June 8th, 2009

Spineless Challengers Deserve Defeat

We are repeatedly told that neither Miliband or Johnson have a campaign team. Guido just made contact with one of the people on standby for one of those leadership campaigns that supposedly doesn’t exist. He sounded down in the dumps. His challenger candidate will not show his hand, nor he says will the other side. Both sides are hoping for a PLP rebellion which they fear won’t come.  Blairites connected to neither camp plan to speak out tonight in favour of ABG – Anyone But Gordon.  Team Brown are totally focused on keeping Gordon in power at any cost, with  Mandelson putting it about that the result of a leadership contest would be Prime Minister Harman. Would that actually be worse than the Prime Mentalist?


242 Comments

  1. 1
    Doctor Mick says:

    Trying to be first poster is just puerile.

    Fifth!

  2. 2
    Innocent Bystander says:

    The only way that lying Scots a***hole will come out of No 10 is in a box!

    • 8
      Ivor Phartparp says:

      Brown told me that too

    • 43
      The "Angry Aberdonian" says:

      I took my cat to the vet this morning to have a tick removed from his paw. Despite the best efforts of the vet, the revolting “bloated and grey” parasite hung in there – and was only eventually subdued with the help of a strong poison! Is there a lesson here for members of the PLP?

      • 107
        Anonymous says:

        Angry Aberdonian, I like the analogy but you could save yourself the vet bill by smearing tick with vaseline , which smothers it and it has to let go.
        Or feed it with whisky , hence the phrase as tight as a tick(!) – pissed they drop off!
        Alternatively, there is a little device which you can purchase ,with which to prise the buggers off!
        The most satisfying part of the whole process is to light a funeral pyre and cremate the tick!

        P.S Cats can be a little tetchier than dogs so heavy gloves might be required.

        • 139
          The "Angry Aberdonian" says:

          So when we see Brown crawling along Downing Street pissed as a fart and plastered in Vaseline – we’ll need someone ready with the matches!

    • 49
      President Omaha says:

      Handgrenades into the bunker, then flamethrower.

      Some old veterans from the weekend may be keen to teach the technique.

    • 119

      I don’t want the Queen to dissolve Parliament and cut the Gordian Knot (sorry, bad one there) but it would be the right thing to do constitutionally.

      It would cut out all the crap in the ZanuLieborgers’ minds about having a conference and a leadership election in the “party”, since they’d have to go to the country now, with or without Brown. It would also have the effect of making the UK look less like an IMF basket-case, in the eyes of foreigners.

      But the trouble with this route is that ZanuLieBorg might remain a viably-electable party in the UK. The real long-term-strategic need is for it to be reduced to the point that some hoodie-door-kicker-inners could close it down as an effective force just by robbing it of its USB-pen-drive in the night.

      The looked-for result is that nobody should want to elect socialists (ever again), and no socialists should be available to be elected (ever again.)

      • 197
        Four-eyed English Genius says:

        The only trouble with that scenario is the country will be even more of a wreck than it is now!

  3. 3
    BrianSJ says:

    Having Hattie as PM would be great. I have money on her at 16:1.

    • 37
      Hateful Hattie Harperson says:

      PM Harridan Harpic.
      Wonderful.
      Oblivion, annihilation, decimation of cretinous liebour for a millenium.
      Bring it on now, Harmperson for PM.
      Yes!

      • 64
        Charles Hardwidget says:

        Harriest Harperson is only unpopular with right-wing bloggers. As a woman she will naturally chime with over 50% of the population that is female. Her support for the “Equalities Bill” shows that she is in tune with the public in fighting for social justice.

        • 69
        • 73
          DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

          Well it worked so well for Thatcher, didn’t it?

        • 79
          The Arsecrack of Notre Dame says:

          What the hell are you on?

          I’m a man, yet I don’t “chime” with every other man in the country.

          Fuckin’ twat.

        • 83
          Helmut Kayzer says:

          Social justice?? What’s that? Ensuring lesbians are adequately represented in parliament? That’s about the limit of this dumb bint’s imagination.

        • 132

          Dangerous woman: she is more popular than we think.

        • 134
          Charles Flaccidwidger says:

          Harriet Harmen won’t necessarily chime with women. Mrs Flaccidwidger hates her even more than I do.

        • 208
          Granma Wuffles says:

          Harman chimes with me about as much as that patronizing bitch Margaret Beckett.
          It’s called clanging dissonance, fuckwit.

        • 230
          Jel says:

          So that means Mandy must chime with 50% of the male population of the UK. Do you agree Charles?

        • 238
          Aethelred says:

          Every woman likes every other woman?

          That’s an intriguing hypothesis, please point us to the evidence in support of it.

      • 201
        Jack Dromey says:

        Seriously, Hattie as PM would be a fine idea and I personally would find it very helpful in more ways than one.

    • 113
      A Pensioner says:

      Cock’s taxed by the inch? I can’t afford that.

  4. 4
    I don't want to be first says:

    and I wasn’t

  5. 5
    grandma B says:

    Harriot is more photogenic than Gordon and less inclined to put her foot in it. That’s about it.

    • 82
      Catosays says:

      I’d rather shag her than Snotty…++rushes off to be sick++

    • 88
      Helmut Kayzer says:

      Lassie having a shit is more photogenic than Gordon’s ugly Scottish boat race.

    • 183
      tom ,dick ,and abdula says says:

      That zebra print outfit she’s worn must be desperate for a wash

    • 198
      192.168.1.1 says:

      Harman:

      She’s a snide bint that sends her kids to other schools while reproaching the rest of us to send them to the local comprehensive in much the same way that Diane Abbot and that other fraud Tony Blair did. Let’s not forget these facts.

