September 24th, 2009

Obama Too Busy To See Brown

Obama swerved no fewer than five requests from Downing Street to hold a bilateral meeting either at the UN in New York or at the G20 summit starting in Pittsburgh today.  Obama himself was in New York to deliver a speech to the UN.   Brown’s own speech to the UN was delivered to a half-empty auditorium.

Brown is paying a price for encouraging the release of the Lockerbie bomber…

UPDATE : Downing Street is denying the story and briefing that the two leaders had already had one “wide-ranging discussion”. Here is where it gets comical. The “wide-ranging discussion” appears to have taken place in a kitchen at the UN.

Guido thinks it might have gone something like this:

Gordon: Mr President could you pass the salt?
Barack : Sure.  How is Tony?
Gordon : He’s fine I imagine.  Nice weather you are having  for this time of year.
Barack : Gotta go.  Enjoy your tofu. Tell David I’ll see him next year.   See you in Pittsburgh.

Humiliating.

UPDATE II : Despite invitations to all, only one American banker turned up to a meeting with the man who “saved the world” and the global banking system.  How ungrateful of them.


558 Comments

  1. 1
    Road_Hog says:

    But as we all know, Megrahi wasn’t responsible for the bombing anyway.

    • 6
      Cato Street Conspirator says:

      All the more reason for Obama to be annoyed. He is an American after all.

    • 12
      Scipio Africanus says:

      AND of course Herr Braun (our Dear Leader) had nothing to do with the Release of that Kindly, Frail, Heroic Mass-Murderer who has at last been allowed (unless his Victims) to rejoin his Family after all these years

      • 85
        Steve Expat says:

        But didn’t you hear him say that it was:

        “Nothing to do with me, it was the Scots who made the decision and it had nothing to do with me. That’s nothing to do with me, not my decision to make and I respect the right of the man who had to make the decision to make the decision that he did”

      • 293
        No friend of Gordons says:

        Maybe Obama said he was only interested in speaking with the leader of the UK. Bollocks to having to talk to the guy only in charge of England

        • 441
          Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

          a very good telling pont you make here sirrah – jolly good! You Inglis don’t ken whit side yer breeedz buttered oan.

      • 475
        Anonymous says:

        If you believe Megrahi was responsible, then you’ll believe anything.

        • 544
          13eastie says:

          Fuck Megrahi – it was Ghadaffi that sold him out.

          Brown is in turn willing to sell us out to his fellow Lunatic at every turn.

          How about sending PSNI officers to train the scum that sent Semtex and rifles to Belfast?

          How about sending SAS troopers to do the same?

          The man on the Clapham Omnibus has always needed a pretty fucking strong reason to endure a conversation with McFuckwit – it’s hardly any surprise that the President of the USA would rather boil his own plums than subject himself to the same…

    • 69
      Ken Lorp says:

      Every time this Hoon decides to play politics with an issue, it just blows up in his face. It would be really funny if it didn’t have such dramatic consequences for the country.

      • 470
        THE ESSEX GIRLS says:

        Maybe he and Barack could go for a run together?
        We have it on good authority that “I run every day”
        yeh – to the fridge fatboy!

        Maybe that’s why they met in the kitchen..Gordo was hunting down the pies?

        “Pass another pill please Nurse”!!

    • 83
      Archie says:

      Not a peep about this from al-Beeb of course. Silly to expect anything really!

      • 99
        Tin Cunliffe-Arsely says:

        I heard about it on R4.

      • 109
        The Pedant says:

        ERRR NO…

        I read it at 4.30am on beeb

        If you’re going to have a go be ACCURATE…

      • 121
        Alan Philip Bonggg says:

        There is something on their website now about Downing street being “frantic” trying to get a meeting (and no doubt a photo op). The article goes on to say that Downing street said they had wide ranging discussions over the climate change dinner – turns out they had a few minutes talk in the kitchen. Also Brown’s speech was poorly attended, although this could have been due to Gadaffi’s enormous rant earlier putting the schedule into disarray. Then again it could be that no-one bothered to listen.

        • 230
          Bluebottle says:

          They had a discussion across a wide (kitchen) range (cooker).

        • 275
          Little Chef says:

          “wide-ranging” – lol. I’m sure the range in the kitchen must have been at least 12 foot across, with plenty of room not to avoid each other as they… did exactly what?

          Scrambled the eggs?
          Watched the French dressing?
          Sniffed the pot-pourri?
          Tossed the salad (one way only)?
          Performed the monster mash?
          Counted the bread? (They kneaded the dough, natch)
          Passed the butter?
          Did the roly-poly (c/w the jelly roll)?
          Cooked their goose?
          Goosed the French dressing?
          Stuffed the chicken?
          Played hide the salami?
          Put the bun in the oven?
          Sliced and diced the pizza (and the pizzo)?
          Scoffed at the pain diplomatique

          Any other tasty possibilities?

        • 311
          Susie says:

          Isn’t the Sun headline, “Gordon’s kitchen nightmares”?

          Love it… keep it up.

        • 394
          Brown's Faecal Finger of Fate says:

          Gordon’s F word, Faecal

    • 404
      Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

      You’re scraping the barrel for a story here old man, what?!

      About that website Fox – dropped the price any yet what-ho?

      Toodle-Oo

      PS Remember to VOTE LABOUR

  2. 2
    essex75 says:

    Obama is paying a price for encouraging the release of the Lockerbie bomber…

    i think you mean brown

  3. 3
    Lady Virginia Droit de Seigneur says:

    So much for International Statesman of the Year.

    Obama’s worked out what most of us in the UK worked out years ago – Brown is a useless hoon who will do pretty much anything to gain party political advantage.

    He can fuck off and stay in the US

    • 19
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      No he can’t. The chances of him passing the US Immigration procedure is close to zero, no responsible academic institution would give him a job, the Bankers would only speak to him in a kitchen, and the American Left have enough losers of their own.

    • 22
      Man on the Clapham Omnibus says:

      Pathetic, isn’t it? Loser desperately trying to play with the most popular kid, who really can’t be arsed with demeaning himself.

      Apparently Browngabe finally ran him to earth in a kitchen. As International Statesmen of the year do when discussing issues of great import with the President of the United States.

      • 47
        Minekiller says:

        “Apparently Browngabe finally ran him to earth in a kitchen. As International Statesmen of the year do when discussing issues of great import with the President of the United States”

        Chapeau sir, Brilliant, I do hope a journalist or political commentator actually uses your words on live TV, as they sum the situation up perfectly.

      • 73
        Grimy Miner says:

        MOTCO – I have a mental picture of Obama frantically trying to conceal himself behind a refrigerator whilst Brownjobs is looking in larders and under sinks for him.

        Pity Obama’s hide and seek skills were not perfected enough to avoid eventual discovery.

        • 104
          Here's Gordon - quick hide says:

          Obama was probably doing the washing-up. Hard to shake off that blackman image.

      • 102
        genghiz the kahn says:

        “Apparently Browngabe finally ran him to earth in a kitchen. As International Statesmen of the year do when discussing issues of great import with the President of the United States.”

        Nice turn of phrase reminds me of a description of Roderick Spode.

  4. 4
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    ‘Obama is paying a price for encouraging the release of the Lockerbie bomber…’

    What, is Brown refusing to see him? Something wrong there.

  5. 7
    me says:

    you mean Brown is.

  6. 8
    Bob says:

    Brown’s speech was delivered to a half-full auditorium, surely?

    • 18
      older not wiser says:

      depends if you a glass is half full versus glass half empty guy.

      Personally, I think you shopudl always down it in one.

    • 67
      Gurner says:

      I’m sure I saw someone eating popcorn during it?

      • 176
        Riff Raff says:

        A few people walked in looking for the toilets. No doubt they thought they were on the right track when they caught wind of the smell until they saw Broon

        • 337
          Susie says:

          They’d had enough of the Gadaffi/Brown double act… with these two comedians it’s hard to see which was the straight man… oh hang on….

    • 253
      Old Fart in a Bottle says:

      Reminds me of an old song which went something like:
      Fee fee fi fi fo fo fum
      who talks shit in the auditorium
      Gordon Brown
      Gordon Brown
      He’s a clown
      That Gordon Brown…..

    • 519
      Lil Olmey says:

      A half-full sanitorium seems more likely.

  7. 9
    Phil O'Pastree says:

    And why are they using their left hands to shake, in the Rich’n'Mark cartoon? Are they Boy Scouts?

  8. 10
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    Why assume it’s anything to do with the Lockerbie bomber? Maybe it is, but maybe Obama just thinks he’s got more important things to do with his valuable time than waste it talking to a soon-to-be has-been with nothing interesting to say.

  9. 11
    Man on the Clapham Omnibus says:

    Obama is paying a price? Que?

  10. 13
    MisterE says:

    Obama best get his fuking head read. No one, NO ONE, disses our Brown man like that and gets away with it…

    I hope his kids weren’t too fond of their puppy – I can see Brown sneaking into the Whitehouse to boil it up in the kitchen.

    The Secret Service, the CIA, and the might of the American military will be no match for the Brown man when his love is scorned!

  11. 23
    pickled wizard says:

    One report says that they met ‘on the hoof’ in the UN kitchen. Just as well it wasn’t the gents or mandlepoof would have been there adding to his photo collection!

  12. 25
    OKTOBER says:

    GF says Obama is paying a price for encouraging the release of the Lockerbie bomber…

    Time to go GB, you did it your way……………………………..

    and take that slime y git Camorooney with you, another wanker in waiting….

  13. 27
    Article 38 says:

    For a moment this week I imagined that Brown’s offer to cut the Trident fleet was part of a clever strategy, fully organised and aligned with the White House, to prompt global disarmament.

    If that was the case Brown and Obama would have been seen hand-in-hand.

    Clearly, this offer to sacrifice Britain’s future security was nothing of the sort and just a pathetic cry for attention from an increasingly irrelevant and discredited Prime Minister.

    • 45
      Papasmurf says:

      If that is true then he has done more damage than can be imagined. DC should negate that position immediately and would not be bound by irrelevant statements. A proper review should be conducted and policy made on that and not McDoom’s whims

      • 77
        Engineer says:

        He already has. Yesterday’s Conservative statement said something like, “A good decision in principle, provided the deterrent can be maintained at all times wih three boats”. All the Tories need is a considered statement from the military that four boats is the minimum, and it’s all over bar the shouting.

