June 8th, 2009

Jane Kennedy Blames Gordon’s Bullying

Smeargate was the final straw for Jane Kennedy she says

Jane KennedyI’ve been unhappy for sometime about smears against colleagues, about the undermining of colleagues and friends orchestrated by Number 10. I can’t support it and I believe the Labour Party is part of reason for the rejection that people have indicated, and it’s a rejection of that kind of politics. I can’t distinguish between those around Gordon Brown smearing and Gordon Brown himself. It’s how politics is driven forward by Gordon and the people around him.

I fought against Militant in the 1980s and helped the Labour Party drive them out, because I was applled at their conduct: the bullying, the threats and the intimidation. I can’t stand by and say I am content when that is still happening. Everybody who is active in politics in Westminster knows what I’m alluding to.

We’ve never had the chance as a PLP to discuss the matters that arose out of the Damian McBride incident. My view is – and the view of many activists in my constituency – Gordon isn’t able to get our message across. That’s why voters are turning against us – his style, the type of politics he engages. My unhappiness is with the style of politics that Labour is exhibiting.

Target GordonThe bullying continues, Guido understands that the implicit menace being put about by Nick Brown, chief whip and Gordon’s enforcer, is exposure of expense misdemeanours in a career ending manner if you are disloyal. That is how they work, McBride may be gone, but his spirit lives on. Gordon operates like a mafia godfather, thuggish and threatening. The people have rejected him, will the party find a spine? Why is it only Labour’s women who have the balls to stand up to him?


346 Comments

  1. 1
    The Admiral says:

    Brilliant

    • 13
      Andy Q says:

      Glad I took the day off today. It’s like watching a slo-mo’ car crash.
      Roll on the 6pm meeting, let’s hope some MPs develop a pair of steel balls and hang the B*stard…………

    • 73
      Ernst Rohm says:

      This is now a Government run by a couple of bitching old Queens. No place for normal people like women in Q-Liebour

    • 75
      David says:

      When is the pain of this government going to end? The bullying of this man is disgusting.

      David
      newsjunction.co.uk

    • 179
      R.McGeddon says:

      So, everything that has been highlighted so effectively here about Brhoon’s nasty smearing tactics has been confirmed in writing by Jane Kennedy.

      So, Labour’s fucked up the economy,
      they’ve fucked up the Nation,
      they’ve driven us to the very brink of bankruptcy,
      they’ve made Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe look like a utopia by comparison,
      they’re turning us into a police state
      and their utter desperation to cling on to office is quite nauseating.

      With no apologies for re-posting:-
      ———————————————–

      Gordon, oh Gordon you’ve taken us for fools.
      You lied about Prudence and your ‘Golden Rules’.
      You plundered our pensions and decimated our savings,
      We’re fed up of listening to your ‘global’ ravings.
      Blair claimed you’re a genius; he lied to us too.
      The ‘British’ economy is in deep doggy-doo.
      ‘No booms, no busts !’ you used to shout out.
      That was all hubris, of that there’s no doubt.

      You bang on and on about your Presbyterian daddy,
      Born a son of the manse and raised in Kircaldy.
      Now how would he regard you, with disgust or with pride ?
      Seeing you’ve got friends such as Draper and McBride
      You say your ‘moral compass’ isn’t pointed toward sleaze,
      But what about Darling, McNulty,Malik,Moran, Smith and Blears ?
      Of the Top Twenty Troughing MPs, NuLabour’s got SIXTEEN !
      Sir, your Cabinet is rotten – you’re nowt but a has-been.

      Now,if you’d like us to show a scintilla of affection,
      Screw up some courage, CALL A GENERAL ELECTION !

    • 204
      a REAL Socialist says:

      Yes and Tony bLiar put the boot in too complaining about the Prime Mentalist’s Lies and Black Heart………………….. FFS what a short ‘detached’ memory these people have but of course the Pope gave him absolution for his crimes …… so its OK all forgotten.

    • 303
      ex-Labour voter says:

      I can see the headlines now…

      BROWN FAILS SMEAR TEST

    • 330
      Anonymous says:

      How can anyone be intimidated by Nick Brown? He didn’t come across as a heavy when I met him.

  2. 2
    Dack Blog says:

    Reminds me of what Alice Mahon said when she quit a bit back.

    • 92
      Harpic says:

      Guido can you find out if that bitch Kinnock is claiming expenses from both UK and EU parliments. Or dont we have a Europe Minister at the moment ????????????????

      • 147
        Samee says:

        Conservative shadow Europe Minister gave her a hard time on Sky last night. She’s not in the Lords yet and still an MEP until 13/7/09 – is she the Europe minister or not? Is there a Europe Minister? Is it legal? etc., etc. Hilary Benn tried to fend it off by saying he was sure it would all be resolved in due course. The whole appointment seemed to be a knee-jerk reaction due to Flint’s resignation.

        • 161
          Bordeaux Binger says:

          Resolved in due course translates in this case as “I don’t know what is happening I am a mushroom”. Not unusual for a minister in this so called government.

        • 177

          Quite right. Gordy saw a Spad making throat cutting signs with his finger just as he was making the announcement.
          He struggled to recall any name at all.
          But, this thought had been keeping him comfort in the dark hours for weeks.

          “I will always be better than Kinnock. I will always be better than Kinnock. I will always be better than Kinnock…”

          So, it just popped out..

        • 220
          a REAL Socialist says:

          DONT Potential Lords and Ladies have to pass some sort of test now before they are accepted into the HoLiday Camp? Now that is where we need some balls and gumption to be shown…………………….NO PLace(wo)men in here please – sadly its overflowing already – so hopefully no room for any more

        • 227
          Jan says:

          Mrs oooh sorry Lady- soon-to-be-Baroness Kinnock must be the only person who retires at 65 only to be given another job.Is McBroon really saying that there is NOBODY in the HOC who is capable of being Minister for Europe? I am not against old people,I am pretty old myself but this job requires somebody who doesn’t look as if they are about to snuff it.She is old and scrawny and should just go away to her Welsh hillside/green green grass of home and just count out her ill-gotten gains or something.We’ve had enough of her and her greedy useless f……g husband.She is yet ANOTHER teacher who thinks she can rule us.She was rubbish on TV last night.Another f…..g Celt too.

        • 247
          Steve the Hammer says:

          What a truly abysmal choice that Kinnock woman is, reflecting Labour’s paucity of talent in the Commons and McMental’s desperation. She is a cuckoo in the nest – an emissary of the EU looking after EU interests, rather than a minister looking after the interests of Britain in the EU.

          She is also a cheating, time serving troughing parasite with a proven track record of signing in at the EU, claiming her attendance money and going straight out again.

          In short, she’s complete fucking rubbish, even by current NULiebore “standards”.

        • 260
          Jan says:

          And anothter thing….didn’t Ladeee Kinnock say she was given the job on Thursday afternoon.But then was interrupted by, I don’t know who, with correction that it must have been Friday afternoon.? What was that all about? Perhaps she was given the nod before Ms Flint gave that vile,slimy speech supporting Mc Broon on Thursday evening and before resigning during his rambling car crash speech on Friday.

  3. 3
    Epic says:

    LMAO.. well i saw both of them naked on http://dailynoz.blogspot.com/

  4. 4
    oldrightie says:

    This whole debacle smacks of the way we have been governed and our budget “managed” these past 12 years but without the smoke and mirrors for once.

  5. 5
    Scorched Earth says:

    Watch Tonights Dispatches : Crash Gordon
    For a great deal more on the pathetic smearing operations of Brown and his little helpers. Not a pretty sight.

  6. 6
    Anonymous says:

    It gets worse by the hour. Truly damning from a decent woman. No wonder she was only a midranking minister, such sanity has no place in the bunker

    • 74
      Throbber says:

      What took her so long?
      Its been going on for ever and she’s done nothing till now.
      Too busy troughing I suspect.
      She’s Labour – don’t believe a word she says – there’s more to it than what she says.

    • 213

      One would have been more impressed if she’d baled before she was effectively pushed.

      The Penguin

      • 338
        March of the NaziPenguin says:

        “Why don’t you concentrate on solving the Jewish problem” – The Penguin

  7. 7
    you'd be surprised if you knew who i am says:

    Gordon Brown WILL resign tonight

    • 17
      Andy Q says:

      *sigh*

      I do hope so…………

      • 31
        TOO FAR says:

        My bottle of bubbly is still waiting …… the total tosser must go. We are the laughing stock of Europe.

    • 18
      DaemonBarber says:

      A nice daydream you’re having there…

    • 20
      Koba says:

      What are you waiting for Gordon?

    • 23
      Barracuda with lipstick says:

      So, tell me who you are, I want to be surprised

    • 33
      Anne Robinson says:

      If this was Japan he would commit hari kari.

    • 35
      Anonymous says:

      One can hope, and pigs can fly, Elvis is alive and living on the moon, this will not happen. The men in white coats will have to put a straight jacket on and carry him out!