    • 232
      Jel says:

      Until she opens her mouth.

  6. 6
    George Formby says:

    It would all be highly interesting and entertaining if the country was not going down the pan in the process…

  7. 7
    I only arsked says:

    All mouth and no principles comes to mind

  8. 9
    Scorched Earth says:

    Nobody is going to believe a word Mandy says particularly when he goes on a spectacular flight of fantasy about Harman as a possible PM! Ludicrous.

    The challengers are packing their bags up till the Autumn and will then pick up where they left off with the contest so the Election will still happen in May and the newcomer will have a month or two in the seat.

    Brown has a scant couple of months to actually do something for once in his short time as PM to try and avoid it.

    But if there’s one thing he’s proved it’s that he’ll dither and plot and smear before getting off his arse and doing anything useful.

  9. 10
    Shithead says:

    Is it true Nuliabour has a stand tonight selling spines outside the PLP meeting? I hear there’s a BOGOF special for cabinet ministers!

  10. 11
    electro-kevin says:

    Would a change of leader make any difference ?

    • 17
      Lonesome Dave says:

      I certainly hope not!!

    • 20
      Anonymous says:

      For the sake of the country there should be a challenge, we are not a one party state, the government do not have the answers, they have had their chance, they must put it to the the vote at a general election and TRUST THE PEOPLE.

      • 97
        Helmut Kayzer says:

        “TRUST THE PEOPLE”? It was the people that voted in this shower of shit in the first place. It’s the best argument against democracy in our history.

      • 233
        Jel says:

        Don’t be silly, the people don’t matter to Labour except when it comes to votes.

    • 26
      Innocent Bystander says:

      They don’t have a leader now! Just a self obsessed weirdo with a deluded conviction of his own omnipotence. Walter McMitty.

      The plain fact is that GB does not understand how to lead or manage anything. He is truly inept and New Labour know that but they just cannot dislodge the looney twerp.

    • 27
      I only arsked says:

      Kev, a breath of fresh would make a difference.

    • 50
      Technomist says:

      I want a change from people who think that being a ‘leader’ is to stifle discussions all the time by using mediocre ‘management’ techniques. Time for us to really ‘move on’ and not just be told to.

  11. 12
    NotaSheep says:

    Harriet Harman is the one person who might be a more unpopular Prime Minister than Gordon Brown.

    • 130
      More Tories Please says:

      Hmm. Sure, she hates 50% of the population as a starting point. However, Gordon seems to hate everyone.

    • 138
      Fausty says:

      And Brown gave Mandy what little power she thought she had. Hope she wields the dagger this time.

    • 185
      bandersnatch says:

      I said yesterday… Harriet Harperson is the only bottle in the crate that hasn’t gone sour. Good grief… I’m not a supporter of her chaotic party. I want to shout ‘times up’ on this hopeless government as much as anyone… but I don’t want a massacre and I don’t want the BNP in at National as well as European parliament.
      She’s the only credible leader IMHO… Johnson is too diffident, and Milliband major is a coward and a twit.

    • 205
      Hazel Blears says:

      I think Hazel Blears would make an excellent prime minister.

  12. 13
    Labour must stand aside to save the country says:

    So, finally, fascists have been voted into power by British voters, and it has happened on Gordon Brown’s watch. How long will it be before we have fascist MP’s in Parliament?

    Let’s not pretend that we do not understand why this has happened. It has happened because ALL of the mainstream parties and the media have refused to listen to the people of this country. Quite the opposite in fact. For the past month the public have been told repeatedly what to think by Labour Politicians. Do they have ANY IDEA of just how offensive that is?

    Labour need to comprehend that the time when main stream parties could control the population by controlling the message are OVER. There are now tens of thousands of opinion formers engaged in politics via the internet. Their voice is being heard directly and uncensored every single day. The public have been empowered.

    The main stream parties need to start engaging with voters IMMEDIATELY. They MUST listen to what the electorate are saying and change direction TODAY before the cancerous tide of fascism covers the entire country.

    Labour are DIRECTLY REPSONSIBLE for letting fascists gain credibility and power. They MUST immediately stand aside for the good of the country. There may some setbacks in taking this path, but Labour Party members know and the public knows that this is the ONLY path that will start to put things right.

    – Troughtastic –

    • 18
      Ivor Phartparp says:

      Paxton wrote that fascism is:

      a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

    • 63
      jellyhair says:

      Couldn’t agree more. The arrogance of those desperate to hang onto power, at any cost is seriously irritating.
      The pathetic spectacle of Brown having to form a Cabinet from unelected peers because nobody with half a brain will accept a job now and be tarnished in the future as a result. They’ve got their eye on the future and their place in history, as ever.

      • 235
        Jel says:

        Alan Sugar did and Glenys Kinnock accepted jobs! That’s a quarter of a brain each then.

    • 109
      NotaSheep says:

      If Gordon Brown manages to push proportional representation through so as to save Labour then a by-product will be to ensure BNP MPs. But then as Gordon Brown is at least partly responsible for the BNP’s increase in vote because of his insane ‘British jobs for British workers’ line, we know where to lay the blame…

      • 236
        Jel says:

        If Gordon a closet BNP member – didn’t he also advocate British Jobs for British people?

    • 115
      cheche says:

      Excuse me. Labour ministers are now being asked to swear a personal oath of allegience to Brown. Heil Mein MacFurher

    • 175
      Lestweforget says:

      Judging by recent events, I thought fascists were already in power…

  13. 14
    Ivor Phartparp says:

    Whatever. Harman, schmarman, it doesn’t matter. No one votes for fringe parties I’m told.

