June 27th, 2009

Brown’s Billions for Climate Change

Yesterday when Gordon proposed throwing $100 billion at developing countries to help them cope with climate change, he said:

When historians look back on this critical moment, let them say, not that we were the generation that failed our children; but that we had the courage, and the will, to succeed.

Brown is BonkersThe Prime Mentalist will succeed only in putting our children into debt that will last generations.   No other G7 country  supports this position because they are not led by loons.  They have budget deficits to worry about, Britain’s deficit is the worst, last month alone the government overspent by £20 billion.  Britain is broke, a government that can’t pay it’s bills has resorted to printing money to buy its own government debt and has run out of things to tax. They are planning to tax phone lines.

Bonkers Brown reminds Guido of Wacko Jacko, saving the world “for the children”.  Jacko died broke, living extravagantly beyond his means.  Brown is taking us to never, never land financially…


657 Comments

  1. 1
    RobC says:

    The difference being Jacko was the master of his own fate.
    Many in Britain will die broke as a direct result of our supreme unelected nutter who conversely will die rich.

    • 12
      Anonymous says:

      He’ll die rich, huh ? Whatever, please let it be soon.

    • 13
      Anonymous says:

      True but judging by his stress levels it may at least be quite soon

      • 129
        Sir Mufbourne - Harbour says:

        I hope we can bury him within the EU flag and the same goes for all the other traitors when they depart this earth on their way to Hell

        • 179
          Boudicca says:

          This is just Brown aiming for a job at the UN when we finally get the chance to kick him out of No.10. Nothing like buying a job with other peoples’ money!

        • 201
          Dippy ness says:

          Very true as Phoney has already nicked the role of Peace Envoy to The Middle East! What twat thought that one up!

      • 168
        Scallywag says:

        You never know. There just might be a kind soul with a sense of duty and a 50 calibre rifle with a telescopic sight that would be happy to do the country a great favour…

        • 241
          thick as thieves says:

          I stand ready to serve.
          not so keen on the rifle idea though.
          I am more of an “UP AGAINST THE WALL MOTHERFUCKER!” and bullet in the back of the head kind of person.
          more efficient innit.
          note to gordon brown: your tax credits will never achieve poverty reduction targets. never.
          poor people don’t trust you gordon. you are the man who doubled their tax liability and they want fuck all to do with a c’unt like you.
          that is why 40% of families entitled to tax credits do not claim them.
          oh and also because you have designed the claim forms in such a comlex manner.
          that is why tax credits should be abolished and replaced with a payment directly targeted at low income families.
          and by signing the EU Constitution you breached the British Constitution.
          you are a tenant brown, not a landlord and therefore you had no right to sign a document giving away the freehold of British Sovereignty.
          The Lisbon Treaty is null and void as you, a Scottish signatory had no authorisation to sign it.
          and if I, an Englishman, must take up arms and fight the european fascists as we did during the second world war then so be it.
          judging by what a bunch of cowards the french and germans and italians and all the other coward armies in europe are, I think we will give them a good fucking hiding.
          if we need to protect ourselves from scottish and european occupation using military force to resist, then that is our duty as Englishmen.

        • 483

          Please don’t feed the troll Thick as Pigshite.

        • 499
          Please don’t feed the troll Thick as Pigshite. says:

          the troll.
          what an idiot you are anticitizenonce.

    • 17
      Under the Radar says:

      Maybe, like Wacko, Gordo will rely on assisted suicide to escape a very public shaming, well, I can hope

      • 210
        Dippy ness says:

        Ohh can be his suicide assistant? Please, oh please? Promise I’ll make it fairly painless….Honest I would..!

    • 29
      Energy Analyst says:

      How true, Carbon Capture and Storage will add around 45% to your fuel bill and will not rid us of CO2 it will only sweep it under the carpet. If a conductor pipe leaks which they do all the time then These Knackers will kill everything in the North Sea. No wonder they want to stop fishing as they intend to kill everything in the Sea, Carbon Capture and Storage is an expensive Ecological time bomb.

      • 123
        Unsworth says:

        Exactly. Next up, Peak Energy. Brownout (how apt) anyone?

      • 153
        Ivor the Boneless says:

        There have been times on this planet when CO2 levels have been higher and the average temperatures cooler. They don’t want you to know that.

        • 184
          David says:

          Why do you think GREENLAND is called greenland? In the 11th century vikings had vinyards there.

          Brown is our disaster not the climate

        • 308
          Sir Mufbourne - Harbour says:

          If I said ‘Roman’ what image comes to mind? It would not be someone deressed up like a mongolian warlord. No it would be either a woman dressed in a toga or a bloke with a skirt and sandals. They grew wine grape in England. I don’t doubt global warming but that it is man made is pure bolux

      • 388

        CO2 is airborne plant-food, not pollution.

        • 500
          thick as thieves. says:

          fuck off hippy.
          you must be stoned, right?

        • 512
          Jan says:

          Talking of hippies, what the f….k is Brown’s wife doing at Glastonbury?
          I mean she’s got a sick child to look after. She’s getting as attention-seeking as poor-little-me-I-have-to-work-so-hard-to-keep-the-family-together, Cortina-mouth Cherie.

        • 558
          barefootcontessa says:

          Jan, she wants to promote the acceptable face of the gorgon. Hope she’s wearing wellies.

      • 394

        You’re winding us up again, Guido. He can’t be serious.

        • 587
          Hugh Janus says:

          I think it’s even worse than Guido has said. When I heard this story on Brown’s Broadcasting Corpn it was reported as $100bn PER YEAR!! Where does this lunatic think that kind of money is going to come from then? Oh, of course, he’ll try to print it……

        • 599
          Bath plugs for the many, not the few says:

          Before we all get alarmed about this vast amount of money being thrown at an entirely fictional problem, just bear in mind who’s making this pledge.

          It’s the fantasist Brown. All his promises are entirely meaningless. He’s about to depart the scene. Nothing to worry about.

      • 417
        Douglas Henderson (retired carpet fitter) says:

        My grandaughter, Nicola, did a school project on climate. The do seem sure its getting warmer. Its all the cows farting.

        • 449

          This is indeed what they are taught.

          Partly, it’s the GramscoFabiaNazi-Teacher-Caucus’s antipathy to meat, and red meat in especialty.

      • 569
        MI6 says:

        I suppose if they kill everyone with the CO2 Bomb they are building in the North Sea it will save the bullets that the Police would have used and reduce energy consumption

      • 611
        Chemical Ali says:

        Dissolve the CO2 and more importantly the CO in Gordo’s Haemoglobin, that’s fecking Carbon Capture par excellence for you!!

        HCN capture would be better bet though!!

    • 35
      freddie flintoff says:

      more fuckin taxes

      • 62
        I am Sick says:

        Whatever happened to prudence? Oh yeah, McSnot murdered her too.

      • 104
        JS says:

        Yes, borrowing money in order to give it away! We are beyond skint.

      • 127
        Robin Hoodie says:

        We don’t have the money! The Country doesn’t have the money!

        How dare he give money to tin pot dictatorships for a problem that just doesn’t exist.

        The Earth is cooling.

        • 457

          Because he really believes they are right (and that goes for the dicatocrats too.)

          And his wife probably believes it also, and sleeps with him and whispers in his ear.

        • 603
          handlesbums (lady) says:

          sleeps with him…yeah right

        • 647
          summer_breeze says:

          Well, and I say this as a woman…
          I really and truly don’t understand how she could sleep with him. He is horrible. I can’t even think in terms of being that desperate. Surely she must be being paid for it, either that, or she sets her bar an awful lot lower than I do!

        • 654
          mikey says:

          summer_breeze …

          A friend of mine attended an F1 “do” and, spotting Snotgobbler, confided to the women she was chatting to …”fucking hell, you’d have to be really fucking desperate go anywhere near that thing” One of the women replied that she was in fact going out with him…poorthesarah.
          They must be paying her a fucking fortune.

      • 295
        wolvreen says:

        Brown offered to use 10% from the EXISTING development aid budgets.
        Typical Brown stand-up and announce old money as new.
        He’s big at spending other peoples money as we have found out to our cost.

        The development agencies told him to f*ck off.

        We are getting ass raped by the energy companies with their mock wholesale market nonsense (80% of transactions are in secret and not in the wholesale market). Now apparently they say the exorbitant rises from last year are paying for green advances, as they look in their green book of excuses.

    • 59
      Builders Crack says:

      That the unelected one eyed Scottish wanker is more concerned about throwing billions of our money at developing countries when our finances have gone down the shit hole beggars belief. This fucking ape thinks he is a world leader, when in fact he is under qualified for any job in the real world. This one man has put our children and probably our grandchildren into serious debt. The sooner these corrupt, self serving piss-ants are booted out FOREVER the better for this country.

      • 68
        I am Sick says:

        His job is to make the UK the sick man of Europe and be grateful when the EU rescue us, from poverty and debt.

      • 107
        Sylvia's Mother: says:

        Its clear he wants to fuck it up so much that whoever gets in at next GE assuming tories that it will be such a deep hole that after one term they labour will stand a chance again. He wants to hand over a poison chalice and with everything he is doing the situation is getting worse day by day. He needs to be committed can Mandy not have him sectioned under the mental health act? The public have such short memories his strategy is no so stupid or implausible.

      • 642
        talamunji says:

        The man you refer to is VERY, VERY DANGEROUS for this country – as is his
        cohorts…..and each of them should be brought to book in the years to come.

        ALSO ! the money they have STOLEN from those they claim to represent
        must be taken from them…..I resist the strong temptation to personalise my
        true sentiments…….However,Walking the plank – pillorying – scarred and
        tied to ant hills comes to mind .

        I am a Scot………….he has betrayed and embarressed ME – He is a
        dyed-in-the-wool socialist who can never change – his Father he claims to
        be Presbyterian (as I am) – This is a smoke screen……….somebody of
        substance should challenge him on this claim……………he will soon be
        broken down and shown for what he is – a demented communist. SORRY !

    • 60

      Bonkers Brown reminds Guido of Wacko Jacko, saving the world “for the children”.
      Funny that . Jacko was making a political video just before he died.

    • 74
      Cromwells Chost says:

      cant we get Brown to do 50 concerts at the o2 and send the profits
      instead

    • 124
      Anonymous says:

      Anyone who thinks Jacko was master of his own fate has obviously never come across the mafiosi who run the music business.

    • 195
      dazed and confused and fed up says:

      Make Gordon Brown history

    • 235
      Marie Tussaud says:

      Yes I have bought Michael and no I will not change anything

    • 336
      Scotched earth Policy says:

      Looks like the abacuss has fallen on the floor, and the Primentilist has put all the balls in a line and said, Look how much we have.
      Will someone take away Gordon and his adding machine.

    • 375
      • 383

        Sky running that too. What’s his expense scandal again? Did he have a private hospital for his personal use?

        • 387

          Just six jobs including his MPs job – coining it to the extent of over £350K per annum. Mostly with health industry firms (strange for a former Minister for Health)!

          Additionally renting out his London house and other things.

          Also a shite constituency MP who lived 40 miles away from it and only visited it one day per week.

          Apart from that he’s a prince (of back stabbing and darkness)!

      • 529
        Floating Voter 7501 says:

        Milburn has got at least half a brain cell to go with his creepy voice. He knows which way the wind is blowing. Public service is out of the window now and he’s looking after number 1.

        The only purpose Labour had was to gain power and the only purpose it has now is to retain power, whatever the cost to the nation it claims to “serve”.

        Labour’s trumpeting of socialist priniciples about brotherhood of man, peace to all nations, civil rights, public service, racial harmony, fairer distribution of wealth and promises of no sleaze and economic competence to better the Tories were simply part of the marketing plan.

        And now the majority of the voting public have realised the truth is the opposite of what was claimed, and history will too. It all sounded so wonderful in 1997.

      • 560
        barefootcontessa says:

        Milburn is going so that he can spend more time with his money.

        • 615
          Boris Carloffe says:

          Milburn is not just a useless MP but a complete waste as a human being. Both Lazy and Useless.
          The sooner he goes the better

        • 635
          talamunji says:

          Completely without principles too.

    • 528
      sick as a parrott says:

      Breaking News Champion Troughers the Anne and Alan Keen have thier main residence taken over by squaters – more power to the people

    • 566
      MI6 says:

      Are these lot really trying to f–k the Country as they are doing such a good job, its like having our own G Bush in power, I suppose if they really f–k things up and there is civil unrest it will justify the Paramilitary Police force they have been building for the last 12 years, the Swastika licking fu–ers.

  2. 2
    Steve Expat says:

    What fucking planet does this guy live on?

    Does he have $100,000,000,000 lying down the back of the sofa, and if so does he not think that he’d be better off paying down some of the national debt rather than some stupid international grandstanding exercise??

    He is completely fucking bonkers, general election NOW please.

    • 21
      Dr Jung says:

      He plays this ’saviour of the 3rd world’ time and again – in fact whenever he’s most insecure. It’s tedious and cycnical. Even the Bono types must see through it now. It’s beneath contempt, nothing whatever to do with real empathy – just ‘hey its that Glasto time of year again’.

      • 34
        The Dark Lord says:

        and how much is the BBC spending on Glasto?

        • 57
          Anonymous says:

          Just wait until Jacko’s funeral. Wall-to-wall coverage and the other prime mentalist will decree that flags will be flown at half-mast. Royal mourning for at least 7 days.
          You think I am joking?

        • 82
          Dr Jung says:

          Its Gordon’s Summer of Love. And then who cancels OUR debt?

        • 218
          Dippy ness says:

          TOO MUCH!!

        • 636
          talamunji says:

          BBC must be pestered relentlessly to release information on expenses -

          they’ve had it too good for too long: Flowers, Champagne & Cuff links -

          which they (BBC executives) approve – without consultation – that they

          think the license payer will accept. I have observed carefully the

          rotation of staff and duplication of effort by BBC – and having a grasp

          of home economics……………I hereby offer my GUARANTEED services

          to the BBC to reduce their costs by at least 5%: It is only fair to add

          that I am 77 years of age – have seen so much of life,that any prison

          in this country,even at my age,would be a cake-walk – and I do not

          give a flying —- for anything they might threaten me with.

    • 37
      freddie flintoff says:

      is it me or is brown bonkers?

    • 46
      Energy Analyst says:

      What planet are any of them on. We already pay 35% more than any one else for fuel. No wonder Corus as Teeside is closing they can’t afford the electricity, While these Quangorats Tax and Tax they are bankrupting the Businesses that pay the workers. Why don’t they go and have another War and see how much dept they can run up. Where the Fuck do you think all the money went in the first place, Yes down in IRAQ, and what good was that. We have a load of Monkey Wankers running the Loonatic asylum.

    • 119
      Sylvia's Mother: says:

      Funny it gets announced now with media saturation of MJ death. Its that old labour spin machine back in full spin mode and of course the cover up or hide bad or highly sensitive stuff wherever possible. Is there no end to the depths this guy will sink. I truly look at this guy and want throw a very severe left hook into his jaw. Fuck I truly hate this man. My wife has taken to covering the telly for fear I will throw something at it!

      • 120
        Sylvia's Mother: says:

        When his on.

      • 277
        syvia says:

        i agree with my son.

      • 441
        English Viking says:

        I had to buy a new telly because I did throw something at it.

        • 474
          Repetitive Strain says:

          You can see how Gordon is getting on with the job of seeing us through the recession.

          TV sales have risen six percent in the last month alone.

        • 486
          Go Labour! (and don't come back) says:

          I got rid of my TV years ago, so I don’t have to see that one-eyed Scottish c’unt (and his grinning idiot predecessor) and I don’t care to watch the wall-to-wall shit the channel’s show as entertainment for the millions of dribbling uneducated barely human scum that Labour’s pitiful excuse for an education system vomits into the world every year. Hey, last time I looked, even David Attenborough documentaries featured a rock soundtrack to keep the fat plebby morons from switching to BigBro or BGT or Ibiza Uncovered or Reps in Ibiza or Uncovered Reps in Ibiza or whatever other complete shit the twats who voted Labour in the last three general elections watch in lieu of having a meaningful existence.

          Top Gear was good, though.

    • 147
      Under the Radar says:

      Responsibility for stability to be given to FSA FFS!, There’s a lot that can be done before GE

      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/darling-may-strip-bank-of-key-powers-1721892.html

      Charles Fuckwits comments please

      • 204
        Moley says:

        The Government is dependent on survival for quantitative easing to support the gilts market.