      • 180
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        Straitjacket, as in restraint, not straight as in not curvy. Thats what 12 years of education edeuwkatshun edukaschun has done for the Country.

    • 42
      Peter Grimes says:

      Stop it Mandybum! You are just trying to get the bubbly sales up and collect the taxes!

    • 44
      Jelly and custard says:

      Did anybody notice that Alan Johnson said that there is nobody else in the Labour Party Iincluding himselkf presumably) who is fit to take over the top job if Gordon leaves. What does that say about the rest of the morons?

      • 77
        Just Go says:

        Just once would someone think of the country,every day he stay`s more voters will leave the labour party

      • 100

        Nonesense..why there’s Andy Burnham..no well, not him.
        What about Glenys Kinnock. No, No I see your point.
        Well Harriett? Johnson? Dave and Ed Miliband?
        I know..Eddie baby Balls and Mrs Cooper…You have to admit that they would make a … well might able to manage .. for a while.. Maybe if a grown up was in the room?

        Hmmm Its true. He is the best man to lead the Labour party.

        • 139
          Bisto Express says:

          I have just put £50 on Keith Vaz.

          Why else would his slimy face have been all over the TV recently unless it was part of a leadership bid?

      • 108
        Bercow for Labour PM says:

        What about me?

        • 290
          Jan says:

          All these Labour slimebags like Vazeline are waiting to be elevated to the House of Lords.If McBroon is kicked out,I meant resign does he get to be ennobled and take some of his trashy lying toe-rag chums with him? Or in the event that he hangs on until the next GE,when Nu-Liebor are smashed,will he take the whole of his cabinet to the HOL?Perhaps Cameron could put in his manifesto that he would stop any more politicians going to the upper house for at least two years.I don’t think I could bear Baroness Harperson or Baroness Cooper-Balls.

      • 244
        MB says:

        It was a stupid statement for someone to make when they know that someone will have to take over the top job in the next 12 months or so, possibly including himself. Unless Broon is going to dispense with elections and make himself Prime Minister for life?

        • 296
          Doris in a Morris says:

          The EU Constitreaty will ensure that – once the Irish come up with the right answer, of course.
          Lady Mangelbum of Gravy Train refers to it as ‘the post-democray era’. He’s the 2@ we should all be gunning for.
          NuLabour – closing the gap between the haves and have yachts.

    • 69
      perpetually disappointed says:

      if only ….

    • 96

      Bet you fifty quid he won’t. As I keep saying, Gordon’s safe now. He can stay PM for as long as he wants, and we all heard him say he’s not going to walk away..

    • 151
      Dick says:

      You are Nadine Dorries and you can keep your fiver.

    • 157
      Tin Cunliffe says:

      Paddy Power disagrees with you

    • 182
      Bordeaux Binger says:

      If he does I’ll open the last bottle of ’68 Pomerol – and I won’t be sharing it so don’t ask.

  8. 8
    Doctor Mick says:

    Presumably there must be footsoldiers in the BBC ready to undertake the exposure threats on instructions from the Bunker.

  9. 9
    Scorched Earth says:

    “being put about by Nick Brown, chief whip and Gordon’s enforcer, is exposure of expense misdemeanours in a career ending manner if you are disloyal.”

    Entirely as expected and predicted but no less despicable for it.

    • 45
      Cardinal Richelieu's mole says:

      And of course Nick Brown himself is immune from the expenses scandal – having literally eaten the evidence, all £18,000 worth was it?

      (Obviously the taxpayer shoudl fund Nick Borwn’s second stomach, becasue it is the right thing to do.)

    • 63
      Harpic says:

      Which means that Gordon is covering up expense misdemeanours to be able to blackmail his MPs

    • 113
      Moley says:

      Who or where is the information coming from?

      Is it being fed to them by the Telegraph in exchange for Downing Street Exclusives,(Smears and lies.)

  10. 10
    libber says:

    Charming folk aren’t they?

    • 29
      DaemonBarber says:

      It’s like a who’s-who on people you would least like to have a pint with…

      Some of the shops on Leith Walk in Edinburgh have put photos of Brow on their doors with “Barred” in big red letters underneath.

  11. 11
    roygbiv says:

    brown will literally do anything to stay in power, whether that is the flat denial that the ship is sinking or doctoring by-election results (glenrothes for one) to ensure he’s still there and his “authority”, such as it it, remains intact.

    ambition and drive is one thing, megalomania is quite another.

    i just wished the PLP could find a spine and get rid of this goon once and for all.

    by the sounds of it though, we will be able to spend the next 12 months enjoying the labour party self destructing.

    • 59
      Susie says:

      And by the looks of it, Leicester.

    • 62
      Shithead says:

      I heard direct from a Scottish journo that Gordon had, indeed, done some strategic ballot-box stuffing in Glenrothes, which surprises me not at all. Why, in that case, has he not done so in the recent elections? Oh, hang on a minute…………..

      • 89
        roygbiv says:

        because the SNP went looking for the rolls and found that they had “vanished”.

        there’s only so much ballot box stuffing you can do before people suspect and you are found out.

        brown losing in glenrothes was unthinkable from his point of view. if he’d lost, it would have been game over. i’d be interested to see how they poll in the next election.

        • 142
          Anonymous says:

          No doubt last night’s results were AFTER a little creative ballot box stuffing/postal fraud etc – just think what the results would have been without that?

        • 146
          Mary Hinge says:

          There are two more by-elections on the way, Gorbals Mick and that guy in Norfolk.

      • 298
        Jan says:

        I am sure that there was lots of ballot box stuffing in London and areas where Nu-Liebor did reasonably well.That is why it took so long for the results to be called.I can see it,illegal immigrants,Dolly Draper and McBride sitting in some disused underground station somewhere near The Strand/Charing Cross, aided and abetted by Lord GLC-ILEA-Looneylefty-babies and lesbians-against-the-bomb of Tulse Hill.They’ve been scribbling away for weeks.

    • 122
      Capt'n Gordon says:

      I can categorically state that the ship is not sinking! The water around us may be rising, but we are not sinking!

      • 148
        Bisto Express says:

        “Raise the Titanic? It would be cheaper to lower the Atlantic” as Lou grade once said.

  12. 12
    Chapps says:

    If Broon does not go then its out on the streets, to make him go.
    Please can we all get together to get rid of this shit goverment.

    • 24
      You'd be surprised if you knew who I am too. says:

      I’ll bring some piano wire, you choose the lamp-post.

      • 203
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        We live in a participative democracy. Let Gordon choose the lamp-post.

    • 95
      Just Go says:

      At last, you the people have the power to oust Gordo not the mps, if large crowds appear at Drowning Street every day, he`s gone
      Come on someone get things organised

      • 196
        Bordeaux Binger says:

        How about you?

        • 339
          tipple says:

          In my day Londoners had conjones, not these days it seems. Come on start the ball rolling & us angry provincial blighters will travel up with the reels of piano wire.

  13. 14
    Barracuda with lipstick says:

    Wasn’t it Maggie who said ” if you want to talk ask a man, if you want something done, ask a woman”?

    Sums it up very well, indeed

  14. 15
    Reds under the bed says:

    Excellent resignation letter.

    Yes, Brown’s bullying style will be his undoing. He’s made just too many enemies.

    And what an irony that his one-time worst enemy is now his best friend.

    I’m wondering if Mandleson has actually been playing a long game since his return.

    He’s the only person in government who knows how power works and he’s driven by his lust for power.

    He’s also steeped in bitterness at the way the Brown’s attack dogs ruined his beloved Tony’s decade in power by blocking all his reform plans and constantly briefing against him.

    And now he has all the reins of power in his hands, his strategy might just be to mince out of No 10 one morning and declare Brown to be unfit for high office.

    Such an act would ensure his place in the history books – and the whole country would, at last, learn to love him because Brown could not survive this.

  15. 16
    Scallywag says:

    The reality, of course, is that Mandy’s in charge.

    Snottie McTwat is way beyond making any real decisions about anything except perhaps which wall to chuck his phone at…

    • 170
      Samee says:

      Good point! – Mandlebum’s the one holding everything together. Get rid of him and the whole shambles will fall apart in days.

  16. 19
    Anonymous says:

    Forget Big Brother. Forget I’m a Celebrity.

    The death rattle coming from this Govt is the best reality TV show EVER!

  17. 21
    fatter than prescott says:

    the PM is a BULLY

    well done all the women in labour party

    PM female vote in UK is TOAST

  18. 22
    Charlie says:

    Many Labour men have caved into Brown’s bullying and therefore feel inadequate. There is a saying “One only has to show a stick to beaten dog and it will whimper “. Male Labour MPs have spent 12 years surrendering to Brown over many financial and domestic policies , even Blair caved in. For male MPs to suddenly discover a backbone is unrealistic.

    • 37
      Scallywag says:

      How true. They’re only really interested in what the gravy train provides and the longer they can make it last the better. After all most of them are out of a job come the next election, so what’s the incentive to give up the massive perks?

