January 4th, 2010

Audacity of Pope

Looks like Greg Pope will be getting some tender loving care from Nick Brown later today.  Labour’s Chief Whip and long-time Brown enforcer was overheard late last night on the train coming into King Cross.  Guido’s informant sent this from his iPhone:

Nick Brown is sitting behind me on the train to KingsX right now and although he thinks he’s being guarded on the mobile – I know what he is talking about. The essence is that the plot rumours are real and he is holding meetings tomorrow to discuss things. Greg Pope was mentioned and the feelings within the PLP and ‘worries’, two camps, theose who will ‘soldier on and those who want him out’…

Monday night* is usually when the PLP meets.  Nick Brown will be keen to crush the dissent that is being stirred up by Charles Clarke before it can get any momentum.  Guido suspects that Greg Pope won’t give a damn, or be cowed very easily, he is openly calling for Brown to go on his blogHe is standing down at the election…

*Haven’t confirmed it is business as usual today.


339 Comments

  1. 1
    Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

    Please God, let Brown stay in his deluded position. It will be the end of Socialism for decades. Destined to fail in a massive way, Brown will be forced out of the party. Into well deserved oblivion.

    • 3
      Vexed of Bath says:

      “Nick Brown will be keen to crush the dissent

      Why is that, doesn’t he like the Labour party?

      • 7
        Right Bastard says:

        He’s the Praetorian guard – loyal only to the leader.

        • 25
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          ……..And , like the Praetorian Guard – Faithful unto Death until the money runs out.

        • 91
          Derek Barker says:

          I’m very loyal to all those lovely torture supressing, war waging, economically illiterate and downright mendacious turds at Labour HQ.

          Look at all my posts defending just about anything Labour do.

          Comical Ali meets Goebbels. That’s me.

          Me Sir, me Sir!

          • Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

            It’s the right thing to do. Pledge £1m GBP to the whols of Cumbria afflicted by a natural disaster that was actually preventable. Or pledge £100mGBP to Yemen.
            I simply hadn’t realised the contribution that the Yemenis had made previously to our economy. Fuckwit.

          • Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

            Why not also pledge £100m to the Nigerians who eductaed this Pants Bomber or offer to pay for the increased security at all International Dutch airports. It is just as relevant. Bastard.

          • Australian says:

            “Or pledge £100mGBP to Yemen.”

            Indeed. For that money, they should at least hand Aden back to the UK. The successors to “Mad Mitch” can go back and instill some Argyll Law once again!

    • 5
      Anonymous says:

      Having watched Gordon on the box yesterday and Ed Balls today. I have to say that if Nick Brown wants to see a Labour Government after the election then he would be better off letting the plotters have their way.

    • 21
      Anonymouse says:

      Here comes Really New Labour. Cross out the red rose and use a turd.

    • 27
      No they wouldn't. says:

      Hows about looking at the problem in a different way. If Blair was still the leader, would Dave be ahead in the polls and would Gordon still be chancellor?

      • 98
        Max says:

        Very interesting. I suspect in that scenario that Bliar would have blamed McDoom for the entire mess and hinted at “the truth being kept from me”; McDoom would have been sent packing to the back benches and currently would be on the campaign trail back home, complete with cod kilt etc, desperately trying to retain the vote in his “consti-chensy”. Any remaining Brown-ite factions would be controlled or clobbered via the expenses scandal.

        • 110
          Lola says:

          Yep, very interesting. I guess it would all hinge on wether or not anyone had been able to make something stick with regards to the ‘evidence’ for an attack on Iraq and wether he, Blair, had shredded all his expenses receipts or not.

          • Max says:

            “In power” there is much more that can be done in terms of manipulating evidence, losing files, inadvertent operation of the shredding machine etc.

            Bliar is far weaker out of power and thus at risk. Had he clung on he would be in a good position albeit £5 million a year worse off.

            The McDoom’s coup was a complete balls-up for ZNL as is everything that McDoom touches. After all his apearance at Copenhagen has resulted in widespread record low temparatures and winter storms world-wide (today China); ho, ho!

        • 143
          Mr Ned says:

          Blair would never have had the balls to sack Gordon Brown. They would both have kept up the pretence of ‘it all started in America’, ‘we are best placed’.. etc…

          Blair did have a couple of opportunities to move Brown, but feared the backlash from the Brownites and in the end he caved in to their pressure for him to go.

          Blair was constantly looking for validation and seeking approval in the way a weak, scared little boy does. he could act well, but underneath he was a scared, weak, deceitful, untrustworthy coward. That is how Bush got him to support what Blair knew to be war crimes.

          He always reminded me of the obnoxious, but weak, cowardly schoolyard bully who needed to prance around and look much tougher than he really was and sucked up to the biggest, toughest kid in the school for the protection to enable him to prance.

        • 165
          Michael says:

          If Blair were still PM – Brown would have been the fall guy. After all, he was the man who claimed to have “ended the Boom-Bust cycle”

          • No they wouldn't says:

            Exactly, that is why I asked the question. Gordon would have got all the flak for mucking up the economy big time and would now be a back bench MP. Blair would never have allowed the Iraq inquisition and would now be strutting the world stage with his real best mate Obama and Dave would be an also ran.