    • 33
      I only arsked says:

      What’s wrong with a fringe party,at one time I used to vote for one, Labour :-)

  14. 15
    Doctor Mick says:

    Blunkett is out of the game for a while as he has been flattened by a Stampeding Cow.

    Well if he must go walking his dog near Harman’s home, what does he expect?

    • 121
      The Arsecrack of Notre Dame says:

      I bet he didn’t see that coming.

    • 200
      anticant says:

      If Blunkett isn’t aware that the British cattle population aren’t furious with politicians – especially Labour ones – after the Mad Cow Disease fiasco of a few years ago, he must be even thicker than he looks and sounds.

      Obviously, if the Labour back benchers don’t show any backbone this evening the inevitable next step should be to clear out parliament with a mass cattle stampede.

    • 237
      Jel says:

      Even the Labour cows can’t finish the job!

  15. 16
    Ctesibius says:

    Shall we all go and stand outside Parliament to try to gee the spineless socialists on a bit?

    ‘SNOTTY! SNOTTY! SNOTTY! OUT! OUT! OUT!’

    And maybe all wave around copies of ‘Country Life’ for the BBC to film, like they always film lefties waving around ‘Socialist Worker’, that well-read oxymoron.

  16. 19
    Fausty says:

    The ‘rebels’ have seen how unreliable their fellow plotters proved to be.

    Have another go. A few more resignations from Cabinet would force Brown to promote more 4th-raters and ennoble more swine to serve in his Cabinet. That would damage him.

  17. 21
    Tithonus says:

    Does it really matter, Mandleson is running the show now. A new set of crosshairs needed A.S.A.P.Soething to set your sights on Guido.

    • 218
      Reds under the bed says:

      I’m wondering if Mandleson is up to his old crafty tricks.

      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 Brownites 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.

  18. 22
    Anonymous says:

    I hope they all revolt tonight. AND I hope we are allowed a General Election in 4 weeks time. I get the sense that the people loath the Labour Party even more than they once hated the Conservatives. SO let us have our say NOW !

  19. 23
    A worried Gordon Brown says:

    Why is Alister so quiet?

  20. 25
    Paddles says:

    What a spineless and desperate group of cynical mercenaries the PLP truly are. Best summarised in one person; Caroline Flint. Told anyone who’d listen last week that she was behind Gordon…. until the job she wanted didn’t transpire and then he’s the antichrist.

    Now that’s what I call real integrity!

  21. 28
    MisterE says:

    “Mandelson putting it about that the result of a leadership contest would be Prime Minister Harman. Would that actually be worse than the Prime Mentalist?”

    To be honest, this country is so totally buggered under Brown, nothing could be much worse – at least having Harman in charge for a month or two till an election is called would give everyone a bit of a laugh… and seal Labour fate for many years to come, of course.

    They’d probably be better off ditching Brown, putting a chimp in a suit and giving it the keys to number 10… we’d be no worse off, but it’d lighten the mood considerably.

  22. 29
    Trough Mixture says:

    I can’t see Hattie holding any kind of erection – General’s or somebody from the other ranks. Might bring Tommeh back for her national E-masculation progrmme though.

    • 110
      NotaSheep says:

      ‘erection’? To think of erections and Harriet Harman at the same time shows a stronger constitution than I have.

  23. 30
    D. Cameron says:

    I think Gordon is doing a terrific job!!

  24. 31
    Technomist says:

    These people have totally lost any moral or political authority. They have had plenty of chances to ditch Brown in order to hold a general election and not taken them. They deserve electoral oblivion for keeping him and themselves in power against the clear wishes of the people of this country.

  25. 32
    Anon says:

    Why are Labour MPs such greedy, grasping COWARDS, terrified of ousting a failed leader?

    • 45
      The Truth Will Out says:

      You’ve answered your own question – SHEER BLOODY COWARDICE. The nation will not forget this in the general election, whenever it may be.

    • 54
      Technomist says:

      They don’t tell you how to do that at the Suck-Up Polytechnic of Political Careerism

    • 58
      Hateful Hattie Harperson says:

      ….cash.
      Cold, hard coin, pension + 12 months wages and payoffs.
      Nothing else drives them.
      Payback time for the underclasses (liebour).

    • 81
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      Because so many of them know that they’ll be out of a job if we have a general election. Given the choice between another year’s salary and troughing with their expenses or standing up for principles, which do you think they’re going to choose?

    • 128
      A Pensioner says:

      Wait till the Treasury books are opened to scrutiny – then you see why these twats are desparate to hold on.

    • 212
      Agent 99 says:

      Both Post 81 and 128 are spot on.

      I think it is both of these reasons and for the evidence of chaos in the finances to come out now would destroy Labour forever. If they take another year then they think they can at least reover some of the monies and make it look slightly better. Will they? I doubt it.

      I do expect to see the morning news programs tomorrow reporting that Brown survives and the spinmeisters doing the studio rounds with getting on with the job and best person to deal with Global yak yak yak etc

  26. 34
    The Master says:

    Harperson it could well be. Anyone but Gordon is OK but it’s a sad reflection on the Labour party who have bought this on themselves. They alone should take the blame for the BNP getting 2 seats and ought to hang their heads in shame. So tonights PLP meeting is where the action should be at. Someone has to stand up and say that the unelected Prime Mentalist is having a breakdown in front of the nations eyes and should be carted off to run some think tank in North America.

    • 91
      Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

      “….to run some think tank in North America.”

      A think tank in the Antarctic would be safer

    • 94
      Stronghold Barricades says:

      Agreed, but why should we inflict Brown on America?

      I might let him if he agreed to swim there and not charge it to expenses

    • 131
      A Pensioner says:

      What about a fink tank in Somalia or similar – he wants to help the fuzzies.