      Answer: None.

      Brown will stay and Many will pull all the strings.

    • 104
      Peter Grimes says:

      22 Charlie

      What do you mean, ‘feel inadequate’? Most of them are hog-whimpering queens waiting to take it!

    • 302
      Jan says:

      There are no MEN currently in the new Lie-bor party except for the ones born as wimmin.Hilary Benn,the Millipedes,Balls,McBroon,Tango Hain ughhhhhhhhhhh.They are all silly girls.

  19. 25

    It would be interesting to hear whether the Quisling Quentin Davies still thinks Gordon is “a leader I have always greatly admired, who I believe is entirely straightforward, and who has a towering record, and a clear vision for the future of our country which I fully share”

    Pillock.

  20. 26

    Good for her.

    I think it’s time to stop seeing this pattern of women speaking out as merely a curiousity – something is/has been going on that gives Broon leverage over male subordinates that he doesn’t seem to have over female ones. The McBride affair showed that blackmail and smears are Brown’s stock in trade – I think that’s all he ever has been. We see no great intellect, no political genius. So how did he get where he is? How is he staying there?

    This is dirty. There is something rotten in Downing Street.

  21. 27
    Essex man says:

    He’s been taking lessons fron his old mucker Mugabe. Mugabe allowed all his henchmen to get their noses in the trough and beyond and now he has the evidence on them to keep them in line.

  22. 28
    Spirit of the Manse says:

    No wonder I’d never heard of her. Principles, common sense and courage have no place in a Brown cabinet.

    No doubt the smears and whispering will shortly be forthcoming as lord mendacious starts one of his slime-fuelled whispering campaigns.

  23. 30
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Nick Brown, chief whip and Gordon’s enforcer, is exposure of expense misdemeanours in a career ending manner if you are disloyal

    …and the next election with Brown at the helm won’t?

  24. 34
    Anonymous says:

    Slightly O/T, but Gorgon rallied the troops at West Ham yesterday. This morning, WHFC announce a takeover to prevent the club folding.

    The curse of the one eyed son of the manse strikes again !

  25. 36
    Anonymous says:

    I’VE BEEN SAYING ON HERE FOR AGES NOW THAT GORDON IS A LIAR AND A BULLY. CONFIRMATION OF THIS COMES FROM DIFFERENT QUARTERS EVERYDAY.

    A GREAT EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY. JUST BULLY YOUR WAY IN THE WORLD AND YOU WILL GET ON. COMBINEIT WITH LYING AND YOU’LL DO EVENBETTER.

    BULLYING LYING BROWN, LIKE MUGABE DOESN’T DO ELECTIONS.

    AT 55 YEARS OF AGE I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE THE DAY WHEN WE HAD A TOTALITARIAN AS A PRIME MINISTER WITH A POLITBUREAU TO BOOT.

    IT JUST SHOWS YOU THE UNPALATABLE LOW QUALITY OF LABOUR MP’S IN PARLIAMENT TODAY. THERE FOR THE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES.

  26. 38
    Anonymous says:

    At this stage those in the PLP who continue to support this bizarre charade are not doing themselves any favours. Those who leave now are leaving with their integrity and reputations intact.

    • 71
      Parliament of Pigfuckers says:

      Hardly, they are all tainted by having supported this grotesque excuse for a Prime Minister for so long (and before that, for letting him loose on the nation’s finances).

      Fuck them all.

  27. 39
    Spin Doctor says:

    Everyone in NeuLabour knew that Brown was a fucking bully and control freak long before he grabbed the leadership for himself. Truly hope that he and his friggin’ party lose every seat at the next General Election. And that’ll be more than they fucking well deserve!

    • 50
      Jelly and custard says:

      Didn’t Mandy say that Brown had a personality disorder? And was a Stalinist control freak? Well, he had his Stalinist rally yesterday in hackney with all his little commie friends.

      • 191
        Master Baiter says:

        Surely, you two aren’t stooping to smears are you?

        • 252
          Perry Neeham says:

          If only everyone had time to read Tom Bower’s biography of Gordon Brown there would be no need to smear the bastard, his behaviour and neuroses were set out before he took over from the War Criminal.

        • 265
          Master Baiter says:

          No you’re thinking of Winston Churchill, he in addition had a special illness contracted at child birth. He was taken out by the men in white coats, as of course was his annointed successor, Anthony Eden. The Conservitudes have form in that area, ‘We are a Grandmother’.

        • 321
          stilyagi_air_corps says:

          Nope, just the truth. Blackmail’s more your masters’ style. Good Dog! Roll Over! Now – Bark!

          Useless idiot.

  28. 47
    Jelly and custard says:

    Come on the labour Cabinet, fall on your swords. We want blood.

  29. 48

    Furious Caroline Flint branded Gordon Brown a ‘f****** b******’ as she stormed out of Government in anger at his ‘sexism’, it has been claimed.

    • 52
      Jelly and custard says:

      That’s mild compared with what I think!

    • 60
      The Admiral says:

      Ata girl!……………..

      • 109
        Peter Grimes says:

        Yeah but let’s face it, she was never ministerial quality was she?

        But then who amongst Fat Gordo’s Government of None of the Talents is?

    • 162
      Mary Hinge says:

      “Caroline Flint finally wakes up and smells the coffee.”

      • 335
        Spineless Admirer at The Observer says:

        Coffee wakes up and finally smells the Caroline Flint.

  30. 51
    Master Baiter says:

    But when are people going to mention the real story of the day? That the Conservatives failed completely. There is talk of a coup to oust Call Me Dave after his dismal showing.

    • 53
      Jelly and custard says:

      Poor old Master Baiter, a real leftie in disguise. Are you upset that your little bumchums got thrashed?

    • 61
      DaemonBarber says:

      Oh right, I missed that one…

      So what do you call Labour gaining votes from only 6% of the nation then?
      I guess that’s a towering success then.

      • 68
        Master Baiter says:

        It is an excellent platform for recovery. Gordon won’t resign because he knows, as you all do, that he is the only man for the job.

        • 88
          DaemonBarber says:

          I think you mean “jobbie”

        • 93
          Deranged Tartan Cyclops says:

          We are having a Kool-Aid party in the bunker tonight. I want you there, Baity dear – all my children gathered together for one final moment – they’ll never take us alive!

          The British people have failed me… only you recognise my genius. You will stay with me, won’t you?

        • 115
          artboyusa says:

          Yes, and he’s going to stay on and do the job he was elected to do (oh. well, never mind) until the last nail has been bitten, the last Nokia has been hurled, the last bogey has been excavated and consumed and the last bottle of shampoo has been been left, ignored, on the shelf. As Gordon stood fidgeting on the platform at Saturday’s ceremonies in Normandy, recalling in his own mumbling way, the sacrifices offered on the bloody sands of Obamah Beach and in the war torn jungles of Yoko Ono, the contrast between a generation ready to give up its lives for this country and himself, who won’t even give up his job, would have been painfully, achingly obvious to everyone except the one eyed, unelected, unhygeinic, bullying, bumbling, Autism Spectrum diagnosed coward who is our Prime Minister (but not for long!)

        • 155
          JMT says:

          Is the real MB, or another spoof?

          My boss is getting suspicious because I keep bursting out into fits of uncontrolled giggling.

        • 202
          George Osborne says:

          ‘Ere stop messin’ abaahht!

        • 205
          none will be saved! says:

          i thinks he is albert speer ‘ master builder’ he just cannot speel!!!!.

        • 232
          Frank says:

          Gordon has a very secure position, certainly more secure than all the other party leaders.

          If Gordon goes they ALL lose their jobs. Down the plughole in one go and they all know it.

          Gordon fights from a position of great strength and is completely inviolable. NOBODY and NOTHING can touch the little shit, so I guess we have him and MB for a while longer

    • 66
      roygbiv says:

      one of the real stories of the day is how the SNP vote increased by 10% and left scottish labour back in 2nd. by a long way.

      the BBC aren’t really crowing about it, as you might expect, leaving Salmond to proclaim the result as historic.

      tories winning in wales was “historic”, the level of Labour’s defeat across the UK was historic, according to the BBC. Seems like they can’t really stomach admitting that the defeat of Labour in Scotland by the SNP was historic.

      • 97
        Magog says:

        Labour have been a busted flush in Wales for quite a while. This is the first opportunity the populace has had to express that fact.

        The older Welsh Labour supporters (the ones that would have voted for a Donkey with a red rosette) have been steadily dying off, leaving a younger generation who are utterly disenfranchised, with limited prospects and often jobless.

        These people know full well that Labour have done fuck all in Wales except line their own pockets for generations. Welsh Labour politics has done nothing but breed entire dynasties of nepotistic troughers.

        The return of that orange-faced cnut Hain was the final kick in the teeth.

