September 29th, 2009

Is May 6 the Day the Shadow of Brown is Lifted?

May 6Bloomberg surmises that although June 3 is the last date the Prime Mentalist can call the election, the locals scheduled for May 6* is the date implied by a 34-page Labour document, “General Election Handbook Part 1 — A day-by- day planner for your general election campaign,” issued to candidates at the conference.

The handbook is an idiots guide for activists detailing tasks to perform every day.  For example on Thursday, March 18, it instructs them to “follow up budget coverage.”

At the beginning of April, candidates are told “increase the campaign activity to a maximum level” and switch to the “Short Campaign Handbook,” which details what to do once an election is called.

The Labour Party is stretched financially and the union paymasters know that Labour is set to lose, so they would rather throw money at one not two elections, therefore combining the two campaigns makes sense.  The sooner the better…

*Chief Crazy Horse of the Sioux famouly surrendered to the United States on May 6.  Somehow seems relevant.

UPDATE : It is also Tony Blair’s bithday, so it will be nice for him to see his heir take his old job.


110 Comments

  1. 1
    Vasil says:

    what does it mean when M.Mandelson sate he us “under the dog”?

    thank you

    • 9
      Rog says:

      Can we now refer to Brown as “Chief (Rocking) Horse”?

      Just a thought.

    • 22
      Crazy Horse Gordon says:

      LOL

      Chief Crazy Horse

      I bet Gordon wears a white feather.

    • 55
      Red Rag says:

      Then the establishment return to their rightful place. Don’t you just hate it when the rich are not ruling the country…..Bring on the Peoples Millionaire….Government for the people……of bank balances of £1 million or over.

      • 59
        Mr Ned says:

        Come of it red-rag!

        Who the fuck do you think Gordon “new global order” Brown has been serving these past 13 years? It certainly has not been the fucking working classes or the poor.

        Letting our manufacturing collapse, whilst using all the ordinary tax-payers as a cash-machine to bail out-billionaire bankers, just to allow them to carry-on lavishing themselves in grossly improper bonuses? Leaving all of us 1.4 TRILLION in debt in the process?

        That kind of money would really give us a world class health system AND FREE university education for all.

        BROWN: Billions and billions and billions for bankers and bugger all for the rest of us!

        If anyone is in the pocket of the creme-de la creme of the elite, if anyone is a tool of the toffs, it is that traitor Brown!!!

      • 69
        Moley says:

        Blair and Kinnock need someone to protect the millions we gave them, from the tax man.

    • 77
      Anonymous says:

      It’s no secret in Labour circles that 6th May is the GE date

      • 101
        Anonymous says:

        It really doesn’t matter if we don’t have independents as it will just be the same party working for the same people whose eye appears on the dollar bill.

  2. 2
    Sir William Waad says:

    Just 3 days after the 31st anniversary of Margaret Thatcher’s first victory.

    • 49
      Mr Ned says:

      I am very confused. I thought that labour was only allowed 5 years maximum.

      The last election was on the 5th MAY 2005. The first Thursday in May 2010 is the 6th May, therefore 5 years and one day. Surely going to the 6th JUNE is out of the question?

      WTF is going on? Could someone explain please?

      • 66
        Martial Law says:

        The election’s been cancelled, back to work now, nothing to see.

        • 72
          Mr Ned says:

          Now that would not surprise me. If the Lisbon Treaty gets approved, what the hell will we need the MP’s at Westminster for? All they will do is sit around finding new ways to tax us!

      • 75
        Michael says:

        I’d have thought that if Brown had not arranged the election BEFORE the 6th of May – the Monarch would have to intervene and the military would be called in to remove the whole corrupt bunch.

    • 99
      Penfold says:

      The omens look good here are some recent anniversary dates;

      1536 – King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church.
      1937 – Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die)
      1938 – Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for “offending a friendly head of state” (Hitler)
      1940 – Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
      1941 – Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
      1942 – Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
      1943 – British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
      1945 – Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
      1945 – World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first was on December 11, 1941).
      1959 – Iceland gunboats shoot at British fishing ships
      1972 – Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan are executed in Ankara for attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order.
      hint:-
      1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
      1997 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank’s 300-year history.
      2008 – Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.