        • 82
          Papasmurf says:

          Best the Generals and Admirals make that statement then. That will show McDoom has lost all control and show him up as the liar he is.

        • 117
          Engineer says:

          Perhaps not yet. If Gordoom was trying to pick a fight with the Tories over something, Trident isn’t a bad ploy. If the Tories say “leave as is”, the Liebour spin-machine promptly goes mental with “they talk about cuts, but won’t when it comes down to it. See, we were right all along to spend, and they’re admitting it”. Cameron has neatly defused that one with his statement.

          The downside is that half of Barrow-in-Furness is now worried for it’s future, and so is everyone that wants to see the UK properly defended.

        • 395
          Fish Head says:

          Well,Blair announced the same cut back in 2006,so McDoom is recycling old news. Did you really imagine he could think up his own policies?

          I believe we did not buy sufficient warheads to fit all the boats anyway,so we only have 3 effectively.

          As the policy is only to ever have two subs at sea at one time(one on patrol and one returning) our enemies don’t have to find many subs to finish off our capability.

          Not sure what happens now but back in the day, the Trident II missile delivery system was not actually owned by the UK. That belonged to the US ,so we accessed a pool of missiles managed by the United States and stored at Kings Bay, Georgia. British boats picked up their load of missiles at Kings Bay when they were commissioned and exchanged them there when missiles needed servicing. The Trident warheads were mated to the missiles on-board the submarine at the Royal naval Armament Depot at Coulport.

          Yes,even our defences belong to other countries me hearties.

        • 547
          Susie says:

          Back in the late ’80s I caught a ferry which passed King’s Bay… and saw a couple of their subs, huge matte black mean machines. Even though I was an anti-nuclear idiot in those days I was pretty impressed.

      • 86
        Dave ain't no better. says:

        Dave who wanyts to be friends to all people says he backs Brown in giving up Trident. Proof if you ever needed it that Dave ain’t no Conservative, someone has to tell Dave that he is stepping out of line in supporting Brown and giving away our Nuclear deterrent.

  14. 30
    GuyH says:

    Brown’s speech to the UN was pretty toxic for Obama, too. Going on about providing “free” healthcare in African countries. Given his problems over US health reform, and the unfair suggestions he’s faced that he wants to copy the madness of the NHS, then no way is Obama going to want to be associated with that. Brown has locked himself out in the cold in order to posture as a global benefactor, and has nobody to blame but himself.

    • 129
      Here's Gordon - quick hide says:

      Did you see the state of Brown as well? Looked like someone had dragged him off a park bench!

      • 336
        Throbber says:

        He can’t even tie his tie properly for fucks sake, he’s an embarrassment. My nine year old does a better job than Brown.

        • 400
          bandersnatch says:

          What was interesting to me about his tie was that he grabbed at it every now and then… even when on the move through corridors… a behaviour believed by many to be displacement activity for another nervous (but unacceptable in public) act.

  15. 31
    Minekiller says:

    The “oil for terrorist” deal, which includes the side deal to drop the pursuit of the killer(s) of WPC Yvonne Fletcher was highlighted for the monstrous evil ii is and lays bare the foul souls of Brown, Blair, Mandelson and what is the dark heart of New Labour, when Gaddafi took to the stage yesterday and delivered his rant. No wonder Obama does not want to meet Brown, he is utterly toxic. No 10 and its shrill the BBC may be trying to assure us this morning that all is OK and the special relationship is terrific etc etc, but this is smoke and mirrors, nowhere does it refer to Brown. I also agree with an earlier poster, Brown’s speech was delivered in a UN graveyard shift, so a half empty auditorium. Saviour of the World? Bullshit, no-one is listening to him anymore and the sooner he and his scum acolytes, his foul, evil and soulless national socialist party are consigned to the history books the better it will be for Britain and the world.

  16. 32
    Man on the Clapham Omnibus says:

    Ha! Guido’s edited it.

    • 48
      genghiz the kahn says:

      At least Guido realises that we have read the piece.

      Obama sees Brown as a discredited, unelected, venal, bankrupt appeaser, who is on his way to a political exit.

  17. 41
    298,257 says:

    Brown is a moron, as was Blair…but will you fall for the same trick twice ?

    http://img132.yfrog.com/i/sametricktwice.jpg/

    • 63
      Ken Lorp says:

      Alas, I think yes.

      For the past few years I have wrestled with my desire to get rid of Labour and my lack of enthusiasm for Blair light (sorry, Cameron). I still am.

      However, I think we’ve reached a tipping point and the electorate is just so desperate to be rid of Brown, they would vote for a chimpanzee with a blue rosette.

      • 196
        Not Jacqui Smith's bathplug again says:

        Case of meet the nu retard, same as the old retard. Or in nu labour’s case, meat the nu retard, etc.

  18. 44
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    Blunkett can give Brown some advice about getting off with women when you’re blind.

  19. 46
    Terrible But True says:

    ‘Brown is paying a price for encouraging the release of the Lockerbie bomber…’

    I do believe many, many prices have, are and will be paid before Mr. Brown’s 3rd Dreich eventually succumbs to the inevitable.

    Though I doubt the man himself will be suffering much, at least financially. Which will afford him and his at least some measure of physical comfort to continue spinning whatever goes on in that head to a satisfactory degree.

    • 76
      genghiz the kahn says:

      I like the use of the term Mr Brown’s 3 dreich, it implies you are familar with the meaning of dreich:- Dreich (Scots) miserable cold gloomy weather.

      • 101
        jgm2 says:

        Dreich (Scots) miserable cold gloomy weather.

        I spent six years of my precious life living in fucking Fife. I think we had one summer in that time.

        Dreich is the word. There’ll be a reason there are 50 million people in England and 5 million (and falling) in Scotland. And it isn’t purely because they’re bigotted, alcoholic job-dodgers.

        • 181
          Fucking delicious! says:

          Ah, another waste of space who thinks he has a ‘precious life’. What a twat: and were those 6 years not in the womb of your mother? Only elephants have a longer pregnancy than she had with you…

          Fucking delicious!

        • 517
          Foggy Albion says:

          Fud (Scots) jgm2.

        • 557
          Bob says:

          There’s 50 million in England as it’s full of all kinds of creeds bar a few million actual English.

    • 155
      udderly 'orrible says:

      Far too generous.

      The madman and all his henchmen and woemen including warmonger Bliar should be hauled before Nuremberg II in the company of the banksters, to answer for treason and high crime.

      Then Liebour can be buried forever and a new politcial dispensation in the UK might emerge.

  20. 49
    Anonymous says:

    When Brown is out of a job, Will he try to copy his best friend Blair and talk shite around the world while being paid daft money?

    • 103
      nell says:

      Yes but Bliar makes most of his money on the speaking circuit in America. And as much as despise Bliar – he can talk a good talk.

      Can you see the Americans paying to hear gordon speak?

      • 124
        Man on the Clapham Omnibus says:

        Guess he’ll wind up talking daft around the world while being paid shite money, then.

      • 150
        Anonymous says:

        I can see Americans paying good money to hear Gordoom stay silent. See UN conference for details.

        • 548
          Susie says:

          Another thing is Americans are still deluded enough to rate Blair (all that standing shoulder to shoulder stuff after 9/11)… they won’t have much time for Brown who plotted, bitched and finally ousted him without an election (another thing —
          democracy — Americans hold dear).

      • 379
        Anonymous says:

        Best Brown will end up with is an occasional “economics” column in the New Statesman

    • 119
      Anonymous says:

      He’ll have to.

      It wouldn’t be safe for him here, nevermind if he could find a job – although he’s probably hoping for disability benefit.

  21. 50
    Raving Loon says:

    Even without the whole Lockerbie bomber scandal, who would want to be in the same time zone as that one eyed hoon?

  22. 51
    OKTOBER says:

    Only establishment thinks cozying up to the states is where its at.

    Get over it they think you are little Britons, akin to dads army in Afghanistan…

    A pet poodle must do as its told and not piss on the carpet!

    HAHAHA

  23. 54
    Obama is a Twat says:

    McGay is a turd, I don’t think it’s just that though Guido, Barry reads your blog, do you really think he needs to get a bit of the McDoom luck at the moment?

    McCoward is finished as well, so why waste time with him? Cameron is the next PM so time for a clean start.

  24. 55
    Barack Obama says:

    Gordon, you’ve left sime dirt on that pan….

  25. 56
    Uncle Filipino Greeno says:

    Speaking of which Maguire on Newsnight last night ..jeez,they must be desperate to find Labour cheerleaders

  26. 64
    Stu says:

    Seems that they are both now denieing that Obama is avoiding him according to Sky.

    • 71
      Papasmurf says:

      They would deny it wouldn’t they, Obama after all needs UK forces in Afghanistan to take the casualties away from his own boys.

      • 89
        jgm2 says:

        Obama can safely deny it it ‘cos he knows the only person who will believe the denial is the Maximum Imbecile. ‘Cos Brown wants to believe it.

        The rest of the civilised world are laughing behind his [Brown's] back.

    • 303
      Nursery crime says:

      An innocent game of hide and seek blown out of all proportions.

  27. 74
    Captain Haddock says:

    Whether the snubs to McDoom originate with upsetting Obama on D-Day .. the release of terrorists or merely because he’s a hoon ..

    It really doesn’t matter .. The important bit is that he’s being publicly snubbed, by the most powerful man in the world & by the UN .. all on the international stage ..

    This might just be what’s needed to push the twat over the edge ..

    • 355
      Throbber says:

      Doubt it – he is on a mission from God. He knows better than the rest of us and must never give up.

  28. 79
    Papasmurf says:

    Marigolds for Obama must be thinking McDoom has not washed his hands after being to the toilet.

  29. 80
    It's all about depressing Gordon says:

    Utter Bollocks Guido, this has nothing to do with Lockerbie.

    Would you or any self respecting pertson want to have one to one talks with Brown? Why should Obama be any different.

    • 93
      jgm2 says:

      It really is that simple.