        The Government wants to take decisions on QE out of Mervyn King’s hands to ensure that QE activities are coordinated with election timing.

        Mervyn’s only concern is the survival of the UK, he just does not understand that the survival of Brown and the Labour Party is far more important.

        If that’s the way the cookie crumbles, Mervyn’s duty is to stop QE now and force an election on the back of the ensuing financial crisis. That is his duty as the present guardian of financial stability.

      • 205
        Anonymous says:

        It’s because the FSA can be combined with other goverment groups within the EU, a central bank cannot.
        The hostile takeover has already happenend, UK PLC is in the stages of being asset stripped (we are assets as well and now belong to the EU)

    • 212
      Anonymous says:

      General election? b*ollocks – general assassination now.

    • 288
      Nigella says:

      all those who think he is a wanker say yes

    • 356
      Builders Crack says:

      The prick has probably forgotten that he sold off our gold.

      • 643
        McFuckwit of the Manse says:

        I’m getting on with the job and doing what’s necessary to help hard-working families get through the recession. It all started in America, you know. I’m just getting on with the job and doing what’s necessary………………It all started in America…………

    • 366
      Wycked Hors says:

      Swift had Gulliver spot Brown’s ilk almost three hundred years ago:

      I was chiefly disgusted with modern History. For having strictly examined all the Persons of greatest Name in the Courts of Princes for a hundred Years past, I found how the World had been misled by prostitute Writers, to ascribe the greatest Exploits in War to Cowards, the wisest Counsel to Fools, Sincerity to Flatterers, Roman Virtue to Betrayers of their Country, Piety to Atheists, Chastity to Sodomites, Truth to Informers. How many innocent and excellent Persons had been condemned to Death or Banishment, by the practising of great Ministers upon the Corruption of Judges, and the Malice of Faction. How many Villains had been exalted to the highest Places of Trust, Power, Dignity, and Profit: How great a Share in the Motions and Events of Courts, Councils, and Senates might be challenged by Bawds, Whores, Pimps, Parasites, and Buffoons.

      • 562
        barefootcontessa says:

        And Orwell had the government spot on in his ‘Animal Farm’!

        • 584
          Dr Jung says:

          Yes Orwell had it right. When people believe themselves able to establish the one great order of ‘universal justice’ and ‘incorruptibility’ (BLAIR – Obama too I fear); they’re always reductionists at heart – pathetically unaware of their own nature. To make a serious point for a change!! – for all his wealth and evasion of justice. Blair looks simply hollow to me. I can’t imagine how he lives with himself.

        • 602
          barefootcontessa says:

          Dr.Jung, Neither can I.

      • 630
        Betty Stringer says:

        Wicked Hors – Clever and apposite – plus ca change!

        • 649
          summer_breeze says:

          I can’t understand how he can live with the highly skanky cherie either.?

    • 496
      The "Angry Aberdonian" says:

      Last message broadcast from SS Britain: “Mayday, Mayday! Captain a crew gone completely insane! Have driven us onto rocks – hull breached, water now flooding all decks – Captain now busily throwing the remaining rations overboard to help feed the starving gulls!”

    • 605
      HERE LIE'S GORDON BROWN RIP says:

      A general election will solve fuck all. Brown and Cameron are like Pepsi and Coke, little difference. “Call me Dave” want’s a G E like he wants a hole in the head, he has promised the electorate a referendum on Europe, knowing it’s a cert that he will not have to deliver. G Brown has taken on the role of Patsy, soaking up hit after hit while railroading unpopular EU policy through Parliament, in his name until the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified. Hans Gert Pottering, President of the European Union said, ” When the Lisbon treaty has been fully ratified, Almost 100% of ALL European law will be passed in Brussels”. This, in my view gives the UK citizen two choises, he can call for a general strike NOW and take on our Parliament, or call for a general strike after ratification and take on Europe. THIS WILL HAPPEN, probably the latter.!!

  3. 3
    Anonymous says:

    There is no limit to the amount of our money this fuckwit can spend.

    • 24
      Doctor Mick says:

      There is and he has already past that limit.

    • 100
      Under the Radar says:

      Berkowitz has had immediate impact, Ed Balls pre-announced yesterday, Liam Byrne today, and Byrne also appears to have ‘mental issues’, his laugh, fucking arse

    • 103
      Throbber says:

      Whats more – the whole climate change bullshit is a complete and utter fraud.
      Bit like Brown I guess.

      • 497
        The "Angry Aberdonian" says:

        I’m disappointed with the Russians for not putting a plug in that volcano! It’s all very well having an eruption so big it can be seen from space – but having it pump out millions of tons of C02 per hour, shows a complete lack of environmental responsibility!

      • 564
        barefootcontessa says:

        The gorgon must have been tickled pink that Jacko’s death has swamped the news media. New labour been busy hiding all sorts of bad news.

  4. 4
    Marian Andersdottir says:

    More evidence that Brown has embarked on a scorched earth policy.

    • 28
      Bordeaux Binger says:

      His intention is simple. Leave such a massive debt that the Tories will have to bring in policies that totally alienate the voters thus at the election after next Labour will be back with such a massive majority that the party will be able to carry out Harold Wilson’s dream of extending the parliamentary term indefinitely.

      • 132
        Anonymous says:

        Neat theory but why bother. One sight of Ozzie Osborne sniffing his way through a budget speech will destroy the Tories. Broons challenge is to find some way of making people turn back to him. If he can achieve that then I will believe in miracles.

      • 371
        Moley says:

        There is an answer to that.

        What is needed is a discrete tax or taxes which is called “Labour failure Tax”, so that the electorate are constantly reminded of who bears the responsibility for higher taxation.

        If spending cuts are necessary because of Labour’s criminal mismanagement of the economy, then they should be called Labour Cuts.

        A rigorous public enquiry with powers of compulsion over witnesses should be held into the corruption and mismanagement of the economy by the present Government.(to run for the whole term of the next Parliament, findings to coincide with the next election),

        FOI should be applied rigorously to every recipient of public money, whether public funding is direct or indirect.

        The incoming Government only needs to ensure that there is a constant reminder to the population as to where the blame lies.

    • 81
      I am Sick says:

      But will call me Dave pull him up on this?

      Dont hold your breath, Dave`s a believer too.

      • 130
        Unsworth says:

        Maybe he is, but is he ‘at any price’?

      • 316
        Steve Expat says:

        I really hope Dave wouldn’t be so stupid – he listened I’m sure to what Mervyn, the OECD and the IMF have had to say. He sure as hell doesn’t want the latter in residence at the Treasury any time soon!

        • 447
          English Viking says:

          You’re hoping Dave won’t be stupid? If he was any good, he would be in power by now. The current bunch of crooks and failures have scored so many own goals that any decent opposition would be dancing on their graves by now. Still, he hasn’t quite got the hang of the opposing thing yet, he seems to order his rabble to vote against the Gov only when he knows it makes no difference, and votes with the Gov when they can’t win it on their own.

    • 121
      Sylvia's Mother: says:

      Spot on.

      • 514
        Anonymous says:

        The 2 major parties are identical and share common objectives, they are literally 2 cheeks of the same arse, with the minor parties performing the function of haemerroids.
        Their only skillset being they can “game the system” for their own benefit, very few could survive in a business/commercial environment.

  5. 5

    This climate change business is all bollocks. It is a total fraud and simply a way for this bastard abortion of a government to screw more money out of the British people and then waste it.

    Broon & Co are evil and corrupt crooks and fraudsters.

    • 45
      Auntie Vermin says:

      Great post! Get rid of the climate change lunatics who are relying on pseudoscience and belief concepts to get us all broke at the same time as feeling good! (?) Meanwhile, expensive organic food sales have collapsed, so that claptrap lasted as long as the easy money.

      No one yet has explained why, if CO2 is the cause of climate change and raising global temp (and CO2 has gone up and up for the last nine years) there has been no change in measurable temp. They even think that ice melting in the summer in the Arctic is due to human activity…its usual!

      In the last cold spell due to high pressure and no wind, the amount of energy provided by “wind farms” was 1% of their potential output. Sorry you’re cold missus but its climate change, and no you can’t borrow my coat! Idiots! Conmen of the first order, no wonder Shell got out of these stupid Eco projects!

      • 106
        Soapy Balls says:

        Arctic ice melting sea levels rise

        Oh Yes
        Try this <Gin and Tonic with ice and lemon.
        Note level in glass

        Do not drink, I mean it, will smack hand with ruler
        watch ice melt note level of drink

        put more ice in then drink to British education

        This comes by courtesy of a very old Greek

      • 122
        Doctor Mick says:

        The earth has actually been cooling since 1999, hence the discrete change of terminology from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”. The alarmists are rarely scientists but environmental bloggers, politicians and businessmen all queuing to get on the new gravy train.

        When a scientist like David Bellamy says its bollocks, I tend to believe him and not the fanatical amateurs.

        • 138
          Anonymous says:

          Lets be clear – most of it is awful science but David Bellamy is hardly an expert; like most of the scientists involved he comes from the soft applied science faculties. I will believe when Steve Wolfram says it is so.

        • 149
          Doctor Mick says:

          Couldn’t you get Steve to have a word in Gordon’s ear?

        • 367
          Proffesor Pat Pending says:

          I believe there used to be a lot of foliage in the desert many millions of years ago, we call it oil now, must have been man that caused it.
          On moore serious note level are rising faster than we think, you only have to look how far the archaeologists have yo dig down to find two thousand year old Roman artifacts, and they don’t take that into consideration

        • 396

          > I will believe when Steve Wolfram says it is so.

          Wolfram’s book “A New Kind of Science” is basically about the unpredictability of systems. Read it is what convinced me that Global Climate models where complete bunk to support a fraud.

        • 451
          Steve Wolfram says:

          It’s B*ll@cks

        • 650
          summer_breeze says:

          Absolutely Dr Mick – I also have taken note of what David Bellamy says and I’d take his word over the gorgons any day of the week.

          Also, since our manufacturing industries have all but disappeared over the last 30 years and people have stopped having real fires in their home, in that same space of 30 years, how can we possibly be causing global warming of any kind here???

          Burning less fuel at work and in the home causes greater damage by the governments logic, so lets reduce the price of petrol and drive to our hearts content, That’ll cure it!
          Which reminds me, how come petrol is more than a pound a litre again?

  6. 6
    HMRC's Bleeding Stone says:

    Mervyn King was begging him to stop spending the other day, yet he is prepared to blow more money (which I presume he’s going to just print) on another madcap scheme.

    This really smacks of a scorched earth policy before he’s forced out. There’s no way he would want to remain in charge beyond next year with this mess to fix.

  7. 7
    The Master says:

    Madness. It seems he comes up with these ideas that are clearly bonkers when there is no money. Who is advising him? Masters of the Universe again..

    • 231
      Dippy ness says:

      Blair, via Mandy of course. This way it’ll make GB the fall guy for all the wrongs of the last 11 years and Phoney will look like a saint in comparison.

    • 520
      Abolish the Licence Fee says:

      Just seen the c*nt on Sky misquoting Churchill. What a fucking useless pile of shit he is.

  8. 8
    H says:

    I get more scared with every announcement that comes from our glorious leader. If you thought he was deluded before, what is he now?

  9. 9
    Realist says:

    Actually the money doesn’t exist. The net cost will be a few millions on advisers, pr and advertising.

  10. 10
    Bongo Bongo Land says:

    Climate change – history shows it happens

    Enough taxation till you squeek
    Enough of Brown
    Enough of being robbed by the troughers
    Enough ZaNuLabor lies

    Forget climate change, we need government change!

  11. 11
    A pedant says:

    The Government can’t pay its bills.

    Being a blogger is no excuse for misplacing apostrophes. Polly doesn’t do it. Gordon is a master of apostrophes and has committed to increase his use of apostrophes by 2.3% in real terms for the next 3 years. Ed Balls is spending £100m a week to teach every child how to use apostrophes. Theres no place for the incorrect use of apostrophe’s under Labour.

    • 15
      Elliot, [4b] says:

      Correct number of apostrophes shame about the placement.

      • 47
        A pedant says:

        Ed Balls is also spending £50 million a day on consultants to design an outreach programme on the concept of irony.

        • 608
          Beano says:

          Forget apostrophes, Brown is the master of catastrophes, and with Corus going under, the only Iron left in Britain is that in irony!

      • 54
        michel de montaigne says:

        !!!! there’s!!!!! = there is

        • 262
          A pedant says:

          Based on your IP address, we have just signed you up for the Irony Awareness Programme. Report on Monday. Lunch is not provided, we can’t afford it.

    • 128
      Sylvia's Mother: says:

      Boll*cks to number of apostrophes its the decimal point I am more concerned about!

  12. 14
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    Knock Knock
    Who’s there?
    The IMF

    Just a matter of time….

  13. 16
    NotaSheep says:

    The Conservatives need to question why committing to spending more money on anything is automatically a good thing. I think the public realises the truth and will accept that Labour have spent too much and have wasted much of it.

    • 18
      Raving Loon says:

      There’s no real difference between the Tories and Labour, they all favour a bigger government. What we witness is merely a confilct of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

      • 86
        I am Sick says:

        Well said, it resembles a Mafia turf war, rather than a clash of ideologies.

        ZanuLabour vs ZaBlueLabour.

      • 111
        Sir Mufbourne - Harbour says:

        Bang on the money. – A great analogy, it is just turf wars. I am convinced a new government which doesn’t include tory or libdems or labour would give a new vigour and hope to people. I’m itching to start up a business in the right atmosphere and renaissance but a real one. Not a phoney tony falsified dream built upon a socialist hidden agenda dressed up like a falsified tory hidden agenda.

  14. 19
    Gordon's missing eye says:

    Four points here

    1. Have you noticed that they have been quietly dropping the term ” Man made Global Warming” and are sneaking in the more accurate and historically valid climate change.

    2. The experts have a 100% record of getting it wrong – global cooling, then man made Global warming now its climate change.

    3. The socialists and greenies have hijacked this ‘issue’ as a way of taxing and controlling us – the latter would also have us depopulate.

    4. This whole debate ignores man’s ability to adapt to the conditions in which he lives. We have managed to populate this planet from the high Andes to the deserts of Australia – we adapt – that’s what we do! Be it our diet or the type of crops grown – we adapt.

    Ground zero for the envro-nazi’s is Greenland where the ice field has melted to the extent that the stone cottages used by Cattle Farmers just 500 years ago have been exposed!

    Oh! and it was called greenland for a reason – it was green!!!

    • 31
      Popeye says:

      The greens won’t be happy until we are back in caves with tallow candles.

      • 96
        Lil Olmey says:

        Such a pity there are so few caves.

        • 166
          Builders Crack says:

          No problem,we can buy more caves, just set up a fucking quango(answerable to Ed Balls) to waste several billion on whether we can buy them from third world countries or develop the technology ourselves.

      • 245
        Berlusconi's right hand says:

        Tallow candles are bad, really bad

      • 573
        Anonymous says:

        the ultimate Green soloution-watch Logan’s Run…………….

        • 606
          HERE LIE'S GORDON BROWN RIP says:

          Have you seen the FEMA death camps in the US and the million plastic coffins in the state of Indiana.?

      • 614
        A Sesnsible Chap says:

        The Greens don’t want to have us living in caves. They want us to return to some kind of medieval idyll where they live in the castle and the rest of us are residing in the swamp at the bottom of the hill.

        Somebody on here recently refered to the Greens as the ‘tomato party’ because they start off green but given the right conditions (ie the ’sunlight’ of power) they turn red.

        Sounds about right!

    • 36
      Doctor Mick says:

      Remember the Millenium Bug? Planes were gonna fall out of the sky, whole cities would go up in flames, the tele would stop working, nuclear missiles would start launching themselves; a whole array of disasters would occur if we did not heed what the IT industry was telling us. So we listened, paid their horrendous fees and they all cleaned up and retired to the Bahamas.

      Nothing happenedl. Nada. Zilchtown. So it was worth doing after all?

      Maybe we should listen to the environmental “activists” as well?

      • 48
        PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

        Retired to the Bahamas?! No dear, IR35 meant that the money generated by Y2K hysteria was needed for IT bods to live on while out of work.

        • 90
          Doctor Mick says:

          Me heart bleeds.

        • 370
          thick as thieves says:

          but you haven’t got a heart doctor dildo!

        • 406
          Doctor Mick says:

          and you haven’t got a brain, thicko. I know which I prefer to have.