      • 102
        Anonymous says:

        You say “1997 – The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank’s 300-year history.”

        The BoE is a private company, so recent BoE policy – e.g. destroying the savings of the elderly, printing money to make us 100% in debt i.e. bankrupt, is being done for the benefit of whoever is the single shareholder of the BoE and not us.

      • 103
        ron Vibentrop says:

        May 6th is No Diet Day – good news for the Slug. It is also a day of remembrance for St Dominic Savio, patron saint of the falsely accused, choir boys (!!) and juvenile delinquents (!!) – even more good news for the great Slug.

        Oh, it was also the day that the airship Hindenberg exploded into flames – hopefully the Slug will self combust.

  3. 3
    Mitch says:

    Truly 13 wasted years. They are total bastards.

    • 50
      Mr Ned says:

      It was not wasted at all. In fact to those who are rabid, anti-British extremists, then it has been 13 very VERY productive years.

      To the rest of us it has been 13 disastrous years of abject failure.

      • 104
        Anonymous says:

        Yes its extraordinary how efficient they have been bringing a country to its knees and landing most people in debt or on the poverty line is a truly efficient piece of work, no wonder traitor Bliar is being rewarded with zillions in the bank and the title President of Europe.

  4. 4
    Road_Hog says:

    Something to look forward too.

  5. 5
    Anon says:

    They’ll need more than an idiot’s guide. I wonder how many languages it has been translated in to. Wankers.

  6. 6

    It’s also the birthday of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. He’ll be 57, by my reckoning.

    What shall we get him as a present?

  7. 10
    Reg511 says:

    section of PM on R4 yesterday could have been mistaken for a recruitment and training session for activists, BBC doing their bit

  8. 12
    Troughy says:

    Five months! That’s ages ffs!

    Could we have a whip round and send him to the Chelsea Hotel over the festive season? They’ve got gurney tracks worn into the floors there and I’m told that for the afflicted it gets very dark indeed over Christmas…

    • 38
      AP says:

      It’s seven months Troughy, strewth, Education under Labour!

      • 54
        Mr Ned says:

        OK, my maths education was under Thatcher, but to my reckoning, from Thursday May 5th 2005 – Thursday May 6th 2010 is five years and one day.

        Where the fuck does the law allow ANY party to stay in power for MORE than 5 years? Surely the latest labour can hold an election is the end of April 2010? Isn’t it?

      • 61
        Troughy says:

        I know, I know – I was thinking about Paddy’s day. It was under Labour – Wilson’s Labour.

  9. 14
    Peter Prooter says:

    other Labour instruction booklets

    Buying frozen pizza from Iceland
    Putting your shoes on the correct feet
    Selecting the Vienetta which is right for you and your family
    McDonalds v Burger King making the right decisions for your future
    Medium or Large meatballs at Ikea, with the seprate leaflet – should I have Lingenberry sauce?

    • 20
      Anony,.,. says:

      That’s real help for hard shirking Labour voting families.

      need to ensure that thee printing and distribution cost in included in the election expenses though!

    • 21
      ANITA LYE-DOWNE says:

      Corsa or Honda Civic for the ‘treatment’Puma or Adidas
      Embassy or Mayfair

    • 26
      Jon Forest says:

      I doubt most of the twats could manage those decisions even with an instruction booklet – at least not until after carrying out a thorough public consultation about whether they needed to set up a committee to consider the matter.

      Unfortunately, there is one thing that the Liebour tossers have never needed an instruction booklet for. It just comes to them instinctively –

      How to fuck up your country in 13 years.

      • 35
        Labour press office says:

        Please remove that scandalous post. We fucked up the country far faster than that. Definitely didn’t take us more than five years. During this last term, for instance, we got so bored with merely shafting everyone that we decided to go doubles on your more exotic holes, metaphorically speaking (except in the case of Peter Mandelson, of course).
        Just wanted to make sure you’ll have something to remember us by.

      • 39
        Anonymous says:

        I thought it was fucked up in 2001, or was it earlier 1998.

        • 64
          Mr Ned says:

          Actually it only took them ONE day. That was how long it took for Gordon to grant independence to the bank of England and remove their careful oversight of the financial industry, leaving all the bits in place for the current economic collapse.

