the audience shouts “Its behind you” or when booing, etc. Its comical to watch.

    • 646
      Harlot Harridan says:

      “flaccid”

      What a perfect description of Brown’s position…
      Soft, weak, small and completely impotent, only useful for having the piss out taken out of him.

  54. 92
    MI5 says:

    Good unofficial sources saying Labour is FOURTH in Euro Elections…

    Can you confirm Guido ?

  55. 94
    Ardent Monarchist says:

    What must our real Queen be thinking about all this ?

    I bet she can’t sleep at night…

  56. 95
    This-is-better-than=watching-Big-Brother says:

    This is all getting VERY SILLY.
    Good fun though eh?
    Suppose now would be a good time to invade Britain – PM out of the country, no bloody leadership and all the troops in Afghanistan. Super dooper.

  57. 96
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Brown wanted Blair’s position but was never able to maintain it on merit.

    A good leader seeks to serve the electorate, not to dominate.

    Oh did anyone watch BBC breakfast this morning?

    The pro-Labour bias of both presenters was beyond belief. The female presenter sneering to Caroline Spelman that the Tories should have done much much better in the circumstances. The male presenter still adamant that Brown can still recover.

    Assholes the pair of them – they openly breaking the BBC’s Royal Charter and not giving a fuck.

    Lefties just cannot take defeat on the chin can they?

    • 115
      Anonymous says:

      Because lefties always KNOW they are right, it’s just that often people are too stupid to see things as clearly as they can, so the ends justify the means.

  58. 105
    Fenman says:

    On the premise that everything is not all bad -recent events would seem to have put paid to Balls future career. If he cant pick a winner in a one horse race would fit nicely. Other no hopers falling into the same category Alexander-Denham-Milliband (D&E).

    But- you have to accept that Machievelli (Lord Peter)again proves the Florentine principles of acquiring power.

    • 112
      Boris says:

      And the Smiling Postie has fucked himself through cowardice as well..

      So when the whole Labour stack of cards finally collapses, who will be Great Leader of the rabble ?

      The failed TV star Purnell ?

      ROFL…

  59. 107
    Johnny says says:

    Good judgement?

    Twice having to resign from the cabinet. The Geoffrey Robinson loan. The Hinduja brothers. Oleg Deripaska as a chum. Hanging out with George Osborne. Spending time on Paul Allen’s yacht while the EU was investigating Microshaft. Drinking chinese milk. Asking for a Maserati car.

    Where and when has he exercised good judgement beyond getting rid of his moustache?

  60. 109
    Labour is finished says:

    Brown is nothing more than Mandy’s wanksock. Smelly, crusty, and no substitute for the real thing.

  61. 120
    Bazza O'buma says:

    Hey guys, who can blame that limey biatch for luvin’ this piece of ass heh?

  62. 121
    Anonymous says:

    The BBC are biased towards New Labour. On the D Day Commemoration programme this afternoon it had Gordon Brown listed in front of Prince Charles, but then it switched them round. Must have been some complaints.

    and what on earth was Tom Hanks doing there?

    • 220
      Boris says:

      Hollywood has reinvented WW II

      Tom hanks was the real hero

      He was Eisnhower

      And Steven Spielberg was Roosevelt

      Thats called Politically Correct History silly…..

    • 341
      Susie says:

      And what the fuck was he doing walking ahead of Prince Charles up the steps to the dias?

      Loved the sight of him sitting in the middle (not next to Obama) and being ignored. Not a happy bunny and it serves him right.

  63. 122
    Anonymous says:

    I think we’re missing the bigger story here and that is Derek Draper getting his emails hacked into — again! Poor Derek you think he would have learnt his lesson wouldn’t you.

    • 133
      Steve Expat says:

      I reckon it’s nothing more sinister than he just needs the NoTW’s money to pay his mortgage…

      O/T slightly, but even Polly’s on Sky now saying it’s time for Broon the Hoon to quit :-)

    • 136
      Anonymous says:

      Hacked or giving his password to someone? Interesting question, considering he was dumped by Brown.

    • 258
      Dick Scratcher says:

      He got a virus from http://www.felchfarm.com apparently

  64. 124
    Anonymous says:

    I bet Tony is laughing his head off……

  65. 126
    Anonymous says:

    Ha Ha Ha – someone’s made a video of GB calling himself a c’unt :-) –
    Love that map with almost the whole of England coloured blue…

    • 139
      Steve Expat says:

      Spotted that one earlier whist searching youtube for GB talking about Obama Beach – great video, will probably get taken down by tomorrow though!

    • 213
      Clint says:

      It’s confirmed – Gordon is a CLINT

  66. 129
    Glenny says:

    Dark Lord of the Sith

  67. 130
    Moley says:

    E mails between Mandelson and Draper tie Mandelson and Mc Bride to each other with a fair degree of certainty.

    Effectively Brown, McBride, Mandelson and Draper are now (metaphorically) handcuffed to each other.

    There is undoubtedly more to come.

    • 132
      MI5 says:

      And Oily Campbell

    • 137
      Shambolic says:

      Dolly must also have emails from Mandelson that make the original McBride stuff seem quite innocuous.

      Oh boy are the chickens coming home to roost.

  68. 131
    NewGirl says:

    It frightens me when you think what it takes to achieve high office in this country. Dishonesty, incompetence, repeated disgrace and you’re in! Mandlesons title is ridiculous, sounds like a mde up name from a fairy story. Laughable except too angry to smile..

    Have PMT – someone should arrange to lock me in a room with one of them – I’m in the perfect mood to let rip….!

    • 141
      finish me off says:

      Funnily enough it’s the sort of title that might appeal to some who’s gay.

      • 205
        Benny Goodman says:

        Why don’t we set up a Gay House of Lords just for them…

        Gays want equality…So let’s be generous and give it to them…

    • 143
      Tarzan says:

      He IS made up person from a horror story New Girl !

    • 163
      Engineer says:

      Can’t remember either Thatcher or Major plotting this much to achieve high office – they did it the (more or less) honourable way. Heseltine did do a bit of plotting, but it didn’t work out in the end.

      Mandelslime is (thankfully) a one-off. Plotters always reap what they sow. Soon, I hope.

      • 440
        Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

        They didn’t have email then. Call yourself an engineer, it would be a bit difficult to plot using the telegram boy. I mean it could get leaked so easily.

    • 223
      nell says:

      Sorry NewGirl it’s all about the killing instinct, ruthlessness, lack of compassion, a willingness to do anything, tell any lie, to gain power, and the ability to sacrifice anyone and any principle as long as you come out on top.

      History is littered with people who have done that for a time successfully, before they have become a cropper.

      mandy and harriett are just the last in a long line!!! (gordon is their victim, very like subo)

      • 234
        NewGirl says:

        have i missed any resignations today? why harriet nell?

        • 305
          nell says:

          Harriett threatened to walk yesterday if mandy was named as deputy prime minister.

          Mandy is now more powerful than her so there is a power struggle going on between mandy and harriett.

          Question is , will it come to open warfare.

          I sure hope so!!!!

    • 245
      NewGirl says:

      i must say, i do like the thought of draper on the loose and feeling wronged…the only thing more dangerous than a conniving self serving prick is a conniving self serving prick with a grudge…..

  69. 134
    Big finale says:

    Proof that Gordon Brown is none other than Mr Bean

    Note that he is the ONLY person in the photo who is incapable of paying attention to what is being said today.

  70. 139
    MI5 says:

    If the Tories have any guts they will,

    1) Abolish the House of Lords entirely..it is only Labour scum who want to be Peers nowadays

    2) Abolish the BBC…it has breached its Charter, failed to disclose how much it pays simple interviewers, etc, and is patently biased

    3) Reduce the number of MPs to 300, with draconian rules on pay and expenses

    4) Give power to the Lord Chief Justice to remove Ministers and MPs clearly breaking the Law

    5) Make the Police responsible to local mayors AND Judges directly

    6) Make the Crown Prosecution Service an independent body appointed by and reporting directly to the High Court

    Go radical Tories or you (and the rest of us) are lost

    • 179
      The Brussels Octopus stalks us all says:

      1) Not going to happen.

      2) Not going to happen.

      3) There will be a “token” reduction but nowhere near 300 or indeed the 400 that some in the Parties were speaking of.

      4) Legal minefield but there will have to be some movement on getting rid of those who have broken the Law.

      5) Might well happen.

      6) Dangerous for any Politician after seeing what the CPS has had to tread around lately but there’s a chance it might happen.

      And you forgot,

      7) Referendum on Lisbon (no if’s, but’s or maybe’s) and if they can’t then there must be a Referendum on Europe.

    • 210
      St George Retches says:

      (7) Call binding referendum on Lisbon treaty.
      (8) Prosecute troughers of all stripes
      (9) Mandelson & crew to the gulag, for treason.
      (10) Brown to Broadmoor.

      • 464
        Troughminster says:

        What about Bliar, surely he should be hung?

        • 482
          Lord Gideon Partisan BabblingBigot says:

          Agreed.

          Though those who think this is all fun and games for Bliar should remember that all those troublsome “files” and secrets about the War might just popup as a rather large and useful distraction should the Blairites keep annoying Gordon.

          Yes, Mandelbum would be gutted to do it, almost as sad as he was as he tried to stab Milliband out of his job. But as he would no doubt tell Bliar if he could “it’s purely business Tony.”

          Mandlbum would then shed a single crocodile tear as he did his new masters bidding and released the dirt on Bliar, of which I’m sure we all agree there will be plenty, and with a promised Iraq inquiry unavoidable at some point Bliar won’t be laughing for long.

        • 623
          Man on the Clapham omnibus says:

          Michael Moore, Farenheit 9/11, has already laid out the background re George Bush et al.

    • 359
      Nearly Headless Nick says:

      Abolish God, if it exists!