            The Problem is Gordon. The solution is NOT Gordon. Dave is in the lead because he is NOT Gordon. A new Labour leader would Not be Gordon (must not be a Brownite either) and may just stand a chance of winning the next election.

          • I Hate new Labour says:

            Remember New Labour got a good kicking at the last council elections when Blair was in charge?

            As stupid as the general population of this country is, after 10 years of the smiling twat, they’d started to see through him.

            So no, even with Blair Labour would still be heading for a loss. With the fat scottish berk though, we can only hope it’s total oblivion…

      • 307
        Granny smith says:

        NO.

    • 28

      Brown wishes to stay until the election

      The country has suffered all the drift in between whilst the fearful filled their pockets with the loot that they believe the electorate will deny them

      Let the country do what the Labour Party is incapable of, and whilst in opposition if they are still solvent, they can reconfigure their leadership rules to avoid “Brown-type” situations.

    • 50
      Jethro Q. WalrusTitty says:

      For God’s sake Gordon, don’t desert us all now in our hour of need -we need you to save us all pleeeeese! tee-hee

    • 68
      April 1945 - Berlin - the plot continues says:

      I’ve seen this plot before,now let me think – ah yes;

      Nick Brown is Martin Bormann,although if he continues to claim his £400 food bills,he shall soon be Goering.

      Gordon Brown is a curious mixture of Adolf Hitler and Stalin

      Balls is Himmler

      Boy Cooper Balls is Eva Braun

      Darling is Hess, who of course flew to Scotland and was never the full-on Nazi

      Now,who could Sean “the thickest man in politics” Woodward be?

      And who on earth will be Stauffenberg – could it possibly be Mandelson,of all people?

    • 147
      oldrightie says:

      Absolutely. Let him stay. The Opposition is crap and still streets ahead of Labour. To see them crushed by a marshmellow and Jimmy Snot in a straightjacket, is too good to lose.

    • 160
      Michael says:

      Gordon is just the man to lead Labour into the election – I think we should all offer him our support.

    • 300
      Moderate Comment says:

      According to our August leader on the AM programme Sunday morning, amongst his drivel, quote” I’m sticking to the big issue”.
      Does that mean he has started his apprentiship training for selling The Big Issue outside Tesco’s every day?.

    • 320
      Gooey Blob says:

      The election campaign has effectively already started, yet Labour are still contemplating regicide? This is electoral suicide, even if Brown is replaced.

      Imagine the news day in, day out: The Tories announcing more policies, fleshing out their ideas and generally putting the case for a Conservative government. Meanwhile, Labour are riddled with splits, leaderless for a while if Brown is ousted, engaged in internal party naval-gazing. Labour would not just lose the way they would if Brown stays, they would be absolutely routed when the election finally arrived, whoever became leader.

  2. 2
    Dave"A barrel load of laughs" Cameron says:

    My wife came home from work crying yesterday and asked me to console her.

    So I hit her over the head with my Xbox.

  3. 4
    Down with Brown! says:

    Tory Bear broke this story at 17:21 yesterday.

    http://www.torybear.com/2010/01/loose-lips-sink-ships.html

  4. 6
    Anonymous says:

    UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN.AND I MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE GORDON BROWN WILL CREATE A MILLION JOBS.

    go away a die you lying bastard.

    • 142
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      Will someone not ask the Hoon where these million jobs are? That is the right thing to do.

      • 171
        Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

        Ahem, read the Guardian vacancies recently. Still plenty of non jobs on offer. And those are the ones they find harder to fill.

      • 174
        Dave S says:

        Quote from Gordon Brown’s New Year address.

        “ … but we can be incredibly proud that Britain’s dynamic entrepreneurs have defied the recession to start up nearly half a million new businesses … “

        http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page21941

        I guess all these new businesses will need employees.

        • 200
          Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

          Yep an extra 500,000 businesses have started up since the start of the Credit Crunch. Prove it. And also filter out the amount of business folk who have registered and then de-registered due to the nasty little tax hike on the self employed. Or the extra 500,000 jobs created by Green Technology.
          BULLSHIT
          If it were true, then tax receipts would be better than forecast. They clearly are not.
          Like Gordon’s 50 days to save the World from catastrophic global warming. Seems quite cold to me.

          • OwlHoot says:

            > Yep an extra 500,000 businesses have started up since the start of the Credit Crunch. Prove it.

            Does that take into account the tens of thousands of crafty small businesses that shut down their company and start a new one every year or two, to avoid or mitigate the effects of a tax enquiry?

            I know some contractors who start up a fresh company every three months, for that very reason.

        • 205
          Mr Ned says:

          That will hardly replace the million small businesses that have failed over that time then.

        • 232
          Anonymouse says:

          Don’t read his address listen to the podcast. His brain and his mouth are only connected by his arsehole.