      • 42
        davy says:

        I thought they did it in two years

    • 88
      Axe The Telly Tax says:

      Breathe in, breath out

  10. 15

    Frankly I’m staggered that they aren’t pushing it till June 3rd, clinging on desperately with their bankrupt stock, trying to provoke Iran or Israel into kicking off bigstyle on, say, June 2nd to give ‘em a chance of suspending normal business…

  11. 16
    Article 38 says:

    Chief Crazy Horse is not on painkillers and his good eye is not deteriorating. He’s getting on with the job, looking after hard working families…

  12. 18

    If they didn’t hold it on May 6th, and aimed for June 3rd, they would actually have to disolve parliament and call the GE during the local elections. It would be a nightmare!

    May 6th is game on.

  13. 27
    Overheating and hibernating until next May says:

    I cannot wait until next May.

    I am so angry,so incredibly wound up and ready to riot,so ready to smash Brown into bits with a baseball bat that I am going to stop watching any news and stop posting on this site.

    I am simply at boiling point about what these utter nonentities have done to our country.

    I shall have to take a very deep breath and wait until someone stops me in the street next May and tells me that Brown and his scum have been evicted.

    When I think of the security that Brown gets wherever he is and I think of the last days of the Pilkington family who had no security whatsoever – completely and utterly left to the feral scum that have been uncovered in the Daily Mail today – I am ready to go up there and beat their brains out.

    Brave people,Alan Johnson,take brave ACTIONS,not speak brave words – you are a grade one coward.

  14. 29
    Enjineer says:

    That’ll be my 30th birthday. Not a bad present, eh?

  15. 31
    half the story told says:

    Another coup for Kitty and Robert at the Labour conference after Cherie Blair’s outburst about Brown…..

  16. 32
    6th of May is Jonah day says:

    May 6th seems to be a jinxed day so Jonah will no doubt be attracted to it.

    6th May 1937 Hindenburg airship disaster

    6th May 2002 Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.

    6th May 1910 King Edward VII dies

    6th May 1966 The Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are jailed for life

    6th May 1976 A powerful earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale strikes in the small town of Maiano in north-east Italy leaving at least 60 people dead and many more buried under rubble.

    6th May 1967 B52 Bombers dropped tons of explosives on North Vietnamese bunkers and troop positions

    6th May 1994 Channel Tunnel opened

    6th May 2001 A bomb explodes at a north London postal sorting office.

    6th May 1997 Gordon Brown, gives the Bank of England independence

  17. 33
    Rog says:

    Is Brown slowing morphing into a charisma-free version of Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody from Harry Potter?

    Seamus: What do you suppose he’s got there?
    Harry: I don’t know, but I don’t think it’s pumpkin juice.

  18. 37
    genghiz the kahn says:

    So Brown wants to destroy Labour at National and Local levels. What an achievement that would be.

    • 48
      On Harman Pride's Dossier says:

      Don’t forget making Britain’s feared and revered armed forces a laughing stock around the world. And managing to be the least popular guy in the UN … on the day Gaddafi was there.

      So he’s destroyed all of us at international level.

    • 57
      MisterE says:

      You mean we could be completely rid of them in the space of one day!?

      May 6th, from 2010 onwards, will be forever known as our independence day.

  19. 46
    terence patrick hewett says:

    May 6th is also:

    TONY BLAIR’S BIRTHDAY

    and it is also the birthday of Eric D Fingerhut; thank God for Wolfram Alpha.

  20. 47

    It’s the day of the local elections in England. No brainer really.

    • 70
      Waiting till the 6th May says:

      Trying to pull the same stunt as they did in Scottish Parliament and council elections.

      Trying to confuse the shit out of you.

      Give you several ballot papers, each the length of a bolt of wallpaper. By the time you’ve looked for your candidate your tired, hungry and needing a piss. You’ll destroy your ballot paper by eating it or wiping your arse with it.

      They’ll get in by ensuring no-one but their supporters vote.

      Telling you it’s all mind control.