  71. 144
    The Master says:

    Hattersley has just said that the reason the Tories want an election now is that if there wasn’t an election the Gorgon would turn the economy around and he would be vindicated…..err, too many happy pills for Hatters.
    Sheerman pissed off by Downing Strasse henchmen ringing his constituency key people telling them to deselect him.

    • 185
      Odds Bodkins says:

      Even if the economy were to turn around right now there is always a delayed effect and unemployment will still continue to rise.

      The economy and stock markets improve LONG before the noticeable drop in jobless figures.

    • 192
      Boris says:

      The PLP meeting on Monday evening with “Labour Going FOURTH” is going be a superb shoot out…

      I hope you have your informers Guido…

      It will be historic..they are going to tear eachother apart…

      When Labour start fighting each other it better than all-in wresting on prime time…do you think Prezza will be there to throw a few rights ?

      And Chief Thug Brown has a mean left !

    • 212
      Viscount Stansgate says:

      Fecking Hatters (1980s vintage ex Michael Foot luvvy) was shown in the background from a Sheffield studio stuttering to himself when the lovely be-suited Justine Greening was talking to ‘Gavgruppehfuhrer Hessler’!!

      WTF!!

      Why does Al-Beeba insist on dragging out these socialsit peers, an oxymororn if there ever was one…another troughing hoon..betraying his roots!!

      • 300
        Benny says:

        But they are “working class” Labour these old troughers…

        The last ones left in Britain…

        And Gordion is living in the 1940s still poor old thing…

        • 306
          Bob says:

          Yes and what is really interesting is that New Labour is so discredited what is left of the “working class” is voting for loonies like BNP….

          By its dishonesty and incompetence, New Labour has created the BNP and other loony parties…

        • 459
          albacore says:

          Really interesting, Bob.
          Do you consider NuLabour less “loony” (your description) than the BNP?
          Do you consider the “working class” (your quotation marks) stupid to transfer its allegiance from NuLabour, riddled with “dishonesty and incompetence” (your description), to a “loony” party?

        • 644
          Dee Selleck-Brown says:

          …living in the 1940s ….. and on the wrong side.

      • 375
        Susie says:

        Isn’t Justine Greening a knockout? Lots more of her please Cameron.

  72. 147
    michel de montaigne says:

    Title for Mandelson’s autobiography PRINCE II

  73. 152
    gotsblog says:

    Mandelson is most definitely right behind Gordon and here is the evidence!

  74. 154
    nell says:

    OMG ” Warwick the Kingmaker”

    He pulled the strings of Edward IV (White Rose) and Henry VI (Red Rose) playing each one off against the other very like Mandy between Bla*r and Br*wn.

    At the last he thought Henry VI ( who was mentally ill) would give him lasting power. Unfortunately Warwick was killed in the Battle of the Roses at Barnet in April 1471 and Edward IV prevailed.

    Mandy has all the hallmarks of this very ambitious, self-serving, scheming man.

    What an irony – our ancestors have seen all of this before.

    • 162
      Benny Goodman says:

      Of course we have

      But this time around, Mandy really not could a hang about Britain..

      His real interests lie in Russia, Corfu, Switzerland, Brussels etc…

      Where the big money is and flows..I’m talking billions (and he has blown it in the City of London so has to go elsewhere to make it big..without payiong too much tax as well)…

      • 165
        Boris says:

        Watch what Ronnie Cohen, Lord Levy and Stanley Fink have done and are doing..

        Mandy will not be far behind…

    • 172
      Odds Bodkins says:

      Yes, Mandy is a banal reincarnation of the assholes that shaped the past.

    • 191
      Engineer says:

      Impressive historical knowledge, Nell. However, as you say, Warwick met a sticky end, and so will Mandy (that’s not an intended euphemism). Plotters, in the end, always do.

    • 240
      Infanta of Castile says:

      better get him on the Northern line ASAP

    • 350
      White bore. says:

      Absolutely and then Edward IV met up and married, almost certainly bigamously, a schemimg woman whose numerous and marginally aristocratic family (with hangers on) proceeded to screw the exchequer and the English people financially and in every conceivable way. One very young brother married an ancient dowager duchess to get his hands on her money.
      While some condemn and abuse Edward’s Brother at least he prevented this ghastly family from installing a puppet king and plundering the country in his name.
      Let us also remember that this particular marital alliance led to the most evil and grasping dynasty to misrule England not to mention Morton’s fork. Worthy of NuLabour. Big brother and the widespread burning of ‘heretics’.
      The moral being that sometimes it can be better to deal with the devil you know rather than greedy, grasping newcomers – with European antecedents.
      At least the Kingmaker was English and actually acted as he did because of being humiliated by Edward.
      You can push the English so far but finally they rebel. Even Warwick.
      The whole political class is corrupt – how far can they go before we the English today, get the bottle to actually do something?

      • 405
        nell says:

        White boar that is VERY impressive!

        And one wonders where it will end.

        RichardIII betrayed by Stanley of Cheshire

        The Tudors ending with Elizabeth ! — onto James I of England/James Vi Scotland

        Well there began the rot!!!

        • 428
          White bore. says:

          A lesson that political propaganda and its mind bending has a very long pedigree indeed.
          Nu labour – the reincarnation of the first Tudor and his ‘administrators’ and propagandists?.
          Black is white.
          Illegality is legal.
          Usurpation is strength.
          Greed is good.
          Very very good.
          Pay up or else.
          Especially when it comes to the poor English taxpayers.
          And yes!! we even ended up being ruled by a damned Scot well known for his Mandy like Preferences.
          Oliver come back – all is forgiven.
          Even David Starkey thinks he was the greatest, I understand.

  75. 157
    President O'Bumma says:

    Just who was that fat Wanker that the Brits were Booing?
    He shined my shoes in Londonland right?
    Why Did he tuck his socks into his trousers AND his underpants??
    Why the fuck was he there instead of the Queen?

  76. 158
    Moley says:

    Latest Spin is that UKIP has pushed Labour into fourth place because of the protest vote due to MP’s expenses.

    The UKIP vote is a protest vote against the EU and the three main political parties who shamelessly tied us into a totalitarian superstate without a vote..

    It means what it says on the tin.

    • 216
      Raving Loon says:

      They want us out of the EU and aren’t a bunch of socialist scum (unlike the BNP) so they have my vote for now.

    • 454
      Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

      Fook it. I voted for them last Thursday. I thought they were Inspecting Pensions UK.

  77. 167
    Odds Bodkins says:

    Not heard about McBride for some time.

    I wonder if he is beavering away on those smear ‘n tell memoirs like Guido said he should?

    Hopefully he won’t go away quietly and there is plenty more scandal to come out in the wash!

    • 182
      Boris says:

      Perhaps Dolly selling his e-mails to the News of the Screws is a warning to Mandy not to drop McBride…

      They all love eachother so much these worms..

      But they all need cash now…!!

  78. 169
    The Prawn says:

    The best think that could happen….Brown does a Glen Miller flying back from France.

    • 457
      Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

      He’s worried that’s for sure. He had false plates on his Jag.

  79. 173
    Sing-a-long-John says:

    Hattersley is a tub of flob

    • 183
      dolphin squeer boy says:

      Who takes any notice of the old queen anyway?

    • 618
      Basil who remembers says:

      Hatters never did anything except sign the order to put the troops into Northern Ireland, and he only got to do that because Healey slipped away for a few days to avoid doing that exact job. Hattersley is the perfect example of a politician whose career STARTED with failure and went downhill from there.

  80. 177
    chase me says:

    Andy Hamilton said on the News Quiz that recent events have given new meaning to the phrase, “Mutha of all Parliaments.”

    It might even get funny again at this rate.

  81. 186
    Anonymous says:

    Nice credit in this article

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446325.ece

    ‘Dark Arts’ unit targets it’s own leader, you could not make it up!!!!!

    • 241
      Moley says:

      Read this from the Times.

      It is understood that the communications between Mandelson and Draper come from a cache of documents acquired by Guido Fawkes that included the McBride memos. The blogger yesterday sold the Mandelson e-mails to a tabloid newspaper for a five-figure sum.

      The Times fingers Guido!

    • 244
      LORD PRESCOTT ???? says:

      http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446325.ece

      PARAGRAPH THREE:-

      ‘Mandelson also suggested that Brown could not win the next general election unless he brought back more heavy shitters into the cabinet’

      Having broken two bog seats, I think we can safely assume Prescott is is going to the House of Lords as well……….

  82. 188
    Peter says:

    Meanwhile in Narnia…..
    The Wicked Black Witch put a spell on the One Eyed Son of the Manse and he turned into a …..
    A. Lump of snot
    B. Harriett Harman’s bra
    C. Ed Balls scrotum

  83. 193
    Fifi says:

    Hopefully Gordon will be having a miserable day tomorrow…….

  84. 197
    Fifi says:

    which is, after all, what he deserves.

    He must go. It is embarrassing, this clinging on to power.

  85. 199
    Anonymous says:

    No Labour MP is going to put his head above the parapet, especially Cabinet Ministers. Remember this is their livelihoods. And in any case Purnell has already done this and failed. They are all cornered, the choise is between a quick death NOW or a slow lingering death in a few months.

    I believe that it isn’t time yet. But Brown is not off the hook. Patently he is not Prime Minister material and there are many pillars of our society that will come into play to assist his departure. The revolution will be in slow motion but it will happen. Don’t get frustrated, just wait and see developments each day. After all it has been going on already for months; speeded up a bit over McBride(thanks a lot Guido) so a little while longer won’t hurt.

    It’s just a matter of time not just for Liar Gordon, but for the cabinet too!

    • 286
      Call me Infidel says:

      The longer this boil goes unlanced the more puss will eventually flow when it does rupture. If Labour stick with Brown they will go down with him. Personally I hope they keep him as Prime Mentalist till the bitter end. The General Election will be a night to remember seeing the socialists writhe in their death throes.