      • 104
        Spirit of the Manse says:

        True, but they’re doing their level best to say that the Tories’ showing was ‘disappointing’ – even though they won in Wales for the first time since 1918!!
        Not to mention going on and on about the (alleged) homophobia of the Tories’ czech allies. They can’t let that one lie either.
        Nor are they highlighting that the two biggest vote-getters, UKIP and the Tories, are eurosceptic parties and that (once again) the electorate has shown its disdain for the Brussels project. They don’t want to upset the beeboid/libdem/liebour liberal europhile consensus.

        The best thing to do when you can’t win the argument? Demonise, misrepresent, ignore.

        • 124
          Deranged Tartan Cyclops says:

          The Huhnes are remarkably disinterested in the fact that ZaNuLab are sitting in their grouping with actual fucking Communists from the Eastern European countries – quislings who terrorised their own countrymen on behalf of the Soviet Empire for decades. And remember that, since Stalin, the leadership caste of all these beastly regimes routinely served an ‘apprenticeship’ with the state security apparatus before being considered sufficiently trustworthy for high political office.

    • 308
      Jan says:

      Hahahahahaha ‘dismal showing’ hahahahahahahaha.’Conservatives failed completely’ hahahahahahaha

    • 325
      stilyagi_air_corps says:

      What exactly *do* you want from life, Baiter? I’m sure that, whatever it is, you’ll find more of it in Cuba… four-hour televised rants from the Maximum Leader every night, government-provided Che posters for your wall, and the cheapest child prostitutes going.

      And, please, stop the ‘put upon prole’ act, it doesn’t suit you: I can smell the stale, studenty aroma of middle-class failure and jealousy from here.

  31. 54
    Bristol Bob says:

    Unfortunatley Labour are a party of cowards. First Brown hypes up an election and then bottles out of calling it. Then the pretenders to the throne make noises about leadership contents but ultimatley fail to stand up and be counted.

    There are a few excpetions like James Purnell but the majority just don’t have what it takes and they are failing in their duty to the country.

  32. 56
    The Cleveland Steamer says:

    Good advice from ACAS

    Everyone should be treated with dignity and respect at work. Bullying and harassment of any kind are in no-one’s interest and should not be tolerated in the workplace, but if you are being bullied or harassed it can be difficult to know what to do about it.

    Examples of bullying/harassing behaviour include:

    spreading malicious rumours, or insulting someone by word or behaviour (particularly on the grounds of age, race, sex, disability, sexual orientation and religion or belief)

    copying memos that are critical about someone to others who do not need to know
    ridiculing or demeaning someone – picking on them or setting them up to fail
    exclusion or victimisation

    unfair treatment

    overbearing supervision or other misuse of power or position

    unwelcome sexual advances – touching, standing too close, the display of offensive materials, asking for sexual favours, making decisions on the basis of sexual advances being accepted or rejected

    making threats or comments about job security without foundation
    deliberately undermining a competent worker by overloading and constant criticism

    preventing individuals progressing by intentionally blocking promotion or training opportunities.

    Bullying and harassment are not necessarily face to face. They may also occur in written communications, email, phone, and automatic supervision methods such as computer recording of downtime from work or the number of calls handled if these are not applied to all workers.

    Bullying and harassment make someone feel anxious and humiliated. Feelings of anger and frustration at being unable to cope may be triggered. Some people may try to retaliate in some way. Others may become frightened and demotivated. Stress, loss of self-confidence and self-esteem caused by harassment or bullying can lead to job insecurity, illness, absence from work, and even resignation. Almost always job performance is affected and relations in the workplace suffer.

  33. 57

    Brown is as secure as he has ever been and is getting on with the job that the people want him to do. The people do not want him to abandon them in their hour of need. The people lean towards him in tear-stained supplication.

    I have seen the way the game will play out because I invented Cellular Shapeshift (TM) that animated Rorthron the Moonwraith.

    From my eyrie I watch events unfold and the subtle shadows of bamboo on bamboo.

    By the light of the silvery moon, Cameron hung the monkey.

    Zen bufti boys do the mango tango (2009) TM

  34. 58
    D L George says:

    Peter Hain on Beeb repeating the No10 line.

    “The results show people are unhappy with the expenses scandal and they want us to carry on with the economy”.???

    What part of…
    3rd in Euro elections
    loss of 330 seats at local elections
    All other parties UNAFFECTED… Dont they get?

    • 82
      Hugh Jardon says:

      yeh..but he’s a cuunt though!

    • 118
      Spirit of the Manse says:

      Oh, let them carry on in their delusional repetition of patent bollocks. It’ll only make their ultimate defeat all the greater.

      From the Little Red Liebore book of P.R.:

      ‘We are listening to the public’ = ‘LALALALALAALALALALA CAN’T HEAR YOU ‘
      ‘We are doing what the public want’ = ‘The public hate us and want an election, so we’re going to carry on for as long as possible just to spite the fuckers’

      Only a liebore politician would say that he/she/it is listening to the public and then proceed to tell the public what it wants contrary to all evidence.

    • 152
      Simon R says:

      you missed a word out, “….and they want us to carry on fucking with the economy”

  35. 64
    Cjamesk says:

    Men of England, stop your sleeping!
    Can’t you hear your Country weeping?
    Restore our glory and our fame,
    End our chaos and our shame!

    Question is when it comes to the crunch who has the balls…….

    • 117
      RobC says:

      The answer to that one is obvious – the Labour girls who have resigned have far more balls than all of the male cabinet eunuchs put together who are currently supporting the grotesque bleeder.

    • 217
      CCL says:

      It would nobody, including the girls, consistant stories coming forth, but still no killer punch.

  36. 65
    Miggles says:

    If everyone at the meeting tonight has the courage to do what Jane Kennedy has done, speak out about what’s going on and sign to get Gordon out, they would be respected far more (probably keep their seats next time); would save the Country months of misery being governed by an unelected leader whose strings are being pulled by an unelected Mendleson, propped up by other unelected Peers acting as Ministers, etc. and end this farce which is making us the laughing stock of the world.

    By the way Guido, if I hear one more idiotic labour MP say ‘what the people want……………………………………..’ when it is NOT what the people want, they are still not listening, I think I shall go mad! Let us have an election and we can tell Gordon ourselves ‘what the people want…..’

    Also have just heard Kate Hoey again on the television, I think she would make a great leader of the Labout Party (in fact I wish she was a Tory)

    • 116
      View Halloo says:

      She IS a Tory, she and Baroness Mallalieu (crazy name, crazy lady) are the best Tory ladies around.

    • 173
      LadyGrecian says:

      Agree about Kate Hoey. Haven’t always gone along with her in the past but she is the only MP I have heard speaking about the expenses scandal who “gets” it.

      On Newsnight she immediately contrasted the greed and injustice of MPs’ behaviour with taxpayers money to how her constituents have to live. She gave a practical example, comparing some poor sod who applied to a Social Fund for a bed and was supplied with a base but no mattress (!) to the MP who claimed almost £900 for a mattress.

      Anyway I’m off to explain to my 73-yr old father why his life savings are now earning a princely 0.1% – thanks Gordon.

  37. 67
    kevin says:

    if 30/40 labour mp’s resigned and forced by elections(or threatened to)it would all be over.if he’s so bad and there so hard done by and they have gotan an swer why don’t they just go

    • 81
      D L George says:

      It’s called ‘Lackus da bacbonus’. It’s a desease peculiar to Labour backbenchers.

  38. 72
    Sir Michael Shite's rent boy says:

    Check our Radio 5 right now. They are in FULL defend Gordon Brown mode. Not one dissenting voice is allowed, no Tories no nothing.

    • 125
      Andy Carpark says:

      They’re all qunts at the BBC.

      On the day that redundancies at the BBC were announced, the World at One allotted 23 of its 26 minutes to redundancies at the BBC.

      Furq thee BBC.

    • 165
      Moley says:

      The BBC have understood that they can break their charter, tear up the legally binding agreement which makes it statutory and no one has the power to stop them.

      There has been a coup and the Radio Station has taken over the Government.

  39. 76
    Groucho says:

    I hope Brown stays. Not a day goes by without more of his lies being exposed and just when you think you have seen every bad side of this deeply unpleasant man’s character, he reveals another. If he keeps on alienating the electorate in the current way, this will result in the total annihilation of his party come election time.

    Brown and every one of his supporters deserve nothing less. Brown because he is an obnoxious, dishonest, arrogant, nasty, spiteful control freak whose ego prevents him from taking advice from anyone. His supporters – because they stood by, looking after their cushy little jobs, spinelessly doing nothing about this awful man whilst they could see the havoc he was wreaking.

    • 169
      Simon R says:

      I have bought a prayer mat and am prostrate, pleading for McTwat’s health. It’s so funny to see him being boiled alive, and the Zanew Labour Party going down the toilet with it.

      Perhaps the fuckwits who vote Labour now realise that even though their retarded family have voted Labour for generations, they’re STILL living in a cave on benefits…and their party haven’t actually helped at all…

  40. 78
    Plato says:

    Mr Fawkes – she also said on Sky that Gordon and his gang were like Liverpool’s Militant Tendency in their bullying and smearing modus operandi

    Now if ever there was a damning comparison – shurely that is it.