    • 92
      Anonymous says:

      Any other way, the people will consider the first election results, decide they haven’t given the liebore hoons a big enough bloody nose, and then stick the boot in harder the second time around.

  21. 51
    Terrible But True says:

    Seeking ‘balance’, in an Auntyesque manner, to the Daily Mail link above right, I eagerly clicked on this…

    UPS Shows Brands What ‘Brown Can Do’For Them
    http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=114400

    It was just a square boxy thing that goes round in circles mis-delivering.

  22. 56
    Alan Philip Bonggg says:

    Somehow it’s a pity the 15 March isn’t a Thursday. Then Mandy could set it as the date and keep whispering “Beware the Ides of March” to Gordon. Still, no doubt Jonas will jinx his own election night whenever it is.

    • 58
      MisterE says:

      Just before a load of men in toga’s stab him from behind…?

      Somehow, I think Gordy wouldn’t mind that at all.

  23. 60
    Mr Ned says:

    BROWN: Billions and billions and billions for bankers and bugger all but a big bill for the rest of us!

  24. 63
    Sniper says:

    Leave Crazy Horse out of it.

    A genuinely courageous man who fought for his people and their freedom from an imperialist government from oppression. Rather than a coward who surrendered his people to an imperialist government and oppressed his own people.

    To summarize:

    Crazy Horse = brave patriot

    Snotty Arse = Hoon

  25. 65
    Road_Hog says:

    Hopefully Jonah will announce that he wishes the Labour Party the best of luck in the forthcoming elections.

  26. 68
    Slugger says:

    I can’t wait for the Labour canvassers to come a knocking.

  27. 74
    • 95
      Australian says:

      Will there have been a by-election in Glasgow North East by then or does McDoom think he can just continue not to bother with that one?

  28. 76
    Sloper says:

    Given that there needs to be 17 clear days between the dissolution writ and the election and the house rises for Easter on 2 April 2010, I doubt there’s going for the 6th May as it would be a very long, damaging and expesnive campaign.

    My betting is 19 March.

  29. 79
    WobblyJim says:

    A handbook to guide the party of the talentless and unemployable, written in big letters with small words.
    A script to guide the moron Labour Oiks, with lots of pictures ?
    Is this Politics by numbers ? join the dots and colour in as instructed,(crayons supplied free of charge) and don’t forget to tick the boxes.

    When will we ever see grown ups in politics ?

  30. 82
    Obama is a Twat says:

    May the 7th will be the most humiliating, seeing the one eyed twat being dragged by his feet from the door of 10 Downing Street by the doctors, seeing the one eyed wanker dragging his bitten nails along the road surface to the waiting ambulance.

    Fuck off back to Scotland you one eyed Huhne.

  31. 89
    Any Colour but Brown says:

    The entire electricity supply should be cut off for an hour or two in celebration of the removal of the most corrupt Govt in history – let’s celebrate with a massive Brown-out!

  32. 96
    Sarah Brown says:

    Gordon has promised to ‘get on with the job’and he will not have enough time between now and May/June next year to complete ‘his job’so he will decide that, as the country needs him so much to see it through the economic downturn, he will remain in post, certainly up to the olympics, which is going to make us all world champions and winners and then he will call an election because he will be well and truly shagged out!

  33. 105
    ron Vibentrop says:

    Mandy Meddlesome has just built up the Fiscal Titan’s ego and gained brownie points before pushing the him into retirement on health grounds. They’ve given him a good send off and maybe now the party doc can give him an overdose – tonight?

  34. 106
    Brillo ... says:

    If I was GB – the GE would be now if there was a small blip upwards for Liebor

    If 6 May is strongly rumoured then it could be wrong

    Look out for an early election – be ready -

  35. 108
    Down with Brown! says:

    Already in the diary.

    April and early May: Remind everyone I know about the sacle of our national debt.

    May 6: Vote out the useless Labour government.

    May 7: Watch the results come in. Celebrate Brown leaving number 10. Get extremely drunk.

    May 8: Freedom!

  36. 109
    Euruck Hunt-Gordon says:

    Gordon
    Please can you do the country a huge favour and just FUCK OFF NOW PLEASE.

  37. 110
    Kedirev says:

    It is the coolest site, keep so!,



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