  86. 204
    Demon says:

    According to the Times:

    “It is understood that the communications between Mandelson and Draper come from a cache of documents acquired by Guido Fawkes that included the McBride memos. The blogger yesterday sold the Mandelson e-mails to a tabloid newspaper for a five-figure sum.”

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446325.ece

    Guido – you sly old dog

    • 348
      Nearly Headless Nick says:

      Guido – you lucky old dog – but hey, something has to pay the bills!

      • 462
        Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

        Well I hope it is a Brown Figure sum which equates to 20 digits after readjustment. Well done and good luck to you.

    • 561
      Righty Ho! says:

      Guido! Well done old chap!

  87. 218
    I will pay off the nation's debt burden if I can have a little go on Gordon's tits says:

    I am positive Little Lord Sodomite makes McMental dance around in a Tutu with a posy up his arse of an evenin, just to amuse Ronaldo bum boy, and I am unanimous in that.

    • 231
      Tarzan says:

      Actually if I were in Mandy’s position, it is exactly what I would do to have some fun…

      The Mad Man must look superb with feathers coming out of his arse…

      I would make him danse, and then whip him from time to time just to make him jump…

      And then tell him to serve a G & T to my toyboy…now that Prezza has gone and is tied up in his bus…

  88. 222
    RavingMad says:

    Agree entirely with the thrusy of this. I’m sure Mandelson would be honoured with the acknowledement of his role and the power he has as unelected peer, probably beyond his wildest dreams. What has he got on Brown?

    • 255
      Tarzan says:

      Listen

      You don’t need to “have” something on Brown

      He is KO…juts look at him…

      Staggering from one Car Crash to the next..

      He’s had as many car crashes in the last few months as the whole of the fucking population of Britain in a lifetime..

      He’s had it, fini, kaputt, down and out for the count already, capische ?

      Guido has the cross hairs on him because he knows (from insiders) that the men in white coats are getting very near now…

      And as for the rest of the Cabinet, I would not get them to repair a punctured tire…let alone sell a second hand car…

      GIVE ME A BREAK

  89. 225
    mitch says:

    Peter mandelson meet lamp post, lamp post meet your next victim. I think its come to this finally.

  90. 230
    Anonymous says:

    what does your face say about you guido, your sins and failures being greater than gordon’s?

  91. 247
    The Horned One says:

    I send to you, my son, Peter.
    Love,Honour and cherish him.
    A new world is imminent.

  92. 252
    Anonymous says:

    found this on the Guardian’s John McDonnell blog:

    *
    raymonddelauney

    05 Jun 09, 3:47pm

    GCSE Politics – Foundation Tier Examination – 5th June 2009
    Time Allowed: 45 minutes
    *Schmoozing Calculators and Standard Deviants Allowed*

    Multiple Choice

    1. Peter Mandleson wants to get into government, does he:
    a. Stand for election
    b. Go leafletting at the husting
    c. Go directly to the House of Lords

    2. Sir Alan Sugar doesn’t need the aggro, does he:
    a. Stand for election
    b. Go leafletting at the husting
    c. Go directly to the House of Lords

    3. The husband of a government minister wants to bust a nut, does he:
    a. Stand for erection
    b. Entertain the good lady wife
    c. Put it all on expenses

    4. Shahid Malik appreciates the good things in life; does he:
    a. Head off by bus to Poundland and Lidl
    b. Dip into his pocket
    c. Go directly to the John Lewis website

    Marks will be given for ingenuity and brazneness in trying to show working your way out.

    think it’s rather good

    • 263
      NewGirl says:

      you forgot
      5.The Chancellor of the Exchequer wants to be Pm, does he
      a. wait for the next election and contend for the leadership;
      b. Blackmail the current Pm until he steps down before neatly inserting himself in the vacancy;
      c. realise he probably hasn’t got what it takes to be either Chancellor, or PM, and honourably bow out;
      d. get counselling for his delusions of grandeur?

      • 313
        Anonymous says:

        So we get another Scot one way or another.
        Even if we elect the Tories.
        English independence please.

  93. 261
    Anonymous says:

    is power really like this? Is really all about personal domination? No, this type of power is for weak people. Mandelson has worked a blinder. he has total control (of Gordon the creep/gimp (and Guido is correct) over the state). But my money is on people like Purnel who seem to believe in what they do just like Maggie..eh? Its always better to resign over principle than to live in shame.

    • 287
      nell says:

      Mandy has repeated history in an amazing fashion.

      Warwick the Kingmaker. Macchiavelli, Et Tu Brute” all understood/understand the use of manipulation for power and money.

      Let’s face it Mandy, Harriet, the delightful balls, and the Knnckks are manipulating like mad for money first and power second!!!

      Gordon is a pawn.

    • 311
      Anonymous says:

      So she really really believed in the single European treaty and the Anglo Irish agreement.
      Selling out Ian Smith…
      No wonder my opinion of Tories is barely above Labour.

      • 339
        Anonymous says:

        there are some people who have principle and some who dont. Gordon is so corrupted he doesnt care. We can only wait and see. Just note mr the tories are the party of Winston Churchill not pacifist Labour— anyone for appeasement of Hitler the fall of Poland … oh yea that was LABOUR!

      • 357
        Anonymous says:

        Maggie thatcher not a conviction politician F*** Off what your definition then in case you havent noticed we dont live in an ideal world. Labour at the moment are worse that scum someone has to be brave and redeem them.

  94. 264
    nell says:

    “We keep on with the task in hand”!!!!

    That was gordon’s message at the D-Day Commemoration.

    “People see that we are taking some action. These are unprecedented times”

    (No Gordon WWI and WWII was that time – not now – now should have been a doddle – it is you who has made it a crisis

    “economic benefits, because of our actions, are going to come through.”

    No wonder the Vets booed!!!!

    • 378
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      I think it ironic that it was the returning soldiers who legitimised the Labour Party to government, but it is that same generation which is now barracking at the D-Day events today and could see them off as a political force in the UK

      Brown, despite his love of history, seems to have missed the link and the debt that the party owes to that generation. His dithering and policies over the veterans and the Gurkas has demonstrated their ultimate morale bankruptcy towards the people who pushed them onto the podium.

  95. 266
    Baldric says:

    So was it you that sold on the emails Guido?Is that the meaning off the cross hairs? And what else is tucked away in the Fawkes safe?

  96. 270
    anon says:

    ‘The McBride e-mails had been sent to Draper’s private account and were then leaked the political blogger known as Guido Fawkes. When the smear memos were published two months ago Draper was forced to quit as editor of LabourList, a party website.

    It is understood that the communications between Mandelson and Draper come from a cache of documents acquired by Fawkes that included the McBride memos. The blogger yesterday sold the Mandelson e-mails to a tabloid newspaper for a five-figure sum.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446325.ece

  97. 272
    anon says:

    Why am I being moderated for cutting & pasting from the Times?

    • 279
      Demon says:

      Not the only one, would you be referring to the supplier of said emails?

    • 304
      grobdj says:

      Wholesale cut and paste of a journalist’s work is a breach of copyright, which could get Guido sued

      Just cut and paste the URL (the http://…... stuff in your address bar when viewing the Times website page) into your comment as a link

    • 519
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Your post must have included several obscene words, such as: ‘McBride’, ‘Draper’, ‘Mandeson’, ‘LabourList’…

      • 617
        Anon says:

        No, it contained… ‘Guido sold the emails….’ haha. But it’s been allowed now so he’s forgiven.

  98. 274
    Anonymous says:

    McMental empathising in normandy
    Moi le etat?
    Le etat c’est une twat

  99. 276
    Anonymous says:

    Two more female Labour ministers about to resign from the govt.

  100. 277
    Dick Scratcher says:

    Where is Harman_Pride when you need it?

  101. 282
    Bonzo says:

    A bit OT, but I’d like to know what went on with the negotiations about GM’s European subsidiaries. Oleg Deripaska (of Yachtgate fame) has a substantial investment in Gaz, which will be a major beneficiary of the Opel/Vauxhall carve-up — at the expense of UK jobs. Now Vauxhall workers used to be a byword for work-dodging Bolshevik intransigence … in the 1970s a hidden bedroom was even found at the Luton plant where night-shift men, having clocked on, would catch up on their beauty sleep … but these days the plants are modern and efficient and at least as good as anything else in Europe. There is no inherent reason why jobs should be shed at Vauxhall rather than Opel; the Krauts even pretended that their bailout would not favour German workers but was targeted at Europe as a whole. Complete bollocks, of course, but they could only get away with that because Mandelson adopted a laidback, supine even, approach to the talks. The car workers here suspect he and Merkel have stitched them up; time will tell if they are right.

    If they are right, somebody at the Sunday Times Insight team should do some serious digging into the Mandelson/Deripaska nexus.

  102. 285
    Anonymous says:

    Balls and Mandelson are at each other’s throats:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446324.ece

    • 294
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      Do you think Balls was in the “receive” position when that photo was taken?

      • 331
        Nearly Headless Nick says:

        Passive partner surprised by the size of the dominant partner’s helmet?
        Without KY jelly, Vaseline or butter, perhaps

    • 315
      Dick Scratcher says:

      Broon is scared of the Friday press conference high moral:lie backlash. Blaming Balls for badger baiting gets Broon off the hook

  103. 289
    Demon says:

    Guido,
    Times says it was you who supplied the emails.

    True or false?

    • 319
      Doctor Mick says:

      True or false?

      Quite possibly.

    • 349
      michel de montaigne says:

      You can read the sentence either way

    • 558
      Righty Ho! says:

      probably almost certainly yes, no or maybe definitively not on purpose or directly implicated in any such dealings or not as the case may or may not allegedly be.