        • 484

          Please don’t feed the troll named “Thick as Pigshite”.

        • 505
          thick as thieves says:

          only took you an hour to come up with that weak line doctor dildo.
          well done!
          you may not have a heart or a brain but at least you have got your strap-on, eh?
          now strap-on and fuck off.
          thankyou.
          and I didn’t know aniticitizenone was your lesbian lover.
          you crackhead tory lesbian trolls give yourselves away.
          you see nobody likes a butch fat manhating lesbians, and I suppose that is why you pretend to be men when you post.
          bit fucking weird though innit.
          very creepy.

        • 607
          HERE LIE'S GORDON BROWN RIP says:

          Don’t hold back THICK AS THIEVES. Say what you think.!

        • 627
          Anonymous says:

          TAT is a pink panzer – he doesn’t think.

      • 52
        Canary Wharf Rat says:

        Actually DM something did happen.
        Thousands of corporations were held to ransom in 1999 paying huge sums to the doomsday soothsayers and were sold overpriced service contracts on their IT installations.

      • 250
        Ol' one-eyed Nick says:

        Y2K was a masterpiece compared with this ‘climate change’ lark

      • 275
        Argie says:

        No, Dr Mick, it was real. Only the dopey media made the daft predictions you quote. It was sorted (not completely) by junior IT staff doing desperately boring work for little money. Meanwhile the big-hitter IT “experts” (who built the Y2K absurdity into computer software the first place) were getting rich by busily stoking up the dotcom bubble.

        • 341
          Fells Point barfly says:

          Leading up to Y2K, Very Large American Bank was a customer of mine. They were VERY worried. One weekend we set all the date clocks to 31 December 1999, at 2300 hrs. Then waited an hour.
          Nothing bad happened. WTF? Possible problem….. solution! Some folks made MILLIONS out of the hype.

        • 409
          Argie says:

          Rubbish of the highest order, barfly. It was nothing to do with “date clocks”. If a computer program assumes (as many absurdly did – especially in banks) that the first two digits of the year are “19″, that program ain’t gonna work when the first two digits are really “20″. Work it out for yourself: think of an interest calculation for example. That’s why the Bank of England and the Bank of International Settlements in Basle took it so seriously. Just as well.

          In total contrast, climate change alarmists are unable to point to any empirical (i.e. physically observed, not theoretical) evidence that, if humans emit more CO2, the consequence will be dangerous global warming. Yet we’re planning to further damage our already crippled Western economies in deference to that invalidated hypothesis. Madness.

        • 585
          D L George says:

          The problem wasn’t so much the first two digits increasing Argie, it was that in some cases there wasn’t any ‘first two digits’ to increase in the first place. As a lot of the software was old, or written by other people with out of date documentation, very few people knew for certain what could break.

          97…
          98…
          99…
          0 = crash bang wollop.

        • 589
          D L George says:

          Ignore me Argie, we’re on the same page.

          note to self – “STOP SPEED READING – You’re crap at it!”

    • 42
      PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

      Depopulation is a fine notion. Fewer people = fewer MPs.

      And fewer people means less competition for natural resources. Everyone’s a winner. Except those who don’t get born.

      • 76
        A baby above 12 weeks is undeniably fully human says:

        Well then, for the sake of the planet and the conservation of finite resources and space, you know what to do then.

        We shall all miss you terribly.

        (Normally agree with your shrewd observations or laugh at your witty remarks, but unless there is some hidden irony in that comment, it’s frightfully insane and atrocious. Who decides who lives or who dies? Who determines who and how many children we have? Neo-Stalinist authoritarian lunacy!)

        • 420
          PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

          I never intended to be that sinister!! Contraception was the only means of preventing births I had in mind. If you look at the birth rate for white developed world women, it’s something like 1.8 per woman, ie a falling population. In other, more religiously dominated communities it is much much higher.

          And, as it happens, I agree- if it looks like a person, it is a person.

      • 158
        Doctor Mick says:

        Nature has its own way of dealing with overpopulation: war, the Plague and socialism.

        • 213
          snafu says:

          My money’s on Plague, with War and Famine to show. We’ve arrived at the end of the age of antibiotics, more or less at the same time as the start of the resourced wars. The planet is in self-clean mode.

        • 234
          Sinic(sic) says:

          Malthus, anyone?

        • 270
          thick as thieves says:

          how the fuck did a cripple like you with you sp@stic genes slip through the net doctor dildo?
          is your warmongering, racism against Palestinians and hatred of muslims of any value to the human race?
          course it’s fucking not and yet and yet you lecture others on eugenics at the same time as you promote the genocide of Palestinians and the occupaton of Palestine.
          you are a big fat fucking lesbian nutter doctor mick.
          ’tis time to begin your ECT programme to wipe your mind clear of all its violent warmongering content.
          it is the only way.
          we don’t even need your consent for treatment, you are clearly a psycopath who is a real and present danger to others.

        • 304
          Doctor Mick says:

          Thank you for your constructive insight once again, thicko. Always a delight.

        • 377
          thick as thieves says:

          insight is what it is all about doctor dildo.
          take a psycopathic zionist like you: you are a zionist and claim to represent the interests of israel. the jewish people recently suffered a holocaust at the hands of the nazis.
          and now perversely you are attempting to carry out the genocide of the Palestinian people so that you can steal their land, Palestine.
          but strangely you have no insight whatsoever into that reality.
          you are a fucking weirdo.
          time to begin your ECT treatment, doctor mick.
          don’t struggle, it will only make things worse.

        • 408
          Doctor Mick says:

          Genocide of the Palestinians? You’re raving, Sunshine. They are breeding like rabbits and there’s more of them now than ever.

        • 495

          Please don’t feed the troll called “thick as pigshite”.

        • 509
          thick as thieves says:

          we shall let the reader decide for themselves.
          you have presented a very weak case though, I must say.

      • 410

        PT,

        Without Labour’s immigration disaster the UK population would have gone down by quite a few millions. Look at the birth rate it would happen quite naturally.

        With a more homogeneous culture we’d have avoided Labours crime wave.

        LAbour need more people for thei Ponzi schemes.

        • 567
          Susie says:

          And their voting rights on the EU Commission.

          Traitors.

        • 657
          Dysgwrcymraeg says:

          Voting rights, yes, Dame Shirley Porter got into deep doo doos for what was seen as gerrymandering. How it pales into insignificance to what the socialists shower are doing to our population ! This is Gerrymandering on such a scale we really need a new word to define it. It’s so blatant that most cant or wont see it for what it is. !

    • 88
      The hole in the ozone layer says:

      Hey, what about me?

      • 97
        Lil Olmey says:

        Shut up.

      • 117
        Mr Volcano-Person says:

        Shut it or I’ll give you another blast.

        • 146
          Matt C says:

          Oh well it aint the west that’s causing overpopulation anyway YAY FOR ONCE WE AREN’T TO BLAME WOOOOOOOOOO.

          So I would personally endorse the worldwide one child policy.

          Tough luck muslims and mormons go cry about your divine rights to have 4 wives and zillions of kids to someone who cares.

        • 287
          thick as thieves says:

          oh god matt c, just when I think you have reached the depth of dullardness you manage to post a comment even more cretinous than your last.
          as you are so dim I will state this as simply as I can-
          poverty = population increase
          wealth = population stabilisation
          so the answer to decreasing and stabilising population is by increasing wealth.
          which is not possible because the rich western countries keep exploiting the poor ones.
          you are wrong matt, large populations are caused by the west.
          and having caused the problem ignorant retard westerners like you try to blame someone else.
          you fucking idiot.

        • 358
          Fells Point barfly says:

          Thick as…. large populations are caused by lots of people fucking lots of other people of the opposite sex. Unless you are saying that they only do this because there is nothing else to do, being poor and all?

        • 381
          thick as thieves says:

          facking hell I do not believe it, you are even stupider than matt c!
          people in poor countries have more children because they do not have the insurance of wealth and they cannot afford healthcare therefore suffer higher infant mortality rates.
          and so they have more children to combat both those realities.
          if I had not already awarded the sp@stic of the week award you would have walked it.
          or should that be limped it.
          you idiot.

        • 433
          Matt C says:

          That arguement would of worked 20 years ago thicko it doesn’t now, Apart from Aids and civil wars, Africa and the poorer middle east states are churning out surplus to requirement for big business to import for slave labour.

          Why and who do you think the dictators keep getting the blank cheques from to keep the people poor and breeding more slaves. Big business through the proxy of government.

          Another thing Thicko, explain why alot of immigrant groups are having 4 or 5 kids at a time when they live in the UK and west?? Not all of them are fresh of the banana boat and the medicine and wealth excuse doesn’t wash either when they live and are educated in the west.

        • 506

          Warning! Thick as Pigshite is a troll. Please do not feed.

        • 515
          thick as thieves says:

          anticitizen,
          you keep repeating yourself, you are like a scratched record.
          what an imbecile you are!

          matt c,
          be a man and face up to it matt c, you are just a racist honky c’unt.
          shut the fuck up crackerjack.

        • 613
          HERE LIE'S GORDON BROWN RIP says:

          FAO TaT or TiT. Live Aid concert 1986 raised £MILLIONS to help feed the starving masses of Ethiopia. 20+ years later population doubled, twice as many starving. Your right it is the fault of the West. “YOU FUCKWHIT”.!!!

        • 651
          summer_breeze says:

          yeah but what about chavs?

    • 197
      DZ says:

      Google for Milankovich and Vostok. It is heavy going but worth it.

    • 203
      DZ says:

      Inserted comment in wrong place last time, sorry.

      Google: Milankovich and Vostok.

      It is heavy going but very interesting. Long-term climate cycles based on miniscule cyclical changes in Earth’s orbit. Mathematics by Milankovitch ; groung truth by Antarctic ice core (Russia and USA).

      • 413

        The fit with temperature is much better than then the lagging C02 (caused by outgassing from oceans, as warmer water expels gas)

        • 644
          talamunji says:

          \\They (who-ever) are chancers – paid by governments…..and who would
          believe them ?

    • 207
      Alan Douglas says:

      Wish I’d kept the blog article which listed the warming/ice age scares alternating back about 150 years.

      Persistent liers, aren’t they ?

      Alan Douglas

      • 301
        snafu says:

        Depends on who you are referring to, AD. Many of the scientists are, in fact, quite honest, and doing their best to make sense of a highly complex, dynamic, open-ended and multi-variable equation. The evidence is very mixed; there are several plausible scenarios, and warming is one of them whether you like it or not.

        The dishonesty tends to creep in at the political level (surprise!) when the doubts and the caveats get thrown out in order to gain traction.

        • 416

          Snafu,

          Long term chaotic models tend to chance. Due to exponential error (analogous to compound interest) the actual information content of each recursive stage (ie. a bit more into the future) falls.

          Some things are inherently linearly unpredictable. The climate must have massive damping effects which seem absent from most climate models (due to the scare = grant effect IMHO).

        • 482
          snafu says:

          Anti,
          We’re psinging from the same psalter, more or less. There clearly are very effective damping elements, which have worked well for long periods of time – but you are obviously well-read enough to know (from history and from math) that brief periods of rapid & non-linear change happen when enough sub-systems have been overloaded. There is some quite persuasive evidence that we may be approaching that kind of threshold, although admittedly CO2 may not be the main issue.
          More importantly, Stevie Wonder was obviously greater than Jacko. (The Secret Life of Plants excepted).

        • 527
          Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

          Many scientists depend on grants from govt or other organisations promoting the warming scare.

          A multinational company Evelop are wanting to build a windfarm locally. 11 of their employees also work for the IPCC – they are hardly likely to be unbiased. How many more scientists working with the IPCC have similar vested interests?

        • 574
          RobC says:

          “A highly complex, dynamic, open-ended and multi-variable equation”
          In plain english “Anything could happen, anytime,anywhere to anybody.

          I subscribe to the view that only a politician with delusions of fabulous tax revenues could fervently promote a model that must of its essence take into consideration e.g. the beat of a butterfly’s wing,planetary influence on tides,sun spot activity,plagues, volcanic activity,bio fuel decimation of staple food supplies to the third world and de-forestation.You could add thousands of other factors possibly to numerous to mention which would have some effect on the same model.unless you are as thick as two planks, anyone claiming to have irrefutable evidence that the world is going to be up to its armpits in water by the end of the century based on the “anything can and will happen in a strict time frame because my computer model told me” can only be described as a charlatan.

        • 582
          Moley says:

          One point to bear in mind is that mankind’s thermal output is certainly capable of significantly raising temperatures in the vicinity of cities, and may well be sufficient to influence climate.

          The answer is to pursue thermal efficiency and minimise thermal outputs from every source.

          It would be Interesting to look for correlations between reduced global energy consumption and falling global temperatures.

  15. 20
    The PM shouldn't be disturbed but this cunt is says:

    When historians look back on this critical moment they will say ‘how the flying fuck did this lying, bullying, inadequate, brooding, sulking, chip on both shoulders, smearing, spendaholic, hate filled, misogynist, mendacious, mental spastic, McDoom wreck Britain’s economy so terrifyingly quickly.

    He’s spunked all the assets, blown everything of value, and is now applying for loan after loan, card after card, and will soon be ferreting around down the back of the nation’s metaphorical sofa, although this loony probably does actually have his horrifically chewed stubs down the back of the sofa he uses for Government.

    Laughing at English high rate taxpayers.
    Any society which would vote for the party which took them to a war based upon lies, and now has these economical vandals just 13 points behind the official opposition is a very sick society.
    The hordes of professional benefit scroungers and local government paper shufflers will be raised from their slumbers to stick a vote for Labour in an envelope next year.

    If you have a true commercial skill, leave the country.

  16. 22
    Anonymous says:

    Does Brown lay awake at night trying to think up ever more ways to get his knife in the slot of our dwindling piggy banks?

  17. 23
    homeland insecurity says:

    I read that the report into the collapse of MG/Rover cost £16m.
    I offer the conclusion,crap cars crap business plan,ran out of money.
    Where do I get my share

    • 92
      Lizzie says:

      You left off the “crap government”

    • 154
      Gordon: says:

      MG = Manic Gordon you lay off calling my MG a rubbish car, its still going strong even after the five blown head gaskets repaired under expenses of course.

  18. 25
    Anonymous says:

    The huge financial tribute that we pay the EU is the first thing that should be cut.

  19. 26
    Pete-s says:

    There are similarities and differences between McMental and Jackson. They were both delusional, living in fantasy worlds. However, Jackson had some grasp of reality and ‘did the right thing’, our idiot only says it rather than doing it.

  20. 27
    Popeye says:

    Just what does it take to get this loon sectioned?

    • 84
      Lizzie says:

      More than a tin of spinnich obviously.

    • 99
      Lil Olmey says:

      A chainsaw ?

    • 109
      1984: The Manual says:

      I was asking this question the other day……

      The man is so off his nut he’s now going to borrow more money and give it away! Might as well stick the money in a pile and set fire to it for all the good it will do.

      Too many reminders of Hitler moving non-existent armies about maps. At least he had the courtesy to shoot himself.

  21. 30
    A man in a white coat says:

    Brown’s delusions are such that this latest nonsense involves commitments up to 2020 when we all know he can’t last beyond 2010. He is living in what, for him, is a fantasy world and is, for us, a nightmare. Luckily this new fund requires others to agree and, as Guido observes, they won’t. So we should be OK. In fact, it is possible that Brown knows that the others won’t sign up and is just trying to get a favourable headline.

  22. 32
    Wacko Gordo to Bonkers Brown says:

    Notice how t is no longer called man made Global warming but has become Climate Change?

    As the Earth’s climate has always changed and always will change then how the fuck will taxing it stop it from changing?

    • 72
      Lizzie says:

      The only change you need to worry about is political change. Britain needs political change desperately, bring on the Tories to prevent things getting any worse.

    • 452
      Pricky Gayes says:

      It was the deniers who renamed it climate change. No scientists, even the ones who doubt that it is man-made, think anything other than warming is going on.

      • 531
        Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

        Wrong – the warmists had to rename it when they realised temperatures had stopped going up

  23. 39

    Gordon is to be fervently applauded for his straining to avert the imminent meteorological apocalypse of man-made global warming.

    This money he has announced to be appropriated from overfed, underworked, undertaxed and over-carbon-emitting Britons and given to the deserving Communist Chinese and others, is necessary, as proven by Al Gore endorsed scientific cognoscenti, and shows his clear comprehension of climate change.