    No wonder Jane Kennedy is so appalled – its her own side that is doing it again – only this time it’s their leadership.

    All I can now think of is Kinnock’s speech and Derek Hatton acting like a teenager.

  41. 80
    The Dork Prince of Dorkness, The Notional Controller, referring to his glove puppet says:



    No – but isn’t that the ultimate irony though?

    I control the Control Freak!

    Especially when I have my arm up his arse

    Good . . . eh?!

  42. 85
    fatter than prescott says:

    nah–labour MPs want there gold pensions

  43. 87
    Rt Hoon Nick Crapslapper Brown MP Chief Whip says:

    Oath of loyalty to the Fuhrer to be sworn at backbenchers meeting tonight.

    I swear by Prime Mentalist this sacred oath that I shall render unconditional obedience to Right Hoon Gordo Broon, the Fuhrer of the English Reich and people( except women), supreme commander of the PLP, and that I shall at all times be ready, as an unthinking lily livered lobby fodder, to give up my reputation ( and if a woman MP flash my tits, on demand )for this oath .

    • 104
      English Liberation Front says:

      “When der fuehrer says we is de master race We heil heil right in der fueher’s face Not to love der fuehrer is a great disgrace So we heil heil right in der fuehrer’s face!”

      Pass it on.

  44. 91
    Anti-sophist says:

    I have just seen Hain on BBC news. I want to vomit. The man is completely shameless – since when has people voting for another party or failing to vote at all sent a message that they really want you to coninue in power? Somehow the expenses debacle is now used as a justification for them staying – its only because we troughed like pigs in shit that people decided not to vote for us and we owe it to the people of Britain not to let them run any risk of electing a Tory government who would cut spending.

    • 107
      English Liberation Front says:

      Nazis

    • 209
      LadyGrecian says:

      A sort of “Silence means consent” interpretation? Scary….

    • 272
      Perry Neeham says:

      I would have thought that after the results in Wales Hain would want to keep his head down. Oh no, he’s a teflon Hoon like, er, well Hoon actually.

    • 315
      Doris in a Morris says:

      Ask permatan Hain where the unaccounted for £103,000 went to.

    • 340
      tipple says:

      Hain needs 72 hours on a sunbed set a max until he shrivels like a prune. I’ll smear the pig fat on him if I can look away from his putrid torso.

  45. 94
    Ratsniffer says:

    Come on PLP show you have some balls. Tell the crazed, twitching one eyed snot gobbling bully to F.R.O. Look at what he has done to your party – even during your halcyon days of smiling Tony, Snotty was there in the background, bullying, jibing, and browbeating like some Dickensian misanthrope.

    He poisoned any attempts at genuine reform. Everyone knows he was behind the blocking of Frank Field’s plans to reform welfare payments – which would have been a sure fire vote winner if ever there was one. Stop this crap about people on the doorsteps saying they like him. They can’t stand him, he’s national, and now international laughing stock.

    Do yourselves, and the country, a favour. Get rid of him…and do it soon.

    So what if there’s a general election and most labour MPs lose their seats? Think of it as a noble sacrifice, you’ll only be out of office for a few decades…not so bad is it?

    • 133
      D L George says:

      There’s two certainties here.

      1) Get rid of McDoom immediately, replace with a candidate who calls an election with a brand new and VERY sensible mandate… They could do quite well, certainly better than they’ve been doing in the local and euro’s.

      2) Keep McDoom and carry on. When an election is called it will absolutely guarantee OBLIVION.

  46. 99
    English Liberation Front says:

    “When der fuehrer says we is de master race We heil heil right in der fueher’s face Not to love der fuehrer is a great disgrace So we heil heil right in der fuehrer’s face!”

  47. 102
    Spin Doctor says:

    Brown will bribe the PLP tonight into silence by offering to delay part-privatisation of the Royal Mail until after a 2010 General Election.

    • 189
      Blooper says:

      These labour MP’s are spineless and demented

      They seem to think that rather than getting rid of Brown, they can control him on a policy by policy fashion, thus ‘renewing’ the party left-wise

      Brown will throw them fresh meat when he’s weak, an Iraq policy, kick the Royal Mail privatisation into the long grass, then once he’s cemented his position again, he’ll screw them over again

  48. 110
    Archullus says:

    So he’s wrecked the economy,
    tarnished and smeared his way through westminster
    paved the way for fringe one-issue parties
    What do we have for an encore?
    Wait, I can just about hear it:
    Dead-end Gordon’s claim to fame (you know the song):

    I won
    It fair and square
    Got rid of To-
    -ny Blair the right way

    I span
    I smeared and spent
    The public purse
    It was a fine way

    I lost
    In the EU
    Oh yes it’s true
    It was a right fray

    It helped
    The BNP
    And it was done
    Myyyy wayyyy

    with sincere apologies to old blue-eyes

  49. 111
    Bisto Express says:

    > Why is it only Labour’s women who have the balls to stand up to him?

    And why has it taken them twelve years to find those balls?

  50. 112
    Keith Vaz says:

    What is that crooked c.u.n.t. Sadiq Khan MP doing back on our screens?

  51. 119
    What is the straw that will break Brown's back? says:

    So now another insider has confirmed it;

    Brown is a coward
    Brown is a bully
    Brown hates anyone who is not a “yes man/woman” (obviously far more cowardly YES MEN in the shit’s cabinet)
    Brown smears anyone against him
    Brown is unable to accept anyone with an argument against his own point of view
    Brown is a liar
    Brown is booed by his own countrymen and war veteran’s

    What is it that Brown has do next for his cronies to say;

    “Ah,Gordon THAT is unacceptable”

    Perhaps preside over the election of two thugs in the unmentionable party for the first time ever?

    Perhaps preside over the loss of 300+ councillors in local elections?

    Or what about the 2nd place in Wales for the first time ever?

    Or the loss to the SNP for the first time EVER?

    Or the 3rd place to UKIP in the Euro elections?

    WHAT IS THE THING HE HAS TO DO FOR THEM TO CHUCK HIM OUT?

    • 200
      Blooper says:

      A far as Labour are concerned, the Son Of The Manse could be caught with the proverbial dead girl and live boy in his bed, and still stay to “get on with the job”

  52. 121
    Cassandra says:

    Guido asks, “Why is it only Labour’s women who have the balls to stand up to him?”

    ‘Cos Labour’s women realiszed long ago that Gordon was keeping the old glass ceiling in place for all but a few tame and token ‘Babes.’

  53. 123
    Simon R says:

    If I were a Blairite (I fcking hate Blair) then I’d happily suspect that Mandelson’s game plan all along is actually to ensure Winky McBroon’s extremely slow death as a payback for all the shit he gave Blair since 94. If that’s the case then we’ll de-peer and shoot him last.

    A lot of water has passed under the bridge since Mandy and Broon were caught in the Commons showers together…

  54. 126
    Phil Mill says:

    This is why no one will stand up as a candidate, because they know that Gordon Brown and Wormtongue Mandelson will unleash their thugs along with all the bullying, smearing and vicious attacks. That’s why Mandelson says in interviews that the only thing to trigger a serious challenge to Gordon Brown’s leadership would be a candidate standing up against him. He knows that he has enough dirt to dish on all the key people, and he’s made sure the key people are in doubt about it.

    Peter Mandelson is the poison coursing through the veins of the party. Disgraced repeatedly, suspiciously and wrongly returned to positions of authority time and again. It is only the violence of which he is capable that can explain the pusillanimous behaviour of his many political rivals.

    No one elected Mandelson and yet he is now the most powerful member of a cabinet that includes six other non-MPs. To see Gordon Brown having to dance to the macabre tune of this lying manipulative bully is a depressing sight for anyone who cares about the Labour party or the country.

    For the sake of democracy Mandelson has to go, along with his stubborn but impotent “boss” Gordon Brown.

    • 174
      Throbber says:

      I couldn’t give a shit about the Labour party.
      I wish them nothing but pestilence.
      “…. anyone who cares about the Labour country” for fucks sake…… Huhne.
      Typical too that you fuckwits put the Labour party before the country.
      Cocksucking pissbags the lot of you.

  55. 127
    Odds Bodkins says:

    I never knew Nick Brown was gay…

  56. 131
    irished says:

    Now that McBottler has Mandy behind him he’s well f****d! Literally, politically and mentally, it’s like watching Stalin being shafted by Rasputin not that that ever happened but use your imagination, actually no don’t it’s too awful a sight.
    Who would have though we would see the day when an unelected PM is being kept in power by an unelected disgraced spin merchant appointed by none other than the nutjob in charge (or at least he thinks he is). The whole sorry mess is laughable if it weren’t for the fact that the country is in dire straits and the useless tossers who are supposed to be running the place are so focused on clinging to power that they will bully, threaten and blackmail their own colleagues rather than do the decent thing and go! The country has spoken and as usual ZaNuLab ain’t listening! What have we got to do to make these greedy f*****s get the message that we want rid of them? Mandelson is like one of those parasitic larvae that attach themselves to another insect and then slowly take over them until they are dead as a dodo. Brown is finished and so are the ‘party’. Mandelson is reviled by most ordinary Brits. How has this creep managed to end up running the country because that’s who is in charge now!