  104. 290
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    R5 is saying Flint has written an article for the Observer

    • 317
      Doctor Mick says:

      Unless she’s got her tits spread over page 3, I’m not interested in what this daft ambitious bint has to say.

      • 345
        Anonymous says:

        Probably a lipstick lesbian kiss , just looking for attention. Is there not a man amongst us who can service this wayward bitch /

    • 376
      Anonymous says:

      Observe this mutha fucka!

  105. 307
    Stepney says:

    Now the Times is reporting that Balls and Mandelson are at war:

    GORDON BROWN’S reshuffle has created a bitter rift between his two most powerful lieutenants, threatening to derail attempts to rebuild his shattered government.

    A Downing Street insider claims that Ed Balls “went nuclear” as the prime minister wavered over whether to make him chancellor – and threatened to stop cooperating with Lord Mandelson.

    Only one winner between those two…

    • 314
      That's alright then says:

      Feck the rest of us as long as the cabinet can play their games!

      A plague on them all!

      Hoons!

    • 328
      Damp Squid says:

      Didn’t think that Brown could pick a cabinet. He couldn’t even pick his nose.

      Oh. Scrub that.

  106. 308
    Statesman on the World's Stage says:

    “I am Gordon Brown; well Carole Walker says so anyway!”

    WTF!!

  107. 323
    Doctor Mick says:

    Will Broon be PM this time next Saturday? I doot it.

  108. 324
    Onan the Rotarian says:

    Mandy – the Sejanus to our Tiberius.

  109. 325
    The Prince Of Darkness says:

    *Cackles*

  110. 326
    Nearly Headless Nick says:

    Actually Lord Middlefinger has demonstrated his lack of judgement times without number.

  111. 329
    VotR says:

    Wouldn’t be surprised if Mandy is behind all the past months smearing and plots to oust Brown while appearing as an ally. He’s not called the Prince of Darkness because he’s an Ozzy fan.

    Turned into a bit of a pantomime. He will be on fine form for Christmas performances then, Guido.

    “He’s behind you mr Brown.”
    “Oh no he’s not.”
    “Oh, yes, yes I am, Gordon. Now die, sucker!”

  112. 330
    Anonymous says:

    Confirmation that David Miliband is a spineless hypocrite:

    “Purnell fury at ‘betrayal’ by David Miliband over call for PM to quit”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191312/James-Purnells-fury-betrayal-David-Miliband-Brown-go.html

  113. 334
    nell says:

    Ball’s hopes of being Chancellor were torpedoed when Purnell resigned!!

    Purnell knew his resignation would fracture the truce between Balls and Mandy.

    Civil War in the Labour Party has commenced

    Harriet and Mandy are already fighting for supremacy

    Where’s Gordon??? He is just a pawn being played by more powerful people within Labour who want power and money.

    Knnccks you are nearly there keep lying and spinning.

    • 335
      The stench of hypocricy makes me wretch my spleen out says:

      Not so he is actually a pawn being played by more powerful people within Labour who HAVE more money !

  114. 337
    lolol says:

    Guido if this crosshairs thing works well your da man,there will be hushed words in in pubs you frequent all saying he took down a man with crosshairs attached to him ;-)

  115. 340
  116. 342
    Anonymous says:

    “Last night there were signs that the revolt by women ministers was widening. Bridget Prentice, the justice minister, and Jane Kennedy, the environment minister, are understood to be considering their futures.”

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446324.ece

    Brown will be gone before the end of this week.

    • 346
      Her Majesty says:

      No he won’t.

      • 368
        Cardinal Richelieu's mole says:

        True, alas.

        From Brown‘s perspective (and likely that of his party) there is no alternative but to carry on.

        The economic policies he and Darling have devised are designed to produce some faint upturn around next March (Spring 2010), the consequences being suffered the following Autumn by renewed downturn. Accordingly, an election in May 2010 can be viewed as New Labour’s best prospect – certainly better than anytime before then.

        The New Labour Party would get rid of Brown if it could do so without fuss but it cannot. A change would not be for any policy reasons, just for style purposes. Another coronation would be objected to by many within and beyond the Party, but the mechanism for a leadership election (involving MPs, members and the Unions) would take too long and be seen to be a self-indulgent distraction.

        So Brown holds on – and being a bully and a liar he has surrounded himself with people of less ability and with less backbone than he has himself. So the Cabinet is a nullity.

        Otherwise potentially able to shift Brown there are backbenchers. Very few are Old (Real) Labour socialists and so it is the careerist apparatchiks of the New Labour project, committed to nothing beyond saying anything to sound good and so hold onto power, who would have to act. They know only style over substance and therefore lack ability more than courage to do anything useful in this regard.

        • 400
          Labour insider says:

          There is going to be a rebellion from the PLP on Monday and Brown will be forced to resign before the end of next week.

          Believe me. It’s all going to happen in the next few days.

        • 435
          Twizzle says:

          Economic policies? Darling and Brown? Well, if you call ‘hope’ a policy, then I guess you’re right.

          They have NO IDEA what the fuck will happen. Geithner, Bernanke, et al have NO IDEA what’s going to happen. Please don’t give these chancers the benefit of having an ‘economic policy’.

          It’s just spend as much money as we haven’t got.

  117. 347
    Sir William Waad says:

    This is all just a tiny puppet show. The important events do not happen in Westminster. We are just watching the baboons at the zoo to see whether the grey old alpha baboon can keep control of the troup for a little longer.

    • 555
      Righty Ho! says:

      Agreed…

      and if we let the bastards ratify Lisbon, we are truly fucked

  118. 352
    Anonymous says:

    Miliband and Burnham want Brown out but bottled it, says James Purnell:

    “A former Minister who is close to Mr Purnell said: ‘David Miliband’s behaviour is astounding. It is no secret that he has said privately that he agrees with James that Gordon Brown cannot win the Election and that the Party would do better with a new leader.

    ‘James acted honourably and courageously and expected others to do the same. The anger with David is amazing. He is finished as a serious politician as far as many of us are concerned.’

    Mr Purnell is also understood to be disappointed that his close friend Mr Burnham, whose loyalty to Mr Brown won him promotion from Culture Secretary to Health Secretary in Friday’s reshuffle, did not support him.

    ‘Andy and James see eye to eye on just about everything in politics but, when it came to it, Andy chickened out,’ said one MP.”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191312/James-Purnells-fury-betrayal-David-Miliband-Brown-go.html

    • 408
      Mrs Trellis says:

      This would matter if you thought that Purnell and Miliband were worth a candle between them. They aren’t. Failures both / all.

      • 465
        Secretary of state for Obama Beach says:

        Lightweights pre-teen politicians the lot of them. Typical overpromoted McLiebour twats.
        Milibanana was dead the moment he gurned along the street sticking a banana in his ear.
        Purnell fell off the perch when the pictures of his filthy flat appeared.
        Little Burnham never grew out of his short pants and can’t find his way around the playground.
        Pathetic.
        Dock their pay and pensions, send them to jail for playing truant from class.

      • 496
        Dr Feelgood says:

        What is good about this is that the much-vaunted next generation of Labour leaders (with poss. exception of Purnell), have been shown to be spineless careerists.

        I’m sure most people here would agree that the quality of Brown’s previous and new cabinets is appalling – Smith as former Home Secretary, Ainsworth now in Defence… the great offices of State, ha ha ha.

        This is a further indicator of Labour being destroyed for a generation. Who is there in Labour that makes for a credible PM – let alone enough talent to fill a cabinet. They won’t even make a credible opposition.

  119. 356
    nell says:

    I think what is absolutely telling is that Millitwit had the power for one brief moment to bring Gordon down.

    He undoubtedly contemplated doing it but never found the back bone to bring it off.

    David you are going to be judged as forever being locked in the shallows of life!!

    • 360
      Anonymous says:

      The child millisquit is, and was, except to himself, an irrelav .. i珈rrel . . . . a nothing.

      Like all nooboringliars, their importance is self perceived and perceptible only to fellow babblers.

      Oh – and to those desparte or depending on tha state.

      God save us all

    • 372
      Anonymous says:

      The child millisquit is, and was, except to himself, an irrelav .. irrel . . . . a nothing.

      Like all nooboringliars, their importance is self perceived and perceptible only to fellow babblers.

      Oh – and to those desparte or depending on tha state.

      God save us all

  120. 370
    Anonymous says:

    I always thought it was Guido, after all it isnt rocket science, all those
    co- incidental meetings with the main players in the Westminster Arms or whatever that pub is called. MacKenzie and McBride and Fawkes all boys together. Remember folks Will Scarlet was Robins Brother in the end. Darth was Lukes Father and it was Gollum who destroyed the ring.

    PS it was Peter who said ” Never fuckin heard of him Gov “

  121. 377
    i like gold says:

    Brown will go on Thursday afternoon

    • 478
      Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

      No he won’t. If he went voluntarily he would be concienciously be betraying his father. He said he ain’t a quitter and that is the only achievement he ever had on his own. He is consisistant and persistant. He will be saying to his missus ‘they will have to take me out in a box’ if I’ve judged him correctly.

      • 587
        Anonymous says:

        Maybe you give that stance more credit than it deserves. When Brown referred extensively to not quitting, sseing it through, committing, etc. those words were aimed at those that took up the mantle in the cabinet, not himself.

        He is still pushable. Next Thursday sounds about right to me, just needs s few more Lab ministers to go AWOL and that should not be too difficult after today’s results. Humungous stuff to come out today at the elections.

  122. 380
    M'Lord Prezza of Scot . . a NuLieBore illumination says:

    Them gals with the big tits – they still about??

    PHWORR!!!

    Didya see me on telly with that bird with big tits?

    Did ya? Did ya??

    Got a sandwich? . . . pasty ? . . . . crisps ? . . ..