      Just like Blair couldn’t come up with enough excuses to avoid getting presented with that comedy medal by Bush just to avoid even being seen in the same frame as that idiot then anybody with any sense is looking to distance themselves from the insanity that is the Maximum Imbecile.

  30. 87
    Papasmurf says:

    Does anyone know who broke this story? I first heard Toenails report it on the Toady prog.

  31. 91
    smilie in your stout says:

    As they row, so shall ye seep.

  32. 92
    Fidel X Penses says:

    Truly, Broon’s reputation as a fuckwit is global. In today’s Gulf Daily News we read:

    “Brown denies ‘going blind’ …. Charles Clarke urged him to stand down as leader to save the party from a mauling at the next general election”.

    So it even makes the newspapers in Bahrain, where it shares the front page with a story about his new best friend, Mad Dog Gadaffi.

    The damage that man is doing to the reputation of our country is incredible. Couldn’t we arrange a hostage swap: we get Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese get Broon? That would work for most of us, wouldn’t it (although, obviously, not the Burmese)?

    • 132
      Old Rockape says:

      About the only thing you would get for swapping Brown for would be a Bucket of Snot

    • 361
      Throbber says:

      All the sanctions and criticism of the Burmese would stop immediately tho.
      Noone would want them to let the fucker out… ever.

    • 368
      Susie says:

      Brown going blind would be justice.

      His parsimony has certainly blinded and maimed so many soldiers in Afghanistan. I hope he watches ‘Wounded’ on BBC 1 last night, when he gets back.

  33. 96
    McGroom says:

    Long before the release of Al Megrahi, Obama had shown that the special relationship is no longer special.

    The UK is not important to the USA, and it is clear the Obama has disdain for Bush’s excursions into Iraq and Afghanistan which Blair followed like a love sick puppy to all our cost. Now the US spends a fortune supplying and transporting our troops around Helman province and they could probably manage quite happily without us.

    Blair and Brown have consigned this once great country to having about as much influence on the World stage as Sapin and Belgium.

    Blair and Brown’s legacy will be the final destruction of the “Great” part of Britain

    • 153
      r supward says:

      Sapin indeed. so little influence i bet most people have never even heard of it

      cant blame Pres Omaha for not wanting a meeting with snotty. hes worried GB will wish his luck and destroy his career.

      • 304
        Old Nick Heavenly says:

        There are a at least (wild guess) one million Sapins for every person in this part of Belgium!

        It is bloody great around here!

        Nice to live in a country with no influence whatsoever on the world stage!

        The people are humble and very friendly!

        Hippy Greeno Heaven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  34. 97
    Eileen Critchley says:

    When are you naïve Little Englanders going to get it!

    Frankly a vote in our General Election next year is a token gesture at best.

    Our elected representatives don’t make the law, they can’t control global trade and they don’t set foreign policy.

    A bridge between Europe and the US! I think it’s more a case of floundering around in no mans land whilst everyone else adopts a more future proof position!

    Sadly, I suspect we’ll have to wait a few generations before ‘Old’ England finally wakes up!

    To deny is to be disloyal in my book.

    The children of 2050 will care not for re runs of The Longest Day.

    • 110
      Doris says:

      What exactly are you trying to say Eileen? I am terribly naive so please explain.

      • 138
        Eileen Critchley says:

        I was worried that my suggestions were a little subtle for this site – ‘The Sun’ of political blogs.

        Go and ask your teacher to explain – I’ve got work to do.

        • 166
          McGroom says:

          With an ungenerous attitude like that coupled with an unwillingness to explain meaningless drivel, she has to be New Labour

        • 274
          Doris says:

          Oh dear Eileen, go away and find a sense of humour. You are well and truly right up your own arse dear and clearly frustrated.

          Spinster, I suppose?

          If all you spend your time doing is going on blogs you clearly hate and then abusing people, you really are quite an unpleasant and disagreeable person. Probably another product of this nasty ‘dumbed down’ nulabour regime we live under.

          We reap what we sow. Good luck old girl!

        • 312
          Plain Jane says:

          I suppose a name like Eileen would give anyone a hang up. What a horrible person she seems – very arrogant and right up her own filthy bottom.

        • 414
          bandersnatch says:

          Anyone else remember a song called ‘Come on Eileen!’?… Dear me, a hopefully fleeting ‘senior moment’ has afflicted me and I can’t remember who sang it…

        • 445
          bandersnatch says:

          ‘Come on Eileen!’… I remember! It was Dexy’s Midnight Runners.

          It is genuinely difficult to tell where your non-argument is supposed to be leading Eileen, for one thing, and it honestly isn’t a good idea to insult other posters, especially if you are new. As for slagging off the whole site, it is like a lively local pub and you can find people from the left right and centre but all with a common libertarian… er bent… They seem nice, nasty, and middling just as in face to face…

          As for 133… How petty! Your suggestions were impenetrable rather than subtle and you have merely been arrogant-sounding and generally insulting and disagreeable.

        • 501

          Come on Eileen?

          I’d have to be thinking of Tessa Sanderson to do that lol ;o)

          Though I do like the odd frustrated spinster – once you get them going they’re very good fun and normally make a decent breakfast ;o)

    • 229
      English Liberation Front says:

      Rather a Little Englander than a pompous, opinionated prig who is too far up herself for plain speaking.

      If you get it, you sad old trollop, why don’t you do something about it instead of sneering at the little people?

      • 323
        Old Nick Heavenly says:

        Der…but… the United Condom is by far and away the most fascist, state controlled, super survelliance, out of control shithole in Europe!

        And it’s not even sunny! Nor funny, honey!

    • 246
      Fluffy Thoughts says:

      Are you jockanese perchance…?

  35. 98
    Glad to be of help says:

    Its eff all to do with Lockerbie. The Americans told us that they’re over it already and it’s time to move on.

    This is all about Obama ignoring an ingratiating, self-seeking twat, as any normal person would.

  36. 105
    bofl says:

    what an embarrassment the man of courage is……..chasing obama around like a fawning big fat gay. i would bet he even tried to follow him into the toilet!

    so this is gordons idea of getting on with the job?

    trying to get a photo op with the head boy?

    what an utter hoon.

    £trillions in debt,mass unemployment,unwinnable wars and he STILL thinks that the world revolves around him .

    perhaps if his minions let him see the pictures of the young soldier in the daily mail he might get an idea where his actions have led?

    although being a delusional cock i doubt it……..

    • 107
      jgm2 says:

      Yeah. Brown is like that Sebastion bloke in Little Britain.

    • 112
      Papasmurf says:

      Out of the UK when the Beeb broadcast ‘Wounded”

      If you don’t see it, it never happened.

      Even Prince Charles when making a speech to the Paras after awarding their campaign medals paid personal tribute to the wounded who have paid a terrible price for their country.

      Resign now Brown and spare us all from your ineptitude.

      • 411
        Susie says:

        What do you mean ‘even’ Prince Charles? Most especially Prince Charles as he’s actually been the worried parent of a serving soldier there, unlike anyone in government.

        Princes Harry and William pay many visits to Headley Court and have raised the profile of Help for Heroes — with Harry’s reference to “the real hero was the guy on the flight home”.

        Brown and Blair but Brown especially should be forced to watch that documentary

        • 460
          Under a flower pot at the bottom of the garden until the GE says:

          Indeed.

          You don’t get persons from the LieBour party doing such sordid non-PC activities such as serving your country in the armed forces. Much better come up through the ranks of the Student Union and Local Government. That gives you much more authority to send Sons, Brothers and Fathers into a country that has beaten off the might of the British Empire (twice) and the Russian Army to get killed and maimed.

        • 553
          Jim Beam says:

          To Susie. I couldn’t agree more. For many of us who serve in Her Majesty’s Forces,we have a fair amount of respect for Prince Harry ( the ginger Bullet magnet) as he has at least tried to do a tour in Afghanistan. He would have stayed longer but he was outed by the press.None of Blair’s sons have got the balls to serve in the Army. But then again as their father is a pschologically castrated NEW MAN NONCE is it any wonder????

  37. 106
    Monty says:

    This is nothing to do with Lockerbie .
    Clearly Obamalamadingdong is a Guido reader, and thus is aware of the Curse of the one-eyed son of the manse.
    He just doesn’t want to get jinxed.

    • 113
      jgm2 says:

      Obama is beaten before he starts. Bush has handed him a completely fucked economy and all the stardust in the world ain’t going to fix that any time soon. He too (Obama) knows he’s just going through the motions with this UN Global Warming horseshit and his NHS-lite reforms to pander to his more incontinent voters.

      It’s the economy stupid. And Bush has fucked the economy almost as thoroughly as Brown has fucked the UK’s economy.

      Obama looks at Brown and sees Bush. An economic destroyer. A bug-eyed lunatic. An utter imbecile oblivious to the economic destruction he has wrought.

      Basically Obama sees what we see.

      • 236

        Oh I don’t know; Obama wants to fuck the American economy up even more.

        Hence a 2 millionish person rally against his policies in Washington, and the lowest ratings since Clinton.

        Obama is Brown with Autocue skills.

        Where’s the UKs TEA (Taxed Enough Already) parties? Why haven’t we marched on Downing street to protest at the debt the one-eyed scottish idiot is signing onto us and our children?

        We in the UK are just sheep shorn by the rent-seekers.

      • 504
        Watch the Skies! says:

        Very well put. It is a comparison that has been ‘hiding in plain sight’ for so long that I’ve not even noticed it. Funny how just sticking a different label on a thing changes how we think about the thing inside the bottle.

  38. 108
    BROWNS ACHING BOLLOCKS says:

    Not Many World Leaders Have Any Time For Mcmental .They Dont Have Time For “ENDLESS PHOTO OPPERTUNITIES” They Avoid Him Like A Pile Of Shit ! After All They Have A World To Run And They Know That Within Months This Embarrassment Of The World Stage Will Suffer The Worst Defeat In British Political History !

    • 125
      Mondeoman says:

      Spot On (or dinky), he is written off in the eyes of the other world leaders, no influence, a dead stick. If he drags this painful decline to the last date possible it will be an even greater task for those who have to pick up the pieces, rebuild trust and influence and turn this country around again. At present each day we a digging further into a hole created by this bunch of muppets, no shame and no courage.