    • 143
      Man on the Clapham omnibus says:

      Please, not at this time.

      Wall Street is fighting the Government over new Financial regulations, the last thing America needs is our ex Chancellor offering advice through a think-tank.

      On second thoughts…….It did start in America – chickens coming home to roost and all that…………

  27. 35
    Unsworth says:

    So, Mandelson not quite ready to take over from Brown yet? Who is Mandelson’s placeman? Brown himself?

  28. 36
    Jonathan says:

    I very much doubt if anyone will speak out at tonight’s meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party. All of them, including the newly appointed members of the Cabinet, are more concerned with keeping their jobs, their salaries, perks, and pensions than in the electorate. I suspect that this government will stagger on until next year when an election has to be called – and which the Labour Party will, in spectacular fashion, undoubtedly lose.

    • 53
      Innocent Bystander says:

      I doubt whether Brown will ever call a GE. He will decide that the chaos of a Tory government is not in the national interest and cancel elections until we ‘see sense’.

      We need to get out in the streets and make him see that we want rid of him.

  29. 38
    I smell a pup..... says:

    Harman as PM? That would be even better. Labour’s vote would probably slump to < 10% and they would be out for decades

  30. 39
    Anonymous says:

    Just me

    Please post a link to Daniel Fannons acceptance speech, preferably editing out Dimbleweed and Robinson.

  31. 40
    Anonymous says:

    750 jobs down the pan in Luton at LDV and this government concentrates on saving their own jobs. All the Labour MPs only concerned about saving their own jobs.

    Is it any wonder that the far right did so well. You continue to care about your own skins, those fuckin little people are a distraction. Do they want the far right in Parliament after the next election?

    You never wil get Gordon to understand why he has to go.

    What a truly disgusting state of affairs, not a decent, honest person amongst them.

  32. 42
    Ethan says:

    Good god no. Harridan Harperson? FFS no.
    I want a Brown out but not replaced by her or any other Liebour tw4t.
    I want the whole fecking bunch of them out.
    Preferably staked out, smothered in raspberry jam, over killer ant hills.

  33. 44
    a crime-ridden slum with no industry left says:

    Keep Britain Tidy

  34. 46
    Mrs Pissed Off says:

    God I’m so fucking depressed – why won’t that Scottish wanker just go & put us all out of our misery – I’m not even that arsed who takes over or who wins the next election anymore – I’m just so sick to death of listening to the lines to take repeated over & over & over again – ‘difficult’ is the new ‘bad’ etc etc etc. Their fucking supporters hate the Labour party so much they voted BNP of god sake – if he doesn’t go soon we really are all in the shit.

    • 100
      Ivor Phartparp says:

      It’s also a reflection on or reaction to the conservatives in my opinion. They should do better. I don’t entirely blame labour for BNP achievements. Tories should be the alternative opposition in theory but have clearly not hit the spot.

      • 172
        Mrs Pissed Off says:

        I agree with you. The whole party political system is down the pan. The Tories can’t gain enough ground & Labour are imploding. Deadlock – & we suffer.

  35. 47
    Doctor Mick says:

    ZanULabor trolls a tad thin on the ground this morning.:)

    Where is young Master Baiter???

    • 59
      Ratsniffer says:

      Hopefully he is at his local casualty dept having his shredded cock stitched back together after giving himself an extra vigourous consolatory wank last night.

  36. 48
    Anonymous says:

    “Prime Minister Harman. Would that actually be worse than the Prime Mentalist?”

    Yes.

  37. 52
    Ratsniffer says:

    These slimey cowards have no stomach for a general election. They have seen what happened in the EU elections, and know that in a GE votes for the minority parties would be transferred to conservative/lib dems. So, they will hang onto their MP salaries/perks for as long as possible, even if that means having a loonatic like Snotty as PM. This lot have no principles whatsoever; and their true reasons for going into public service are clear for all to see: they simply want to trough as much as possible from the state teat. Their are spineless, self serving creeps, who should be ashamed.

    • 122
      Ivor Phartparp says:

      Yes. In a crisis of democracy HM should be the decider. Then again is it a crisis or just what is to be expected, (some) having elected the Labour Party again four years ago? You get what you vote for may be the ultimate answer to this situation.

  38. 55
    Sunonmars says:

    Junior Env Minister Jane Kennedy has jumped ship resigned and refused to take “pledge of loyalty” when asked.

  39. 57
    Hoonbusters says:

    Odd. They may not be revolting, but then again they *are* revolting.

  40. 61
    Confucius says:

    ‘To see what is right and not do it is cowardice’

    analects ii, 24

  41. 62
    Olly boy says:

    In answer to your question Guido, yes quite possibly.

  42. 65
    Anon says:

    Give poor Harriet Harman her due please. Even she would be an improvement on the Prime Mentalist, simply because she is NOT the mad bottler. Harriet Harman is not particularly likeable, but she is more so than nokiaGBh. Who isn’t? At least Harriet Harman does NOT chuck around mobile phones and printers in psychotic episodes. Anyone who remains associated with the Prime Mentalist is however nauseatingly cowardly.

    • 68
      Ratsniffer says:

      She’s not bonkers, but her man-hating, finger wagging, school marm patronising box-ticking gesture politics would surely induce mass vomiting?

      • 75
        Anon says:

        I prefer poor old Harriet to the Prime Minister, just as I prefer Alistair Darling, David Milliband and Alan Johnson. Anyone but the lunatic himself, yes even Harriet Harman.

        • 92
          jgm2 says:

          Careful. That’s how we ended up with Blair and Brown. Just when you think the Labour party couldn’t possibly harbour a bigger, more mendacious, self-serving liar than Blair what did we end up with?