    Cameron and the Tories feign intelligent liberal trepidation at the threat posed by carbon dioxide-created climate disruption but it is well known that many of the philistine Tories doubt that a colourless, odourless heavy gas generated by fire combustion and animal respiration can raise worldwide temperatures and if so, that this is inherently calamitous.

    As is written in the Tao, and coded into my Fidelity Graphics software, “Socialism shall triumph over the murmurs of common sense!”

    • 50
      freddie flintoff says:

      oh fuck off charles

    • 75
      Lola says:

      I do love creative irony.

    • 89
      none will be saved! says:

      ‘proven by Al Gore ‘ really??? good god man show me the proof we need these facts as we only have 100 months to profit !! sorry save the gore,sorry planet!.

      • 156
        Matt C says:

        Al Gore’s film and it’s statistics have been debunked long ago , Also for someone so concerened about global warming why does Al Gore have one of the biggest electricity bills in his state??

        • 617
          A Sensible Chap says:

          Because he thinks fighting ‘climate change’ is only for the little people.

          Lying, hypocritical bastard. The Noble Peace Prize was his reward for not fighting Bush over the 2000 Presidential election ‘result’.

    • 161
      Sylvia's Mother: says:

      Charles go eat what you spew – Shit.

    • 276
      Jasper Maskelyne says:

      Al Gore got the “peace” prize not a scientific one

    • 292
      Charles' Hardwidget says:

      Charles! You’re back!

      Where were you, applying some Quantitative Easing to your haemorrhoids perhaps?

    • 641
      talamunji says:

      I reciprocate your sentiments Freddie.

  24. 39
    JCohen says:

    I hate to be an anally-retentive pain in the arse, but hell – I am one. “Pay IT’S bills…?” Guido, Guido, Guido! You can do better than that!

    • 65
      John East says:

      It’s, when a contraction of IT IS, is correct. However, it’s should also be correct in the genitive or possessive case too. So Guido’s sentence, “Pay it’s bills……” is surely the correct use of an apostraphe, is it not?

      • 115
        Catosays says:

        No it’s not correct.

      • 135
        Unsworth says:

        “apostraphe”? WTF is that?

      • 240
        Alan Douglas says:

        Its is already possessive, so does not use the catastrophe in that case.

        Gordon’s government

        Its government

        are both correct.

        You only use the apostr when contracting IT IS to IT’S

        Clear as mud ?

        Thought so !

        Alan Douglas

      • 360
        Doctor Mick says:

        No, that is an incorrect use of the apostrope or apostraphe in this particulat case. “It’s” means it is, whereas “its” denotes possession, being an exception to the general rule simply to distinguish it from “it is”.

        It was First Form English in the grammar school heydays.

        • 424
          Anonymous says:

          Can also mean ‘it has’…. but I feel the argument has already been lost to new usage.

        • 539
          Abolish the Licence Fee says:

          Here’s some more subtle genitive distinctions for you to mull over:

          Dickens’ novels
          Mary Poppins’ bag
          Arthur Harris’s carpet bombing
          Martin Peters’s time at Chelsea

          Not many people know that.

    • 637
      JCohen says:

      Dizzy (on..erm…some other blog) made exactly the same error last week.
      Ever seen Guido and Dizzy in the same place, at the same time? Makes you think, dunnit?

  25. 41
    Anonymous says:

    And so it goes on. You put up with a system that allows just 22% of the electorate, about 15% of the population, to elect them. He only has to appeal to around 35% of the people who bother to vote. And so it goes on. We all know the political system is 100% corrupt, there for the benefit of politicians to engraciate themselves with power, wealth and patronage.We have minority rule, it wouldn’t be allowed in belfast now or anywhere else in the democratic world. It is only democratic once every 5 years, that’s it. Once there they tell you how to live your life.

    There really does need to be a sea change in the way we are governed but this is not going to happen and with the european union, it will only get worse.

    After all that has happened with expenses and labour being humiliated at the recent polls, the damian mcbride affair,they have learnt nothing and continue to con the electorate. We certainly don’t need more laws to prevent MP’s from cheating, we only need them to enforce the ones that we already have, after all as Mathew Parris says in the Times, fraud is fraud no matter how you dress it up and it is already a crime. Nothing will change, even if honest Dave gets to power?

    • 71
      Lola says:

      They’ve gone beyond ‘conning the electorate’. They don’t respect us that much. Now they just lie to us. Blatantly. They do not care that we see through all these lies. They just go on doing it.

  26. 43
    Anonymous says:

    Caligula’s (Brown’s) political payments for support, generosity and extravagance had exhausted the state’s treasury. A number of other desperate measures by Caligula (Brown’s) are described by historians. In order to gain funds, Caligula (Brown) asked the public to lend the state money.
    The entire New Lab bunker are as mad as fucking hatters – i’ve been told that Ed Balls has taken to dressing up as Apollo at cabinet meetings.

  27. 44
    Jacko and Godo, they're both wacko says:

    It wasn’t that long ago (pre New Labour) that living on credit or HP was called living on the never never. Like Jacko, Gordo is living in Never Never Land.

  28. 49
    Anonymous says:

    Guido,
    There is no need for a question mark. The man is bonkers.

  29. 51
    Piscator says:

    Mr. Brown is entirely deluded/mad/sectionable! This whirling dervish comes up with one jolly jape after the other. One day it’s Obama Beach, then cleaning up politics, then this guff. Every single thing merits a new diversionary tactic or theme, just to cover up the preceding gaffe.

    Surely, in this virtual house, we have a medical man of some standing who can name the distressing condition from which our PM suffers?

    • 66
      PT Barnham's shit shoveller says:

      I’m no medical doctor, but GB seems to be suffering from most of these:

      List of personality disorders defined in the DSM

      Cluster A (odd or eccentric disorders)

      * Paranoid personality disorder: characterized by irrational suspicions and mistrust of others.
      * Schizoid personality disorder: lack of interest in social relationships, seeing no point in sharing time with others.
      * Schizotypal personality disorder: characterized by odd behavior or thinking.

      Cluster B (dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders)

      * Antisocial personality disorder: “pervasive disregard for the law and the rights of others”.
      * Borderline personality disorder: extreme “black and white” thinking, instability in relationships, self-image, identity and behavior.
      * Histrionic personality disorder: “pervasive attention-seeking behavior including inappropriate sexual seductiveness and shallow or exaggerated emotions”.
      * Narcissistic personality disorder: “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy”.

      Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)

      * Avoidant personality disorder: social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and avoidance of social interaction.
      * Dependent personality disorder: pervasive psychological dependence on other people.
      * Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (not the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder): characterized by rigid conformity to rules, moral codes and excessive orderliness.

    • 67
      Pete-s says:

      Hundreds of years ago, this loon would be put in the ‘Bethlehem Hospital’ known by it’s nickname Bedlam. Us, the public, would be allowed to look through the bars at the suffering of the insane. For Brown, this would be one NHS improvement I would reverse.

    • 73
      Wolfie Smith says:

      Climate change – what fucking joke. The climate’s been changing since the year dot, and besides if every one in China and India wants a fridge and a car who’s going to stop them?

      Oh, and one more thing – if I hear another report about the swine flu canard I’m going to puke.

      Why aren’t we rioting in the streets?

  30. 56
    Canary Wharf Rat says:

    The man is a twat. Developing countries = Swiss bank accounts

    • 545
      Allan@Aberdeen says:

      These ‘developing countries’ – we’re meaning sub-Saharan Africa, right? Are these countries actually developing at all in any way apart from their greatly increasing populations?

  31. 58
    Lizzie says:

    For the survival of the nation Brown should be declared insane and removed from Downing Street. Then a general election should be called. This is now beyond a joke, the man is clearly unhinged. When is the march on Downing Street?

  32. 61
    Physician go treat Gord says:

    I see Jacko’s doctor is looking for a new job. Physician to Gordon James Brown, son of the Manse would seem a most apt position for him.

  33. 63
    Lola says:

    He really has lost the plot hasn’t he? There is no-one in the country and in government, especially in his own party, who now believes anything McMental says or does. Maybe there are a very few sycophants and tribalists who cling to the last shreds of leftyism, against all the evidence of its epic failure that surrounds them, that remain loyal to the Brown supporters club. But every day, spookily, it gets more and more like the Hitler Bunker.

    He’s is either entirely self deluded i.e. genuinely mad, or he is being deliberately destructive. Pursuing a policy of national ruination in order to make things as difficult as possible for the next administration., which even he, must now see, won’t be run by him.

    In my view such scorched earth behaviour is nothing short of Treachery. How dare he, how bloody dare he, ruin my country for his shallow political ambition. Surely to God there is some dusty paragraph in long forgotten legislation that will allow us to go after the bastard for this? Better yet are there not mechanisms, like the US’s ‘impeachment’ that can be used to winkle him out of his bunker as quickly as possible?

    Even then his removal would only achieve modest damage limitation. But that would be a start.

    Come on then. Tell me? Can something be done before he totally ruins us?

    • 77
      Lizzie says:

      yes, a march on Downing Street and demand a general election.

      • 157
        Sir Mufbourne - Harbour says:

        Lizzie, I’ve said this before; we need a leader such as a prominent rt’d army general, ex MI5 or someone of high standing to lead the call. Without that a march ain’t going to gather momentum. Big pensions buy silence, sadly.

    • 223
      Anonymous says:

      It’s the selfishness of the labour MPs that are the problem here; there are plenty of mechanisms to kick out a mad PM and force a general election for the good of the country.

      The problem is that all those mechanisms assume that the majority of the ruling party’s MPs are willing to put the good of the country ahead of a couple of extra months’ troughing money, and labour MPs simply won’t do that.

      Labour MPs know that Brown/Labour are actively destroying the country out of sheer spite, but they won’t vote for an election or to kick out their leader because they simply want a few extra thousand in their personal bank accounts before they get kicked out by the electorate.

      There’s no way we’ll get an election before june 2010 unless, as mentioned above, you get a march (backed by the army/police) to downing street and parliament to physically eject the entire government and to force a general election.

      Public unrest backed by the police/army is the only way out of this insanity.

      If we wait until june 2010 it’ll be too late; labour/brown would have pushed us economically over the edge by then and we’ll be back to the stone age.

      • 556
        Abolish the Licence Fee says:

        You’re not going to get any protest backed by the police or army. Certainly not this side of next June and probably not ever.

      • 583
        Moley says:

        Look abroad and you’ll see that protests and marches are often organised by political parties and supported by the media.

        I don’t see it; there are no real leaders.

      • 645
        Shithead says:

        By 2010 Mandelscum will have forced through the Lisbon Treaty and we’ll all be fucked. The unelected “Lord” and veteran bum-fucker must be stopped. I’m not sure how, but a march on Parliament looks like the only option. Who will head the march I have no idea, but I’m working on it.

  34. 69
    Anita Nobasis says:

    What a week Gordon paying tribute to Jacko while the poor old family of the hostages are reeling at his lack of concern -the man is a shambles and his wife is at Glastonbury..Fat cats are rejoicing their bonus’s are back ….

    One piece of good news Jacko throwing a seven wiped Philip Green’s fat face and the hairy angel Simon Cowell off the news and front pages

    Cheers Jacko a star performer to the end

    • 83
      Never mind the bollocks. says:

      That’s our Gord. He’s more concerned about pop stars and reality show contestants than he is about those he sends away to fight for his causes.

  35. 70
    Professor Chocolotis says:

    Brown should be put in the Tower of London as a tourist attraction

    He could live in a cage under the gents

    I personally would pay a quid to have a shit on his head

    • 94
      Mark Oaten says:

      Public skatting, it could catch on

      • 169
        Member Of Public says:

        How much is the going rate to do it on you Mark??

        • 192
          Mark Oaten says:

          It was just a phase for me, now that I have come to terms with my baldness, I no longer have to pay for it

    • 517
      Look up and don't blink Mr Brown says:

      After I have eaten 35 curries and swallowed whole specimen slides of raw sewage…..

  36. 78
    The big D says:

    Every day that passes with no cutback in government spending adds months of additional taxes to our children’s and their children’s debt.

    Brown and his band know this and do not care.

    The wrecking of Britain by Labour is a deliberate act of treason.

    Any group in the next parliament who promise to try those who committed treasonable acts would have a landslide win.

  37. 79
    Bonkers? He's stark raving Bonkers!! says:

    I think you are being just a tad harsh Guido. Gordon Brown makes Jacko look positively sane and not the least bit wacko.

  38. 93
    Anonymous says:

    How strange – a similar measure to this was announced in the States by Obama yesterday, and on the very day the world’s media was focused on the death of MJ.

  39. 95
  40. 98
    Lizzie says:

    The only thing historians will look back and say about Brown is “he was the worst Prime Minister in the history of Britain”, that will be Brown’s legacy, and the longer he stays on the worse it will get.

    • 180
      Sylvia's Mother: says:

      Very True.

    • 547
      Allan@Aberdeen says:

      Brown was the worst Chancellor and moved into the post of PM to catch the effects of having been the worst Chancellor. The worst PM was Blair for his attacks on our society and for allowing Brown to be the worst Chancellor.

  41. 101
    Robin Hoodie says:

    When Helen Clark, the former PM of NZ lost the election to the Tories.

    She ‘Magically’ got offered the No3 job in the UN.

    Head of UNDP.

    Interestingly enough in her 9 years of power NZ ‘Gave’ more money gross, than Australia in 6 of the 9 years. Despite Australia having 5 times the population, and a much stronger Economy.

    She now earns 3 times as much, and took her Lesbian mate to NY.

    Clark and Brown are very Close Buddies.

    • 155
      Ricky Ponting says:

      what, Brown’s a lezza too? Now I see why that fat scotch bint went for him, her.

    • 183
      Sylvia's Mother: says:

      Christ this is deep even for me. One good thing its about as far away from the UK as you can get the change of climate would do Brown good.

    • 338
      Robin Hoodie says:

      Clark is a Lesbian. Her husband is a Homo.

      Brown gives new meaning to the statement “Brown Love”

      At the first Cabinet meeting of NuLabour in 1997.

      The only one present that didn’t have a boyfriend was Clare Short. Fact.

      Why do you think Mandelson has such power?

      Not all the MP’s have come out of the closet, or are Bi-Sexual.

      Brown certainly likes his goods delivered at the back door.

      Not sure if he is a Pilot or Navigator though?

  42. 102
    nell says:

    Sigh.

    Gordon’s a lunatic.

    He’s an out of control spendaholic and desperately needs counselling to break the habit.

    Morning folks.

    • 116
      Throbber says:

      He needs shooting

    • 185
      Sylvia's Mother: says:

      Yes your right and its all on credit! He considers his plastic to be very flexble, but not a very flexible friend from my standpoint.

      • 246
        CAB Adviser says:

        Our debt counselling service is very good, if a little overstretched at the moment.

    • 215
      Engineer says:

      At long last they may have got the message and started cutting. Hilary Benn admitted as much (after a fashion) on Any Questions last night. Too little, too late, but at least it’s a start.

      We might have some fun watching the spectacle of Gordoom claiming “Investment” in public while his ministers desperately seek clever ways to dress cuts up as increases. Sooner or later, some of them will trip up.

      Think they slipped one out yesterday under the Jackson hysteria. Balls announced what amounts to an abandonment of a Bliar flagship policy of specifying to teachers, via a very expensive private consultant called Capita, how children are to be taught literacy and numeracy skills in primary schools. Apparently they are now going to hand reponsibility for this to teachers.

      • 382
        Pete-s says:

        Input from commentators would be very interesting. From my limited knowledge of Capita, there seems to be a high correlation between them and Labour controlled outfits. I first came across them years ago outsourcing for Lambeth council, I think they do the London Congestion zone, BBC license collection and many others. Maybe coincidence, maybe not, but Labour and sleeze seem to be constant bedfellows.

      • 422

        Engineer,

        A fellow Engineer Who’s in the Oz parliament has had a look at the evidence for AGW.

        Read what he says here..

        http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/24/could_australia_blow_apart_the_great_global_warming_scare_97148.html

        • 458
          Engineer says:

          Thanks for a great post, Anti-Citizen One. At long last, somebody actually acknowledging that the earth’s climate is very complicated, prepared to critically review what we do know, and prepared to admit that we don’t know it all.

          I’m off to Amazon to order a copy of Plimer’s book; sounds like he is one of the few prepared to be objective.

          Well worth a butcher’s at this link folks, it’s rather a heartening one.