  39. 115
    nell says:

    It wasn’t just Obama that snubbed gordon – that half empty stadium he spoke to is very telling.

    But I also read that his aides had to fight desperately to get him a decent speaking slot because he had been scheduled into an obscure time. Even then he only got to speak after Quadaffi. Fitting ‘tribute’ to a failed British PM.

  40. 116
    Article 38 says:

    It’s not just Obama who thinks Brown is a waste of space:

    Gordon Brown unable to attract leading bankers to meeting in New York
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6224140/Gordon-Brown-unable-to-attract-leading-bankers-to-meeting-in-New-York.html

    It’s almost as if his claim to be the financial saviour of the world is yet another fantasy…

    • 144
      Steve Expat says:

      But why would a bunch of American bankers have any interest in meeting Broon?
      What can he offer to them? Not a lot from what I can see…

  41. 123
    James1st says:

    I long for the day when Brown will go stick his head up a dead dogs bum

  42. 126
    Blind as a bat says:

    If Gordon’s sight is OK why is he given speech notes with big bold type like this?

    http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0geo412aXt1rW/610x.jpg

  43. 127
    Qaddafi says:

    Brown and Obama, two assholes up one banker’s ass.

  44. 128
    Anonymous says:

    Senor Guido

    That kindly Mr Obama has shewn his compassion for an anxious American Child by writing an absence note for a School Truant

    Would Mr Obama shew his compassion for us puir Brits by giving Mr Brown a Sick Note, to enable our Dear Leader to access the US Health Care System, which is so perfect

  45. 131
    going mental says:

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

    but he saved the world , What will he do know ?

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

    • 134
      Gordon Brown says:

      The anti-HIV vaccine which I developed in between writing books on ‘Courage’ is showing promise in clinical trials.

      Next week I shall be devoting my attention to curing cancer.

      • 141
        Steve Expat says:

        Devote your remaining life to anything you like Gordon, as long as you stop doing the current job as soon as possible

      • 180
        Troughy says:

        Which day next week do you plan to shoot yourself exactly? I’d offer to assist but the DPP’s advice precludes it.

      • 314
        Fluffy Thoughts says:

        As someone who has worked on the MRC cancer project, albeit as a software-developer, the last people you need to employ are members of the public-sector. That said, most of the advances I observed were from people from overseas: nEU-Labour and their BNP co-horts should tread carefully!

        Yours,

        A proud Englishman!

  46. 133
    Not long till labour gone says:

    Who in their right mind would want a meeting with the boring, bollocks talking dull toned Brown?

    This snub will hopefully put a huge dent in Browns ego. Its about time he saw that no one see’s him as an important person, just a joke.

  47. 135
    Cynic says:

    One of the rules of US politics is don’t be seen talking to losers.

    Last night Obama played by the rules.

  48. 135
    Anonymous says:

    You’d think that after all these hints Browngabe would have got the message.

    Obama is way too polite to just tell him to piss off. Unfortunately.

  49. 137
    Max says:

    Were they in the kitchen because they were looking for Prescott?

  50. 139
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Serves him right – did he really think his incessant repetition of “it started in America” wouldn’t catch up with him?

    • 156
      jgm2 says:

      That and then trying to claim credit for ‘saving the world’ when what actually happened is that he spent a full 12 months after the collapse of Northern Rock continuing to live in his make-believe world while Alistair Darling, the BoE and the CEOs of the UK’s major banks were pleading for some anonymous funding to stop our entire banking system from going down the shitter.

      But no. He dithers. And triangulates and when the decision is made for him by an exasperated Alistair Darling and the BoE he then tries to claim credit. All my idea doncha now. Quick phonecall to me over my morning porridge, snap decision from my steel-trap mind and the whole situation defused.

      Now, have the BBC show some old tape from the 1980′s and blame it on Thatcher. And the bankers. And the Americans. That should work.

      Only two total idiots like Bush and Brown could fail to see what was coming and act in a timely fashion. But almost uniquely in history we did in fact get a perfect confluence of idiocy.

  51. 140
    BROWNS ACHING BOLLOCKS says:

    THE G20 Says: Gordon We Are all Going Now ! When Youve Finished speaking , Turn The lights Off On Your Way Out !

  52. 142
    Olly boy says:

    I did laugh when I saw the World Statesman of the Year giving his speech. From what I could see there were two Chinaman in there both of which were asleep.

    Hilarious!

    Having said that I do feel a little embarrassed for old Blighty.

  53. 143
    Dare says:

    So the only person who would talk with gordon was Bono?

    • 148
      nell says:

      Apparently also yesterday he invited top bankers to a private meeting and only one turned up.

      Gordon is not having a good time in New York and his ‘international image’ is looking rather tatty.

      • 179
        jgm2 says:

        Don’t you worry. By the end of the week the BBC will be reporting how ‘an triumphant Brown wrung the concessions he wanted from the G20 blah blah…’

    • 165
      Sir William Waad says:

      And then only to exchange notes on mood-altering drugs.

    • 167
      Gordon Brown says:

      I thought I was going to greet a huge boner. Such a disppointment to meet a leprechaun instead.

    • 174
      Engineer says:

      Bono, slowly clapping – “Every time I clap my hands, a child dies in Africa.”

      Voice from crowd – “Well fucking stop it, then.”

  54. 145
    nell says:

    I see mandy is saying this morning that gordon needs more razzmatazz – that he needs to lighten up and then everything will be OK and we shall all vote for him next year.

    I have a sinking feeling that there are going to be some more youtube moments on the way.

    • 149
      Smile when you should be frowning says:

      I like Gordon’s youtube moments, they are hilarious.

      • 170
        Steve Expat says:

        More Youtube moments please – with every one Liebour lose another few thousand votes!

      • 188
        I hate New Labour says:

        Mandy would know all about placing razmatazz over content wouldn’t he?

        That moronic, greedy simpleton Bliar fooled enough people using the same strategy…

      • 189
        Vimeiro says:

        They are a brill way of disiplining the children. ‘Behave or the bad man will get you’

    • 163
      Man on the Clapham Omnibus says:

      More razzmatazz? Browngabe doing karaoke in a paper hat? Driving quad bikes in a ploughed field with the boys from Top Gear, to a soundtrack of hair metal?

      Lord preserve us.

    • 448
      SmogMonster says:

      Gordon: Time… to die……….
      All Normal Persons: YAAAY!! Woohooo!

      THE END

    • 505

      Frank – that was awesome – but how do you know my therapist?

    • 522
      SmogMonster says:

      2nd draft:

      Gordon:
      I’ve seen things you ‘normal’ people wouldn’t believe. I’ve chased Obamas through the UN kitchens. I’ve seen attorney generals on fire in the front page of the Sun. All these moments will be lost, like Prescott’s lunch down the shitter.
      Time… to die……

    • 523
      Watch the Skies! says:

      Urbandictionary does not yet have this ‘street usage’ for tranylcypromine.

    • 538
      Tickled Pink says:

      Frank, that’s excellent…

      Even a replicant would make a better prime minister, and they only last for five years.

  55. 147
    Ding-a-ling says:

    If it looks like Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is still hanging on in there next year further questions will need to be asked

    Someone should ask Brown if he wishes that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi would drop dead quickly, it will be a diiifcult one for the son of the manse to answer – typical Brown fuck-up

    Brown is the master of doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons

  56. 154
    Michael says:

    You can hardly blame anyone for not wanting to appear on the world stage with a loser like Brown – the Lockerbie story makes a good excuse.

  57. 157
    Qaddafi says:

    Here’s a good one lads, to take your mind off Britain’s terminal decline in world economic and political affairs:

    Total manufacturing working on orders fell in all Member States for which data are available. The largest falls were registered in Estonia (-40.7%), Lithuania (-38.5%) and the United Kingdom (-35.2%), and the smallest in Ireland (-11.6%), Poland (-13.9%) and Sweden (-16.9%).

    http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/4-23092009-AP/EN/4-23092009-AP-EN.PDF

    I was just telling Gordon how wonderful it is Great Britain has finally managed to pull ahead of Estonia and Lithuania. He seemed distracted though. He mentioned something about needing to get to Cape Cod, an appointment at some boys club. You crazy Brits, so funny!

    • 450
      Susie says:

      He really wants to go to Camp David, he’ll probably ask Omaha for tips on how they get away with such obvious spin against the leader of the opposition. Chequers will be renamed Bullingdon Toff Towers upon his return.

  58. 158
    Stronghold Barricades says:

    Did Brown congratulate him the last time they met?

  59. 159
    Domestic Bliss? says:

    As Obama is wearing the marigolds, did he do the washing and Gordon the drying at their Kitchen summit?

  60. 161
    Bankrupt Britain says:

    So the Prime Mentalist spends 2 years blaming America for the ills of the world, releases a terrorist responsible for the death of 200 Americans and then expects a bilateral meeting with Obama.

    He must be mental indeed.

  61. 163
    James Gordon Brown says:

    Is it because I is white?

  62. 168
    Engineer says:

    If you garland a cowpat with tinsel, it’s still a cowpat.

    The only difference between Gordoom and a cowpat is that cowpats do provide a bit of fertility.

  63. 169
    just sayin says:

    Retro topic but I love a well crafted sentence or two taken from Matthew Norman ……Seen Elsewhere ……

    “The tale of Patricia Scotland and her Tongan illegal so neatly encapsulates so many of New Labour’s least enchanting traits (arrogance, incompetence, lust for needlessly intrusive law, venality, reliance on whitewashing, the smugness and exhaustion of those in power too long, and, above all, startlingly brazen hypocrisy) that it has the flavour of a crude satirical conceit. It is also an indecently perfect morality play about the dangers of the centre left hopping into bed with right wing tabloids. Invariably, they emerge with a discharge and itchy rash.”

  64. 187
    Papasmurf says:

    Toenail’s blog = “It reveals how keen Labour strategists were to play the Obama and Gordon card before their conference. When I interviewed Peter Mandelson in the summer he constantly linked the two men for having taken the right decisions during the economic crisis.”

    If he is right there may well be more than a whiff of Obama actively negating any chance of McDoom benefiting politically with a photoshoot. Deliberate on the President’s part.