          Look, this is a party that Harbours Michael Martin. Are you telling me he would be abetter PM than Brown? No. He’d be even worse. He’d be on a Nigerian PM scale of lunacy. With fuck-all apologies to any Nigerian PMs who may be lurking.

          The fact that the 350 or whatever Labour MPs have sat on their hands for the past two years tells you all you need to know about their priorities. The economic, moral and constitutional well-being of the country is waaaaay down their list.

        • 105
          Anon says:

          I don’t like Michael Martin either, but he also would be better than the Prime Mentalist.

          I agree with everything you say against those greedy, grasping cowardly Labour MPs.

        • 190
          tom ,dick ,and abdula says says:

          Alan johnson is a limp wristed coward

    • 72
      A Pensioner says:

      I agree she would be an improvement, but penises would be illegal – or worse (for me) a tax on length.

      • 135
        Ivor Phartparp says:

        Don’t be ridiculous, man. They would tax on production and precurement but not specification. It’s not exactly a vehicle built for comfort in your case.

  43. 66
    Anonymous says:

    It’s intriguing to note the public advertisement of cowardice that is currently going on. Like it or not, past figures of the Labour movement, such as Bevan et al, would be horrified by this lot. But, then again, British politics is pretty much finished as any paradigm for emulation. It is, in so many ways, merely a reflection of the decline of the country which, whether we care to admit it or not, has now been going on for many decades. Perhaps, then, the populace is finally waking up to the fact that those who administer this system laughable called a “democracy” don’t give a toss? And that conclusion should be applied to all parties. Paradoxically, current political parties rely more and more on the fact that the average person in this country simply wants a copy of the current bun and a game of bingo and they are happy. Notwithstanding that, it appears that even such apathetic people no longer want to play along with the illusion.

  44. 67
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    I wish I has a tenner for every time I’ve heard some Nulab automaton repeat the mantra that what the voters really want is for them to stay in power and sort things out.

    Feeble doesn’t even come close to describe its Gaylordian tripeness.

    • 142
      Lestweforget says:

      Sir Reginald,

      Most of them have never met a voter – much less a voter who does not agree with them. They leave that to activists who get shafted just like the rest of us.

      Government by soundbite and photo opportunity never seemed like a good plan in 1997. I am surprised it lasted so long. But it did not. We have not been governed for 12 years. We have been subject to a headline making machine.Suits them and the media but achieves nothing.

      So here we are morally,intellectually and financially bankrupt….except in the headlines.

    • 148
      Sandy Muff says:

      “Gaylordian tripeness”

      So velvety, I want to stroke it.

  45. 70
    Infamy, they've all got it infamy says:

    Hope all this carries on for some time yet – it is quite amusing watching an implosion. The economies doomed whatever happens.

  46. 74
    • 80
      Is anybody left says:

      We’re all fcuking left but there’s noone left.

    • 87
      Gordon Brown says:

      I only asked her for an oral pledge of support.

    • 89
      Minister for farming and the environment Jane Kennedy says:

      I’m the eight minister to be leave the Government and the twat’s still hanging on.

    • 90
      Gordon Brown says:

      When she asked what I meant, I replied “oh the usual lip service, you know”.

    • 104
      Technomist says:

      What did she think she was employed for in the first place? Not to run her ministry properly , that’s for sure.

    • 123
      Pig Farmer says:

      Looking at picture of the sacked Farming Minister I now know the meaning of pigs in trough

      • 181
        Sylvia's Mother says:

        I do not understand why we need all these ministers anyhow when we have our most glorious leader. We all know its he that manages/micro-manages everything anyway and is the reason for the country being in the mess that is is I hear tell he even but the rubbish out at night so there you have it he has found his vocation!!!

        • 184
          Sylvia's Mother says:

          Sorry for the small typo mistakes even my fingers are shaking with anger!!!

  47. 77

    cowards cowards cowards

    to have people like this in public office shames this country. Their inability to act is a monstrous failing – it just indicates the absolutely pitiful calibre of people inside our political parties. The worst kind of toadying creeps. God knows I despise these damn socialists, but you’d have to say in days gone by there were at least a few with character, with some balls – this current crop remind me of primary school teachers or social workers; they’re totally out of their depth, totally inept, wrapped in groupthink and fear of stepping out fo line. Really fucking awful.

    But fellers, this is the future. This is what this country is becoming. Bedwetting trembling cowards.

    pukes

  48. 78

    [...] Guido reports: Team Brown are totally focused on keeping Gordon in power at any cost, with  Mandelson putting it about that the result of a leadership contest would be Prime Minister Harman.  [...]

  49. 84
    Paul the Northern Conservative says:

    A serious question.

    What legal process can be started to remove this government and all MPs and Lords who have been so ineffective in handling the recession?

    Not many seem to be remembering that high taxes were justified by the Prime whatever as Chancellor as a means of bringing an end to boom and bust. May be this is something UK political parties have achieved – the boom is over from here in it’s just bust.

    We have memories and the politicians of all parties, including the Conservatives who rubber-stamped so much Labour policy and law must be held accountable. Replacing the odious Brown with the odious Cameron won’t do.

  50. 93
    Get Gord out says:

    Hearing now that Gord is asking for a “personal pledge of loyalty” for Ministers to accept a ministerial job..?

    Reminds me of Hitler…

    Oh well, what else can you expect from these chimps… nuff said.

  51. 96
    Anonymous says:

    Just seen young Millie on television and was horrified to see from his top lip that he had forgotten to shave.

    • 103
      I only arsked says:

      Did he have a backbone ?

    • 118
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      Is he old enough to shave?

      • 146
        Ivor Phartparp says:

        It’s obviously caught up with him by surprise. My dad had the foresight to buy me a razor.