  57. 132
    Max says:

    What on earth are they scared of in terms of the McMafia going public on their expenses; surely the Telegraph have done the job already?

    What about that MP who was for 10 years entitled to a grace and favour residence yet instead claimed for a Westminster flat? A flat that was purchased allegedly at “under value” from the administrators of a former Robert Maxwell business, assisted maybe by the involvement of Geoffrey Robinson.

    A flat purchased for £130,000 but said to be worth £700,000 by the time it was in 2007 transferred to the MP’s wife (who promptly remortgaged it to cash in on some of the value). Maybe the new Ikea kitchen helped (£9000 but the bill split in two so it came out over two financial years); thanks taxpayers!

    The couple then moved into a further grace and favour residence but guess what? Yes, so they could continue to claim on expenses they flipped the second home allocation from the Westminster flat to their constituency home.

    This one got off very light; I wonder who he is and why the other MP’s are so worried?

    • 259

      Ah, I think you refer to James Gordon Brown, who was merely following his moral compass….

      The Penguin

      • 327
        Max says:

        Correct, the same moral compass that suggested it was ok to attend a party proffering only a carrier bag filled with empty beercans and a couple of bricks.

        As always those shouting the loudest about their superior morals are usually the ones without any.

      • 336
        Norm Won Jade's Borg says:

        Its true!
        Its true!

  58. 134
    Anonymous says:

    I bet you anything that Mandelson is indeed playing a long game….and how he must be enjoying it!

    • 314
      Cardinal Richelieu's mole says:

      Agreed!

      And if Brown falls now (in contrast to last week), where oh where is he, the next most senior member of the Government, the deputy PM who can step in to save the nation?

  59. 135
    Anonymous says:

    Why is it only Labour’s women who have the balls to stand up to him?

    How many of Brown’s cabinet and advisors are gay….and why is this being kept out of the news?

    • 278
      Steve the Hammer says:

      The orientation is in itself not relevant – unless of course any of them did indeed shag each other and there’s blackmailing going on……………….!!?

  60. 136
    Exiled In Wales says:

    Isn’t it time for a serious discussion about an English Parliament?

    Time to to dump the Barnett formula that subsidises the economically inactive (aka bureaucratic, wasteful, carping) Celtic Countries?

    Time for English people of all colours and beliefs to clean-up English politics?

    • 143
      roygbiv says:

      any time England wants to walk away from the Union would be absolutely perfect from my point of view. how about you get enough people voting for it first before whinging about it? oh hang on… you need us.

      • 153
        Exiled In Wales says:

        roygbiv

        Please complete the following sentence.

        I need you for …

        • 159
          roygbiv says:

          those excellent Prime Ministers you give us. ;-)

        • 193
          Exiled In Wales says:

          roybgiv

          We vote on questions, and the question has not yet been put.

          The Celtic Countries are debtor nations, entirely dependent on revenue from England and the EU. Without handouts, they would cease to exist economically.

          The sooner England gets rid of these economic deadweights, the better.

        • 211
          Rick the Roman says:

          spending most of our taxes

        • 224
          Rick the Roman says:

          Exiled in Wales – I completely agree with you. I applaud Alex Salmond and the SNP – all power to their elbow – most true Englishmen agree that Sctoland should be independent and fend for itself without tax handouts from England. They can keep all their so-called politicians as well north of the border – this present Scottish lot have really screwed the country up. They are so thick that they have even selected a Scottish candidtate for Norwish North – to replace another has been Scot. I apologise to all my Scottish friends – I really like your country and your hospitality – it is second to none – but your politicians make me want you to have independence.

        • 242
          Onan the Rotarian says:

          The water, you daft Saxon twat. In 50 years time Wales and Scotland will be like Saudi, rationing and auctioning their water supplies to the wrecked infrastructure of England, unable to supply itself and its fetid cities.

          Scuse me, I feel a bit faint, must head off and get that valium down me.

        • 268
          roygbiv says:

          an interesting, if slightly shrill response there from Rick the Roman.

          Do you think it is reasonable for people of English origin to be banned from standing for parliament in Scotland and vice versa? Funnily enough, Darling was born in London, there are several members of the SNP government born in England as well. You cannot bar people from standing in elections because they are not English/Scottish or anything like that.

          There is nationalism with a small n and there is bigotry. Which view is yours?

        • 292
          Water water everywhere... says:

          We have plenty of water in the lake district and if that runs out we are surrounded by water. Just build desalination plants around the coast

        • 311
          Exiled In Wales says:

          The issue of an English Parliament is the elephant-in-the room, and much of the resentment expressed in this blog is about just that.

          Even in the teeth of the recession it’s still the case that the Square Mile generates 18-20% of GDP. And the basket-case Celtic economies spent it through the Barnett Formula.

          Anyone who thinks I’m exaggerating when I suggest that Wales is a basket-case economy should read Prof Dylan Jones-Evans Director of Research and Innovation at the University of Wales. He’s horrified at what WAG are doing to his country.

          We should stop funding these countries right now. Let’s have ecomonic cooperation, but no more that.

        • 312
          Exiled In Wales says:

          On the issue of water – England should save more, we have lots of valleys to dam, and use less. To put it crudely, why am I shitting into perfectly good drinking water?

    • 275
      Anonymous says:

      Make sure you get ALL the oil out first, will ya ?
      You know the stuff that kept UK head above economic disaster for decades.
      Might be some left in there yet.
      5 million could have made it last for a century, but 60M has used it up now.

      • 316
        Jan says:

        If it wasn’t for the Yanks there would be no oil.They were the ones who did all the hard work and the Scots just sat back and said ‘oooooh it’s our oil’.But it’s not.The Scots did not put their hands in their pockets (do they ever?) and pay for the exploration and production. Don’t want any Scots telling me I don’t know what I am talking about.I worked in that industry for nearly 30 years.

  61. 140
    Anonymous says:

    Those who attend the PLP meeting tonight had better listen out for any muttered references to ‘Hummingbird’. This was the codeword used to initiate the ‘Night of the Long Knives’

    • 310
      David's Turkey says:

      The codewords used by the assassins of Caesar were “just fucking kill the bastard” if I recall correctly.

  62. 144
    Boy Wonder Cooper - that frown does it for me says:

    One of the faces I HATE to see on the TV is the Boy Wonder Cooper’s;

    She gives this pained frown as if to say;

    “Look Mr X,it is really painful for me to totally fuck you all,believe me it is very hard to do,but we have to do it for the better of myself and Adolf – so let us screw you and it will be for the better and you have my word on it.Now stop wasting my time complaining about us,for we are the blessed ones and you are the fucked ones…”

    • 166
      Voyeur says:

      I can’t help thinking of that Downfall joke when I see her: Someone put a vagina on his head and fuck some sense into him.

  63. 150
    Anonymous says:

    i think gordon is a pretty cool guy. eh makes them an offer they can’t refuse and doesnt afraid of anything.

  64. 156
    Martin says:

    Another junior minister that I have never heard of resigns-probably to get herself on the tele for a few minutes of fame. The contempt of politicians pioneered by the UK is spreading. Apparently despite the fact that voting is compulsary in Greece, half of the population spent polling day on the beach. Good for them. I didn’t vote for the simple reason that my postal vote didn’t arrive. They can’t even do that simple job properly. Perhaps that explains why the turnout was down.

    • 172
      Max says:

      Martin, rest assured your postal vote arrived fine at your “new address” and was completed and despatched, all as planned…

      • 282
        Anonymous says:

        My brother in law applied for a postal vote well within the deadline and his never arrived either……

    • 178
      Spolvil says:

      It was probably snaffled up and used elsewhere…

  65. 158
    Voyeur says:

    Is it just me that is embarrassed to be watching this spectacle, or does anyone else have the same sense of voyeuristic queasiness?

    • 200
      Anonymous says:

      not in the slightest – I am masturbating furiously……..

    • 245
      Schadenfreude says:

      A very large number of people are enjoying every microsecond of this slow-motion traincrash.

      Apart from the fact that the economy is totally screwed, pensions have been trashed, low interest rates mean that investment income is worthless and inflation is going to be rampant.

      Hmm, I need some more meths…

  66. 163
    Anonymous says:

    broon is from jockland, if you had been watching, what else did you expect. !!! broon is merely replicating the way labour operates in jockland, sneering, smearing, blaming everyone else for their incompetence and not giving a toss about what anyone wants.!!!!!!!!!!!
    FFS they have reduced the life span of people in west central jockland to less than that of people in the gazza strip.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    start looking at where these fu&ers come from, have a look at their trak record and be afraid .!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 258
      Master Baiter says:

      Yes it’s better to have a clique of politicians who all went to the same single sex school and avoid the break up of family estates by marrying their first cousins.
      In other words the front bench of the Conservitude Party.