          You would have thought by now Downing St. would have worked out that the more you here of GoBro the worse the opinion polls.
          Keep the fellow under the stairs.

      • 229
        Gordon Brown says:

        Britain! There will be British jobs for British workers!

  5. 8
    solopolis says:

    I hope your fellow conspirator is not picked up by CCTV ;)

    I also hope that reporting this causes many divisions within the PLP. Let Charles Clarke stir it up, leave Gordon having to fight an election battle on two fronts.

    Can’t beat a bit of internal warmongering to totally fubar any chances of an election victory.

  6. 9
    nokia says:

    How do you know the text message came from an iphone?

    • 14

      Because it was an email.

      • 33
        Uncle Si says:

        Nul Lab is now making so many mistakes, iphone has dedicated a “APP FOR THAT” but has struggled to give it a name, any ideas?

    • 48
      Mr Ned says:

      Where does it say it was a text message? It could have been an email, which the iPhone automatically adds a “sent from my iPhone” signature to each email by default. This can be turned off in the settings.

      • 67
        Anonymous says:

        What a fucking cheek the default setting should be advertising free.

      • 89
        Andy says:

        The signature can be turned off, but does anybody know of an iPhone-owning wanker who would actually do this.

        No owner of any other phone refers to their handset by its name. Normal people say “where’s my phone?” – iPhone owners almost always would say “where’s my iPhone?”.

        Bunch of chumps!!

      • 124
        Uncle Si says:

        Should we be surprised, despite Nu lab spending billions on security camera’s etc they are probably the leakiest people around, look at when that copper who walked in to N 1 0 with that security brief on full show 24 hours before a big anti tes raid in B’ham, in front of the worlds press! or Kaza Quin with that housing document, let alone all the lost lap tops and storage chips!

      • 134
        fashion victim says:

        That’s nothing, my computer automatically adds “sent from my MacWheel” at the end of every email – far more hip than an Iphone.

        • 167
          Mr Ned says:

          I am thinking of getting a knuckleduster that will imprint “punched by Mr Ned” on the face of any labour canvasser that is foolish enough to knock on my door over the coming months.

        • 248
          udderly 'orrible says:

          No 10′s communications unit adds:
          “Anyone but Gordoom” to their emails … they know he prefers letter writing.

  7. 10
    c.h.o.c.o.l.o.t.i.s. says:

    Brown is going nowhere, he has a mental illness – even if he loses the election he will try and stay in number 10

  8. 11
    gone fuckin metal says:

    what a chump

  9. 12
    Whistleblower says:

    The “Blairites” wil hit home hard today.
    Check out their website
    http://www.labourfuture.net

    • 120
      The Childrens Parliament says:

      Notice their emphasis on “The Young” just out of School. I believe that Labours masterplan is to reduce the voting age to 16 to include this demographic. The reason is simple most 16-18 year olds are still naive enough to vote for the party that says nice things like equality, Fairness, Justice without any life experience which tells them its all hot air.
      Yep Labours big idea to be governed by Children.

      They are also determined to politicalise Kids at the earliest age possible as can be seen from Kerrys speil om why twitter should be used as a political tool.

      No Kerry at that age its for chatting up birds !!!

      • 182
        Mr Ned says:

        Labour have long treat children like adults and adults like children. No wonder the country is fucked!

        I would not be surprised to learn that Brown or Mandelson treat children like adults in all the wrong ways.

        • 252
          anti-illuminati says:

          And what stops us treating children like adults in the wrong ways

          Our morals of course

          And the morals of “above the law” parliamenfuckintarians are ??????? shady at best.

          conclusions drawn without the usual cynicism.

          hang the bastards

      • 334
        Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

        And gives them £33 a week ‘maintenance allowance’ to spend on dope (if the smell round the bike-sheds at our local FE college is any guide).

        For some reason the Principal does nothing about the tinted-window BMW that rolls up (no pun intended) twice daily to top-up supplies.

    • 279
      GORDON McBUST (and his amazing magic cheque book) says:

      Theres one bunch of c*nts that will be out of work come the election
      Labour future group ! HaHaHa ! What fucking future ?

  10. 13
    If in doubt, start a war. says:

    With Both Gordon and Barry in big trouble at home, standby for more terror attacks on the UK and USA and yet another war in the mid East. This is their only hope now.

    • 16
      Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

      Iran is being tenderised for a regime change. Most of the moves have been made, and Armani Dinnerjacket is playing into their hands.

      • 22
        Down with Brown! says:

        Iran have too many soldiers and missiles. Yemen is the more likely candidate for a political war.

        • 34
          Grumpy Old Man says:

          Don’t believe it. Yemen is the most God-forsaken bit of real-estate on Earth. If Omaha dropped a bucket of sunshine on it, no-one would notice. Not even Rambo Rumsfeld would start a war there.

      • 30

        Impossible with the present commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq, I suspect.

  11. 15
    Mandelson says:

    This chappie has a fine long-term future in politics.
    My kind of man.

    A former mayor will appear in court today accused of breaking into women’s homes and stealing their underwear.