    • 198
      jgm2 says:

      I don’t think there’s any doubt Brown will play the Obama card now that he’s had his ‘walk and talk’ ‘meeting’.

      You can picture the scene.

      Brown triumphally leering over a lecturn reading from his teleprompter. A backdrop of terrified cabinet ministers perched on stackable steel-framed chairs with rictus grins fixed on their faces. Nodding at the end of every sentence as if it contained the wisdom of Solomon.

      Draw drops, sneer creeps across his face, head angled, eyes focussed onto the far wall of the vast (empty) auditorium as if to capture once again the triumphal memory….

      ‘As I said in my meeting with President Omaha last week at the UN….’

      • 213
        Papasmurf says:

        …… and conference floor erupts into gales of laughter, cabinet ministers on stackable steel-framed chairs hang their head and faces into their blood soaked hands and dismally shake their collective heads in dispair…….”

        Meanwhile at the Conservative conference where does the plethora of material start the process of stacking the derision onto this discredited government????????

        • 222
          jgm2 says:

          We are sorely in need of ‘Spitting Image’ aren’t we?

          Labour still holding steady at 26%.

          There is something rotten in the gene pool.

        • 309
          Man on the Clapham Omnibus says:

          Who are these 26%? What demographic group(s) is/are yet prepared openly to state a preference for this shower of troughing incompetents?

        • 326
          rick says:

          214 – nothing wrong with the gene pool – quite the reverse. The majority of that 26% are government employees. They know a survival strategy when they see one.

      • 289

        ‘As I said in my meeting with President Omaha last week at the UN….’

        ‘Round the back, by the bins… I said, Barrack, oh are you going? ah well… goodbye. Goodbye Mr President!’

      • 444
        Yard Arm says:

        Brown is a fucking cretin. Does he seriously think that all those people in Britain who think he`s a knob head for having shafted the economy will see him shaking hands with Obama ( or not in this case ) and change their minds ?

        Utter cock trumpet.

        • 461
          jgm2 says:

          you have to assume even he isn’t that deluded. I’ve had Brown’s number for years though. He’s just a wannabe Churchill. This is all about getting pictures of himself with world leaders.

          In his own mind any picture of him with a US president is the equivalent of a Yalta summit for Brown. World leader me, deciding great things of global importance. Get thee behind me Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt. I’m the fucking head honcho now.

          It’s all about the autobiography and his place in history.

          Churchill is supposed to have said ‘History will be kind to me for I intend to write it’.

          Brown has the same plans.

  65. 191
    • 194
      Papasmurf says:

      That’s why Obama has blanked McDoom, he is looking at McDoom shagging Silvio. Notice Silvio’s ignoring it but tentatively enjoying the moment.

    • 242
      Not long till labour gone says:

      Even the world leaders have turned their back on Brown!

    • 286
      The Archbishop of Canterbury says:

      Was Brown even there? That looks like he’s been photoshopped in.

      • 391
        Not long till labour gone says:

        I think its more liekly the baseball bat the second guy on the left (who looks like John major) is holding about about to slap Brown with has been shopped out.

        We can dream….

  66. 192
    Show some respect says:

    I hate Brown with every fibre of my body…but with our lads dying alongside US troops for the last decade, no matter what Obama thinks of Brown, continually snubbing the British PM in such a high profile way is a direct insult to the people of the UK.

    • 195
      Papasmurf says:

      or better a way to get rid of the prat and get a politician he can do business with.

    • 201
      some says:

      No insult at all, Obama is just siding with the British people in shunning Gordon.

    • 204
      udderly 'orrible says:

      You think that shitpile represents the British people do you? Not according to the latest polls.

    • 217
      Rip Van Winkle says:

      Hear, hear.

      Obama is the coloured version of Blair. All smiles, ‘regular type of guy’ but one dangerous SOAB.

      • 266
        I hate New Labour says:

        Yes, yes, yes!

        I have said to everyone I meet that Obama will end up the same way as Blair. Good speaker, empty, duplicitous promises and zero delivery.

        He won’t make a second term, because I think plenty of Americans have already worked out in 6 months what it took 9 years for the stupid British to realise…

        • 294
          jgm2 says:

          The yanks, when they elected Obama, did not have a booming economy to take their eye off the ball thus allowing the scales to fall very quickly from their eyes.

          It is only since the same the wheels finally came off Brown’s borrow and squander miracle over here that folk have realised what idiocy has been at large in the land this past 12 years.

          It’s the economy stoopid.

      • 279

        Nope! ZerOBama is like Brown with autocue skills.

    • 287
      South of the M4 says:

      Then perhaps those 26% who say they will still vote labour will now understand how Britain as a nation has been devalued by this government – and ask themselves how much lower can it go, and is that what they really want.

      • 319
        I hate New Labour says:

        That just tells us at least 26% of people are either state-employed or benefit claimants…

        • 540
          Insane...you or me? says:

          Hitler had the right idea he just targeted the wrong people.

          fine theory, flawed execution as one would say.

          no one would really miss those 26% of people if they where rounded up and shot.

  67. 197
  68. 200
    genghiz the kahn says:

    The photo in the Standard

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23748052-details/No+10+denies+Obama+s+five+snubs+to+Brown/article.do

    Falstaff: “my King, my Jove! I speak to thee my heart” (2H4 5.5. 46)!

    King Henry V: “I Know thee not, old man . . .

    When thou dost hear I am as I have been

    Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,

    The tutor and feeder of my riots.

    Till then I banish thee, on pain of death.

    • 224
      Papasmurf says:

      McDoom MUST be feeling a sense of betrayal over this snub, after all Obama when on the election trail last year did the statesman thing around Europe ending at No 10. McDoom obliged him but the favour was not returned. Sums it all up really for McDoom.

      • 427
        Agent 99 says:

        it emerged today that White House officials were even prompted by the Prime Minister’s team to ring the BBC to deny that there had been any intended discourtesy.

        Does that not tell you everything you need to know about both the Hoons in No 10 and also those at Pravda (Sure to follow the zanulabour line)

  69. 202
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    He is obviously surrounded by dopes who think that there is such a thing as fairy dust.
    What’s the difference between a clown and a clown who has met Mr Obama?
    Zilch IMO.

    • 205
      jgm2 says:

      A clown with another picture for his autobiography.

      • 209
        genghiz the kahn says:

        FALSTAFF
        My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!

        KING HENRY
        I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;
        How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

  70. 206
    alex taylor says:

    can you blame them , they are bankers, not totally stupid morons

  71. 207
    Scenic says:

    Well its over a month since Megrahi was released, so I wonder how ‘close to death’ he is now? Seems he has had time to set up a website devoted to proclaiming his innocence. I wonder what the odds are on him still being alive and well by the time of the next election?

    • 216
      Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

      At a guess, a month closer.

    • 327
      Sceptical Steve says:

      My father was diagnosed with untreatable Prostate Cancer in 2002 and died in 2005 after the disease metastasised.

      Until the final six months of his life, he was actually in remarkably good physical condition (even though his condition was officially “terminal”), though even in this phase he would not have been capable of walking across an airport tarmac and boarding a plane without a great deal of assistance.

      Based on my father’s experience, the pictures of Megrahi’s departure from the UK and “heroic” reception in Tripoli Airport did not suggest someone entering the final weeks of his life…

      • 334
        Papasmurf says:

        and the treating consultant’s would know what stage he was at.

        This issue among many others will bite labour in the back if Megrahi is still alive by the time of the GE

      • 510

        Sorry to hear that Steve – the same happened to my dad.

        During the final phases of the disease, it can spread to the bones and there’s no bloody way Al Meghrabi’s anywhere near that stage.

        He looks like a man with about 5 years left from the pictures in the hospital.

    • 408
      streamfisher says:

      The curse of Gordon strikes again,… Brown: ” why hasn’t he died, they told me he was going to die” Nokia bounces off wall.

  72. 208
    The Admiral says:

    Damn it, man, walk….

  73. 219
    R.McGeddon says:

    Gordoom has been told that in future any meetings with Obama Beach will be conducted on a ‘speed dating’ basis. Brown will get just three minutes with the US President who will then promptly forget who he spoke to and why.
    Hard luck, Gordoom !!

    • 233
      R.McGeddon says:

      and seriously, who gives a flying fcuk if Brown was voted Statesman of the Year ?

      In 1938, Adolf Hitler was voted Man of the Year by Time Magazine.

      Awards are often meaningless. Was n’t T. Bliar awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour by the USA ??

      Bliar ?? Honour ??? Do us all a favour !!!!!

      • 239
        jgm2 says:

        Yeah he was. But like Obama avoiding Brown he went out of his way to avoid being seen in the same room as Bush.

        • 243
          Peter Handlesmen says:

          Brown spent decades of his life avoiding bush. It’s a marriage of convenience.

        • 332
          Justice Fingers says:

          If I was the AG and an employee of mine had presented me with what turned out to be forged documents then I would be pretty bloody keen for the person to be arrested and charged forthwith.

          Why isn’t this happening?

          Perhaps there’s insufficient evidence.

          Perhaps the Tongan lady should sue BS for defamation then.

        • 433
          Agent 99 says:

          Perhaps and most likely her side of the story would screw everything up including the official line ‘nowt to see here move along’

          Hoons

        • 436
          Rocking Horse saddle says:

          “Brown spent decades of his life avoiding bush. It’s a marriage of convenience.”

          Well I suppose avoiding bush is quite likely for a chutney ferret

    • 343
      Justice Fingers says:

      Sorry, that was posted as a comment to 251 much lower down.

  74. 220
    The Cunt of Monte Cristo says:

    I despise the Washington warlords but fair play to the imperialists why waste energy on this hate filled, delusional, twisted, lying, inadequate, spendaholic, Scotch mental?

    Does this wretch actully have a shred of dignity?
    Begging another leader to meet him in public, it’s no wonder they are giving him a wide berth

    • 235
      jgm2 says:

      Quite so. Like when a year or two ago and the price of oil was at 150USD a barrel and he ostentasiously orders up a plane to go down and lecture the Saudis about the price of oil. And came back with a flea in his ear about may-hap reducing the fucking taxes on petrol if he’s so worried about the cost to the motorist. Jackass.