      • 266

        How you must be desperate for an election, young Baiter, so that you can go and get a proper McJob.

        The Penguin

        • 274
          Master Baiter says:

          According to other commenters on this site you are a racist and a fascist, is that true?

      • 324
        Jan says:

        ‘went to the same single sex schools…marrying their first cousins’ sounds like the Muslim world.Talking of whom…… it is their great leader’s anniversary today.Happy Birthday M.

      • 328
        stilyagi_air_corps says:

        Face it, Baiter, you’re only jealous. Something tells me *you* went to a single-sex school yourself, anyway. And were severely disliked there!

  67. 171
    Paul J says:

    It would be good if someone could organise a “General Election Now” protest march in London and other cities. After the drubbing Labour got last week and the total collapse of government discipline, they still don’t get the message.

    A million people marching on Downing Street might get through to them.

    • 285
      Perry Neeham says:

      …or at least sign the ‘Gordon must resign’ petition on the No 10 site.

  68. 176
    Anonymous says:

    It’s a very sad state of affairs that we can even allow a dictator to get to the most powerful role in Britain (well, second most powerful behind Mandy).

    So what are Brown’s “values” that he rattles on about?

    That conference yesterday was enough to make anyone vomit.

    For those who missed Brown blessing West Ham with his (anti) Midas Touch,
    he rattled on about:

    Some poor woman who had cancer and had come through it and then thanked the labour party for saving her life

    Then some woman who had learned to write and written her first letter to Gorgon thanking him for her education

    It was the most nauseating broadcast I have ever seen.

    So, my interpretation of his “values” that I have observed recently.

    1) Lying – The reshuffle conference exposed the lying about Darling
    2) “Thieving” – In quotes as it was within the rules, but McDoom was not averse to filling his boots at my expense
    3) Exploitation of those less fortunate – SuBo? Come on WTF is a PM doing phoning up Simon Cowell?
    4) Exploitation of his family – Sone of the Manse and all that crock
    5) Petty bullying – Jane Kennedy anyone?

    …..I could go on, but do I want someone with those values leading my country?

    I know everyone is up in arms about the party that noone talks about, and whilst I think they are a bunch of thugs themselves, they may have inadvertently done the country a big favour.

    If that is what it takes to get the government to listen to the people and appoint leaders of substance, then I think it’s a price worth paying in the interim. They can be sorted out once we have a fair democracy back in this country.

    • 309
      Smacks of Firm Government says:

      Hands up all those who don’t think Brown hasn’t already called Simon Cowell and offered him a job/peerage/seat in the cabinet?

  69. 181

    Hain’s been on the Jeremy Vine show, blethering away like only that hoon can about likely Tory cuts when the Badger’s last Budget has massive spending cuts tucked away in the small print.

    Kennedy’s resignation lays the blame for Smeargate directly on Brown.

    This is great, and we should all give thanks to that scruffy fuckwit Draper- from “”I’m rich and a bit of a wanker; who cares; you can still be that and be Labour” to in all likelihood “I’m skint, living off t’missus, in terminal fucking disgrace and still a bit of a wanker”.

    Brilliant, Derek, just brilliant.

  70. 183
    D L George says:

    Anyone have any news on this promise by Salmond to call a dissolution of parliament on Wednesday? How many mp’s are likely to back it? How many are needed?

    Surely the tories and the Libdems would back it. If that’s enough, then tonight’s possible attempt by the PLP to oust Brown may be last chance New Labour have of any hope of survival.

    If I’m wrong can someone tell me why?

    • 261
      Anonymous says:

      Labour will claim “democracy” if it suits them.
      If the PLP back Brown – independent if a sizeable majority vote to change leader – then that minority will almost certainly vote with the govt and labour whips against the motion. The PLP will claim a democratic vote was carried to keep McMental.

      That block vote will beat all other parties as its a working majority, so the motion will be defeated on Wed unless masses of Labour MPs abstain. That’s unlikely.

  71. 186
    Andy Q says:

    Things are going well now – no resignations for nearly 2 hours !!

    • 251
      Shithead says:

      Worrabout me? Don’t I count? For I am Frank Field himself! Well, almost.

  72. 198
    Bisto Express says:

    I am looking forward to Nick Griffin’s torchlit victory parade up Whitehall tonight.

    Is Leni Riefenstahl available?
     

    • 230
      Anonymous says:

      Havn’t you mistaken this for the Brown Lying Bulling Party?

      • 235
        Jane Kennedy says:

        I can’t tell the difference.

        • 280
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          There is no difference. Hitlers “enforcers” started off as the Brownshirts. gordon’s enforcers are hidden in the uniforms of the Met.

    • 256
      jgm2 says:

      Looks more like one of Blair’s Party Conferences. Or the 1997 post-elction ‘spontaneous’ ‘Thiiiiiiiiings can only get betteeeeeeer….’ parade.

      The whole Labour meeja presence is straight out of ‘Triumph of The Will’.

  73. 206
    Andy Carpark says:

    “The Brownites are attempting to terrorise Labour MPs into inaction. If they succeed then we deserve our fate.”

    http://www.frankfield.com/home

    • 218
      Steve Expat says:

      Being reported now – surely today is the day Gordon will be put out of his misery…?

    • 221
      Boris says:

      We are seeing the total breakdown of Parliamentary Democracy

      Even Labour MPs are saying it..

      The Executive blackmailing Parliament

      And people sy there is no Constitutional Crisis ?

      Along with the prostitution of the House of Lords etc

      How many more Life Peerages will New labour sell ? After Sugar?

      Their finances are in a catastophic state…

      • 254
        Mary Hinge says:

        Good point. Apparently Sugar donated a million pounds to the parteh.
        How is this not buying a peerage?

    • 222
      Anonymous says:

      this is the link

      http://www.frankfield.co.uk/

  74. 207
    Benny says:

    Why is everone surprised that femaLabour Ministers

    • 214
      Benny says:

      Why is everyone surprised that female Labour Ministers are fleeing ?

      THis is obivously a heterophobic government

      Homo gangs bangs in No 10

      Over beer and football (look at all those lovely male bodied)

      Not exactly normal people…

      To say the least…

  75. 210
    Obama Beach says:

    It’s no time for a novice!

  76. 215
    Anonymous says:

    Brown won’t go but just remember it when the time comes. He is in control for now.

  77. 223
    Agent 99 says:

    BREAKING NEWS

    Sky news just reporting that Frank Field has now openly accused Gordon Brown of “terrorising his MP’s into Loyalty”

    Wow this is really heavy shit!!!!!!

    Its all coming apart at the seams.

    • 226
      Lizzie says:

      I said that earlier today, you have to get Frank in on it.

    • 238
      Master Baiter says:

      Frank Field has been chemically lobotomised.
      Look at the eyes.

      • 248
        Ratsniffer says:

        That’s right…smear smear smear…you evil nulabour commies love it, don’t you? You’d be at home in a re-education camp, waterboarding and beating until the victim is back on message.

        • 283
          Master Baiter says:

          An Australian deep sea diver and long distance yachtsman was captured by the Khnmer Rouge, they hung him, three times.

      • 331
        stilyagi_air_corps says:

        Baiter – it only works when there is a grain of truth to the allegation, as any operator will tell you. You, on the other hand, only show yourself up by thoughtlessly slinging mud at anything your masters (owners?) dislike. You hold up a frame, but where’s the mirror? You really are pathetic!

  78. 227

    Brown Cam Live in the Bunker Gordon preparing for his next appearance in public.

  79. 229
    Master Baiter says:

    A piece in the Times points out that the Conservitudes failed to increase their share and points out that if in a General Election the Conservitudes won 39%, Labour 29% and the Limp Dumbs 20%, there would be no over all majority.

    • 286
      Steve the Hammer says:

      Delusional twat. Where do you think Labour will get 29% from, esp if McMental stays?? You’ll be creaming your pants at the thought, and that’s as far as it goes.

    • 295
      Anonymous says:

      Whistling in the dark again, Onan.

    • 332
      stilyagi_air_corps says:

      Baiter – do you actually *do* anything, except annoy your betters? I’d be interested to know. The timing of your posts over the past few months show some interesting and rather revealing patterns…

      You don’t even want to know what they’re saying about you on ‘Redwatch’.

  80. 233
    D L George says:

    Frank Field…
    http://www.frankfield.com/home

    “It is simply absurd to argue, as does No. 10, that the next leader must call an immediate general election. A new leader, when being invited by the Queen to form a government, should inform the Monarch that he or she intends to return in April of next year to call for a General Election on May 6.”

    Ok Frank, I don’t like the sound of that very much at all.

  81. 237
    Anonymous says:

    Why did Brown go to West Ham yesterday?

    Did someone mention GorgonZola….?

    Kaboom tish!

    I fank you!