        • 526
          Sideeffected says:

          I recently watched a documentary called “Global Warming. Doomsday Called Off”
          This, as I remember, was along similar lines.
          If you have the time and inclination, can be viewed here: – http://www.documentary-log.com/d270-global-warming-doomsday-called-off/.
          Thanks A.C.1 buying the book too.

        • 555
          reinvented nell says:

          Trouble with politicians is – they a) believe you haven’t the intelligence to read complex scientific, economic, political info and b) believe you cannot arrive at a sensible view of your own once you have read it.

          Because most of them aren’t able to do that anyway – they just arrive at a view that is politically expedient for them and then they try to get you/me/us to accept it.

          This book will be a good read so I too have ordered it

          I’ve always felt that global warming is more down to long terms cycles (iover 100,000s of years) of the planet than it is down to the last couple hundred years of industrialisation. (Why else did the ice cap form and then and then form again many times over millions of years?)

  43. 105

    [...] saw this quote at Guido’s place: Bonkers Brown reminds Guido of Wacko Jacko, saving the world “for the children”.  Jacko [...]

  44. 108
    Gray Stobbs says:

    What will the third world do with a gratuitous handout from so-called rich nations?

    1) buy more cars
    2) have more children
    3) get rid of more forest
    4) build more cities on arable land

    Nobody can control the use of resources once they become property of sovereign governments. If our parliament is itself corrupt then – you aint seen nothing abroad. I have.

  45. 110
    Catosays says:

    I can’t believe what I’ve read here. This creature is certifiably insane. He must be…no one else in the world would take their country on such a suicidal path.

  46. 112
    Two years today says:

    Tis Gordon’s second Birthday as PM today. How could one man do so much damage to Grat Britain in just two short years? Hitler was a mere Novice compared to Bonkers Brown.

    • 171
      Sir Mufbourne - Harbour says:

      Only two years? It seems like a lifetime of destruction but then again it is for those who have lost everything including of those brave military personel

  47. 113
    Brian E. says:

    If the Government were genuinely taxing us to protect us against future global warming, all the money raised should be put in the bank until global warming actually occurs and there is a need to spend the money to save the population.
    If this isn’t done, people will see global warming merely a an excuse to raise taxes and refuse to recognise that it actually exists (if indeed it does!)

    • 118
      Throbber says:

      It doesn’t

    • 133
      Doctor Mick says:

      The theory is that we need to take action NOW rather than wait for the …er.. proof to arrive. There’s conferences in Bali, Brazil and Paris to organise for thousands of concerned delegates; there’s quangoes and committees to elect and appoint; grants to award and spend; essays, documentaries and blogs to finance; loads to do and so little time.

      • 208
        Shithead says:

        I’m sick of saying this, but PLEASE take a look at the findings of the Heartland Conference in New York in March this year. 700 environmental experts take apart the global warming scam and put it in its true perspective. The world’s leading climatologist, Prof Richard Lindzen of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and lots of others, present solid evidence that on present trends the world is COOLING. Satellite-measured temperatures, NOT the computer-generated crap Al Hypocrite Gore used in his lies and spin, show the world cooling by 1.1C by 2100, compared with the ‘79-’98 average. Far from the ridiculous number of feet Bore says the oceans will rise, Heartland proves the level is going up by the same annual 3mm – yes, millimetres – that it has risen over the last 200 years.

        The big scandal is that Heartland was sidelined by the world’s media. It proves Cyclops and other governments are only in it for the tax. He and Mandelscum know what Heartland was all about – big surprise! We are being conned at every turn. Even the title of the conference says much. It was called – wait for it – Global Warming: Was It Ever Really A Crisis?

        I have written to the BBC, Ceefax, Teletext, the Guardian, the Observer (twice) and blogged until I’m sick. Heartland has been TOTALLY IGNORED. Look it up for yourselves and digest what it says next time Cyclops puts up petrol another 2 pence for “environmental reasons.” We need a new, better organised fuel protest that makes the 2000 effort look like a rehearsal. It would bring the whole Nuliabour shithouse and its bum-boy leader down in weeks.

        • 460
          Pricky Gayes says:

          Considering Heartland got $676,500 from ExxonMobil, I think we can safely ignore its ’scientific’ conclusions.

          http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute

        • 462
          Argie says:

          Forget about whether or not the world is cooling. That leads to endless argument. The simple point is that the alarmists cannot cite any empirical (i.e. physically observed, not theoretical) evidence that, if humans emit more CO2, the consequence will be dangerous global warming. That’s it really.

        • 466
          Argie says:

          And, Pricky, explain (if you can) the science the Heartland Conference got wrong rather than launch into a boring ad hominem attack. (Just consider: Hitler was opposed to smoking – does that mean that smoking is safe?)

        • 467
          Pricky Gayes says:

          How are we supposed to empirically observe the future? We can empirically observe the rise in CO2 since the industrial revolution and the attendant steady rise in world temperatures. From that we can extrapolate into the near future – I agree, though, that predicting anything in the medium to long term becomes increasingly speculative.

          However, I think a lot of people on this board choose to believe what they want to believe. I too was a libertarian on these matters, until I started looking into the predominant views of the scientific community on global warming.

        • 501
          Argie says:

          Hmm, Pricky – perhaps you’re beginning to understand. Since the Enlightenment, science has progressed by reference to empirical evidence that can be independently verified. There is no such evidence regarding the hypothesis that human CO2 emissions are the driving cause of global warming. Sure we can observe that temperatures have risen since the end of the Little Ice Age (about 160 years ago) – by a far from scary 0.7 deg C. And yes we can observe that human CO2 emissions have risen over that period – especially after about 1950. But these observations say nothing about whether the latter caused the former. I’m sure you know that correlation does not mean causation. So extrapolation into the future is not just speculative, it’s meaningless. So the hypothesis remains just that: a hypothesis.

          And I’m sure you also know that “the predominant views of the scientific community” (whatever they are – where’s the evidence?) prove nothing. Science is not a matter of majority vote.

          Oddly enough, unlike you I started out assuming there must be something in all these scary predictions but, the more I examined the science, the more sceptical I became – and seriously concerned that, on the basis of an untested hypothesis, the West is planning to further damage our already shattered economies and, even worse, is take actions that will bring further misery to many of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.

        • 551
          Pricky Gayes says:

          OK. Thanks for an unusually eloquent outlining of the case against AGW. I agree there are a lot of caveats and doubts about predictive models, but my perception is that far more scientists have reached the conclusion that it is likely to be manmade than reject that position – as a generally conservative layman who knows a bit about politics but not much about the science, I have more faith in their motives (those of them who are not sponsored by oil companies) than in those of Gordon Brown or the EU or UN.

          I suppose my position is that there are four possible scenarios -

          1. The environmentalists are right and politicians respond by limiting CO2 emissions enough to prevent a major rise in temperatures.
          2. The environmentalists are wrong but the politicians limit CO2 anyway.
          3. The environmentalists are right and the politicians do nothing.
          4. The environmentalists are wrong and the politicians do nothing.

          You are arguing for the fourth of these, and I am for the first. I would suggest that the price of the second scenario, which you are worried about, is far less serious than the price of the third: in your worst-case scenario, western and developing economies limit a proportion of their growth, and everyone is slightly less well off; in mine, huge numbers of people starve as crops fail, countries go to war over water, sea levels rise (and my beloved East Anglia crumbles into the sea) and countless species are wiped out (which is undeniably happening anyway). The consequences of my being wrong are fairly trivial compared to the consequences of your being wrong.

        • 575
          Argie says:

          Excellent try, Pricky – but I believe you’ve still got it wrong. I owe it to you to explain why I think this, but I’m watching the Murray/Troicki match. So watch this space.

          BTW I share your love of East Anglia – but not as much as my wife who’s a Suffolk girl.

        • 598
          Argie says:

          (Well, he did it!)

          First, Pricky, I don’t think you’re right about those scientists’ conclusion. Yes, they agree that temperatures have increased and, yes, they agree (or most probably do) that human CO2 emissions have contributed to that. But I don’t see any evidence that most agree that those emissions are the main cause of warming and even less that, if they continue, it will cause disastrous climate change (on the lines of your worse case scenario). But I know that a significant number of distinguished scientists do not accept either contention. But, in any case, as I’ve said science is not a matter of counting heads.

          Your seem, however, to be advocating the so-called “Precautionary Principle” – i.e. that, although we don’t know if emissions are dangerous, we should be imposing restrictions “just in case”. (That, incidentally, used to be my position.) And it might be acceptable if restriction had no deleterious consequences. But it does: partly by inflicting yet further damage on our already shattered Western economies – but especially because of the pain it would bring to the third world. More expensive energy (an inevitable consequence of CO2 restriction) would mean that even more already desperately poor people would be unable to access clean water, fresh food, better health care (cold storage for medicines), better education, etc, etc … Almost everything they need would cost more. How many Africans should we allow to die for the sake of a committee’s unsubstantiated guess?

          That brings me to another point. Many of the world’s poorest people live in China and India and their governments (not unreasonably and whatever they may say) are not going to abandon them by rolling back their economic growth (largely based on coal) for the sake of a few rich Westerners. So international action on this won’t happen anyway and our (and those Africans’) sacrifice will be in vain.

          And finally, even if the restrictions (proposed by the US and Europe) were implemented, the resulting CO2 restriction would not be nearly enough to meet your scientists’ demands. So it would all be a waste of effort anyway – even if the hypothesis were accurate.

        • 655
          Pricky Gayes says:

          Thanks for that – and come on Murray! Firstly, I agree that what the EU and particularly the US are proposing will have very little effect. Obama’s cap and trade bill currently going through Congress has been watered down by special interests to the point of uselessness – as was the case with his bailout.

          However, I think “How many Africans should we allow to die for the sake of a committee’s unsubstantiated guess?” is wide of the mark. For a start, African countries could make themselves vastly richer overnight if they would only drop the trade barriers and tariffs between their own countries (never mind the iniquity of the EU CAP and other indefensible western trade barriers). They need more of their own trade, not more of our aid – I’m certainly not defending Brown’s proposals to throw more of our money in their direction. Their economies and therefore CO2 emissions would grow if they bothered to do this, but I expect this could be offset by efforts against deforestation across Africa (and indeed South America), which currently contributes about a fifth of CO2 emissions. Nobody need be further impoverished: and of course people in the developing world stand to lose most if the more pessimistic climate predictions are correct. In the West, a green energy revolution could create jobs and wealth as the car industry did in the US after WWII (and surely we can agree that Obama should stop propping up that dead dinosaur). I don’t think tackling this issue would only help a few rich Westerners – and since I live at the top of a hill in Scotland I probably don’t have much to worry about on a personal level, even if the worst predictions come true – indeed, I would welcome some nice warm summers for a change…

          As I say, I am a scientific layman, but all of the scientists I have spoken to have told me that they have concluded that human activity is at the very least a contributing factor to climate change, and you agree that most scientists believe the same. They know more about it than I do, so I feel obliged to take their word for it: as I do every time I go to the doctor, or get on a plane. However, I would be grateful if you could point me towards some scientific opinion against AGW: though if those scientists are funded by any group that has a vested interest in a certain predetermined conclusion to their research I will regard that as tainted.

          Anyway, there are good environmental reasons for winding down filthy coal plants (which give off more radiation than nuclear) in favour of nuclear and some renewables, and for reducing car use, whose pollutant particulates, I have read, reduce the life expectancy of everyone in London by several months, and which cause a million deaths by accident around the world per year. Even if AGW is bunk, the inescapable logic of peak oil (and the transfer of wealth to disgusting Middle Eastern regimes) ought to be concentrating policymakers’ minds. Switching from oil to alternatives will be expensive in the short term, but in the longer term oil will only get more expensive.

          Thanks again and feel free to continue this discussion, which has been very interesting and, for Guido’s blog, uniquely polite… ;-)

  48. 125
    Charles E Hardwidge says:

    FOR SALE:

    2x meet and greet Michael Jackson tickets, o2 London

    £25 ono

    Genuine reason for sale.

  49. 126
    Red Robbo says:

    here’s the next one to blow – the Northern Rock of the Midlands: Jaguar Land Rover vehicles; a hopelessly bust business being presented as a shining beacon of successful enterprise in a chronically struggling region.

    Jaguar Land Rover made a loss of £281m in the ten months since Tata acquired it in June 2008 to the end of the financial year, driving the parent Tata Motors to its first loss in decades. Sales were down 30% and are now down 40% in the European market in April/May 2009.

    Mandelson is refusing to underwrite the £400m loan from the European Investment Bank offered to JLR. Mandelson knows that JLR is bust. Without this money Tata will have to cut thousands more jobs from the remaining 15,000 strong workforce and possibly close/mothball indefinitely one whole plant, Halewood or Solihull.

    So rather than blathering on about Global Warming bollocks Brown will be told that unless HM Govt. immediately stumps up around half a billion pounds the West Midlands will see mass redundancies on a scale not seen since the collapse of Rover in 2005. This will not be the end. Demand for large, ritzy 4×4s has collapsed; competition in the smaller crossover SUVs has mushroomed with L/Rover’s contender still over a year from market. Land Rover alone will require ongoing funding of around a £billion a year just to stay afloat. Unless real money is given now the West Midlands will be the final nail in the coffin for Brown and Labour.

    • 136
      Doctor Mick says:

      Robbo, having almost single handedly destroyed British Leyland it’s good that you are now seeking redemption.

      • 310
        thick as thieves says:

        there will be no redemption for you doctor dildo.
        a warmongering c’unt like you is definitely going straight to hell.

        • 339
          Doctor Mick says:

          Maybe I should become a muslim suicide bomber – kill innocent people and then I could go straight to heavan? These people you think are OK.

        • 412
          thick as thieves says:

          don’t be so fucking daft.
          suicide bombers are criminals doctor mick, they are murderers and should be treated accordingly.
          but israeli infaticidist apologists like you are also criminals and murderers.
          you c’unts are as bad as each other and that is precisely why President Obama is going to impose a peace settlement upon israel.
          you had the chance to do it off your own bat doctor mick but you weren’t interested in peace.
          and so you will have to be fucking told.
          innit.

        • 415
          Doctor Mick says:

          Get real. Obama won’t stop Israel defending itself nor can he stop the bloody Arabs evil provocations. I bet you believe in Santa as well!

        • 423

          Please ignore The troll we know as Thick as Pigshite.

        • 521
          thick as thieves says:

          you will do as you are fucking told doctor dildo.
          or the dollars will not be forthcoming.
          as far as the US is concerned israel is more trouble than it is worth.
          and all because of zionist warmongers like you who have wanted to use US protection to build your own little empire in the middle east.
          why should america take the heat for your landgrabbing?
          it is not in the american national interest to protect israel anymore because israel just takes the piss out of the americans.
          and no motherfucker is gonna take the piss out of President Obama.
          wake up doctor mick, you are fucked my old china.
          game over.

    • 141
      Susie Wong's Throng says:

      It could be the final nail in the Coffin for the whole bloody Country never mind for Broon and his nitwit Loons

    • 150
      Unsworth says:

      Neat encapsulation. Not too sure about final nail – regrettably. Does the W Midlands have any record of voting sensibly? Will they be able to hold off the disaster for a year?

    • 152
      Shithead says:

      It’s time for action. As expected, Loony One-Eye has ignored the tens of thousands of signatories demanding his resignation. How about we do it again, this time addressed to HM the Queen? If we had, say, 100,000 willing to put their names on a list, it could be presented to the Palace and the Good Lady would be invited to respond. She’d have to issue some kind of statement to the media and that would certainly not lessen the pressure on Cyclops. Give us your thoughts, please, guys and gals.

      • 200
        Under the Radar says:

        I’m In, better than doing nothing

        • 384
          Sailor says:

          Where do we sign up?

        • 631
          Shithead says:

          Can we ask the eminent Guido to set up the said forum? We need to act fast, before Back-Passage Mandelscum slips us into the bastard Lisbon Treaty, at which point we’re all fucked. I realise that Dave should be given the next crack at Number 10, but he’s had several of his chances already and time is running out. How about it, Guido? Can you set it up?

      • 209
        The PM shouldn't be disturbed but this cunt is says:

        Buy Audi, I’ve an RS6, a fantastic piece of German engineering.

        The market decrees Jaguar must face extinction, becos they is shit innit

      • 233
        Lola says:

        What do the banks and JaguarLR have in common? They both make a product that no-one wants at the moment, debt and cars.

        What are their differences? The banks are an out of control cartel funded by the taxpayer producing nothing of any added value at all, whereas JLR are a business operating in a competitive market place and which does (has) made added value products.