      He really does think he’s fucking Churchill or Disraeli or something. Now look here you fuzzy-wuzzies, pump some more oil or we’ll send the fleet down to bombard you. What a delusional fucking arsehole. Who does he think he’s kidding?

      If you’ve really got something to say to Obama (or the Saudis) or any other fucker then pick up the fucking phone.

      • 244
        Alan Philip Bonggg says:

        I’m sorry Mr Brown the President is busy. Click. Whiiiiiiiiir.

        • 249
          Mondeoman says:

          Repeat five times! Brown is an embarrassment, period.

        • 263
          jgm2 says:

          But as it is he spends his days loitering outside Omaha’s window. Hoping to ‘accidentally’ bump into him on the way to school.

          In full view of the world. This is the third time he’s pulled that stunt with US presidents now. When the global financial crisis that started in America and has fuck all to do with me he was due to talk to the UN but declared he was going to visit Bush. he then sat around all day while the UK embassy frantically tried to get a cancellation slot like you would at a fucking dentist. Till finally he got his photograph for his autobiography.

          Then he pulled the same fucking stunt with Obama. And now he’s tried to do the same thing again.

          He really does think the whole world wants to hear what he has to say. Well we’re sick of hearing it Brown. It’s all self-serving bollocks with not even a toe dipped in the pool of truth.

        • 339
          jgm2 says:

          Maybe we should buy Brown a BMX so that he can ride up and down Pennsylvania Avenue doing wheelies and see if that impresses Omaha enough to talk to him in class.

        • 454
          Yard Arm says:

          341.

          If Brown`s riding it how long before the wheel`s come off ?

  75. 225
    Desert rat says:

    Obama must be a fucking nutter, trusting Brown to pass the salt.

    • 245
      streamfisher says:

      Gordon is now below the salt: the practice in the Middle Ages of having salt (something of a rarity) placed in the centre of the table separating the family from the servants, who were situated “below the salt”.

  76. 227
    Deeply Regret says:

    Forget Obama, we have more pressing issues – 5kg of Anglo Saxon gold has been found and is now, presumbly, the property of the state. Does that mean precious metals expert Gordon Brown is in charge of it?

    • 300
      Anonymous says:

      At least he’d get a good price for it at the moment.

    • 381
      Anonymous says:

      What the fuck’s that in pounds and ounces? None of that European kilo shite on this site if you please!

      • 471
        Susie says:

        11 lbs or 176.3 oz. It’s worth @ £107,713.13p by weight alone — won’t even pay for Baroness Scottie’s expenses.

        • 543
          Australian says:

          Just think, if it had been discovered 10 years ago, McDoom would have sold it on our behalf for £3.57 and a bag of crisps.

          Lucky he didn’t do that with the rest of our gold reserves.

          Oh, erm, wait a minute…

  77. 228
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    Party politics aside, I sincerely hope the next PM does not go in for this absurd Obama worship.

    Are you listening Cleggy [sniggers...]

  78. 231
    chronic says:

    Gordon’s American Karaoke choice.

  79. 238
    excellentcatblogger says:

    Guido

    It gets worse. At the World Statesman of the Year awards, Brown rolled up in a lounge suit picked up his award and left after 15 minutes. But the paying ticketholders had their invitations embossed with “a black tie dinner attended by the UK Prime Minister and his wife”.

    It is surprising that anyone wants to meet him at all.

  80. 251
    shelling-out says:

    The title of Gordon’s next book should be

    How to Make Friends and Influence People

  81. 254
    Engineer says:

    “Despite invitations to all, only one American banker turned up to a meeting with the man who ‘saved the world’ and the global banking system.”

    Did the poor sod get lost looking for the gents, or something?

  82. 260
    Papasmurf says:

    O/T but relevant to recent posts

    On 22.9.2009 I sent this to the Justice Committee
    “Sir

    Please can you confirm that the Justice Committee have in mind to
    investigate the claims that Patricia Scotland, the Attorney General
    upheld the highest standards of honesty in the recent debacle over the
    employment of an illegal Immigrant as a cleaner in her home.

    Also please confirm that the investigation by the UK Borders Agency
    was as thorough as it should have been in uncovering the criminality
    that went on.

    Also please confirm that the Security Vetting of the cleaner was
    undertaken by the Baroness Scotland and if not why not. Did any of
    this breach the Ministerial Code of Conduct.”

    I have just received this reply..

    “The Justice Committee will be considering its future programme at its first meeting following the summer recess and will take into account all relevant developments within its remit arising during this period. It is likely that the matter to which you refer will be part of such discussions.”

    We haven’t heard the last of this story, hopefully!!

    • 265
      shelling-out says:

      Her cleaner was/is (allegedly) married to a solicitor.

      How many solicitor’s wives can you think of who clean other people’s homes for a living?

      No, neither can I.

    • 346
      Justice Fingers says:

      If I was the AG and an employee of mine had presented me with what turned out to be forged documents then I would be pretty bloody keen for the person to be arrested and charged forthwith.

      Why isn’t this happening?

      Perhaps there’s insufficient evidence.

      Perhaps the Tongan lady should sue BS for defamation then.

      • 524
        Old Africa Hand says:

        Why were the Police granted a search warrant for what was a ‘civil matter’. Who granted the warrant and what was the nature of the sworn information upon which the warrant was granted.

  83. 264
    They do says:

    Look the real problem here is Gordon asking Obama 5 times to meet up with him. why can’t Gordon take a no for a no?

    Obama will have his reasons and they will certainly not be to snub the UK. The pair have talked severaql times over the last few months and I would guess that Obama wanted a face to face with other world leaders while they are in the USA.

    No the real story is not the US snubbing the UK the real story is Brown pleading for an interview and photo op, with a president who has more important things to do.

    • 317
      Deeply Regret says:

      Brown is pleading because he has the Labour Party conference next week.

      He thinks striding the global stage will save him – what we will remember instead is a deluded fool chasing Obama through a kitchen.

    • 486
      Susie says:

      “He’s just not that into you….”

  84. 268
    Scenic says:

    QT Tonight – Fraser Nelson and Harriet Harman

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/default.stm

    • 272
      Harriet makes I mad says:

      Shit. There goes another TV. Is it possible to by non destructive foam bricks?

      • 276
        jgm2 says:

        I do believe that foam bricks are available for precisely that purpose.

        • 296

          NB – if you buy one be sure not to place it next to a real brick, next to the arm of your sofa.

          I read that in Viz – seems like good advice to me.

        • 297
          Mondeoman says:

          Take care, some foam bricks are heavy, some are light, choose your brick wsiely and aim at the right person!

        • 324
          jgm2 says:

          This is absolutely true….

          When we were young my fuckwitted overweight younger brother used to delight in running into the lounge and throwing himself across the sofa. Until the leg sheared off. For the next ten years we did indeed have a sofa perched on bricks.

          The whole ensemble was then covered with a ‘throw’ or blanket as I believe it would have said on the original packaging if Crimean War era hospital blankets actually came in packaging.

          Kind of hard to get those bricks to chuck at the TV though ‘cos if you took one away then the whole sofa would be listing quite alarmingly.

      • 316
        Anonymous says:

        Try florist oasis.

        • 511

          Oh I dunno. People do piss about not realising the consquences. I remember a story my dad told me about some fellers mucking about with a high pressure air line, squirting each other, one guy jabbed it at another fellers arse, flipped the valve, squirt, just a pssssssssst – killed him. Straight up the jacksee, a couple of dozen bars, blew his guts out.

        • 512

          hmm, that was to the lump hammer story, rather than about florists.

          Hard to kill anyone with a tulip.

      • 389
        streamfisher says:

        Heard guy in engineering workshop was always playing practical jokes, one day he threw a foam lump hammer at somebody, ha, ha,.. sometime later somebody got their own back big time “Hey found your lump hammer” lobs it at Mr Joker who theatrically jumps up and heads it, except, oh dear! it wasn’t….. (foam).

    • 283
      chronic says:

      I hope there is an elephant in the room.

  85. 273
    Seasick Dave says:

    It reminds me of the story about the late Peter Cook.

    David Frost rang Peter Cook up some years ago.

    “Peter, I’m having a little dinner party on behalf of Prince Andrew and his new bride-to-be Sarah Ferguson. I know they’d love to meet you, big fans; Be super if you could make it: Wednesday the twelfth.”

    “Hang on… I’ll just check my diary.”

    Pause and rummaging and leafing through diary noises. And then Peter said,

    “Oh dear. I find I’m watching television that night.”

  86. 281
    Gordonout says:

    Saturday Kitchen this week could be Gordon Brown and President Obama!

  87. 282
    Anonymous says:

    Both the American and the UK public understand what’s really going on.

    They/we both know that this is a personal snub to a mad unelected negligent idiot, and that it’s definitely not a snub to the country.

    It won’t effect the country-to-country relationship at all; Obama’s just biding his time waiting for the loony to be kicked out.

    Obama’s attitude behind the scenes will be along the lines of:
    “I love that country, but I’m not going to waste my time speaking to a loony moron who destroyed that country, I’ll wait until they elect someone who’s actually sane before I have any real contact with them again.”

    • 377
      Hard-Lazing Voter says:

      ““I love that country, ”

      lol

    • 490
      Susie says:

      Michelle and Obama really loved meeting the Queen… that was very genuine.

      He’s watched Gordon Brown snub her by muscling in at the D-Day remembrance, fluff his speech in the most embarrassing way possible to himself ‘Obama Beach’, and quite possibly this is payback time.

      Well played Obama.

      • 536
        Patriotic says:

        From Obama,s point of view I suppose he works on the theory that if you involve yourself with shite you are hardly going to come up smelling of roses.

  88. 285

    UPDATE II : – The Telegraph reports Brown left the dinner to honour him as saviour of the world early – despite the high price tag on the seats.

    He has no idea how to behave.

    • 291
      Sir William Waad says:

      It was time for his injections.

    • 306
      jgm2 says:

      Probably got word that Omaha might have a 5 minute window unexpectedly available as a Boy Scout group that had been scheduled got a delayed by a flat tyre at the Brooklyn Bridge.

      Looks like the driver pulled a blinder fitting the spare and got the kids there on time though.