  123. 381
    Zygon Bob says:

    “Lord President of the Council” = Lord President of the High Council of Gallifrey. Mandy’s little joke. He is a new incarnation of The Master.

    • 553
      Sarah Jane Smith says:

      c’mon, K9, lets give the sod a bloody good seeing to

    • 633
      Basil Stalin says:

      Hmm, yes, but maybe the Soviet method has some relevance here. The more grand the title, the more irrelevant the person.

  124. 382
    Anonymous says:

    Margaret Montford leaves the Apprentice : She realises Sugar has descended into the pit.

    • 398
      Srallan Shitcomputers says:

      Second prize don’t exist. You’ll find heiroglyphs like that on an old papyrus in Egypt I expect.

    • 613
      Yoda says:

      Master apprentice only HMMM! More be there no can .

  125. 391
    Engineer says:

    At what point does Brown recognise that his position is untenable, and do the honourable thing? Given his performance over the last couple of weeks, there’s no telling.

    The cabinet is in all but open warfare. The backbenches are close to, but dithering on, a request for the leader’s resignation. Damaging historical information leaks to the public domain.

    In any normal government, it wouldn’t have got this far – a clear-out and fresh start would have happened some time ago. With this government….

    Meanwhile, would somebody please run the country? At least part-time, until the poor old bloody electorate can vote these squabbling political teenagers out?

    • 430
      Dr Nuts says:

      At what point does Brown recognise that his position is untenable, and do the honourable thing? Given his performance over the last couple of weeks, there’s no telling.

      Brown will not accept his position is untenable – the interesting moment is going to be when he loses the election – will he leave no10?

      • 485
        Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

        He knows his position is untenable but is a man of such colossal integrity and probity that he has to ignore this in order to complete his mission to fuck up everything he has touched.

      • 489
        Dr Feelgood says:

        We will have to rely on people following their oaths of office which are normally to the Queen and her legally appointed Ministers. If he is no longer her PM then no one could or should follow his instructions.

        His status (even if still an MP) would not accord him any more right to be in the building than you or I – and then time for the Police to escort him off the premises…

      • 645
        Dee Selleck-Brown says:

        Brown doesn’t know the meaning of the word honourable.
        We should probably fire a bunker-buster at no. 10 and have done with him.
        The place is contaminated already anyway.

    • 552
      A Pensioner says:

      He’s like those Japs in the jungle – in 40 years time he’s still think he’s PM.

  126. 392
    Anonymous says:

    Flint is being called out on her observer interview when she denied sexism by sky news.

    • 396
      Dr Nuts says:

      Flint is the closest thing that Labour has to a pretty young thing – Well she’s got the ‘thing’ bit down to pat. The pretty is definitely trowelled on, and young … well maybe 30 years ago

      • 607
        pigs in space says:

        ‘trowelled on’ is a bit harsh, she wears far less make up than Gordon

  127. 394
    A Labour ex-councillor says:

    Any jobs going where you live? Will travel. NSOH. Own pension.

  128. 395
    Anonymous says:

    Blair knifes Brown:

    “Blair: The darkness in Gordon’s heart will bring him down By Simon Walters

    Last updated at 10:37 PM on 06th June 2009

    Tony Blair believes Gordon Brown’s political future is doomed because of ‘the darkness in his heart’ and his ‘lies’ – and feels Mr Brown has no one to blame but himself.

    The former Prime Minister’s devastating verdict on his successor is a blow to Mr Brown’s hopes of surviving further moves to topple him, expected this week……..cont”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191323/Blair-The-darkness-Gordons-heart-bring-down.html

    • 406
      Tony Blair says:

      ……and my phone hasn’t stopped.
      About this safe seat at the next by-election ?

    • 407
      Anonymous says:

      The “darkness in Brown’s heart” is psychopathy.

      Brown is a psychopath. No conscience and no empathy for anyone or anything except himself.

      He’s a real nasty piece of work.

      • 443
        MI5 says:

        What a fucking disgrace the whole of the Labour Party

        Thieves, liars and frauds…

        Totally incompetent at everyting apart from spinning and smearing…

        BLAIR INCLUDED…

    • 417
      Anonymous says:

      who would have thought that Brown’s many enemies would use his own methods to oust him.

      Is Blair behind this? If so that me deserves a seat in the HoL!!!!

    • 420
      Moley says:

      Reminds me of Heath’s continual kind words for Margaret Thatcher.

      Something of a tradition, but more justified in the case of Brown and Blair.

    • 421
      Handbags at dawn says:

      I wonder who is running the country whilst these hoons are bitching about each other?

      No complaints mind you, I love a good catfight.

  129. 403
    Anonymous says:

    Why Thursday afternoon?

  130. 409
    Telehouse Fingered says:

    At what point will Brown come over all Hu Jintao and shut this website and/or the entire UK internet? It’s can’t be long.

  131. 410
    oldrightie says:

    FFS leave off The Herefordshire connection, (pun alert) he just used it as a bolt hole in his youth.

  132. 416
    Princess PolyTwaddle, a grouniad hack and irrelavence, talking down to people from her ivory tower, says:

    I am always right.

    I am never wrong.

    THe Beloved and Glorious Leader is right for this age

    Right for the country

    And the right size for me . . . he fills me with devotion, dutifulness, and disturbing delusions.

    OH Grouniad, I’m yours . . . !! take me . . . take me . . . . (sobs and screams)

  133. 422
    A Bishop says:

    Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad.

  134. 423
    MI5 says:

    Quick one for you Guido and co-conspirators

    Something very interesting happening in tomorrow’s papers

    Blinky Balls is being completely outspun by Mandelson’s people…

    Photos of Balls with his mouth wide open, looking mad

    His going “nuclear” about Mandy, never the Prince Of Darkness

    I think Mandy has decided to give Blinky Balls a lesson…

    Oily Campbell must be in this somewhere as well…

    And I would think Blinky will resign soon like a spoilt brat…like the smearer Watson has done..

    Mandy giving these pipsqueaks a lesson…!!

    They have met a professional smearer not apprentices like them!!

    Speak tomorrow…

  135. 425
    Tony B Heir says:

    Hi Guys. Y’know, I’ve missed the rough and tumble a bit. But now I’ve been around the world a few times, and made a few mil, well, y’know, tell you wot, I’m glad to be back and ready to lead again should Gordon fall by the wayside.

    I mean, come on, we all know he’s as nutty as a fruit cake. I mean, my babes are deserting faster than shit off a shovel…..cor, old Minty Flinty, eh? She’s a bugger when her claws are out. I bet she can carve chevrons like navvies trenches all the way down your back. Well, not that I know, ahem, anyway, the country’s in a mess, we’ve got no councils left and middle england is in the mood for lynchings. So it can’t be long before poor Gordon gets carted off for some care in the community.

    But hey, I just want you to know that Cherie and I are ready to serve. Bung us a peerage or two, and we’ll get stuck in and turn things around.

    No more shredding expense forms though – I promise. It was the cleaner wot did it. Honest.

  136. 431
    Lee Harvey Oswald says:

    Just one puff of smoke from the Grassy Knoll, and Mandelson will become the unelected Prime Minister of Britain – or do I mean President for Life?

    • 483
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Not to worry anyone, but the Prince of Darkness would then have the Trident launch codes – wasn’t this in Revelations?

    • 510
      Balloon says:

      Sorry to have to prick, er, burst this Mandelson bubble, but if he is so very clever how come the Government is now imploding, and in fact implodes every time he gets anywhere near the seat, er, center of power?

  137. 433
    Anonymous says:

    MY FATHER KNEW MANDELSON’S FATHER VERY WELL INDEED. IN FACT HE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE WORKED WITH HIM. HE SAID THAT TONY MANDELSON WAS WITHOUT DOUBT THE NASTIEST PERSON HE EVER HAD TO DEAL WITH. SO LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. TONY MANDELSON UNFORTUNATELY BEGAT PETER MANDELSON AND IT IS A MATTER OF DEBATE WHICH OF THEM IS OR WAS WORST. TONY MANDELSON WAS A MERE CLERK IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE, BUT HIS SON HAS REAL POWER AND WILL USE IT FOR HIS OWN ENDS, NOT FOR OURS, THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.
    THIS IS HOW THE LABOUR PROJECT HAS ENDED – A DITHERING AND INDECISIVE PM CONTROLLED BY AN EVIL SCHEMER. THERE WILL BE A GENERAL ELECTION WHEN MANDELSON DECIDES THERE SHOULD BE ONE. BROWN HAS NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER.

    • 453
      nell says:

      We need anger control – try deep breathe’s and then using the key on the keyboard – lwft hand side – 3 up from bottom. Much quieter!!!

  138. 436
    Jeremy Bowen says:

    MY FATHER KNEW MANDELSON’S FATHER VERY WELL INDEED. IN FACT HE HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO HAVE WORKED WITH HIM. HE SAID THAT TONY MANDELSON WAS WITHOUT DOUBT THE NASTIEST PERSON HE EVER HAD TO DEAL WITH. SO LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. TONY MANDELSON UNFORTUNATELY BEGAT PETER MANDELSON AND IT IS A MATTER OF DEBATE WHICH OF THEM IS OR WAS WORST. TONY MANDELSON WAS A MERE CLERK IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE, BUT HIS SON HAS REAL POWER AND WILL USE IT FOR HIS OWN ENDS, NOT FOR OURS, THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY.
    THIS IS HOW THE LABOUR PROJECT HAS ENDED – A DITHERING AND INDECISIVE PM CONTROLLED BY AN EVIL SCHEMER. THERE WILL BE A GENERAL ELECTION WHEN MANDELSON DECIDES THERE SHOULD BE ONE. BROWN HAS NO CHOICE IN THE MATTER.

    • 481
      Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

      I read he was neil morrisey’s son? I’m confused and will have to go wikipedia.