        Why then is taxpayers money showered on the banks and not on JLR? If a
        bank or banks go bust it’s bye bye Gordon. If JLR goes bust it’s bye bye the UK -which is what Gordon wants.

        My personal view is that if you are going to provide taxpayers money to businesses in a recession the ones you provide it to are businesses like JLR. In many ways it is not JLR’s fault that this bust has hit them this hard, it’s this governments fault.

        So why not support the banks? Because the banks, and the financial regulators, carry a lot of the blame for the bust. And letting them go bust will bring a necessary discipline to the financial markets. If you do not let them go bust all that happens is that you get straight back to the same greed culture that persisted before the crisis. In fact it never goes away. The bankers feel immune and as we are now witnessing their bonuses go straight back up.

        But of course this brings us straight back to Brown. He needs the banks so that he can force them to buy his Gilts with the money he has just printed and handed to them.

        JLR’s situation is entirely different to the state of the British motor industry in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Then the communists in the unions had managed to make producer capture a way of life. Combine that with weak management and politicians and what you got was crap cars made badly. JLR makes good cars relatively well and efficiently with a committed workforce. Why should they be the victims of Brown’s epic fiscal and economic mistakes?

        • 524
          Engineer says:

          Agree with that, Lola.

          By helping JLR, government would also help the suppliers, distributors and dealers. It could be that relatively small amounts, at least in comparison to the sums thrown at banks, could make the difference between survival and failure for quite a lot of businesses.

          When the upturn comes – which it will, though God knows when – we will need all the wealth-creating businesses we can get. Nurturing them now would seem a wise policy.

        • 590
          Moley says:

          The cost of welfare benefits to the unemployed workforce has to be deducted from the bailout figure so that the real cost of bailing out the business is apparent.

          But don’t forget that Mandelson’s loyalties are to Europe, not the UK and it will suit his friends in Europe fine if JLR goes bust. It means industry capacity is reduced “somewhere else.”

      • 437
        Watt Tyler says:

        Yes, something aimed at the Queen would be much better than those Downing Street petitions that are just ignored quite frankly

        • 448
          A carrier bag of bolts says:

          Are they though? They took their time, but national road pricing was recently dropped after that 1.8 million petition. Now it’s going to be called “local road pricing” which is an even fucking sillier idea than national road pricing.

          I hope a chimp stands for election in my constituency at the next election.
          It would certainly get my vote.

    • 243
      British Jobs for everyone says:

      Yes the green shoots of recovery are everywhere, LDV, Corus Rotherham, Corus Teesside, JLR, Total refinery but there again woolies pic-and-mix is back online but how do you eat them?

      • 453
        Green Energy says:

        How much more green can you get than van manufacturers, petrol stations and steel mills all closing in one day?

  50. 140
    Kevin says:

    This is on the same day that the Met Office’s climate change budget is being reduced, right?

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/26/hadley_centre_for_climate_change_budget_cut_mod_funding/

    Not that the Met Office is particularly good at forecasting anything, but this is surely another sign of inconsistency (OK, complete loopiness).

  51. 143
    terrace bar frequenter says:

    cyclops’ theory is if it ever goes to proportional representation and by god he needs to as his support is lower than ahmedinijad supporters in the u.s then he needs the greeny vote combined to labour to overall the tories. same as happens in oz. the liberals (tory equivalent) get more votes in primary but lose after preferences. so everyone chases the arse of greenies to outdo themselves, as whoever the greens preference in a tight race will usually win.
    this warped logic is exactly what brown needs. and do not think he has not considered it.
    save the world is fine; except when you have ruined the economy and nobody believes you anymore.

  52. 144
    Anonymous says:

    The picture in this article proves that he’s not alone in the barking stakes.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195727/Air-fares-soar-Gordon-Brown-unveils-60bn-year-climate-change-plan.html

    • 426

      The ruling class hates the fact that the “little people” can fly the same places they can.

      They want travel to be for the privileged, not the many.

  53. 145
    Titus Aduxas says:

    Given the choice, I’d have preferred to have Michael Jackson as PM – he couldn’t have been worse.
    He wouldn’t have had to bring his own monkey, either, there are plenty in the PLP

    • 191
      Sylvia's Mother: says:

      Are we talking MJ the king of pop or MJ ex Army? second thoughts either would do a better job than GB. Actually Bubbles would do a better job than GB. What’s more Bubbles would have very low expense claims. Oh oh oh, I am slowly losing the will to live.

      • 319
        Doctor Mick says:

        You know Stalin’s first five year plan was financed by selling the grain produced by peasants to finance Stalin’s plan for industrialisation of the Soviet Union. The grain was taken by force, all of it, so that people in their millions starved to death.

        Where is Browin going to get $100m and how is he going to take it? And what happens to the people he has taken it from?

        • 455
          Stalingod says:

          As with the USSR, the people keep producing grain, hoard a little for themselves, and say nothing.

  54. 151
    Jonah says:

    WINDOW TAX!

  55. 159
    FarmerGiles says:

    I think the people in Iran could teach us a lesson or two on how to start changing governments.

  56. 162
    Doctor Mick says:

    With this kind of crazy borrowing Brown will go down in history known as the Sub-prime Minister.

  57. 167
    Anonymous says:

    For an antidote to the non-stop man made climate change propaganda, visit Watts up with that, winner of best Science blog 2008.

    It’s the sort of analysis of the issues you won’t get from the state mouthpiece, the BBC.

  58. 170
    340 days maximum the next General Election says:

    Can anyone tell me how to embed this link into a post so that lunatic Brown can wake up every morning and see how fast time is running out for him in the countdown to the last possible second before the next general election

    http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/4a32d532f8610fed/4a45e41ef2953dc1/4a33a279df04667d/95d96f67

    • 177
      Europe (The Rock Band) says:

      THE FINALLLLLLLLLLLL COUNTDOWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

      • 198
        Sylvia's Mother: says:

        de de la de de la de de la de la de de its the final countdown – love it. Can’t stop humming the bloody thing know, thanks Europe!

      • 205
        Lao Tzu says:

        340 days seem like a long time to wait doesn’t it?

        A philosophical Frenchman (they’re always French aren’t they?) once said to me:

        “Do not worry. today is just a flash in time. Tomorrow it will be gone, and next week you won’t even remember it”.

        And you know what? He was right.

        • 219
          eggtimer says:

          Imagine an eggtimer with 80 years of sand in it and the moment you’re born someone turns it upside down and ask yourself how much sand is in the top and how much in the bottom and as you answer that question remember the sand continues to flow.

          “Time and tide stand still for no man”, not even that raving lunatic Gordon Brown and his soon to be departed band of cooks and cronies.

        • 249
          Time in reverse? says:

          How does that work if you live until your 113 years old though?

        • 255
          Sartorial says:

          That must be the first time that the two words “French” and “right” have ever appeared in the same sentence. Well done.

        • 280
          The Grim Reaper says:

          No one lives to 113 years, they’re all going down, Paul Newman, Farah Fawcett, Michael Jackson.

          Mid summners day has come and gone, the grren shoots and leaves are starting to turn brown, the nights are drawing in, only 200 shopping days to Christmas, Easter eggs are in the shops. Gordon Brown is the epitome of the walking dead the ghost of Marley, Christmas past present and future, he’s a skeleton in a suit, rap rap on you tube, jingle bells, dreaming of a white christmas, he’s flying over the cuckoo nest

    • 652
      Shithead says:

      By the time we’ve counted down all the way Lord Shitstabber will have massaged through the Lisbon Treaty and we will effectively have no further say over our own future. All the HoC will be able to do is rubberstamp what the Bastards in Brussels say. He has to be stopped, and soon.

  59. 174
    Jethro Q. Walrus-Titty says:

    Gordo’s MUCKLE TURD.

    Intae the wids amongst the trees.
    Gordo bared his erse, his cheeks to ease.
    Nae sinner hud his breeks gan doon.
    Than shitty flees were swarming roon.
    Intae the wind he bared his baws
    And from his erse a big keech faws.
    The reek it curled amoungst the trees.
    ‘twis enough tae make the birdies sneeze.
    An’ a’ the bees on bended knees,
    Got sick a fricht o’ Tams big erse.

    Fat Gordo wis in awfy pain.
    It came oot his erse like a nine pund wean.
    Thur wis a tear faw fi’ his eee
    For a bigger shite you’d never see.

    Big Gordo’s erse wis raw an sair.
    Says big Gordo I’ll shite nae mair.
    Yonder it lay amoungst the grit.
    A dirty stinkin’ muckle shit.

    Yonder it lat si saft, si fresh.
    Nae een, nae teeth, nae brains, nae flesh.
    I swear it never drew a breath.
    Gordon’s Muckle Turd.

  60. 182
    Great Britain says:

    Just put it on my Visa Card will you?

    • 194
      The Right Honorable Alister Darling says:

      I am the Second Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I am truly skint and say put it all on Amex Platinum Cards (same clour as my hair) or alternatively BA Executive Frequent Flyer Card. The self-proclaimed “World’s Favourite Airline” as voted for by the staff (that’s why they’re working free and going bust) where only the Prime Minister globe trots First Class.

      • 196
        Jim Divine says:

        Is that a cashback card?

      • 202
        Sylvia's Mother: says:

        Don’t for get the John Lewis Store Card. Still some credit on that given the returned items recently! Funny though JL refunded £250 quid but expense claim was for £850 was not MP’s fault batteries were low in calculator.

      • 259
        Engineer says:

        Chequebooks! Your flexible friend! Boioioing!

  61. 187
    • 216
      Matt C says:

      I understand now why hard working people throw themselves off buildings after reading that article.

      • 228
        The Right Honorable Gordon Brown says:

        That constitutes a suicide tax, a falling tax, a breathing tax, a dead tax, a clean-up tax, an environmental tax, an air tax, a funeral tax, a breavement tax, a wake tax, a pavement repair tax, a wheelie bin tax, a will tax and a tax avoidance tax for the dead.

        • 236
          Tax doesn't need to be taxing, it just is. says:

          You forgot the tax payers tax.

          As it is only honest people who pay taxes anymore it seems only fair they should pay tax on paying tax, because they are the only ones who, er, pay tax..

        • 442
          Tax-i Driver says:

          If it moves Labour governments tax it. If it doesn’t move they tax it twice

      • 361
        Mother Theresa says:

        Sadly, the logical thing is to find an unemployed person and throw them off the building. This will solve the problem.

  62. 189
    Robert Mugabe says:

    My compatriots Mr Khamanei and Mr Chavez and I look forward to receiving our first tranche of this generous British financial support to enable us to combat climate change.

    Please deliver it in unmarked bills.

    • 217
      nell says:

      Apparently China has also made a bid for a fair chunk of it.

      Trouble is, a fair proportion of money that goes to overseas aid tends to end up in offshore accounts maintained by dictators. That way then when their population finally turns on them they flee abroad and live in comfort off our taxes.

      If gordon ever manages to get this crackpot scheme off the ground same will happen with this money.

      • 232
        Dictator already seeing my cash go east says:

        Are you serious?

        China has the biggest foreign reserves on the planet?

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

        • 248
          reinvented nell says:

          Yes really – I read it in one of the papers online this morning.

        • 257
          Bart Simpson says:

          Aye carumba.

        • 278
          Matt C says:

          The dictators keep their people POOR on purpose as a STICK to beat the STUPID and guilliable blank cheque funded by other peoples money giving HIPPIES AND LENTIL EATING lefties who are too thick to realise no money would = regime change which would equal better standards.

          All the no do gooders are too stupid to realise they are constantly paying for the status quo to remain and the people to stay poor and for the dictators to stay in.

        • 325
          thick as thieves says:

          make your mind up matt!
          further up the thread you are moaning about the populations of poor countries being too large and now you are an advocate against poor people being exploited.
          from a nazi to a communist in just one thread.
          fucking hell matt c you are one confused motherfucker innit.
          you must be bipolar, right?
          take your meds man.

        • 372
          Matt C says:

          I have sympathy for them, I aint a complete cold hearted bastard.

          The problems go hand in hand, they’re kept poor, stupid and constantly breeding for a reason.

          It’s not their fault, but seeing no one is going to implement the drastic changes needed to educate these people and they aren’t gonna do it themselves anytime soon….. then the stick approach is gonna have to be used seeing the carrot fails everytime as observed with handing the dictators a blank cheque every year.

        • 385
          Let's look at the logic of this... says:

          So China has the largest foreign reserves in the world because they sell tat to the west but refuse to buy it themselves.

          So let’s send them some more cash disguised as aid so that they might start to buy the tat that they make but we already know that they don’t want?

        • 397
          Lord Penis says:

          We would be better of giving the money to Robert Mugabe. At least he spends it on western made luxury items like weapons.

  63. 211
    nell says:

    So gordon gave his pledge, to print loads more £billions to give away, at London Zoo.

    No doubt he thought talking to the animals, about how this bankrupt country was going to find this monumental fortune, was safer than talking to a British audience who know what a barmpot he is.

    I hope the monkeys were entertained.

    • 224
      nell says:

      OK modded!

      That old song “please release me- let me go” comes to mind.

      Maybe that’s one mandy should teach to gordon so that he can sing himself to sleep when he’s been sent to bed at 8pm, rather like the Jackson brothers used to do when they were children.

      • 226
        Ingenious says:

        Nell, an old sleight of hand, but worth a go. Try using Nelly, or Nell1 or something similar.

        • 237
          reinvented nell says:

          OK ingenious I’ll give it a go.

          So gordon gave his pledge, to print loads more £billions to give away, at London Zoo.

          No doubt he thought talking to the animals, about how this bankrupt country was going to find this monumental fortune, was a safer option than talking to humans who know what a barmpot he is.

          I hope the monkeys were entertained.

        • 242
          reinvented nell says:

          Well Ingenious I tried what you said and he modded me again –

          And now look what he’s done us – he’s stuck us down the bottom!!!!

          • Lord Mandelson says:

            No I’m at the bottom. Always like to be last.

          • Spellbinding says:

            Nell – you are at the bottom because someone above you was modded. It’s quite simple really. Just stay away from dodgy posts and everything will be OK with your new personality.

          • Boro Supporter says:

            It’s just like watching Newcastle and Middlesboriough all season, always at the bottom.

        • 274
          Ingenious says:

          Nell – you are at the bottom because someone above you was modded. It’s quite simple really. Just stay away from dodgy posts and everything will be OK with your new personality.

      • 281
        Engineer says:

        At least you’ve escaped from the basement, Nell!

        When Guido incarcerated NewGirl in his basement a couple of weeks ago, she rather plaintively posted “Is it because my posts sound brunette?”.

        Perhaps a trip to Boots for a bottle or two of hairdye might solve the problem!

        • 290
          Engineer says:

          OK Nell – spoke too soon. You haven’t escaped yet, and now he’s got me as well!

          • Out of work Kamikaze Pilot says:

            Are you a Civil Engineer, you certainly sound polite, graceous and courteous.

            Civil Engineers are use to being at the bottom, foundations and all.

        • 561
          nell says:

          Hi Engineer – just come back to the web – he’s let me out!!!!

          Wonder if this is how gordon feels when mandy tells him he can get up in the morning?

          Still don’t know what I did wrong though?

        • 580
          Engineer says:

          Nor me, Nell. Just one of the hazards of blogging, I suppose.

  64. 221
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Mrs McMental has turned up at Glastonbury
    I do hope Gordon does in his suit and wellies

    • 393
      deeznuts says:

      Glastonbury is full of “middle class” lefty twats, that think its “right on” to not wash for 4 days and smoke some “spliff” ya !

      its now just one big marketing machine

      I stoped going to festivals when they became over run by those twats

      • 400
        Glastonbury mist says:

        Me too.

        Last time I went to Glastonbury there were three teepees and about thirty tents. The entire festival was raided at 2 in the morning by plod.

        I don’t remember what year it was so addled is my brain. Were you there?

  65. 225
    Maths Master says:

    Each £5 note weighs one gram
    The estimated national debt is £1.3 billion pounds.

    How much, in kilograms, would that £1.3 bn weigh, and how many £5 notes would you need?

  66. 227
    VotR says:

    Planet Brown, not a nice place to visit or live. Too expensive.

  67. 230
    Moley says:

    The icecaps are expanding.
    The sea is not rising.
    The climate is cooling.

    Just as the tide goes in and out, the world’s climate fluctuates according to varying sunspot activities.