    Ian Stafford, 58, resigned as Mayor of Preesall in Lancashire when he was arrested in connection with the missing garments.

    Female residents called in police after their underwear kept disappearing and one woman even installed a hidden camera in her bedroom.

    Stafford, a part-time handyman and gardener, was charged with three counts of burglary in connection with the incidents in Preesall, Poulton-le-Fylde and Stalmine between January and June last year.

    He will appear at Preston Crown Court to answer the charges.

    • 239
      Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

      Just don’t mention the fraud charges in obtaining money from the DHSS. Not a word.

    • 281
      GORDON McBUST (and his amazing magic cheque book) says:

      I’ll keep posting this because i think everyone should read it !
      just google how safe are your children what do they know
      then scroll down to the fourth page for a full list of peado’s perverts rapists and criminals all elected by us

      i thank you !

      • 335
        Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

        Tried this and looked at pp 3, 4 and 5, but unable to locate the list you mention.

        More help, please.

  12. 17
    BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

    Hope Gordon stays…. he saved the world, not once but twice, he has a new ground breaking policy every day that he delivers to we, the little people, quickly and efficiently.

    Without doubt He, The Great Leader, is their best hope for re-election………………………….. not !!!

  13. 20
    Down with Brown! says:

    James Purnell was right. Getting rid of Gordon and replacing him with someone else might have worked last summer for them, but it is too late now. There is no time for a leadership election of any kind until the general election campaign begins. The bottom line is that Labour don’t have the guts to get rid of a leader, even one as inept or unpopular as Brown.

    • 30
      Some bloke says:

      There is still time to get rid of Brown, but it’s disappearing fast. Need some action before mid Jan or forget the whole thing and get wiped-out at the election.

      • 36
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        Get rid of Brown and still be wiped out at the next election. Not much of a choice for desperate deluded Labour Loons, is it?

        • 41
          Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

          Don’t you just love it when the enemy is busy self destructing. I can actually see Brown being carted away by the men in white coats at some point soon. he has to be near the tipping point. When the city decamps to Zurich, and the bond market calls a halt to any more borrowing for the PSBR. The whole edifice is ready to implode badly. Watch the sad fuck bite his bottom lip then.

          • Grumpy Old Man says:

            It wasnae me. It all started in America. I’m just getting on with the job. We are the Party of achievement. Don’t let nasty David Cameron upset me. MY No. 10, MINE.

          • Mr Ned says:

            This is normally the time of year for predictions for what to expect in the year ahead. I think it is a safe bet that Gordon Brown will be replaced as labour leader sometime this year.

          • Men in white coats. says:

            My kids were joking when watching the fraudster Brown on Marr yesterday that as he was speaking,two blokes in white coats – one of them carrying a needle – would creep up behind Brown,shh’ing Marr and the other’s in the studio to keep quiet and then grabbing Brown in a headlock (they would of course be wearing protective gloves) and administer the knock-out potion.

          • Anonymouse says:

            Don’t know about the city decamping to Zurich, shouldn’t GoBro take a single ticket there, I hear it’s quite painless?

          • Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

            In Browns New Year Statement and other soundbites, he really has never been questioned about his prolific use of the Countries Credi Card. Just like so many of the population, the statement will be arriving soon. Not much left to sell, and the QE has still failed to produce a GDP growth of a single Quarter. Just why exactly is it, that it takes two consecutive quarters to be measured as a recession, and only one to come out of one? NuLabour. Statistics you can trust.

      • 144
        Anonymous says:

        McRuin will be there to the last gasp. Do you actually know how convoluted it is for the layber parteh to get a new leader in an orderly manner? It’s hair-splittingly democratic, and because that’s due in large part to the atheism of most socialists, and thereby also precludes any parteh leader being identified metaphorically with a risen saviour, there is no one right now – not even B’Liar – that could be put up convincingly on the pedestal, and everyone else ordered to shut up for the sake of power. McRuin will stay – unless God wants to manifest to the socialists before the election. (Hint there, Big Guy).

        • 250
          Animal says:

          One thing you can be sure of, when Brown finally gets thrown out in a few months time he’ll leave by the back door, avoiding cameras, skulking away and blaming everyone but himself like the nasty vindictive little man that he is.

          I bet he leaves a floater in the pan too. That would be just his style.

          • GORDON McBUST (and his amazing magic cheque book) says:

            And he’ll take the loo roll and light bulbs He’s a jock FFS !

    • 54
      Ceausescu says:

      You had your chance – Christmas Day – but blew it, limp-wristed cocksuckers.

  14. 23
    anonymous says:

    Their only chance is to dump Brown; better sooner than later so the dust can settle before the GE.

    • 38
      Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

      He needs to stay, and finish his work. There are too many International conferences to host, and too many people to save from all sorts of perils. No one can match his intellect, wit, charm, and bonhomie.

      • 42
        Grumpy Old Man says:

        You forgot to mention that he is also unequalled in setting up impromptu 1-2-1 summits in kitchens and broom cupboards. What a political fixer is Salvatore Mundi.