    • 150
      The Arsecrack of Notre Dame says:

      Are you sure it wasn’t Jacqui Smith’s cast-off?

      She doesn’t need it now she’s gone back to stacking shelves.

    • 188
      Sylvia's Mother says:

      People and political commentators have very short memories Mendelson is a crook twice thrown out of office and still returns to haunt us. The man is a total disgrace.

  52. 98
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Harriet for PM is worse for whom?

    The good ship NuLiebour, or the Tory party?

  53. 99
    Anon says:

    Even Prime Minister Harman would be an improvement on the Prime Mentalist and eminence grise dracula.

  54. 111
    Sir Michael Shite's rent boy says:

    What a shock. On Radio 5 they are claiming the “we don’t know why she has left”

    Don’t they have Sky News at the BBC? SHE WAS SACKED YOU FUCKING DRUG USING MORONS!!!!!

    • 192
      Sylvia's Mother says:

      The BBC is coming out of this very badly and the bias is quite staggering sometimes. They need to take a good look at news events over the last two weeks and deal with this but of course they won’t. I have time for Andrew Neil but have to change channels at the sight if Nick Robinson what a complete idiot and thats being sy

      • 193
        Sylvia's Mother says:

        sympathetic to idiots!! Sorry finger slipped again, anger in those fingers.

  55. 112
    Anonymous says:

    Misogynisitc mandy has the knives out for harman. she must be pleased to know how gordon’s team are briefing against her.

  56. 114
    JMT says:

    Roll on Wednesday – It will be an interesting test of ZanuLabour’s spine.

    Will the MPs vote agianst the measure and give their de facto support to the Snot Goblin?

    The Kübler-Ross Grief Cycle for ZanuLabour

    Shock stage: Initial paralysis at hearing the bad news that the public hate you
    Denial stage: Trying to avoid the inevitable because it was “MPs’ expenses”.
    Anger stage: Frustrated outpouring of bottled-up emotion – B***d Tories!!!.
    Bargaining stage: Seeking in vain for an exit – 50% tax, enviro-taxes, pay-offs
    Depression stage: Final realization of the inevitable – We are truly f**ked.
    Testing stage: Seeking realistic solutions – PR might keep the Tories out!!
    Acceptance stage: Finally finding the way forward – PR let BNP in, GE now.

  57. 116
    wrightyboy says:

    Brown is the wrong target. Brown is already emasculated. This is Mandelson’s government in everything but name. And he is virtually unassailable – since he is not accountable to either the Commons or the British electorate.

  58. 127
    Sir Michael Shite's rent boy says:

    Yay now the BBC are reporting Kennedy was sacked. Why doesn’t the BBC simply shut down it’s news department and just use Sky News?

    • 219
      Scallywag says:

      Easy peasey. Just go to 501 on your Sky Box and you can forget about the BBC, except when they want their licence fee / political levy out of you.

  59. 136
    Osama the Nazarene says:

    Mandelson’s mission is to ensure that there is no General Election before the Irish are due to vote on the European State Constitution in October. He knows that Brown has numerous faults but for the sake of the EU and Eurocrats he will do his damnedest to stiffen up the ditherers backbone.

    • 149
      Ivor Phartparp says:

      Thanks. This can’t be reiterated enough. Over to Dave C, our Mr Pledge aerosol…

  60. 137
    Anon says:

    In condemning poor Harriet Harman even more than the Prime Mentalist himself, you are just doing the bidding of eminence grise Dracula. If Dracula wants me to fear Harriet Harman, that is an added reason for preferring her to the Prime Mentalist and eminence grise Dracula.

  61. 141
    The Charge of the Light Brigade says:

    Divers do it deeper

    • 157
      Ivor Phartparp says:

      Ha ha ha ha. Pilots go higher. Arf, arf

      • 162
        The charge of the Light Brigade says:

        Q: How many politicians does it take to change a lightbulb ?
        A: Four, one to change it and the other three to deny it.

  62. 145
    jgm2 says:

    Looking at the BBC figures – with 63 out of 69 seats declared and them reporting Labour have two more to come from Scotland I make that 13 seats each to UKIP and Labour.

    Plus I’m guessing Labour will poll waaay more votes than UKIP in Scotland.

    Labour could still be equal on seats with UKIP and with a higher number of total votes thus allowing them to claim they came second (not third).

    I could be wrong but from the few numbers I’ve seen it’s not in the bag yet that Labour are third.

    • 152
      On the other hand says:

      LibDems only one seat behinf Labour could overtake them leaving Labour in 4th Place (not third).

      • 191
        jgm2 says:

        Result called. 13 apiece to UKIP and Labour. UKIP officially second with more votes. Libs got 11.

        We knew how the seats would fall because they had already announced that on BBC 2 to SNP, two to Labour, one each Tories and LibDems – they were just waiting on the ballot boxes from Western Isles or summat but too few votes from there to materially affect distribution of seats. Only question was would Scotland produce enough Labour votes to pass UKIP total.

        Obviously not.

        Third it is then.

  63. 147
    Anonymous says:

    I now believe that Mandy will come on tv within the next forty eight hours to announce with that south american camp straight face of his that in future the sun will rise in the west and set in east, that black is white and that Brown never tried to get rid of Darling……..and feign absolute shock if anyone doubts his word.

    • 159
      The email shredder says:

      There must be an email or correspondence somewhere confirming Darling was to be moved.

      Maybe darling’s got a copy and that’s why he is so quiet.

  64. 153
    Harlot Harridan says:

    Hattie’s been on TV this Morning, spouting the same old NuLab lines, how people on the doorsteps of Great Brtiain said they wanted the economy and the expenses sorted out.