    Our politicians are behaving like crabs in a rock pool, watching the tide go out, screaming “doom” at each other, and looking for something or someone to sacrifice in order to reverse the falling water level.

    Politicians usually start wars to distract their populations from economic collapse caused by Government incompetence. The “War on Terror” is not really working very well, so they are trying to start a war on Climate change instead. Everybody (except the politicians) will need to make huge sacrifices to vanquish the (indefeatible) enemy.

    Our sacrifices will not change the climate, they will only fill the politician’s pockets and enable them to continue flying around the world at our expense, eating expensive dinners, attending expensive conferences, filled with the smugness of their own self importance and emitting bucket loads of CO2 in the process.

    What we need is a war on the fucking politicians.

    • 239
      Something else that needs you to be taxed for says:

      Wonder what happened to that hole in the ozone layer that was going to turn the planet into Saturn?

      Apparently it got better ‘cos we all stopped using Silvikrin.

      • 264
        And another thing says:

        Or the Acid rain that was going to kill all the trees in the world

        • 269
          Matt C says:

          Or the pollution and sewage in the ocean that was gonna destroy the barrier and coral reefs yet they’re now overgrowing.

        • 279
          Thick as lead filled custard says:

          Or the laed in petorl thta wa goiong too maek us alll stoopid?

    • 243
      Engineer says:

      Spot on, Moley.

      I can’t quite understand why the politicians are not making more of a fuss over our depleting natural resources, as this seems to me more of a problem than climate fluctuations. For some commodities, e.g. lithium for battery manufacture, we could run low quite soon if we are not careful.

      As to war on politicians, how about an early General Election? It won’t solve all the problems, but it might ease a few.

  68. 238
    subrosa says:

    Phone lines are already taxed with VAT aren’t they?

    • 328
      Anonymous says:

      This is a different tax; Brown’s introducing an internet tax to place on the basic line rental (regardless of whether or not you actually have access to the internet; if you rent a phone line then you’ll have to pay the internet tax)

      So, if you’re a pensioner using your phone as a lifeline to be able to phone 999, then you’ll have to pay extra for the line rental to help subsidise some weird government quango that’ll dish out some extra money to some private companies to increase broadband speed for some people.

      • 349
        Matt C says:

        The EU invented the internet tax, They slapped it on the Germans and Swedes and one of the other nordic places the Netherlands maybe i can’t remember.

        They tried to slap it on the French and it got thrown out but Sarkozy said he’ll review it and re-submit it at a later date.

        They tried to bring it in overhere through the BBC iplayer as a trojan horse. But everyone told them to get stuffed i remember seeing a metro poll with 90/95% telling the BBC NO.

        So this is the latest way they are going to try and implement it. The EU wants every member states internet to be controlled like China. So dissent can be crushed.

        Also the democracts in the USA have been trying to undermine the rights given to internet access by previous bills with the CyberSecurity Act 2009 and are trying to work on a way to tax and control the internet in the US as well.

  69. 247
    Dodgy Geezer says:

    “Jacko died broke, living extravagantly beyond his means…”

    Well, bully for him! That’s the way I want to go….

    • 261
      Incredulous says:

      How is it that I get a debt collectors letter if my phone bill is 64p in the red?

  70. 253
    Professor Chocolotis says:

    sing ‘em a song Della

  71. 254
    All blacks like rugby says:

    I am in New Zealand and its cold – but it is midwinter – and the snow has arrived 4 weeks early = global warming is bollox

    • 302
      Unbeliever says:

      Snowing in Spain and Poland until MAY this year. Longest Ski season for decades in Sierra Nevada.

      Climate Change innit?

    • 333
      All honkies like cricket says:

      I am glad you are in New Zealand and not in England.
      Honky.

  72. 256
    Shopping with the Balls says:

    “Ed why are you always walking infront of me?”

    “Yvette why are you always walking behind me?”

  73. 273
    Gordon's missing eye says:

    For god’s sake they ARE NOT BROWNS BILLIONS they are our billions! taxpayers money taken to be burnt at the altar of a socialist/greenie myth for god’s sake!!

    Wake up you twats – its a rip off!!!!!!!!

  74. 282
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Wacko McMental has just bought a chimp
    Its called Bercow
    It will live with him on his special ranch
    Never never land where C02 is banned but hot air in plentiful supply

  75. 283
    Gordon's missing eye says:

    My god! history will have some thing to say about this crazy period when the loonies held the higher offices of power – for god’s sake wake up! = Gordon and his followers are Twats

  76. 284
    Demon says:

    O/T and probably already spotted but…

    Moral Compass for sale:

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200356651505

    • 353
      Spas Tick says:

      “I have for sale a Moral Compass. Never used, was a gift from John Smith. Still in original box. I picked it up at a boot fair in Glenrothes along with some voters registers (opened and amended) and a Swiss Army knife (ex David Kelly) for a fiver from some one eyed retarded bloke with a stutter.”

  77. 285
    The Beast Of Clerkenwell says:

    Wacko McMental has just bought a chimp
    Its called Bercow
    It will live with him on his special ranch
    Never never land where C02 is banned but hot air in plentiful supply

  78. 289
    Yvette Copper says:

    I wish I could take this bloody wedding ring off

  79. 297
    rob says:

    Dear Mr Brown.
    We are concerned to note that your present borrowing is exceeding your credit limit. Please contact our office immediately to discuss this.
    In between times we have restricted use of your card. Please refrain from using it.
    If you require any free debt advice please contact your local debt advisory service, who, although exceedingly busy will be no help whatsover.
    Thank you for using the John Bull credit card and printing service.

    • 322
      Porn Shop says:

      Please visit our porn shop with anything you have left of value. We can certainly help you out.

      If it’s cash you want then please try the pawn shop next door.

  80. 298
    Windy Miller says:

    I Have a theory that all these windmills are meant to push Britain closer to Europe

    • 312
      Lord Zapatero says:

      We are frantically building more in Spain – to push us away.

      • 317
        Windy Miller says:

        Wont that push you into France and Germany

        • 329
          Wind Lickers says:

          We are hoping to conquer Gibraltar using wind assist first, then it’s full steam ahead for Marianas Trench (before Silvio gets there first).

  81. 300

    Gordon Brown. What an arrogant hoon he is! He believes he can save the world. Yet anything closer to home? He doesn’t give a damn!

    Observe this little gem of Brownite action Government Swine Flu Helpline ‘worse than useless’. Just a cynical PR stunt

    Brown is going down and he is taking the rest of us with him.

    • 318
      Ghost of Captain EJ Smith of the Titanic says:

      Durex Gossamer made to the exacting British Standards.

      So was the Titanic!

      • 343
        Engineer says:

        Not quite true. And the iceberg was most definately not compliant with British Standards.

      • 593
        Moley says:

        One of the EU meetings which should have been U tubed was the one to standardise the size of EU condoms.

        Apparently there was very little honesty and a lot of exaggeration.

  82. 303
    Lil Olmey says:

    Can we petition the Courts to make the UK bankrupt ? Administrators would then be appointed to replace this bunch of crooks.
    Or is that just wishful thinking ?

  83. 311
    Sukyspook says:

    Finally! The ‘green’ scam is revealed, especially to those who thought all this ‘environmental do-gooding’ was in the best interests of us all…

    “Outsource” anything that might ‘create carbon’ to a ‘third world country’ using billions in this country (and the US) to do so….then later, make a second killing by ‘baaling out’ the same ‘third worlders’ – RESULT!! ££££££’s for the self-appointed corporate elite, poverty and debt for the rest of us.

    Brown never made a decision in his life – he’s ‘Lord Charles’ to Mandelson’s Ray Allen vent act – and in order to appear at venues such as the “Palladium” (!), Ray Allen also had to have a manager…

    • 334
      Tax the fuckers says:

      It’s Saudi oil we are burning.

      If it’s the polluter that pays, surely we should send them the bill?

  84. 313
    Ever Vigilant says:

    Brown is highly likely to collapse and die at the despatch box before the summer recess.

    There will then be wall to wall wailing by those snivelling labour mps who had the chance to do the humane thing for him only 3 weeks ago.

    Much as I dislike James Purnell,he at least had sufficient common humanity to attempt to remove Brown for the sake of Sarah and her children.

    The ghastly remainder of his colleagues chose to hang on to their jobs which of course is the default position of the modern red flag waving “workers of the world unite” hypocrites of the 2009 PLP.

    If the detestable Brown does croak ,that self same bunch will no doubt blame
    people like us on this site because of all the “nasty bile” we have directed at the total cretin.

  85. 314
    Matt C says:

    How they gonna explain away plants and tree’s CO2 output??

  86. 320

    My blog this morning tells about the £25,000,000,000 deficit between welfare handouts and income tax received for the coming year.

    I think we should be told where the Government is going to find that twenty-five billion before it starts handing out more to all and sundry.

    Ampers

    • 340
      Jemmy says:

      That represents one months borrowing for this Government. Darling probably has much that in the petty cash tin.

    • 459
      shelling_out says:

      No wonder Gordon doesn’t want the accounts published. I wondered where the money for all these public sector pensions is coming from as no amount appears on any stats.

      • 563
        nell says:

        Didn’t you hear?

        gordon, on Thursday, issued a statement saying that the taxpayers would be required to fund a further £800,000 per annum to fill the £51million black hole in the MP’s pension scheme.

        He was immediately shot down by Dave who threatened to raise it as an HoC question if gordon tried to make it happen.

        gordon did a quiet Uturn!!!!

        gordon’s middle name = ’spend! spend! spend!’

  87. 321
    Officer R. Rules (LAPD - TVP attchd) says:

    I’m gonna make him do the Chicken.

  88. 332
    Farmer Giles says:

    Im always at the bottom

  89. 346
    Lizzie says:

    I see Alan Milburn has had enough under Gordon, he’s off at the next election.

  90. 354
    Anonymous says:

    When Brown eventually “shuffles off” this mortal coil and has to account for his actions he will be held directly accountable for the horrendous mismanagement of the British Economy in his tenure at the Treasury and Downing Street. This man has been wrong in every decison that he has ever taken starting 1 May 1997.

    He may not have been directly responsible for the worst recession/depression in 60 years but he is responsible for the fact that he ensured that “Cool Britannia”(who can remember that laughable early NuLabour phrase ?)was worst placed of any to ride out the storms by his inadequate regulation of the financial services industry and his positive encouragment for people and companies to live on borrowed credit without regard to the future repayment to fuel his so called “prosperity boom”. Even now he is in denial and continues to increase public borrowing to unsustainable levels further mortgagaing the futures of our children and grandchildren whilst babbling on about “world poverty”. Truly as you say – Guido – the man is a totally deranged “loon”.

    Brown has been at the “heart of government” for over a decade and every policy failure can be traced back to his door.

    Roll on the election when hopefully the electorate can consign him and his bankrupt administration to political oblivion

  91. 357
    Matt C says:

    Dave Cameron a founding member of the UAF? More likely than you think.

  92. 359

    I’ve had enough of all of it… Brown, MPs expenses, BBC expenses, climate change nonsense… So I’m proposing we all get together and STOP paying taxes, income, council, NI, all of it.

    Hit the politicians where it hurts – in their pockets.

    Brown wouldn’t be able to dream of giving £60 billion to help the developing world fight climate change if we stopped paying him.

    Clearly, if only a few people stop paying tax, they’ll be hurled in prison pretty sharpish.

    But if a 100,000 of us openly refused to pay tax, what would the government do?

    It would go into meltdown and would start treating the populace with respect.

    So who wants to join me? Let’s start a grassroots free market rebellion and stop paying tax. Let’s allow the market to decide by not paying for Government junk.

    • 365
      Lizzie says:

      Much easier to have a general election my friend.

    • 461
      shelling_out says:

      Tax is automatically taken out of salaries at source. We couldn’t stop paying it even if we wanted to and our employers would not want to risk legal proceedings by not paying it.

      • 532

        It’s more accurate to say that the state lets us keep some of the salary we earn.

        • 541
          Gordon Brown's Butt Plug says:

          Tax Freedom Day, the day in the year when the average Briton has earned enough to pay his annual tax bill, will fall on 14 May this year (2009).

          This means that for 134 days of the year, every penny earned by the average UK resident will have been taken to support government expenditures.

          But there is a downside: the traditional Tax Freedom Day measure only reflects the money actually raised by the government in taxes, not the full amount it spends. If the government deficit is factored in, Tax Freedom Day does not come until 25 June 2009 (the worst figure since 1984)

          http://www.adamsmith.org/tax-freedom-day/

    • 542
      Steve Expat says:

      The problem with civil disobedience in the UK is massive apathy.

      Until things are obviously so bad as to affect daily life (as it was in the seventies with the ‘winter of discontent’) enough people don’t care to take action. Those best placed to do so are usually in the public sector, who are quite happy with the current situation.

      The last two massive public gatherings in this country were to protest the hunting ban and the Iraq war, both of which were ignored by those in power!

  93. 364
    Richie Rich says:

    Gordon thinks a paedo death is sad. Eeaaaarrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  94. 373
    genghiz the kahn says:

    milburn steps down.

    why can’t he just do the job properly and knife Brown.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8122280.stm

    • 378
      Wads of Cash says:

      He said: “Standing down as an MP will give me the chance to balance my work and my family life with the time to pursue challenges other than politics.”

      And to count his winnings.

    • 379
      shelling_out says:

      He says he wants to pursue other challenges. This means he knows Labour will lose the next election and he will need to find another job pronto!

  95. 376
    Michael Fish says:

    It’s been said many times before, but worth repeating.

    If the BBC weather department with its supercomuters can’t get the weather forecast right for three days in advance, how can it possibly predict what will happen in 10 years or a hundred years time?

  96. 386

    o/t, but do be careful of spammer using the death of Michael Jackson to harvest emails, etc…
    Spam Alert on Michael Jackson’s death

  97. 395
    Wigly says:

    Gordon does not tell lies = Jacko only had a nose job

  98. 411
    Scallywag says:

    BREAKING NEWS… … …

    Jacko bits are to be put in a yellow wheeie bin and re-cycled as Playstations so that kids can get to play with him instead.

  99. 429
    UriGeller says:

    I can see it all ending in tragedy…

  100. 431
  101. 438
    Bisto Express says:

    It’s a long time since I last climbed onto a gravy train. I am now broke, so perhaps we could start a new gravy train.

    It needs to be something catastrophic, but fixable with lots of conferences on pretty tropical islands.

    Therefore I propose that the world is about to end because:

    *

  102. 439
    Anonymous says:

    Peter Sissons just said re Alan Milburn ” it looks like a man who wanted to spend more money with his family”

  103. 445
    Ratsniffer says:

    Snotgobbler’s scorched earth policy continues unabated. He’s trying to commit the country to decades of debt to make life as hard as possible for any tory government.

    Then when they make cuts his band of marxists can shout loudly that the nasty tories are cutting schools/nurses/killing babies/etc etc when in fact what will really be happening is an attempt to get us out of the absolute hopeless mess that these idiots have (once again) got us into. When will voters ever learn? Labour = grand theft.

    He should be prosecuted by the next Government for theft. What he is doing will make his name cursed by future generations.

  104. 456
    Anonymous says:

    This disaster of a chancellor and now unelected prime minister has only one measure of effectiveness and that is how much taxpayers money is thrown at a service. When challenged about policy or a public service he just reels off how much more money has been spent? As if profligacy was a good thing, some sort of virtue?

  105. 464
    Sarah Palin says:

    Nobody seriously supposes that the 100 billion will actually be paid.

  106. 468
    Anonymous says:

    This has gone beyond a joke. The man clearly needs sectioning sharpish.

    As does Mandelson with his smear tactics against King for DARING to suggest that balancing budgets might be sensible.

    We are being run by a bunch of mad idiots who can’t do up their own shoelaces.

    This can’t go on for much longer. Can it? Please God, give us some dirt on Brown and make this horrible man go away.

  107. 469
    Ever Vigilant says:

    BROWN——

    If you really must spend more cash please put it where it will do some good.

    Implement the TORY POLICY and set up a proper government loan scheme for
    business.Scrap your existing scheme which is laughable in scope.

    You know it makes sense.

    If you spend some reflecting on the indoctrinations of your youth———
    (a millisecond will be sufficient )– you will realise that the intellectually bereft
    philosophy of the Scottish version of socialism never had any practical value
    and nowadays is totally useless.

    If you do implement this policy you will at least shoot the tory fox—and that is why you will probably do it albeit 8 months late.