    • 107
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      No chance Brown is leaving office before a GE. the workings of the labour party make that just about impossible unless he was to resign and again that is pretty unlikely. They had their chance in the summer and blew it. A new leader might save them some seats but it will not save them the election. Brown looked pretty hopeless on Marr yesterday clueless in fact and a complete embarrassment. Even Marr seemed shocked at his responses and that is saying something.

      • 233
        Australian says:

        Why was it that the BBC Radio News proceeded to report that Brown had categorically ruled out an early election in his interview with Marr?

        The puppet master’s “directive” from No. 10 as to the line to be taken by the news bulletins was so bleedin’ obvious you could see the strings attached (and that was on radio!).

        • 268
          Animal says:

          The BBC is horrified at the idea of a change in Government, particularly one that may ask some very awkward questions of a bloated, oversized, politically biased organisation that has fed hungrily off both tits and allowed to grow far beyond its mandate. The staffers there will do anything to bend opinion round to suit their personal objective of keeping themselves in their lovely trough, so expect the story skewing to really get motoring this year.

          • Australian says:

            Very true Animal! The “spin” on the news bulletins yesterday was so blatant I was astounded. It was clearly a mark of how desperate “Pravda” is becoming: they don’t even try to hide the fact that they are falsifying the news bulletins now…

          • Susie says:

            It’s becoming not uncommon for me to have to turn off or search for an alternative news… McRuin headlining the news on every BBC station yesterday. Why? He appeared on Andrew Marr. Wow wow wow.

            Cameron please do something about this crock of shite.

        • 327
          putins babysitter. says:

          Today, the BBC London news blamed the Conservatives and John Major for the failure of the Millennium Dome… its just getting silly now. Soon we’ll have the bloody BBC saying that its racist not to vote for Gordon Brown if your English because he’s from an ethnic minority…

          • Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

            Sorry to use a term like ‘inconvenient truth’, but the bloody Dome WAS conceived under the Tories. It was a bonkers attempt to revive the spirit of the 1951 Exhibition, with its Dome of Discovery etc.

            I had hoped that NuLab would cancel it when they came in (just as I hope Dave kills the Olympics, and with about as much hope of fulfilment).

            BTW, anyone think it would be an idea to submit a petition to the No 10 website beseeching Broon to continue to ‘lead’ NuLab and thus ensure its destruction at the polls? (Or has someone done it already?)

  15. 35
    Charles Clarke is not a VIP says:

    Nick Brown will be keen to crush the dissent that is being stirred up by Charles Clarke before it can get any momentum.

    Isn’t Clarke something of a busted flush these days? The rebellion would have to come from those that matter such as Darling, Straw, Mandelson and Harperson.

    • 39
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      All those hold leadership ambitions and are desperate not to be sussed as the hand that held the dagger.

      • 314
        Granny smith says:

        My jack russel will bite his ankle’s bring him down and I will stick the dagger anywhere you want.

    • 80
      Rich? It would be if we were not so poor! says:

      I had to turn off the TV this morning when I saw Darling saying that the Conservatives would mess things up and something about a missing £45 Bn.

      As the first reporter asked,isn’t this a bit rich coming from Darling?

      Rather like Hitler standing at the door of his Berlin bunker in April ’45 and complaining about Stalin’s purges and the missing 6 million people.

      • 92
        "Evah Brown" at bunker door .. says:

        “Looks like the reign is ending Addy”

      • 128
        Back to the future with Gordon says:

        Yep another indication of Labours new strategy ie moving on from Blaming the Previous Conservative Government to Blaming a FUTURE Conservative Government. You really couldn’t make this up !!!!!

        • 146
          Brown's a Tosser says:

          Its all Maggies fault. You can’t blame us we have only been in Government for 12 years and we need at least 17 years to totally fuck it up and turn us into the Europe equivalent of Zimbabwe. Sorry that is being to kind to Zimbabwe.

      • 224
        Steve Expat says:

        Maybe Darling should look at his own £178bn (this year) greenhouse of a budget hole, before throwing a £45bn stone at his political opponent…?

        • 246
          Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

          Too complicated for him. Their £178 and rising structural debt is real. The figures that Darling is talking about are notional and projected.
          Like when BMW ditched Rover, and Daimler Benz ditched Chrysler. Both companies were bleeding to death prior to the severance. Despite huge Dowries been left, both are now back in the Black. The part that Labour fail to understand is that so much money is being wasted that they cannot contemplate how savings can be made. just blinded by Dogma. And the Insane machinations on the Maximum Imbecile.

  16. 40
    GORDON McBUST (and his amazing magic cheque book) says:

    I would’nt even sit in the same fucking carrage as “Brown Nick” the smell of shit would be over powering !

  17. 43
    Compost Gordon says:

    If they dump Brown surely they will have to call an immediate election? For god’s sake we surely cannot have two unelected PM’s? – even if its only for a month or so!

    • 61
      Grumpy Old Man says:

      Labour believe in equal shares for all. If Brown goes, yet another Labour crony gets a lifetime pension on full PM’s pay and free parking in the middle of London.