    So why then, after all that door-stepping, did they still go out vote for someone else instead, or stay at home and not vote at all, in the recent elections???

    Could it possibly be that the great British public, simply don’t trust, believe or heaven forfend, want NuLabour any longer???

    Or was it perhaps just another load of porkie-pies, once again.

    Next time, like it or not, I think they’ll all be out

  65. 155
    IRB says:

    Don’t be so quick to criticise the apparent challengers. It is entirely possible that even the tard’s tard Johnson isn’t so thick that he can’t see that it might not be the best job in the world.

  66. 156
    Catosays says:

    New Downfall video

    here

  67. 161
    Anon says:

    Dracula is just raising the faint possibilty of a Harman premiership in order to divide and rule. Everyone knows that the main challenger is Alan Johnson, with David Milliband a now dismal second place. Guess that could be one reason why Milliband will not use his power to destroy the Prime Mentalist once and for all. He does not want to be eclipsed by a Johnson succession. But at any rate, Harriet Harman, preferrable though she would also be to the great lunatic, is not a serious contender for the leadership. That is just a very improbably scenario concocted by Dracula. Dracula likes being the eminence grise and views Harman as a rival for that dubious distinction, but not really for the premiership itself. By saying that she is a possible PM, Dracula just hopes to widen the list of challenger names, in order to divide and rule.

    • 166
      Mrs VVV Pissed Off says:

      Why do they keep harping on about Johnson – god, do they really think he is any better – as an outsider I’d say that their only hope is Milliband – Johnson looks smarmy oily creepy & pervy, talks the same, loves his hair too much & wears grey suits! Get real! Do they really think that a floating voter would go for Johnson – I think not. Where’s the pole that puts him above Milliband? Instead of thinking who is best for their party they should be thinking who would appeal to the voters most – & that ain’t Johnson…

      • 171
        Anon says:

        Whether Milliband or Johnson its not going to be Harriet Harman. Dracula is just spinning tangled webs, when he raises her as a possible successor.

        • 176
          Mrs VVV Pissed Off says:

          Harriet Harman hasn’t got the brains she was born with. Lightweight is an understatement. She was crap way back at the start of the whole New Labour project & she’s just as bad now. Look into her eyes – there’s nothing in there – no one is home. It’s empty in there.

        • 177
          Anon says:

          And any of them would be an improvement on the phone and printer throwing Prime Mentalist.

      • 182
        Anon says:

        Milliband would be my preferred successor of the three, but I would happily settle for anyone but the Prime Mentalist.

      • 195
        Sylvia's Mother says:

        I would like to see Blunkett get the job at least he could say he could not see it coming. For once we would know its true!! One worry instead of phone throwing he might kick the dog.

    • 179
      Anon says:

      It would be an improvement if the Prime Mentalist was succeded by Harman, Johnson, or Milliband. I don’t myself care which.

      • 180
        Mrs VVV Pissed Off says:

        True, true. If only he would just fucking go – I’d live with any of them, any any any of them.

  68. 164
    jac says:

    Heard 3 separate news bulletins on R4 this morning. All said Labour had lost – but carefully avoided saying who had won! Didn’t want to say the dreaded word “Conservatives”……………..

  69. 167
    Anonymous says:

    Marr is useless and should be dumped from the Sunday show.Paxman would fit the bill nicely.Mandy should then be invited back for a proper interview.

    • 202
      wrightyboy says:

      He wouldn’t accept. Doesn’t like “hard” interviews. Look at his reaction when he was inadvertently interviewed by Sophie Raworth who was standing in for Marr. If looks could’ve killed!

    • 217
      Scallywag says:

      Second that. Marr should stick to his critiques of restaurants. He’s no Paxo…

  70. 168
    Anon says:

    Where an MP is convicted of a criminal offence they should automatically lose their seats. However the electorate should NOT be allowed to take the initiative. I would OPPOSE recall of MPs by their constituents, referenda and direct democracy, because this would put the wealth of the country, which is currently owned predominantly by the elite where it belongs, under the direct control and effectively the ownership of the jealous majority who never vote Conservative. Giving the plebs a vote in regular parliamentary elections jeapordises your property as it is, without taking it to the next level, where their jealousy would not be moderated by Labour MPs deradicalised by comfortable salaries. Would you want all the housing estate chav plebs to be given something approaching or actually constituting a direct vote over your property? Even if the majority chose to let you keep your property, effectively they would still be the ultimately owners, and you would only have the stewardship of it on license. Many could not tolerate such a diminution of their status as property owners and would leave the country.Do you think Margaret Thatcher could have driven through her essential reforms if Tory MPs in marginal constituencies would have been subject to recall at any moment? No wonder the left, outside parliament at any rate, would love the idea of recall so much, or of direct referenda in which they could severely curtail even those property rights that survive under nokiaGBh, if not abolish them completely. So however obnoxious the prospect of swindling MPs retaining their positions for another year undoubtedly is, it is still in the broad scheme of things better than a system verging on direct democracy that would jeapordise property even more than parliamentary democracy and Labour governments. Direct democracy would equal communism, so no Conservative should countenance any approach to it.

  71. 174
    I don't beleive it ..... says:

    If Jane Kennedy’s replacement is Angela Eagle it will be the THIRD gay MAFF / DEFRA Liebour Minister – after Nick Brown & Ben Bradshaw

    What is it with queer Liebour MPs and animals?

    • 196
      Tattooed_Arry says:

      Lock up your Gerbils!

    • 199
      Sylvia's Mother says:

      Who the f**k voted this bunch in!! What’s more who are the 15.3% morons who did it again. I despair for this country given the voting public that act like sheep oops sorry sheep.