  108. 472
    Repetitive Strain says:

    It’s a shame we don’t have those up/down arrow things like on the Daily Mail site Guido. It would save me constantly scrolling up and down the page and re-reading the same posts over and over.

  109. 473
    Anonymous says:

    I dont care about the rest of the world.
    I want my own country fixed first.

  110. 475

    A spooky thought from Tuscany: were Gordon and Jacko ever seen together in the same yoot?

  111. 477
    Cyco Billy says:

    McApeshit is taking the piss as usual – painting everyone else as morally defective and unable to achieve rational ends, while fantasizing 24/7 about some Will to Power that he is too pusillanimous to admit he hasn’t got, as others move the levers of power for him.

    What a retard.

  112. 478
    Gordon-Makes-My-Piss-Boil says:

    YouTube – search – “George Carlin – Saving the Planet”

    No-one has said it better.

  113. 479
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    I think we need to damage the environment more just to hurt him. Anyone for pouring old engine oil in Sir Peter Viggers’ duck pond?

    • 552
      Engineer says:

      Bit tough on the ducks. How about an even film of oil over his tennis court?

      (P.S. Love the screen-name; gets me going every time I see it!)

  114. 485

    Dear All

    Is New Labour have a thing about the number 100. During the Holyrood elections New Labour tried to bribe the electorate by promising £100 million for football pitches.

    Why doesn’t Brown actually invest the money in people and real projects instead of jerking off on the international stage?

    He is no world statesman rather like David Cameron and George Osborne; they are like a pair of Panto dames.

    New name for Osbourne for the internet…. Oswank!

    Say it out loud several times.

    Yours sincerely

    George Laird
    The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

  115. 487
    Ratsniffer says:

    The really worrying thing is not just that snotbobbler is spending money that we don’t have. It’s that the tories are proving to be such a pathetic waste of time in being a vociferous opposition.

    They should be talking about setting up a massive public inquiry into the state of the nation’s finances as soon as they take office, and get a proper look at the books, and the fiddles.

    We need to see the real figures, how much snotgobbler has pissed up the wall over the last decade, and how much they have covered up. We need to see the reports they have stiffled when they don’t get the results they want (ie immigration stats, crime stats, health stats, education stats) and we need to hear from civil servants who have been pressured to “come up with the “right” results”

    We have to make sure this scum are unelectable for decades, because that is how long it is going to take to clear up the mess they have made.

  116. 489
    Wikipedia says:

    Brown’s economic plan appears to based on Operation Bernhard

    Operation Bernhard was the name of a secret German plan devised during the Second World War to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes

    Operation Bernhard “only” involved £3 billion in today’s money

    • 537
      Steve Expat says:

      Except that today, it’s the Bank of England doing the printing – the effect is the same on the economy and Sterling though.

      Gordoom’s only hope is that the shares he’s now got in the banks rise sufficiently in value to cover the recently printed money being “un-printed” later when the shares are sold.

  117. 490
    I voted for a party that doesnt offer what I want and am diappointed when they don't give it to me says:

    This is just a political stunt. Gordon Brown knows full well that just because the third world does not have a vote here yet, nevertheless they will all be here and voting in a year or two with nothing but globally warm feelings for nulab so the fact that the English loathe and detest this traitor and the Cultural Marxist filth that aid and abet them and would like to string him up as well as his army of traitorous retainers, will not affect elections after the next one.

  118. 491
    King Chocolotis says:

    Brown = Filth

  119. 492
    HERE LIE'S GORDON BROWN RIP says:

    This is leading to massive carbon taxes . Yesterday the carbon tax proposals were being sneaked through the US senate while the Yanks were grieving over Jacko.

  120. 494
    Gordon may be bad but what about the alternative? says:

    The problem being.

    Dave is even worser. This C unt has got a windmill on his chimney, hugs huskies and is pro europe

  121. 508
    The view from the grassy knoll says:

    Hasn’t Lee Harvey got a grandchild up for the job?

    The grassy knoll where the TV camera’s film outside Parliament?

    Otherwise this piece of sxxx will take us to hell.

  122. 511
    oh you are all so brave..... says:

    Lots of words from you all – all of it hot air – any of you got the guts to march on Buck Palace and stay there until the Queen dissolves Brown in a vat of acid?

    Thought not – keep on with your words brave people – let the Iranians show Britain what bravery is about – cowards the lot of you – talk talk talk,puffery puffery puffery.

    SHAME ON THE LOT OF YOU!

  123. 513
    Repetitive Strain says:

    While Sarah Brown visits Glastonbury, Gordon does a spot of canvassing in North Minehead..

  124. 523
    Soapy Balls says:

    The scene the weekly meeting between HM and GB.

    Betty I wonder if I can ask a favour from you? Fire away GB. We have had these meeting for sometime and I’m sure you can vouch for my stable reasonable mental state. Some, a certain Guido and his scallywags persistently crack on that I’m mad. GB you seem fine to me.

    Please, in the coming Queen’s speech would you just slip something in along the lines that the PM is in fine fettle and getting on with job.

    Of Course I will find something to say

    She gets up and moves towards the door, a flying Nokia hits her on the head

    You wont forget now will you?

  125. 530
    sick as a parrott says:

    Anne and Alan Keens main residence taken over by squaters

  126. 540

    This really is unbelievable. Just unbelievable. Britain is going to be bankrupt before we know it.

    When is the last possible date Brown can call a general election? Let’s have a countdown until then. (I’m sure he’ll try and cling on for as long a possible.)

  127. 543
    Courtney Fish says:

    If anyone wants to debunk the Gore and Brown shite they’re trying to stuff down our throats please watch these clips of Prof. Aubrey Manning’s masterly series “Earth Story” about climate change. They should be made compulsory viewing (total time about 45 mins).

    1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYETGJSI568&feature=related
    2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVk_IOa1IK8&feature=related
    3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eklrfphMFi8&feature=related
    4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2SqwKtEMmY&feature=related
    5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP85lJP-MA8&feature=related

    • 578
      Leper says:

      That series is a real find, thanks a lot for posting it.

      I would suggest all climate change believers and non believers take a look.

      It turn’s Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” completely on it’s head.

      • 594
        Courtney Fish says:

        Yes, it’s most informative. Apparently it was first shown on the BBC in 1998. I’ve been waiting for it to appear on Youtube (as I’m too tight to buy the DVDs) and let’s face it, under Gordon McStalin there’s no way the BBC will be allowed to show it again.

  128. 554
    Half eyed Scottish idiot says:

    $100 billion is just the start.

    China + India want $300 billion. Great isn’t it – they lend us money and charge us interest and then we have to give it back to them.

  129. 565
    nell says:

    I may yet approve of you …!!!!

  130. 570
    Ratsniffer says:

    World expert on polar bears told he’s not welcome at climate change debate on polar bear numbers – because he says that far from there being less polar bears now, their numbers are on the increase. Oh dear, climate change nazis strike again…

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5664069/Polar-bear-expert-barred-by-global-warmists.html

    • 579
      Leper says:

      Check out the climate change video series a couple post earlier if you haven’t already seen it Ratsniffer.

  131. 586
    Y Fronts says:

    Hitler in his final days and incarcerated in his bunker, was ordering non-existent divisions around to fight and defeat the attacking armies.
    Brown in his final days and in his private mental bunker, is handing out vast sums of money that do not exist,to undeserving dictators.
    Hitler shot himself, blaming his generals for defeat.
    Will someone, Handlebum of Boy, perhaps, hand him the gun and let him depart so that someone with a grip on reality can begin to sort out Brown’s mess?

  132. 588
    Home Rule for England says:

    “When historians look back on this critical moment, let them say, not that we were the generation that failed our children; but that we had the courage, and the will, to succeed.”

    Crikey. The stupid tunnel visioned scotch loon has been reading Kennedy’s speeches again. Or do I detect a touch of Obama?

    Talk about building castles in the sky . but then again its England’s money he’s talking about ( England is the only net productive part of the uK and we subsidise the rest) so its easy for the unelected caledonian dictator to play with our money . Rather like Nero though not so good with the harp.

  133. 591
    Odds Bodkins says:

    100 billion on climate change, eh? What if after all this cash the climate keeps on changing, or continues getting cooler? They are going to look a bit silly, not that they already don’t.

    The climate will keep on a-changin’ just like it always has done and always will do. It bothers me that many otherwise bright and capable people have been hypnotized by this cobblers.

    How much money is being earmarked to help start-up companies I wonder.

  134. 592
    Y Fronts says:

    Brown spent every penny we have and then more.
    Now, it seems he wants a job at the IMF where he will spend more money than there is in the entire world.
    When he has bankrupted our civilisation, will he then realise that he is an incompetent, useless, dishonest and incapable idiot, in denial about his mental instability and utter failure to achieve anything.
    When will Mandy tell him to walk?

  135. 595
    whatever... says:

    I agree with every word Guido wrote in this thread. Jokes aside, the UK is being drowned in debt by the sunken politicos led by the Prime Mentalist. Why? Because they have a blank cheque, courtesy of the taxpayer and future taxpayers, the children. Brown et al ignored every fair, private, wise counsel they were given by the Governor of the Bank of England. Mervyn King is not the Prime Mentalist’s paid pet, like the Treasury and FSA. He is the nation’s Governor of the Bank of England, an economist experienced in the practical world of international debt markets that will tank the GBP and ruin this country within 48 hours, like Iceland, if they think the UK is incapable of putting forward a credible plan for repaying its debt. A credible plan. Is that too much to ask? UK is being given time because of its integrity, but there is a worry never seen before:-

    Some think Prime Mentalist Brown has a scorched earth policy. As he goes down, he will take as many people with him as he can. Stalin hated the kulaks. Brown hates everyone, just like Uriah Heep, your most ‘umble servant (Dickens). Brown is crazy.

    ‘Call me Dave’ answered the call of millions earlier this year when he started talking, and more importantly, acting tough. Parliament: f off. We need a hero. How very sad that this monumental task falls to a man who lost his darling boy.

    Dave,
    Just do what you know is good. ‘Give unto God what is due unto God. Give unto Caesar what is due unto Caesar.’ If you are the last man standing with Mervyn King, then so be it. Integrity is priceless. The Mansion House speech was courageous. There’s your cue…

  136. 600
    GM says:

    I get it! It might work. Brown borrows even more money to give away. The economy gets worse. More companies go out of business. CO2 emissions drop. The guys a genius. Not.

  137. 609
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    We really have to get rid of the nukes. And while we’re at it let’s dispence with using electricity and go back to mud huts and subsistence agriculture so we can be equal with the Welsh.

  138. 610
    Dave Arbuthnot says:

    According to Ben Brogan in today’s Telegraph Brown wants to become an economics lecturer when he steps down. Nurse, the screens

  139. 612
    A firm pair of breasts says:

    We really have to get rid of the nukes. And while we’re at it let’s dispence with using electricity and go back to mud huts and subsistence agriculture so we can be equal with the Welsh.

  140. 618

    Considering that England’s wealth has been built from plundering many of these less developed nations (which is no doubt a contributor to them being less developed), perhaps giving tem some financial assistance is a good thing. But I suspest the money would be better spent building green infrastructure in these places, not walls to keep the water out.

  141. 619
    Glauca says:

    oh you are all so brave….. says:
    June 27, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    Lots of words from you all – all of it hot air – any of you got the guts to march on Buck Palace and stay there until the Queen dissolves Brown in a vat of acid?

    Thought not – keep on with your words brave people – let the Iranians show Britain what bravery is about – cowards the lot of you – talk talk talk,puffery puffery puffery.

    SHAME ON THE LOT OF YOU!

    Yep! Lots of words but when it comes to take any action, they all hide under the table.

    I have posted twice here in the last couple of days announcing that a protest has been organized for Monday at 11.00 AM in Parliament Square and gave the e-mail of the person to contact, but no response.

  142. 622
    BODGEIT AND SCARPER BUILDING CONtractor says:

    Wot’s up wiv u peple giz sum werk me an me muckers is doin cheep rates on ‘t owd bildin werk at minit so giz a job an will spend ar way art reseshun !

  143. 623
    ndainfo says:

    I think throwing cash around is a veiled effort to fight deflation on the part of the governments. But it will fail. Deflation will not be denied.

  144. 625
    John Brown says:

    My mummy does not like Gordon Brown because he is stupid AND he tells fibs and he believes all the fibs told to him by the fibbers around him too.

    I just think he is a poo face

  145. 626
    God says:

    I have long believed that Brown is a bit unbalanced. How he ever managed to get a reputation as a good chancellor of the exchequer is totally beyobd me – he inherited a sound and well managed economy from Ken Clarke and proceeded to squander it over the next few years, by throwing money at all the lost causes that he could find. The NHS is the biggest lost cause of the lot and look at how much cash he poured down that drain! Now he is (temporarily) prime minister, he wants to borrow more money to throw at more lost causes! He will go down in history as the worst prime minister in history – he makes Lord North look like a political giant. The sooner we are rid of this one eyed Caledonian clown, the better for all of us. However, like all madmen, he thinks that he is a genius and will hang on until the bitter end unless he mercifully dies suddenly and leaves us in peace.

  146. 628
    Ronald Regan says:

    Reganomics that’s what we need!

    Reaganomics had four main policy objectives:

    1. reduce the growth of government spending,

    2. reduce the marginal tax rates on income from both labour and capital,

    3. reduce regulation

    4 reduce inflation by controlling the growth of the money supply

    The goal of these objectives was to increase savings, investment, and economic growth. Balancing the budget, restoring healthy financial markets.

    Over the past 12 years Gordonomics on points 1,2 ,3 and 4 has been the exact opposite and that, dear reader, is why we have the present ’shit storm’

    Cameron need do nothing more than return to Reganomics – sure it will hurt for a bit but as Regan said ” If not now – when?” and “If not us – who?”

    History proves that Regan and Maggie were right!

  147. 629
    I sniff Mandy's arse and I work at the BBC says:

    McMental is alsways at his ‘best’ when handing out OUR taxes to corrupt third world regimes.

  148. 633
    Minekiller says:

    100m for helping “developing countries tackle climate change”. The man is an utter fucking raving lunatic.

  149. 646
    Anonymous says:

    I have just watched Andrew Marr interviewing Edd Balls. I would suggest that anyone who interviews Edd Balls should stand behind him. he must talk more sense out of his arse than what comes out of his mouth. The man is a total cretin.

  150. 656
    Mr Meldrew says:

    This clunking fist of a Prime Minister is like the midas touch in reverse.

    He sold off our gold reserves when the price was at rock bottom.
    He has hand crafted the pending disaster that awaits future generations with regard to pensions.
    Billions have been frittered away on those who think that the welfare state is an alternative lifestyle.
    Billions more of your tax contributions have been squandered on mass immigration.
    How much more damage can this life expired government inflict onto those they supposedly serve before the removal vans roll into Downing Street?

  151. Iain Dale says:

    I am the bottom, surely?

  152. Graham Norton says:

    I am mining the brown coal face.

  153. Gordon's therapist says:

    I want to be first to be last

  154. Lil Olmey says:

    You really are the pits.

  155. Lord Penis says:

    I am always at the bottom. Now go away before I start inspecting your bottom.

  156. Doctor Mick says:

    Every true Boro supporter knows how to spell Middlesbrough proper. You must be a mackem.

  157. Engineer says:

    Thanks for the compliments, OoWKP. I have heard it said that “Civil Engineer” is a contradiction in terms. Not always true, in my experience.

    No, I’m a Mechanical – a “clanky”.

  158. Lord Penis says:

    The boy stood on the burning deck
    His trousers round his knees
    I asked him if he had done it before
    He said:

  159. anonymous says:

    you mean you’re not a cricketer then??

  160. Lord Pervert says:

    No thanks, but yes please.

  161. Bananaman says:

    Oh yes and please

  162. subjugated receiver says:

    Not with out greeze

  163. Society for the Elimination of Dangling Rhymes says:

    “Oh no!” and then “Yes please!”.

  164. Doesn't work for me. says:

    The boy stood on the burning deck
    His trousers round his knees
    I asked him if he had done it before
    He said “you mean you’re not a cricketer then??”

  165. Mark Oaten says:

    Is there any poo down here?

  166. Skattette says:

    No it’s all above us, but if we wait long enough…

  167. Scatterbrain says:

    It’s called the trickle down effect

  168. Bottom smells says:







Sarah Palin said…

“A year later, I gotta ask the supporters of all that, ‘How’s that hopey, changey thing working out for ya?’ “



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