      • 76
        Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

        Free parking at BAA airports, and quite a few other convenient perks.

      • 254
        Anonymous says:

        free parking in the middle of London at the pointy end of a very pointy Vlad the Impaler sort of chair.

  18. 52
    GORDON McBUST (and his amazing magic cheque book) says:

    McBust will be gone by May !
    the Lie-Bore party arn’t stupid i’ll refraze that they know they haven’t a fucking prayer of winning with such a useless C*nt at the helm Mandy as we know has fallen out with Brown and is likely to be working” behind(“his favourite position”)the scenes to save his beloved party

    • 71
      Mr Ned says:

      “and is likely to be working” behind(“his favourite position”)the scenes to save his beloved party”
      ————————–

      His beloved party? you mean the “I don’t give a rat’s ass what the party is called so long as it is in Government Party”?

      He has already said that he would be happy working in a Conservative Government.

      • 78
        GORDON McBUST (and his amazing magic cheque book) says:

        Just the sort of loyal person you want ,
        someone who will prostitute himself to the highest bidder
        The Grubby litle C*nt should be put down !

        • 293
          Servant of the people says:

          “someone who will prostitute himself to the highest bidder”

          you called?

  19. 53
    Brass Monkey weather says:

    The authorities in Beijing have closed schools and mobilised thousands of people to help clear roads after the heaviest snowfall for nearly 60 years.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8438871.stm

    Just as well they didn’t sign up tp Gordon’s mad scheme to cool the world down then.

    • 60
      UK Met Office says:

      longrange forecast: Summer 2010 – BBQ weather, lasting till 29th Aug 2050.

      • 185
        Max the Impaler says:

        BBQ…there is a 106 page form to fill in for ‘risk assessment’, and a dispensation to proceed from the Fire Brigade coupled with a license from th Chief Medical Officer to get.You’d better start now.You live in Britain now pal…land of hope and glory…my arse.

        • 272
          Sapper Clarke says:

          If those tossers get anywhere near me with their Health & Safety dogma and risk assessments I’ll set the dogs and the shotgun on them.

          The fuckers will learn to leave me alone before I go totally apeshit.

          I’ve had enough of this shower of bastards telling me I can’t smoke and have a pint, had enough of them whining at me during the New Year that people get pissed and fall over and cost the NHS a billion pounds.

          I’ve got some friends that want to use the business end of a Challenger MBT. We’d have been there for the State Opening of Parliament but that fucking tosspot Ainsworth forgot to sign the purchase order for a load of depleted Uranium.

    • 62
      Down with Brown! says:

      Siberian winds usher in record lows in Beijing

      http://www.theage.com.au/world/siberian-winds-usher-in-record-lows-in-beijing-20100103-lna6.html

      “The cold weather comes despite the Met Office’s long-range forecast, published in October, of a mild winter. That followed its earlier inaccurate prediction of a “barbecue summer”, which was marked by heavy rainfall and the wettest July for almost 100 years.” That is because the Met Office have been told to serve Gordon’s loony climate change agenda.

      • 73
        Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

        £200m GBP annually to get the Macro Forecast completely wrong for the last 4 years.
        Then all they do is report the weather as it happens locally. They are not fit for purpose. Hang on though, why is the Farming forecast and the shipping forecast reasonably accurate? Different computers, or different reporting requirements?

      • 94
        Mr Ned says:

        The Met office also predicted a mild winter last winter, which had snow falling in London in October 2008 and the worst February snow for 30 years. So all-in-all the Met have been consistently wrong about the mid-range global and local weather projections for the past 18 months.

        I know of farmers that are ditching modern weather forecasting and are going back to the old “traditional” country methods of predicting seasonal weather with far more success than the Met can achieve.

        Short term forecasting of up to 72 hours is better than random chance, but after that the Met fall far short of predictions that could be right purely by random chance. But then IF any of the AGW assumptions are built into their mid-to-long range forecasting models, it is not a surprise that they are wrong. In that case, then their model would be falsely biased towards a warming planet when the real planet itself is actually in a (short-term) cooling trend. A trend that none of the Met’s forecasting models predicted and that none of the 20 or so IPCC computerised climate model projections predicted. They are all wrong There is a lot of stuff that happens in the real world that the computer models do not, and cannot simulate. The models are incomplete. When you are trying to model a continually varying chaotic non-linear system and you miss out big important things that can have any effect on that system, then there is NO WAY that you will get an accurate or reliable simulation.

        • 109
          Susie says:

          They can’t forecast convection (i.e. snow) over the North Sea… well they can forecast it’s likely to occur, but whereabouts and how much is an impossibility.

          • Anonymous says:

            I agree snow is hard to predict. BUT the temperature is easy.

            The North Atlantic has spent the last few months below the average of the last 10 years. At present it is about 1 degree colder. This is what determines our weather. The cold central US temperatures wiggles the jet stream south and without the warm Atlantic waters it does not return north. Presently it is hitting Africa!