  139. 438
    Anonymous says:

    Not sure if it has been posted yet:

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446325.ece

    Could this be it?? After being booed in France, now this… how can this go on??

    • 484
      Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

      We are not having a general election. Vote labour.

    • 583
      terry_fiedowork says:

      Les Rosbif are usually booed in France.

      However not usually by our own side.

      Can’t see Gordon being a rosbif homme,more tatties n neeps.Whatever they are.

  140. 441
    Votr says:

    And now, good folk:

    Blair comes out of the woodwork to give Gord a good revenge kicking. In the Balls.

    Brown is no doubt having a few whisky’s by now.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191323/Blair-The-darkness-Gordons-heart-bring-down.html

    • 480
      Dr Feelgood says:

      In a way I’m going to miss Gordon when he’s gone (NOT).

      But this is an entertaining and respulsive spectacle – bit like watching a slow mo car crash

      • 506
        Opta ardua pennis astra sequi says:

        This is more gruesome than the Challenger disaster

  141. 442
    nell says:

    The Normandy Vets booed Gordon today. Unprecedented but well done!!!!

    Yesterday we, the peasants, showed, with our overwhelming vote against Labour that we do not want Gordon.

    (Sorry Knnck I genuinely don’t think Glynis or AlanS will make the Lords!!!!- Sorry Alan about your wasted £1million donation to the Labour Party)

    Gordon’s Ministers are resigning, his backbenchers are revolting and opposition parties are tabling motions for dissolution of parliament.

    Guido is right – Gordo’s days are numbered

  142. 446
    British National says:

    Someone needs to step in stop this mess. The country is looking more like a banana republic every day.

    There is only one person in the country with the power to sort it out. Someone needs to wake her up and have her call in the entire Cabinet tomorrow for a good talking to. They are acting like feral children.

    The Government are clearly unfit to govern the country. They MUST resign. Enough now.

    • 456
      Nanny says:

      Someone needs to take their toys away and put them to bed urgently.

      There’ll be a serious accident or worse if they are allowed to continue bickering any longer.

    • 549
      Righty Ho! says:

      Duty calls, Ma’am

  143. 447
    Reichschancellor ( in-waiting, and waiting and waiting ) Balls says:

    ZIS IS WAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6446324.ece

    • 472
      Mandy says:

      Have you noticed that The Times has changed the picture (the original was most unflattering) and deleted all of the comments, after editing the article? It seems to me that No. 10 has been on the phone to the editor.

      • 599
        Call me Infidel says:

        The earlier photo was as you say most unflattering but highly amusing. I’m sure you are correct and the spin machine went into overdrive to get the image removed.

    • 548
      Righty Ho! says:

      Christ! Open war between Mandy and Balls.

      At last the concept of mutually assured destruction finally makes sense

  144. 449
  145. 450
    Peter Handlesmen says:

    I’ve always liked Balls

  146. 466
    Anonymous says:

    Seen in a Welshpool jewellers window;
    ‘No MPs unless accompanied by a resposible adult or child.
    says itt all about the great and glorious’

    • 468
      Anonymous says:

      sorry that should be responsible adult or child, but there again, what responsible adult would admit to knowing an MP let alone vouch for them in a shop?

  147. 467
    Joshua Chambers says:

    I’ve written a piece about this myself:

    http://www.theyorker.co.uk/news/blogs/3193

  148. 470
    Sunonmars says:

    The next election is not going to be on what Labour can do, we all know what they can do, it will a referendum on Gordon Brown and Labour, even if he is not the PM.

    And Cameron will have so much material for posters and ads, its unbelievable.

    Even if Brown is removed and Johnson is put in, all Cameron has to do is shove posters up and run ads with Browns face going “Labour foisted this unelected madman on us for PM who destroyed our economy, Do you remember that last few months, do you really want 4 more years of that type of stupidity” Job done.

    • 474
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Could use the pictures of either:

      Gordon being grabbed by his chinny chin chin
      Smiling on the Youtube video

      What other ones of the ridiculous fool are there that are better (worse?)?

    • 490
      Sir Robin Knest-Magpie says:

      The one difficulty I see with this, for Labour, is who’s going to pay for the electioneering? I can’t see much colateral. As for cameron he is pro europe so the next election is going to be about europe but the euro MP election results will confirm this. IMO

  149. 473
    Dr Feelgood says:

    Guido – you are a star. Some foolishas on here t’other day saying Guido was a busted flush with nothing new to break following smeargate. Oh ye of little faith.

    Cross hairs on Brown… Leaked e-mails… Draper…

    Wondered if Guido was at the bottom of this and now confirmed by The Times.

    PS. Assuming this info was acquired by GF prior to Smeargate – still wondering what was on that PC Draper smuggled out of his house???

  150. 477
    Coup de Grace says:

    I can’t think of any occasion on which a Prime Minister has been booed by people who were not actually demonstrating.

    To be booed at a Remembrance Day Parade by those who are normally the most loyal of citizens is a truly historical event.

    Brown’s reputation is shattered beyond repair. He will forever be remembered as the Prime Minister who was shown disrespect by war veterans.

    • 504
      Mercian says:

      There was one small moment in all this shambles when McMental finally crossed the line, and the veterans obviously picked up on it.

      He was being asked why the Queen hadn’t been invited to the ceremony and said “If the Queen asks, I’d be delighted to arrange an invitation.” or something similar.

      The Queen doesn’t ASK, you complete and utter twat! SHE is in charge, not you! Especially for occasions like this where only a monarch who is above the petty squabbling of politicians can adequately represent the country.

      Whatever the cumbersome bureaucratic procedures of the Liebour Party, he will effectively be out within a week.

      • 647
        Dee Selleck-Brown says:

        Could it be that the invitation from the French was delivered to the wrong queen ?

    • 547
      A Pensioner says:

      Your Grace: these “people” were not just any old plebs. They are the bravest of the brave, and good on them for speaking out, they’ve earned their say.

      • 582
        Anonymous says:

        Yes they surely have earned their say. Unfortunately the Queen’s wish to go to Epsom on Derby Day was an overruling force, Forget not being asked, HM did not wish to be asked.

  151. 488
    Andy JS says:

    Rallings and Thrasher projected shares have been released:

    C – 35%
    LD – 25%
    Lab – 22%

    • 511
      Sunonmars says:

      way too generous for Labour.

    • 522
      Sunonmars says:

      although in saying that, it means that if this happened and the Tories did 35 or over, its then a 8-10% increase for them and then the people went in there and decided that Cameron is the better choice.

      Now if UKIP can best labour by even just 1% say 21% and labour on 20% then i’ll be happy.

      • 568
        Andy JS says:

        In 2004 Rallings and Thrasher projected shares of C – 37%, LD – 27%, Lab – 26% and the Euro results for 2004 were C – 27%, Lab – 23%, LD -15%.

        Now if we apply the same changes to this year’s Rallings and Thrasher projection, it would predict that the Euro result this year would be:

        C – 25%
        Lab – 19%
        LD – 13%

        There’s obviously lots of room for minor parties there. It will be interesting to see how close to the actual result this prediction is.

  152. 501
    Livingston: It's A Hard Right Coup says:

    “While Labour party and trade union members were out campaigning for Thursday’s elections, a narrow clique of the party’s hard right were doing everything in their power to sabotage Labour’s campaign and carry out a coup against the prime minister.”

    —-
    Hard right? That’ll be Hazel Blears, Margaret Beckett and Caroline Flint will it Ken?

    Never mind, I am sure our Hard Left Prime Minister will soon reward you with a seat in the Lords so you can dump that tacky radio show and get back to some serious troughing.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/05/gordon-brown-recession-labour-left

    • 612
      Twizzle says:

      Same with all these arrogant sons (and daughters) of bitches. Anyone who does not fit into their view of the world is a facist. Oh, or a bigot. Or a racist.

      It;s called playground politics. People who have no arguments and can only call their detractors names.

      Yah boo sucks.

  153. 502
    D L George says:

    Anyone giving odds that Harmen may go feral this week?

    Seems peculiar to me She’s been the one in the firing line recently (interviews etc) and yet now Brown has overshadowed Her by granting Mandelson the Deputy Prime Minister’s position (in all but name).

    Between the three of them, She’s the only one who’s fought and won an internal election, She’s the only valid one amongst them.

    If the Sh*t hits the fan come Monday, what’s Her chances of running for leadership?

    Should say I’m not a Harman fan – She’s WAY to kneejerk for me, just curious that no one seems to mention Her in leadership battles anymore.

    • 505
      Mercian says:

      I’m no fan either, but she’d be a better PM than either of them. Mind you, so would our cat.

      • 529
        D L George says:

        Could your cat please apply to Labour HQ with a recent CV and references, preferably before Tuesday.

        • 538
          Mercian says:

          She’ll post it here instead:

          Name: Tammy Cat

          I have been chief ratcatcher to a family for twenty years, and have performed my duties with diligence and efficiency. I have strong political skills in that I can persuade the family to keep me in luxury and even make them believe that they ‘own’ me, when the reverse is true. I think that these skills will stand me in good stead in my forthcoming career in politics, as I believe that the electorate can be treated in much the same way.

          I occasionally leave a dead mouse on the doorstep. This ability will be easily transferred to the political field, as I understand that giving the voters an occasional tax-break will keep them on-side.

          Referee: Tom-next-door – Phwoooaaar!

        • 540
          D L George says:

          She’s hired!

        • 546
          Righty Ho! says:

          I’ve stroked nastier pussy

        • 636
          Basil of Sleaze says:

          You’ve stroked the Harman?!

    • 551
      Cardinal Richelieu's mole says:

      Harriet is very New labour – having cheated and lied her way into the deputy leadership – so would be excellent if her poor record at actually running anything is overlooked.