    • 320
      Deeply Regret says:

      They forgot his special dietary requirements.

    • 353
      jgm2 says:

      Probably got word that Omaha might have a 5 minute window unexpectedly available as a B*y Sc*ut group that had been scheduled got a delayed by a flat tyre at the Brooklyn Bridge.

      Looks like the driver pulled a blinder fitting the spare and got the kids there on time though.

    • 364
      P1 says:

      Wasn’t it supposed to be Black Tie as well, but Brown did his usual crumpled lounge suit look?

      At the UN Brown was wearing an awful tie, but the the most apparent point once again was that he obviously can’t do it up. The man was a mess – he even looked more ragged than Gadaffi. So he’s rude, useless, vain and he’s appaeently our Prime Minister until he decides to stop. Anothe reason that neat and tidy Obama might not want to be part of a Brown photo-op.

    • 384
      Mr Brown goes to New York says:

      he had an urgent appointment with the Cape Cod scout troop

  89. 288
    going mental says:

    can they aresst brown for being a terrorist and waterbord him ?

  90. 298
    James1st says:

    Brown is a dead man walking – Obama is looking past him to Cameron

    • 302
      Mondeoman says:

      Ever the wise man.

    • 390
      Steve Expat says:

      Think about it from Obama’s side – what is in it for HIM to meet Broon?

      It can’t possibly make him more popular in the US as there is a lot of hatred towards the UK for the Libyan issues, and Obama is not exactly the most popular man in his own place at the moment…

  91. 299
    Jy says:

    I sincerely hope the text of the refusals has been distributed to the MOD and our senior officers in Afghanistan, for use whenever they feel like it

  92. 307

    ******************************************************
    http://www.justgiving.com/EODAfghanistanbombsuitchallenge/

    Subject: Joint Force EOD 24hr Bomb Suit Challenge for British Limbless Ex-Servicemens Association

    Dear All,

    I have been asked by Sgt. Gary Reynold who is currently serving with the Joint Force Explosives Ordinance Disposal group in Afghanistan to pass onto you all a message about a charity event taking place in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan for the British Limbless Ex-Servicemens Association (BLESMA).

    Here is an extract from the fundraiser website: “The Joint Force EOD Group (JF EOD Gp) is currently deployed on Operation HERRICK 10 in Afghanistan where our soldiers are responsible for searching for and destroying Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and Conventional Weapons across the Helmand Region of Afghanistan. As a mark of the hard work completed by our soldiers of all ranks we will be running this charity event with the aim of raising £10,000 for BLESMA, The British Limbless Ex-Service Men’s Association.

    To raise these much needed funds we will be carrying out a 24 hour Bomb Suit Challenge in Camp Bastion on the 6th October 2009. As many members of the Group as possible will take part by putting on the bomb suit (which weighs 50Kgs) and walking round the perimeter of the camp. This will be done as a relay so while one person is walking, one will be getting ready to walk; as you will no doubt be aware the temperature here is normally around 36 degrees centigrade at this time of year so this will be no mean feat.”

    Please give this your full support and pay a visit to the website by following the link below. Here you will be able to keep up-to-date on the challenge as well as make donations.

  93. 308
    Dr Cabbage says:

    maybe Brown should have tried a little song

    Oh my darlin
    knock three times on the ceiling if you want me
    twice on the pipe if the answer is no
    oh my sweetness
    means you’ll meet me in the hallway
    twice on the pipe means you ain’t gonna show

  94. 310
    going mental says:

    The mans a national joke ( and not even a funny one )

  95. 321
    Jy says:

    I sincerely hope the text of the refusals has been distributed to the MOD and our senior officers in Afghanistan, for use whenever they feel like it.

  96. 322
    Sir Reginald Titbrain says:

    I posted the following

    “Party politics aside, I sincerely hope the next PM does not go in for this absurd Obama worship.

    Are you listening Cleggy [giggles...]”

    Except I didn’t put giggles, I put a word that starts with s, , followed by an n, i, two g’s and an ers.

    Modern life is so difficult for us Beano readers.

  97. 330
    The Man who saved the world says:

    “But so busy was Brown stabilising the world’s financial system and dealing with challenging issues (such as Lady Scotland’s cleaner), he was unable to attend the awards dinner, disappointing more than 400 black-tie guests who had paid close to $1,000 for the privilege.”

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/23/gordon-brown-statesman-of-the-year

    • 334
      Alf Garnett says:

      Cos he hates wearing black tie as he feels insecure about himself. He prefers his lounge suit! Naff or what?

      • 464
        Agent 99 says:

        I seem to remember Doom was the first chancellor to address the Mansion House dinner not wearing the obligatory white tie so he has form.

      • 497
        South of the M4 says:

        More like… I’ve come to get what I am entitled to and I am not going to waste anymore time talking to you little people. Don’t you know who I am ?

    • 340
      shelling-out says:

      Can they sue him? I do hope so.

    • 347
      Groucho says:

      What a rude, clueless, prick he is.

    • 370
      Ctesibius says:

      They should be very pleased he spared them his company. If I’d paid $1,000 for a dinner I’d be horrified if Gordon Brown showed up at it. Also, with the Curse being what it is, everyone would have got salmonella and the ceiling would probably have fallen in.

    • 416
      Throbber says:

      Fuck – lucky them, they all dodged a bullet.

  98. 331
    Hard-Lazing Voter says:

    Never mind, Gordo can have a nice relaxing holiday to Obama Beach so he can forget about all his problems.

  99. 342
    The Sleeper says:

    Well..it’s all building up quite nicely to the Labour Party Conference,isn’t it?

    Get the beers in Guys and Gals..it’ll hopefully be the Show of the Year.

    Any predictions?

    • 345
      Mondeoman says:

      I think I’ll stick to X Factor for my entertainment – there main be blood on the walls in Brighton.

    • 348
      shelling-out says:

      I hope Gordon goes down like a lead baloon.

    • 349
      Scallywag says:

      All composite resolutions will be passed and it won’t make a damned bit of difference to anything…

    • 359
      Engineer says:

      The Editorial meetings in AljaBeeba must be interesting.

      “How the hell do we spin this one? For God’s sake keep the cameras off the delegates. There aren’t any.”

    • 375
      GayMPwatch says:

      Good excuse for Mandy to cruise the Brighton gay scene – incognito of course!

    • 382
      I hate New Labour says:

      The thing that annoys me, is that these deluded morons believe they’re going to get back in the election after next.

      So 13 years of f*cking the country up, 5 years for the Tories to start fixing it, then back in to continue the damage.

      Are they that f*cking arrogant?

      Labour to spend a very, very, very long time in opposition so they can have a long think about what they stand for and who they represent.

      By the time they get back in power I hope the likes of Blair, Brown, Prescott et al are all six feet under.

      • 397
        Rip Van Winkle says:

        In opposition? Are you taking the piss? Are the British people so stupid as to make Labour the second most popular political party in the country? After the complete Horlicks they’ve made of the UK?

        Oh..when I think, British people are that thick, aren’t they?

        • 410
          Bankrupt Britain says:

          Indeed they are. 26% still say they would vote labour. ‘Thick’ is an understatement.

        • 413
          I hate New Labour says:

          I daren’t give the nitwits in this country enough credit to put Labour where they *really* belong.

          The fact 26% of morons would still vote for them tells you all you need to know.

          I’ll settle for electoral oblivion…

        • 465
          Geordie Boy says:

          Add up the immigrants,the benefit chasers and those on the state payroll and it comes alarmingly close to a permanet majority. Be afraid, be very afraid.

        • 514

          Be fair, they’re not that thick – they’re simply being *paid* to vote Labour.

      • 407
        Engineer says:

        Why does the country need the Labour Party, anyway?

        Labour grew out of the trades union movement to fight for the working man and social justice. That’s pretty much achieved – many a working man (and woman) can earn as much as many professionals, and the opportunities are there for anybody prepared to work for them. So Labour’s mission is completed.

        Strangling the private sector is a funny way to provide jobs and justice for the working man.

        Labour is no longer required (there are other parties of the left; Limp Dums, Greens) so they are redundant, finished, kaput, scrap. Time to put them out of their misery.

  100. 344
    Scallywag says:

    I don’t suppose Obama needs any more help to increase his rate of descent from the high of his inauguration day. He’s doing OK by himself…

  101. 351
    Horace Norris says:

    The only person other than Brown who would be so dismissed by the US President as utterly unimportant would be Nick “I-wanna-be-Prime Minister” Clegg.

  102. 356
    Overheard in The White House says:

    Tell him I’m washing my hair.

  103. 366

    [...] to the UN. Brown’s own speech to the UN was delivered to a half-empty auditorium.” writes Guido in bis [...]

    • 369
      shelling-out says:

      When we saw a clip on the news, the camera didn’t pan around the room. We only saw Gordon so we couldn’t see the empty hall.

      More “orders” from No.10 as to how things should be aired.

    • 417
      Phil O'Pastree says:

      Reminds me of Ceauşescu’s speech on the balcony in Bucharest, and his perplexed expression as he could not understand why he was being booed by the masses. This was not long before the people had him shot.

  104. 372
    Scorched Earth Of Englands Wealth says:

    Such a contrast to yesterday’s report on TVAM when they said “that lots of people around the world admire Gordon Brown for saving the world during the financial crisis”.

    And how in reality the rest of the world obviously despises him today.

  105. 374
    Gordon ßrünö says:

    They didnt sit down to chat in the kitchens, it was a “talk n walk” ie Gordon [I jog a lot] Brown struggling to keep up as Obama is whisked by his security entourage through the kitchens on his way out of the UN building

    Brown: B B B B Barak, any chnace we could arrange that meeting?
    Obama: Are you my fucking shadow?

    • 399
      shelling-out says:

      Brown talked while Obama walked.

    • 422
      Thomas Aquinas says:

      Coming soon: Get in shape with the Great Statesman. You too can have a body like his if you binge eat and then run – for the bog.