            So instead of a warm high pressure summer the jet stream aimed at Cumbria and brought the conveyor belt of rain. Now it is the winter, it is so far south that we get the northern cold air. The Met Office knows all this, but they were gearing up for Copenhagen so dared not tell anyone.

          • Susie says:

            Plus the MJO is moving from phase 4 to 5/6/7/8… there is another stratospheric warming event imminent = northern blocking, –AO… hmmm should keep us in the deep freeze until mid Feb at the earliest.

            Councils have only enough grit for 4 weeks’ cold conditions, thanks to the MetO forecast they’ve underestimated by about 100%.

          • Anonymous says:

            Susie, it sounds like you know what you are talking about.

            What is your take on the climate change controversy? I would be interested to know.

        • 113
          Brown's a Tosser says:

          Bring back Michael Fish all is forgiven. Brokenhagen just about sums it up. Scientists have a lot of work to do to if they are going to regain some respect.

          • Anonymous says:

            I heard the local BBC weather reporters were ordered to give the “official weather” only, and not use any of their local knowledge or expertise. It seem the BBC message of extremes was getting diluted by individual forecasters.

          • Down with Brown! says:

            Ten years ago if you had heard about the government controlling the weather reports. You would have thought we were talking about Communist China or Stalinist Russia. But the sad reality of modern Britain is that Brown’s government even interfere in the weather reports.

          • ren & stimpy says:

            Wonder if they know the extent of the electoral shit storm coming there way.

          • Susie says:

            I have my own weather station.

            BBC said today’s max would be 3° C, the actual temperature struggled up to 0.8° C at 1 pm and dropped rapidly to -3° C a couple of hours ago, it will probably go down to -6° C by dawn, but the BBC call it -2° C.

            The BBC consistently overestimate temperatures by 2 or 3 degrees every day and every night. Why? I don’t know.

        • 199
          AC1 says:

          > Short term forecasting of up to 72 hours is better than random chance, but after that the Met fall far short of predictions that could be right purely by random chance.

          Recursive models suffer from Exponential Error

          All weather forecasts are recursive.

          • Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

            True AC1, but they are able to confidently predict a rise in average temperatures by 2050. Despite there having been a decline in the last 10 years, culminating in a huge dip in the averages right now in the Northern Hemisphere. All because McMental decided that Copenhagen Clusterfuck had some relevance and Importance. He is so unlucky isn’t he? What a fucking serial loser. IQ of 180? Yeah, and the common sense of a penile wart.

      • 161
        Anonymous says:

        As a going concern the Met Office is worthless – the second-hand price on the supercomputer probably wouldn’t cover the redundancy payments. OTOH, as an active part of the MoD with a decade of sterling military service in the cause of ideological propaganda on behalf of the nu feudalist elite, it could yet prove to have been well worth the effort of screwing millions of taxpayers to pay for it. (Opportunity cost, dear boy, one must always think of the opportunity cost).

    • 112
      Throbber says:

      Just heard on the radio…. orange juice prices are set to rise substantially due to an extended run of unseasonal cold weather in Florida.
      Lucky we have global warming eh?

      • 116
        Brown's a Tosser says:

        Ditto

      • 303
        Foxy Fuchsochs says:

        Damn: that’s two chances to retire to the Maldives that passed me by in the last three months: Put options on Climate Exchange shares, bought in the run-up to Crockenhagen then dumped in the confused aftermath – and now the chance to buy and sell FCOJ the way Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd did in ‘Trading Places’.

        New Year’s Resolution: Must do better.

  20. 55
    Down with Brown! says:

    Nick Robinson is a Hoon! The BBC political correspondent is criticising the political parties for doing political campaigning. Being a over-paid Beeboid he probably thought he deserved a longer holiday.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2010/01/the_beginning_o.html

    • 75
      Mrs Robinson says:

      I only obey my Labour masters. Nice Smeagal.

    • 118
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      Nick Robinson is perhaps the worst BBC political editor of all time. He does not even try to have an unbiased viewpoint. He should go to the Guardian where he belongs.

      • 157
        YC says:

        Robinson is an arch-Tory.His objective is the permanent destruction of Labour.He’s playing a long and cunning game.

  21. 56
    Auntie Vermin says:

    Swivel eyed Balls, and ole Scrotum Brown
    What a combination to make your eyes water!

  22. 58
    Tapestry says:

    It’s a ploy.

    They want a narrative to drown out other messages.

  23. 72
    Clarence says:

    Greg Pope is one of the good guys, despite his rather transparent attempts to enhance his popular culture cred by name-checking The Clash on his blog. Now, if he’d referenced The Cocteau Twins or called for a posthumous knighthood for Syd Barrett, I’d learn to love him more.

    The central plank of his argument is that The Labour Party is far more popular than Gordon Brown. I don’t think there is much in it, to be honest. And suppose Labour does change its leader – what then? An untested, largely unknown leader with back-of-a-fag-packet policies? Unless Miliband or Purnell have a manifesto drawn up, a set of policies and a team ready to take the UK by storm, the likelihood is that any new Labour administration will be governing on the hoof. That is clearly bonkers.