      Recall that even as a Tony Crony she was a casualty of the first post ‘97 reshuffle – and Frank Field has since told us she was so useless that he, as her deputy, had been put in charge of running the department.

      She does not seem a bad person, but lacking the mental capacity and no doubt organisational and other skills needed.

      • 592
        D L George says:

        So you’re saying She’s superior in every way to McDoom? I agree.

        Although Mercian’s overqualified cat still gets my vote.

  154. 507
    Anon says:

    I can see why all nearly all countries in 20th century shot communists.

    How we laughed at them for being backwards but now it’s not so funny when they are having the last laugh and we finally know………

    We where the backwards ones……..

  155. 508
    Anonymous says:

    What has happened to politicalbetting.com ? Seems to have been down for nearly two days now.

    • 586
      terry_fiedowork says:

      Couldn’t take the losses ?

      Everybody and their granny betting their (global) sub-prime mortgage on Gordon and party falling at the first electoral fence.

      Punters love bashing bookies more than Peter loves bashing bishops.

    • 605
      Anonymous says:

      DNS problems. Use the IP – 87.106.214.196

  156. 512
    DickDastardly says:

    If Brown is forced out, how can labour appoint another prime minister, without going to the country…..which of course they will lose, and probably end up in a position behind the liberals

    if they dont go to the country, it shows places like Zimbabwe are more democratic in electing their leaders than us!! and they publicly rig elections!!

    we have one saving grace tho….. Peter Mandelson nolonger has a parliamentry seat, so cant become Leader of the Parliamentry Labour Party or Prime Minister…..

    personally brown can do what the hell he likes….. he knows that we are going to kick him out of office in the next 12 months……. he can stay for the duration and be humiliated as being a worse labour leader than Neil Kinnock! or resign now and be humiliated as not even facing the public………

    • 528
      Mercian says:

      As far as I know, there is nothing in the constitution to prevent a peer being PM. It’s just a recent tradition, and ignoring traditions has never been difficult for Liebour.

      Brown could also order a State of Emergency on some pretext and defer elections indefinitely. Also, as he knows he’s going, he will try even harder to bring the country down with him.

    • 544
      Cardinal Richelieu's mole says:

      Lord Home replacing H. Macmillan showed a peer could be PM, albeit thereafter he soon entered the ‘ Commons.

      On the matter of ousting Brown, why is this view – “If there is a Labour leadership election it would be outrageous if there was not then an immediate General Election” – the received wisdom of the political classes?

      It might be nice – and a GE is overdue now – so there are reasons. But given no fresh policies, just a change in personalities (and note few remain from the cabinet formed post the 2005 election), and the fact a GE must be held within the year anyway, why the outrage just from there being a fresh PM?

      • 597
        D L George says:

        You’re not alone, I too have no idea why the MSM has been stating this since McDoom slid into power, I thought there must be a rule somewhere, but you know Zanu, rules are there to be broken.

        On a slightly different tact, last election, TB promised He’d serve a full term, people went to the poling booth with that in mind. Along with all the other election promises Zanu’s broken over the years, they broke this one too. McDoom was not voted in by the electorate, even the Labour party didn’t get a vote. If they were to change heads again it may be seen by many as democratically outragious.

        However, nothing would surprise me when it comes to Zanu.

  157. 514
    LMAO says:

    Labour rules.

    Doesn’t matter if it’s Mandy or Gordon or anyone else.

    Labour rules.

    What you right-wing fuckwits haven’t yet grasped is that personalities don’t matter. They matter to the soap opera of media of course but not to real world big boy politics.

    Clearly you’ve been out of power for quite a long time and don’t have much in the way of intellectual support, but I have to tell you that baby boys like Cameron and Osborne will never see power in this country.

    Toodlepip…

    • 516
      Sunonmars says:

      Nurse, up the meds, the looney pills are wearing off a bit.

    • 521
      D L George says:

      Thanks for that. Remind me, how many councils do Labour now rule?

      • 526
        Sunonmars says:

        I don’t yet think Labour has figured just what exactly having no councils to control actually means.

        Who controls the electoral rolls and postal voting system. Yup the COUNCIL.

        The Tories could run a massive election campaign out of most of these councils now and Labour wont know what hit them.

        • 530
          Mercian says:

          You mean no more mass postal votes for Liebour from a single address? How will the poor dears cope?

    • 533
      Mercian says:

      If personalities don’t matter, why is it important that Cameron and Osborne are ‘baby boys’? You can’t string three sentences together without breaking the internal logic of what you are trying to say.

    • 539
      Dr Feelgood says:

      Yes, Gordon is truely a serious politician for serious times:

      Earlier on GMTV Prime Minister Gordon Brown revealed he watched the Britain’s Got Talent final on Saturday night, and wished Susan Boyle well:

      “I hope Susan Boyle is OK because she is a really, really nice person and I think she will do well. I spoke to Simon Cowell last night and to Piers Morgan and wanted to be sure that she was OK. But also to praise Diversity, just an amazing success for Britain and that will go right round the world.”

    • 543
      Righty Ho! says:

      LMAO, you are Master Baiter and I claim my £5 prize

    • 593
      Trough Mixture says:

      Back to bed you bitter little scamp.

      I’ll bring you up some gripe water and a mug of horlicks. Might even read you one of nice Mr Lovecraft’s bedtime stories if you’ll shut your fucking yap.

  158. 525
    Anonymous says:

    Guido,

    From todays Sunday Herald.

    Comment please

    Mandelson’s email attack on ‘insecure, angry’ Brown
    ‘He is a self-conscious person … a new public persona cannot be glued onto him’

    By James Cusick, Westminster Editor
    LORD MANDELSON, the cabinet’s newly appointed first secretary of state, believes Gordon Brown cannot win the next general election because voters think he is an angry man who cannot do “X-factor politics”.

    Mandelson, sacked twice as a cabinet minister during Tony Blair’s premiership, made the damning criticism of Gordon Brown in January last year, only eight months before he was ennobled and brought back into the cabinet as Brown’s business secretary.

    The comments were made in series of emails Mandelson sent to the disgraced former Labour spin doctor, Derek Draper. Draper was implicated in plans being laid to smear senior Tory politicians by Brown’s aide, Damien McBride. McBride was sacked by Brown soon after the scandal broke.

    Sunday herald

  159. 557
    tisfedup says:

    what the fuck is this fucking blog about. whats it with you fucking twats, why do you give so much credit to that fucking shirtlifting wanker, you scared or what , why the fuck does he seeem to have so much power over what i asume are rational hetrosexual males,??????????

  160. 560
    tisfedup says:

    for christ sakes what the fuck why the hell is people giving te shirtlifting Hoon any fucking credence???

  161. 562
    tisfedup says:

    i was watching sky news going on about mandelson, why??? who the fuck is the wanker , he aint nothing , the msm might come their load over him but why should we, fuck the Hoon off,

  162. 563
    Cardinal Richelieu's mole says:

    Why does the Cabinet not just reshuffle itself? (Consulting the PLP so far as it chooses.)

    Brown could remain as Party leader (as Neville Chamberlain did when Churchill became PM) whilst serving out his time on the back benches pending a Party leadership election to be held at the Party’s convenience.

  163. 564
    caesars wife says:

    i agree with you Guido , it does appear as though mandelson is power broker now , although I do wonder if its very well disguised revenge for doing Blair , but then perhaps it was browns dark opps team that released mandelsons funny mortage from Geoffry Robinson (hoping no links with MOD contarcts can be pinned to him). I dont like mandelson but i suspect he would knife you whilst giving you one of the most praiseworthy speechs ever and somehow you would still smile .

    but on the subject of pinning , it may well be that to quote Blair from his article (ceremonial last dagger in to complete the set) “it only takes a moment to deliver poison but a long time to drain it” I suspect that gordons pockets are about to be stuffed full of evidence before he gets arrested , his ecnomic policy has led to a banking colapse , but Labour may be hoping to flush all the bad out with one person . This would be a shame as clearly gordon has his co conspiritors (always thought Tom watsons departure smacked of stuffing the briefcase and doing a runner ) surprised no one mentions much about Ian Austin , other lefties have to be in there .

    what are labours choices ?? stick with gordon and try and rebuild some voter trust , flush gordon and re spawn the labour party back to to tony blair clones .Caesars wife rather hopes that the labour party will finished , if it cannot get shut of the communists , it must become a minority party .
    they have wrecked this country , made morality a state punishment and gambled our futures , just to make the rotten construct look like it works .

    Free markets with the right checks and balances , do more than state control can achieve as it can be run on small or big scale .State control (labour party) actually needs vanity projects for it to look like it works , all these 60s trendy students who are now in power , still wont accept that markets can deliver a good level of social improvement , they see every thing as perscriptive .

    true markets do go wrong , poltics corrupts both in state control goverments and free markets , but the forms of corruption are radically different as are the punishments .

    gordon as the choosen one of kinnock and hattersley , that remnant of national labour , that talked about steel , coal and cars is gone , and that is what is so puzzling , watching the red wedge creators unable to compute that state control ends in rebellion and fleeing dictators with swiss bank accounts , as though the UKs hsitorical treasure of morality could be plundered for ever and ever .

    The conservatives must be pleased and gratefull of the votes , but they must be concerned about the economic situation (i still dont believe Gordon or Darling , i think we are in deep trouble with a possible rupturing of inflation that will hurt everyone ) and they know they have a lot of work to do , as well make ther own reshuffle .

    we cannot trust or believe Labour therefore they must go , we do not what the other parties are going to do because they wont say much until labour are gone .

    Guidos photoshop image on the header may be right , when blair comes out to minister the final chapter and rites, you realise that is now no longer a political gamble , but a desired certainty

  164. 565
    tisfedup says:

    it already reshuffled itself cardinal,what the fuck do you think went on ,,m eheh what you thought brown reshuffled, no no no, they all doing what they want, brown happy as long as they understand he aint going nowhere, because he would cause havock, he dont want to go and what about mandleson, where’s the tart with green slime he needs some more, fucking Hoons the lot of them, if they fail with vote of no confidence im fucking having it.