    • 447
      Article 38 says:

      I don’t think nose-picking is allowed in kitchens (not even in New York) – expect a mass outbreak of E.Coli very soon

  106. 378
    Indigo says:

    Guido, “Brown is paying a price for encouraging the release of the Lockerbie bomber…”

    No, I don’t think it’s that. Remember how close this UK government was to the Repugs and GWB, the non-existent WMD, and the illegal pre-emptive attack on another sovereign country that has reinvigorated Iran/Shia Islam, killed around a million Iraqi civilians and displaced another five million, destroyed ordinary life in Iraq (the medical sector was the finest in the region before the invasion, and that’s all gone), cost trillions of US dollars, and made Dick Cheney and Halliburton/KBR obscenely rich.

    Ie, Brown and the UK government are forever contaminated by that association.

    • 386
      Engineer says:

      Not to mention “It started in America”. You can see how that little statement might peeve an American.

      • 532
        Ding Dong! says:

        Very much so – that’s another reason why Brown is so bankrupt – he can’t even crap on his own doorstep without the night ecurity light coming on (god what a sight!).

      • 539
        Patriotic says:

        Did it start in America,it was endemic all over the place and completely unregulated.

    • 396
      shelling-out says:

      Unfortunately, some people have short memories. Come election time, when he’s dishing out more alolowances to “hard-working families”, a lot of them will forget the past and concentrate on the present.

      It really is up to Dave to keep up the pressure and make sure this doesn’t happen.

    • 402
      Article 38 says:

      Yes, but apart from that it’s all gone rather well…

      Tony’s got a nice job helping bring about Middle East peace and Cherie has got the mortgage(s) paid off.

      • 516
        I hate New Labour says:

        I saw Bliar on the tv the other night.

        I was struck by how old he looks now. Good.

        I wish him a slow and painful death as compensation for all the misery he has caused.

    • 434
      Hard-Lazing Voter says:

      “(the medical sector was the finest in the region before the invasion, and that’s all gone)”

      Considering that Iraq had a decade and a half of sanctions prior to the invasion, that says more about the Middle East.

  107. 420
    Master Baiter's mum says:

    Has anyone seen junior?

    His Pot Noodle is ready.

  108. 421
    Barrie Obermeyer says:

    As a young man, me and some of the fellows attended a pre-wedding event in your Durr-Ham near Scotland. After several quarts of the fine Lindisfarne honey ale, we were regaled in song by an ancient Durr-ham shaman. He sang of a terrifying beast with:

    “A greet big heid and a greet big gob and a greet big goggly eye.”

    Needless to say, this brother ain’t goin’ nowhere near that mu’fukka!

  109. 425
    Anonymous says:

    I believe that Durr-ham shaman to be Tony Bliar.

    • 435
      Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

      Goes back to the days when Durham was part of Scotland, don’t you know.

      • 498
        Anonymous says:

        In happier times, Durham was indeed part of Northumbria, but it has NEVER been part of Scotland

        Things might have been different if the infelicitous Battle of Nechtansmere had gone the other way …. Mr Brown might then have been a Northumbrian

  110. 430
  111. 431
    Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

    LATEST:

    Quote from Tory Central Office

    QUOTE:
    Boss wants to know if there is mileage n rerunning the dead baby 1van story: all troops imperative – need an eye catching story – DC personal rates plummeting
    /UNQUOTE

    • 442
      Engineer says:

      As previously stated, Vile. Go away and grow up.

      • 449
        Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

        Guido Ashcroft-Fox has a duty to report the news as he sees it and in Guido’s own style

        • 455
          Engineer says:

          That ain’t news. That’s a vile trick so disgusting even McBride and Draper would draw the line.

        • 458
          Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

          You mean to tell me you can be moral and vote conservative at the same time ?

          Now that is what I call Vile. Grow up Engineer, “sticks and stones” and all that…these bastards cost real people REAL jobs and will do s again if you let them.

        • 469
          Engineer says:

          1979 – Sick man of Europe.

          1997 – All economic indicators (including unemployment) improving. Never been known before. National debt £340 billion.

          2009 – National debt £1,370 billion and rising. Unemployment 3 million and rising.

          Go figure.

        • 474
          Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

          I can tell from the style of the words that you are some other bastard positing…..get back to your Sunday Bazaare and flog off your cut-price-deathmasks interlouper.

        • 479
          Engineer says:

          If you can’t argue with the facts and figures, try gratuitous insults instead. Very New Labour.

        • 480
          Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

          )!(

  112. 437
    Article 38 says:

    I imagine Baroness Scotland is delighted with this morning’s news – anyone remember Stephen Hesford now?

    The fuck-ups and embarrassment are coming so thick and fast that no doubt tomorrow there will be something else that make us forget the Obama snub.

    • 439
      26%er says:

      What snub was that?

    • 446
      Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

      If we forgot what Thatcher and Herr Heseltine did to the country a few short years ago then we can forget anything – have a sniffter with me – *up ker kilt*

      • 453
        74%er says:

        Ah yes, they set the scene and mood for Tony Blair to hit the ground running.

        The rest is heartbreaking.

        • 456
          Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

          I wonder what they were doing for the eighteen years they were supposoedly in opposition to her – given that they are now wanting to build statues of her and give her a state funeral.

          Maybe John Smith’S BODY can be exhumed and his dna cloned for new LABOUR LEADER OF THE TRADITIONAL LEFT.

        • 457

          Yes Thatchers terrible destruction of socialist parasites.

          It must be heart-breaking for those who’s politics sympathise with igneumon wasps.

        • 462
          Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

          Gp away junior and leave the serious discussion to the men around here….BTW – do you run a Sunday opening bargain store staffed by part time women on the minimum wage with unemployed husbands and skinny kids ?

    • 463
      streamfisher says:

      Strange how the ‘little’ matter of £170,000 claimed by the Baroness in the ongoing London residency scam is scarcely worth a mention in the msm anymore, but that is what you might call a cross party issue and so best forgotten, Pickles anybody?

  113. 466

    [...] People like my colleague warned of the strategic consequences. Even Guido has noticed. [...]

  114. 467
    Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

    Suck my prick you fascist hick

    • 476
      Rick the Roman says:

      Education, education, education – such an eloquent turn of phrase

      • 488
        Master Baiter's mum says:

        Ah, there you are you little monkey.

        Come on now, your Pot Noodle has gone cold.

      • 502
        Mandlesonisalyingtwat says:

        Like men do you? Typical leftie. If your not rooting each others arses your trying to promote it in schools. Hopefully it will be made illegal again.

  115. 491
    Engineer says:

    See the next thread (which started at 11:13am).

  116. 492
    Master Baiter's mum says:

    That was a poop scoop, tardy.

  117. 507
    Not long till labour gone says:

    Whereas elsewhere the GLA have probed Richard Barnbrook over a little mistake and can suspend him for 6 months. Now if only we could suspend all the Labour liars for 6 months for every lie, no matter how minor…

  118. 508
    Guido Ashcroft-Fox says:

    Hmm….

  119. 509
    Not long till labour gone says:

    BBC are asking if the US is distancing itself from the UK, on its have your say area: http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=7039&edition=1&ttl=20090924130110

    That rejected comment count is going to skyrocket I think…

  120. 513
    Anonymous says:

    I am tempted not to revel in this story too much, Guido, it can only have come from the PMs inner circle (who else would know?). Seems to me like a good ruse to get Baroness Scotland off the front page.

  121. 518
    bandersnatch says:

    Geography tells us the US IS distant from the UK… and that Europe is near and we are part of it… Politics may be another matter… Ho hum

    Where I grew up in East Anglia I was always being told that the British Isles was merely an expendable decoy US aircraft carrier stationed permanently off the coast of mainland Europe… but that was in the days of the Cold War…

  122. 521
    Old Africa Hand says:

    Charles Taylor, the former despot of Liberia, is currently on trial at the Special Court of Sierra Leone sitting at The Hague. Taylor’s henchmen and boy soldiers committed horrendous atrocities during the civil war in Sierra Leone throughout the 1990′s. Genocide, mutilation and torture were everyday occurances in Taylor’s attempt to take control of the diamond rich areas of Eastern Sierra Leone.

    Guess who funded, trained and sponsored Taylor’s warriors in an attempt to destabilise the West Africa Region, non other than Gordons new chum, Quadaffi. Quadaffi provided military training, political awareness programmes and weapons to Taylor. He should be sitting next to Taylor on trial but it will never happen and it is obvious why.

    What degenerate, immoral and self serving people are the likes of Brown and politicians of his ilk.

    • 526
      bandersnatch says:

      On the New Statesman site the question is asked should Brown go or stay 66% go and 34% say stay… and that is the nulabour house magazine…

  123. 528
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Kitchen scene

    Pres Obama
    “McMental wash those goddamn pots”

    McMental

    “Yes Massa , can I just take this oppotrunity to say”

    Pres Obama
    ” NO! Just wash the pots and shut the fuck up”

    McMental
    “Sorry massa, I do love you though”

  124. 529
    McMental says:

    I love you Obama Beach… pleeeaaassseeee one nice photo with you?

  125. 530
    Minced Brown says:

    Brown is definitely going blind – watch him at the UN – it must be a nightmare not to be able to see,but then to be PM,to be hated by everyone,to have zero charisma,to have no luck,have a jaw hanging off, to etc etc

    He’s like the Monty Python knight who keeps going with no arms and legs!

    By the way,I simply cannot picture that sack of crap ever running – perhaps MINCING,but not running!

    • 541
      Patriotic says:

      OO you are awful having a go at our dear leader like that.
      Our revered PM(Piltdown Man) is a genius he has told us all.
      So please give him a chance,calling him a sack of crap is unfair,
      because you know as well as I know,crap has some uses.

  126. 533
    Any Colour but Brown says:

    I’ve just seen the start of the UN security Council meeting on Sky. President Omaha stopped and spoke to Toxic Brown but there were no signs of a “special relationship” – definitely no tongue or anything.

  127. 534
    Brown going down says:

    Liking Constantly Furious’ take on this: Brown as pissed bloke at party. Ha ha!!

  128. 537
    An Englishman. says:

    Hmm – Brown avoiding Brown!

  129. 545
    Anonymous says:

    “”Tee higher dee monkey climb, da more im exposed”"

    Jamaican Proverb

  130. 554
    boggartblog says:

    So if Barry would not talk to our esteemed PM … did he dump Gordon by text message or twitter?

    Gordon & Obama 4 evr

  131. 555



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