  82. 240
    Shithead says:

    Frank Field … “Labour cannot win with the present Prime Minister. I was one of the seven who would not support his coronation after Tony Blair was shoehorned out of Number 10. But even I didn’t think a Brown administration would be as inept as this one.” Good on yer, Frankie boy! You’re not liked by the scum in Number 10. I can see why.

    • 249
      Be gone Gordon! says:

      Just sent my local MP an email suggesting he reads Fields article and grows a pair before tonights PLP meeting – doubt he will though – looks like he’s one of the Brown Sheep …….baaaaaaaaaa

      • 287
        Anonymous says:

        Did the same – worth a try – at least they know some voters are watching and willing the axing of this man. May swing any MP on the fence.
        I met my own MP aroun 8 months ago to tell that my family and I would never vote Labour whilst the present leadership is in place. No integrity.
        I emailed again in past few days reminding of that pledge.
        All it needs for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

  83. 241

    This didn’t take long:

  84. 253
    Anonymous says:

    Frank Field in full

    “Trust rather than trick voters

    Labour supporters claiming that the European results were not a catastrophe for the party can only do so by inventing a new meaning for the word catastrophe. Whether one looks at them on a national, regional or local level the picture is pitiful.

    The results reflect the collapse of support for the Government in the country. They also ring a clear verdict on the EU.

    Take the Wirral results, which cover four Labour Westminster constituencies. The Tories romped home with almost 21,000 votes. Labour was in a poor second place with 16,000.

    Wirral there is considerable resentment against the current EU. It may be that all of these natural voters deserted their natural party to support one of the clearer anti-European tickets, but I doubt it.

    Even so the two parties standing in the election who hold the strongest views against our present relationship with Europe far out stretched the Labour vote, and almost toppled the Tory vote.

    The BNP came in with 4,666 votes and UKIP’s vote totalled more than 13,000.

    Don’t let anyone kid themselves that this was an unimportant election where voters felt they could make a clear protest vote. Unless something changes significantly on a national level these results would be reproduced at a general election.

    Labour cannot win with the present Prime Minister. I was one of the seven who would not support his coronation after Tony Blair was shoehorned out of Number 10. But even I didn’t think a Brown administration would be as inept as this one.

    The Brownites are attempting to terrorise Labour MPs into inaction. If they succeed then we deserve our fate.

    It is simply absurd to argue, as does No. 10, that the next leader must call an immediate general election. A new leader, when being invited by the Queen to form a government, should inform the Monarch that he or she intends to return in April of next year to call for a General Election on May 6.

    The new Prime Minister would make that a part of a message brought back from the Palace.

    Similarly, the failure to deal with immigration and Europe is poisoning our political system. I have set out in the Balanced Migration campaign how we should counter positively the BNP. Similarly, we need to cut loose European politics from our domestic politics. Voters have no party to represent their worries on this score, only the BNP with their evil interests.”

    Frank did not read Gordons song sheet now did he. I bet Gordon actually wishes he could take them outside and kill them, just like the Nazis did and Stalin.

  85. 263
    Steve Expat says:

    I see that Hannan had last night’s speech written over a year ago, talking about Ken Livingston..

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/04/26/ken_livingstone_please_go_now

    Last night’s version

    The time has come.
    The time is now.
    Just go. Go. Go!
    I don’t care how.
    You can go by foot.
    You can go by cow.
    Gordon Brown will you please go now!
    You can go on skates.
    You can go on skis.
    You can go in a hat.
    But please go. Please!
    I don’t care. You can go by bike.
    You can go on a Zike-Bike if you like.
    If you like you can go in an old blue shoe.
    Just go, go GO! Please do, do, Do!
    Gordon Brown I don’t care how.
    Gordon Brown will you please GO NOW!

    • 279

      Very environmentally friendly, recycling!

      The Penguin

      • 318
        Al says:

        Is there any limit to the number of times you can promote your site in one thread? Working of the back of Guido is akin to sucking up to the chief whip.
        Why don’t you find an honest way to sell yourself.

  86. 264
    anticant says:

    “Why is it only Labour’s women who have the balls to stand up to him?”

    Except for Harriet Harman, who has neither balls nor brains.

    • 306
      Smacks of Firm Government says:

      Nor is a woman..

    • 320
      Doris in a Morris says:

      She’s a bloke with a twat.

      • 344
        John Prescott says:

        Aye, tha’s reet there – I’ve seen it and been in between it and I can tell thee, it’s a bit slck, but it’s wet and warm! Any port in a storm is what I says

        • 345
          Harriet Harman says:

          Shut up big boy! Don’t tell them all our little secrets. Oh, by the way, did I say that I do not want to be Prime Minister?

  87. 267
    Can't Kukri, Won't Kukri says:

    New Labour dry-bummed, hanged, drawn, quartered, revived, minced and burned- and then 4 Real IRA Ćunts found liable for the Omagh bomb.

    O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!

  88. 271
    Derek says:

    My father tought me to tell the truth bla bla bla

    • 343
      God says:

      Trouble is that Gordon is not really sure who was his father! I know of course, but I’m keeping that one to myself.

  89. 277
    D L George says:

    Zanu chap on Sky.
    “We have to find out what is worrying people and tell them what we’re going to do about it.”

    Here’s what’s worrying 59% of the people of this country (according to sky)…

    Gordon Brown is Prime Minister.

    OK then, What are you going to do about it?

    He also said, I’ll bet you can’t name ten labour mp’s who’ve stood up against Gordon on this, OK, here you go…

    Jackie Smith
    Hazel Blears
    James Purnell
    Frank Field
    Charles Clarke
    John Hutton
    Geoff Hoon
    Jane Kennedy
    Sally Keeble
    Caroline Flint
    Tom Watson

    Well there’s eleven.

  90. 293
    Ratsniffer says:

    Just to cut through all the spin – prof John Curtice, an election pundit, being interviewed just now on BBC news 24:

    Prof ” The one central theme of these elections..is that they were simply a disaster for labour”

    Reporter: “surely there is something labour can look at in all this and gain some hope?”

    Prof: “The answer to that has to be ‘no.’ It’s a disaster.”

  91. 294
    Stanlycam says:

    Didn’t Jane Kenedy mention on her radio interview that mp’s were sent an email on how to respond to Purnell’s resignation. I would like to read that one Guido ???

  92. 300
    Jester says:

    O/T – does anyone know when Sir Philip Mawer’s enquiry into Shahid Malik’s dodgy rent arrangement is due to report? I read on 16th May “within days” but nothing has been forthcoming so far.

  93. 304
    13eastie says:

    Labour Share of Vote in 1997: 43.2%
    Labour Share of Vote in 2009: 15.7%

    % Decrease: 63.7%

    Brown wants to “stick with” voters, so why has he driven two-thirds of them away.

  94. 313
    Troughtastic says:

    I, the undersigned, hereby pledge not to visit Scotland for either business or pleasure purposes until Gordon Brown has resigned as Prime Minister:

    Troughtastic (2 – 3 visits annually)

  95. 323
    Susie says:

    Just on the 4 o’clock news… David Blunkett’s been trampled by a cow.

  96. 329
    Johnny says says:

    “The bullying continues, Guido understands that the implicit menace being put about by Nick Brown, chief whip and Gordon’s enforcer, is exposure of expense misdemeanours in a career ending manner if you are disloyal.”

    How? By getting Andrew Porter to write about them? Voters will end those careers anyway so the Labour lot have nothing to lose, but they are surely too stupid to realise this.

  97. 333
    Political Cliche Police says:

    “Gordon isn’t able to get our message across.”

    That’s an offense right there, that is. I’m going to have to draw my truncheon and take a DNA sample.

  98. 337
    Madbadger says:

    Guido, any chance you could have a “goto bottom of page” button so we can quickly see that latest posts/comments. Looks like I’m having a Barclays when swiping the iPod.
    Haha, that’s Master Baiter that is, Swiping the iPod.

  99. 341
    GunnerBill says:

    The problem with all labours women ministers is that they were all rubbish and not up to the jobs they were given.

    Now they’ve been given the boot or forced out they are moaning – sour grapes.

    Not that I care.

  100. 342
    God says:

    One only has to look at the labour women to see that they have balls – their whiskery faces, stroppy attitude and apalling dress sense are testimony to the fact that they all have much higher testosterone levels than the wimpish labour men and of course than the pre-pubescent Milliband band! None of the clowns who have been in the labour cabinet, nor those who remain, are up to the jobs in which they posture and their “leader” is perhaps the most incompetent of them all. This ragbag collection of socialist wannabes makes me think that I really cocked up when I allowed them to be born. I will remove them at the next election, if not before. I HAVE SPOKEN!

  101. 346
    Aethelred says:

    Most of the nulab women are there because of positive discrimination in their favour and female only short-lists. The whips will have reminded them of this many times in their decade+ of power whenever the women were in danger of voting against the government. Now the gov is weak, the whips have lost their power and the women are using the opportunity to fight back against a decade of abuse.

    The men are spineless.



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