  165. 566
    tisfedup says:

    guido i dont guiness i do smirnoff same difference though ;o\\\\\\

  166. 567
    tisfedup says:

    come thursday if he aint gone…….

  167. 569
    tisfedup says:

    east london cockney tart has had enough, well not quite a tart , maybe back in the day lol, but had enough true enough, brown , mandleson are fucking nothing they been given power like people give power to bullies, i aint never bowed to no Hoon since i was a kid, and am so fucking pissed now, and i aint going to now , see mee dfragged off by plod, hope you are there too lol

  168. 570
    tisfedup says:

    why are you changing my favorite word knut think about it , to hoon it seems it is on auto

  169. 577
    tisfedup says:

    ok

  170. 579
    tisfedup says:

    oh for fuck’sake even political betting is still down, what is A rarely pissed political junkie meant to do, especially when we areoing to hell in A HANDCART

  171. 580
    tisfedup says:

    SUNOMARS IS A Hoon

  172. 581
    tisfedup says:

    ohhhh ok sunomars is a cnut

  173. 585
    tisfedup says:

    sorry sunomars i meAN 505 LMAO is a c u n t

  174. 588
    Reg Blank says:

    Dear Gordon,

    I love you with all my sole. I am very pleased that you are at the height of your game. I can see that you are doing your very best, and are strongly driven to achieve your personal goals for the country. I’m sure you will soon attain the perfection you crave. The British people, and your cabinet ex-ministers, are nothing but a bunch of whinging Tories who deserve everything you throw at them.

    Now to my main point.

    You must continue your campaign with utmost vigour. I, like you, realise that you have reached the peak of your power, and see that you need more power to continue your great work. The way forward for you now is to infinitely increase your power and become loved by all for all the things you do.

    The only way is up.

    You must ascend to godhood as soon as is practical. When you achieve the state of perfection you will no longer need Mandelson around to thrust power into you from behind (however enjoyable that might be). You will have more power than you can possibly imagine. You can smite your detractors, and since that would be an act of god that would be OK (and their life insurance wouldn’t pay out. Bonus!!!).

    Of course to achieve this state you must cast aside your corporeal existance and demonstrate your commitment to deity. One practical, quick, way to achieve this would be to take a loaded gun and blow your head clean off, ensuring that your brains are completely out of your skull and splattered over a whole wall. This would ensure that there can be no possibility of return to your imperfect vessel (even your NHS doctors can work miracles these days), and anyway you will no longer need it with your new super powers. You must do this yourself though. Help from a mere mortal might interfere with the deification process. You might want to imbibe a portion from a bottle of Scotch, to remind you about your beloved mother land.

    Just think what you will be able to achieve as deity. Everybody will love you. You can smite whoever you like (or dislike ;-) ). You will have all the time in the world to achieve whatever it is you’re currently trying to do to the UK. And anyway, god is better than Prime Minister, right?

    I look forward to thrusting my sole in to the face of god.

    Yours “faithfully” (heh heh),

    Reg.

  175. 589
    terry_fiedowork says:

    Stay awake girl.

    Your anger is ours.

  176. 590
    tisfedup says:

    terry thankyou , i asume you ar talking to me, and my anger grows. but it canhold.

  177. 594
    A Pensioner says:

    Where’s fucking Ben Elton and that other skinny arsed hairy pillock when you need a bit of satire?

  178. 596
    Anonymous says:

    Brown is Vader (complete with respiratory problems) and Mandelson is Palpatine!

    • 598
      D L George says:

      Mandelson = Palpatine eh? Then for goodness sake can someone pump him a few hundred megawatts so the MSM can see him in his true form.

  179. 600
    dirtyden says:

    Andrew Ramsley argues this morning that the cowards didn’t pull the trigger because ‘they feared something worse’. Nonsense. With Brown still there, the Labour Party will not just lose the next election, it will out of power for generations, probably becoming a rump third party just like the Liberals a century ago.

    I reckon they’re not quite that stupid. The PLP will get rid of the fcukwit to save itself from total oblivion, Rawnsley’s his fellow lefty hacks’ backwards views notwithstanding.

    • 627
      Lizzie says:

      Correct there’s nothing worse than Brown. I watched (painfully) Lord Kinnock give his “sage” advise to his party on Sky. Laughable really the way party members have been rollled out to spread the good word. It’s really game over, whether that be tomorrow, the next day, next week or next month etc, Labour are destined for the opposite benches.

      • 638
        Aristotle says:

        Tony Benn was not that supportive… his take seemed to be the person in the PM seat didnt matter it was policy and action that the Electorate wanted; the media “X Factor” style of politics was all wrong etc etc

        Hardly a full endorsement of GB, more ” so long as Labour is in No 10, we’re OK”

  180. 602
    Icarus says:

    “Lord Mandelson and Mr Draper, a qualified psychologist, discuss Mr Brown’s character flaws in intimate detail.” Mail on Sunday.

    That should make the qualified psychologists really mad.

  181. 603
    Mandy's on the slide - again... says:

    I’ve just seen the Times.

    Wicked, wicked Guido, selling emails like that. Is there no privacy in this world?

    I can’t stop laughing.

  182. 606
    Jim Devine says:

    I thought everyone had over 200 feet of shelving in their small London flats. I need it for all my colouring-in books.

  183. 616
    Parish Councillor says:

    Who cares about Mandleslime

    He is a proven dishonest, a raving poof and duplitious.

    He is totally discredited.

    Our Nation is a global laughing stock. With all that has happend of late the Opposition parties cannot get rid of this awful Government which confirms their total ineptness. If Camerhoon is unable to remove cyclops what hope does he have in restoring the fortunes of of our country?

    How can the electorate vote for a party of NO policies? Clearly they have some and won’t divulge but even so…..

    Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic. And just wait for the tax to go up next April along with VAT etc.

    Then you will see the man on the street really very angry.

    • 620
      Lizzie says:

      Would that be the kind of Jon Stewart kinda angry “the British people are angry” but very queitly, go easy there good chap!

  184. 619
    Lizzie says:

    Lord High, and Everything Else is at it again, controlling people is the game he plays so well. All the Labour MPs are worried about are their paypackets, serving themselves comes before serving the people any day! Unless the people demand a General Election they won’t get one. This “has been” government are only there for themselves.

  185. 621
    Aristotle says:

    Monday 8th June 2009

    Kataklysmos is the day on the Greek Orthodox calendar that is supposed to mark the coming of the biblical flood,
    which submerged the planet and washed away the sins of mankind to enable a new wave of life to begin.

    See any parallels yet Gordon ?

    • 628
      Lizzie says:

      And the “Dark Lord” said…….

      • 634
        Aristotle says:

        “you’re doing just fine Gord, The Euro vote is just people angry , they love you Gordon, you must keep on , you have a job to do, blah blah….”

        Meanwhile the Turkeys continued to ignore calls for a Christmas vote.

  186. 622
    Si Cologist says:

    Brown should be moved to a care home with a big tub of felt tip pens

    • 629
      Lizzie says:

      Have some pity of the older generation.

      • 631
        nell says:

        Brown may look old and haggard but he’s only in his fifties.

        That photo that Guido has of him and the TV shots of him yesterday at D-Day show a dramatic physical decline over the two years he has been in the job.

        The only reason that he is still there is because Mandy is pulling his strings.

        Question is, after the publication of mandy’s emails, will he still have the same influence, and if not , who will hold Gordon together then?

  187. 626
    nell says:

    Kelly Parland of nationalpost.com (Canada) wrote yesterday about Gordon Brown’s reshuffle:

    “Labour consists of warring factions held together by the adhesive qualities of power. Now that the stickiness is wearing off all the bitterness and anger of squashed egoes and foiled ambitions is pouring out.”

    Well you don’t get any bigger egoes than Brown Mandelson and Balls.

  188. 630
    Lizzie says:

    Balls must be like a spitting cobra because the Lord High and Everything Else prevented him moving in to No 11 with his sweet little wife.

  189. 635
    grainy says:

    So now the Prince of Darkness will also sit in judgement on University fees and higher research money. Good god. Then again, I suppose, it’s no different to any politician. After all, Balls has never taught, Darling has no experience with economics, George Osborne has never had a real job, neither has Cameron. Anyone still wondering why Britain has reached a point from which it will never truly recover?

  190. 641
    Basil Stalk says:

    There’s too much wheat in the national diet. We need a bonfire of the granaries.

  191. 652

    [...] Mandelson's Vanity Overcame His Good Judgement [...]

  192. 653
    RobC says:

    Harriett could really do us all a big favour in the next day or two.In fact she would be doing herself a bigger one by walking out of a non job, now that Mandelson is running the shower,with the freedom to compete in a far more worthwhile job interview – saving the labour party from extinction.

  193. 654
    castaway says:

    cardinal Richelieu

  194. 655
    Peaceful Warrior says:

    Has anyone thought why Mandleson really wants to keep Brown apart from wanting to be the power behind the throne? Lets face it they loathe each other. Mandy is a creature of Europe, he dances to the EU tune, he is totally in love with the European Project. If Brown goes now and there is an early election which Cameron wins then it is curtains for the Lisbon Treaty. I would bet that Mandy’s masters in Europe have told him to do his utmost to keep Brown and Labour in power until the Treaty is ratified. A conspiracy theory too far? Maybe yet I cannot see a better reason for the Dark Lord rescuing loser Brown the other day.

    • 656
      hermine haller says:

      Yes obviousy England must get out of EU. FFS where are you leader ?

      Do you want a chip in your finger ? So convenient in Tescos N’est ce pas







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