  72. 187
    Moley says:

    From the BBC;

    A spokesman said Mr Brown did not ask Jane Kennedy to make a public statement of support for him and is not doing any such thing with any other ministers.

    Translation.

    Everybody is being asked for a private statement of support, probably in writing so that it can be used against them in the event that their brains begin working again.

    Facing a battle for the soul of the party, Labour MPs are running away in droves clutching their signed copies of “Brown on Courage” for protection.

    The flight of the castrati.

    • 215
      Ivor Phartparp says:

      Someone send him a backscrather so he can do it himself.

    • 241
      Aethelred says:

      Brown burns every bridge he comes to. The latest was getting Flint to support him then briefing against her.

  73. 194
    Tattooed_Arry says:

    Guido said:
    “Team Brown are totally focused on keeping Gordon in power at any cost, with Mandelson putting it about that the result of a leadership contest would be Prime Minister Harman.”

    Another example of the Brownites “Anti-Wimmin” policy?
    Hardly surprising coming from Mandelssohn.
    Let me guess who He might prefer – PM Hain anyone………..

  74. 204
    Anonymous says:

    Labour won’t ditch brown, at least not until june 2010 a few days before the election. Ditching him would mean a general election and losing their perks, so they’re simply not going to do it.

    They know they’ll lose the election regardless of when it’s held and regardless of who their leader is, so to them a leadership change is pointless.

    If you’re a labour MP, then your priorities are, in descending order of importance:

    1) Your own bank account.
    2) Your own seat.
    3) Your party.
    4) Spiting the tories.
    5) Pushing your twisted ideology to as many people as possible through spin/lies
    6) The good of the country.
    7) What the voters want

    Labour MPs who have safe seats in “I’d vote labour if they pissed in my face” land will retain their seats regardless. Other labour MPs will lose their seat regardless. There aren’t any labour MPs who have a vested interest in a general election or a leadership change, so they’re not going to do either.

  75. 213
    Harriet Harman says:

    Gordon is filled dismay
    ’cause the world has discovered he’s gay
    he whispered to peter
    “they know I’m a cock eater”
    and I get my shirt lifted each day

  76. 216
    Scallywag says:

    Gutless bastards…

    The only possible reason for keeping Snottie McTwat in No 10 is so that the gutless money grabbing nulab bastards can maximise their take from the public purse. They’ve all worked out that they will be on the sausage roll for a long, long time come the next election, so they might as well screw the system for all it’s worth.

    In other words “Fuck the country. So long as I’m alright, that’s all the ever really mattered. Anybody seen my exes claim form?”

  77. 220
    Epic says:

    STAY CLASSY AMERICA! i know they do at http://dailynoz.blogspot.com/

  78. 225
    Anon says:

    Actually there could be some Labour MPs in seats that are in between safe and marginal, who could survive, but only by ditching their liability of a leader. However, that would require a little spunk and daring, and they only had that when ditching Blair, who despite his failures, was still their best electoral asset by a long way. Typical socialist losers. Ditch a winning leader. Keep a losing one.
    And why are the police not investigating the Prime Mentalist’s own expenses abuses? Why don’t we all report McMental to Scotland Yard for expenses fraud? Guido?

  79. 229
    aswinsterstale says:

    This is the nu-labour project, it has always been this way. There are no policies that either have a high vested self interest, or are designed to degrade the things the British hold dear.
    Why, both are for self greedy interest, the first is obvious, the second is about keeping the population where they want it to be, dependant.
    We have a population controlled by a disfunctional bunch of tossers. It’s taken quite a few years for people to wise up, but we have wised up.
    I expected them to be spineless, all bullies are when they are confronted.
    They will never be forgiven, they took the British on, and attemped to take them to the cleaners, and I tell you they will not be forgiven.
    It isn’t just brown, although he has become the focal point, the blame game, they always play the blame game. What goes round comes around, brown spent all his time porking for the scapegoat, only this time it’s him, and he doesn’t have a fucking clue what to do.
    If they didn’t want people to vote for the bn-p, why the fuck did they stop listening the the complaints of the people living in the areas of high unemployment, lousy housing and poor social structure. They did fuck all because they believed they never had to. Same in Scotalnd, same in Wales, taken for granted for years. Now in England those people have found a voice, and it’s a shit voice, and guess what it isn’t going to go away. Strange isn’t it, now. They can’t wait to que up to get on the media and denounce anyone who voted that way. Where the fuck were you when poeple bitterly complained they were being ignored.
    I don’t know about you but I found the eu voting to be very sophisticated, I posted here before that at times we are a buch of half-wits, but not this time. This time we got it right.
    People who were pissed off never made the mistake of voting tory, all of a sudden cameron is having to wake up, and realise if he wants peoples votes he’s going to have to work for them and put some kind of meal on the table, unlike the liar blair he’s not getting in on a free lunch.
    labour are hoping things will get better, they never do. They are in real trouble thank fuck, some have already realised events won’t bail them out, and the in-fighting has started, the blame game is going to rip them apart and who knows maybe we will get lucky and be rid of them once and for all

  80. 239
    Aethelred says:

    Harman is an effective NCO but she is not an officer. Without direct orders from above, she would achieve nothing.

    Her “court of public opinion” outburst shows that she lacks self-control and has hidden extremist tendencies.

    Basically she’s a fuckwit.

  81. 242
    David says:

    Nah, these lot are not going nowhere, they cling on and on and on all the while this great country is being devalued by the day…

    … guess what come election time Tories or whoever wins will have to start making cuts and in the NHS big style they are not going to do it before now are they?

    If Mps can’t get this loony out who’s too busy saving the world then looks like it’s down to us…. and we could do it in double quick time by mass demonstrations.

    Forget what Brown says a leopard never changes it’s spots



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