    Brown may be a deluded solipsist, a vicious bully, a craven coward, dismally incompetent and bereft of ideas, but he at least has some idea of what he is doing. Well, that’s arguable, but…

    • 99
      Susie says:

      Agree with this. Except I’d add Nick Drake awarded the posthumous knighthood as well as Syd.

    • 105
      I dunno - Youth Today? Tut! ... says:

      Largely agree!

      But who the feck is/are/were Messrs Clash, Cocteau & Barrett – Solicitors?

    • 114
      Mr Ned says:

      “An untested, largely unknown leader with back-of-a-fag-packet policies? Unless Miliband or Purnell have a manifesto drawn up, a set of policies and a team ready to take the UK by storm,”
      ——————————–

      They only want to steal as many votes from the B&P as possible. When they were trying to convince disillusioned real conservatives that the B&P were a far right party, they were more than happy for Nick’s party to gain in popularity. Now loads of disillusioned labour voters have flocked to the b&P website and seen that actually, they are a far LEFT party, labour are shitting themselves as they haemorrhage support. The Blairites think that trying to copy a tory party that is copying the Blairite labour party that copied the Major tory party is the way to victory. Pretend to be conservative, wrapped up in soft-liberal/quasi conservative language whilst selling us all out to a global elite. The left of the party want to return to the Trotskyite left.

      More and more of the public are seeing through both sides. The old left was discredited decades ago. the Faux conservative approach of Major/Blair/Cameron is a trap to give this country wholesale to the international elitists.

  24. 79
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Mr & Mr Brown two camps?
    More like too camp
    At least when they finally take part in a civil partnership ceremony there wont be any catfights as to whom takes the others surname.

  25. 83
    Uncle Si says:

    Hey I’ve just found something good that works from the Nu Lab Guv,taxing your car online! its saved me going to the our village postoffice in this cold weather….. oh! hang on its closed down, dam and I thought thing were getting better………..

    • 310
      Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

      You will find that all income streams that the Government is relying on right now, are working very efficiently. Tax Refunds are still not happening though. This Administration is bankrupt and has a screwed cashflow. Then the adverts for the Tax deadline for online self assessment payments are now suggesting that HMRC have recently changed their bank account, and late payments will attract a fine of £100 a day. Obviously not for Labour Party fraudsters though.

  26. 86
    Dave"A barrel load of laughs" Cameron says:

    Business as usual for the Conservatives

    I was in the cinema the other day, watching a really sad film. Suddenly, the woman behind me started wailing.

    I got hit in the back of the head by a harpoon.

  27. 88
    Gordon Out says:

    The master of Schizo Economics

    • 130
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      He is such a complete and utter Tosser. How the hell did we get lumbered with this sad excuse for a human being as our PM. He has absolutely no redeeming quailities whatsoever. He truly makes me so angry that for my own health he should carry a governmennt health warning.

      • 152
        P E Dantry says:

        and a government wealth warning.

      • 295
        CHIPPY says:

        To call mCbruin a tosser is a compliment.I always thought that if you had a mental condition you could not be a polititian.He acualy said that unemployment was going down.Just after saying it was risising more slowly.Major may have been a disaster but ha did no what planet he was oin.

    • 148
      Raving Loon says:

      Can we start a meme that Gordo’s economically illiterate?

  28. 95
    Susie says:

    I hate people who hold long conversations on their mobiles on trains — the height of bad manners. They should only be used to say “I’ll be arriving at…” and that’s it.

    Just goes to show how ill-bred and amateur (allowing private conversations be overheard) Labour are.

    • 100
      Anonymous says:

      Yep Nick Brown represents all that is wrong with New Labour.

      No respect for his fellow passengers.

      • 184
        Down with Brown! says:

        The Blairites, including Tony Blair, hate Nick Brown with a passion. They saw him as the chief agitator against Blair from the Brownites during the period 2003-7. They would love to see him humiliated.

    • 179
      mondeoman says:

      Another opportunity for a stealth tax, conversations on trains. You could have a whole new recruitment drive for mobile phone use on trains tax collectors!

  29. 96
    Gordon says:

    Only one dead soldier in afghanistan this year, I told you our troops are now well protected.

    • 188
      Gordon's favourite Butt Plug says:

      The Choppers on order from Boing will help at some point in the future. Perhaps they could get the Adverse weather package, and software fitted to the 8 Special Forces Chinooks sat in hangers doing diddly squat. Or perhaps that is too expensive for Brown to contemplate putting them into service?

      • 258
        Sapper Clarke says:

        The 8 Chinooks will not be used in the ‘stan.

        They’re far too valuable. Our Glorious Leaders will need to provide Air Support to the soon-to-be-payrised Armed Forces and Police back here in Blighty.

        Rioting and Civil unrest is on the way.

      • 274
        B Brush says:

        If they’re from Boing they’ll be delivered in the spring.

        Boom boom!

        • 284
          Australian says:

          A bit hard to get them to stay on the ground when they land, Basil: they will keep bouncing back!

          Where’s my coat…?

  30. 97
    notareargunner says:

    So Greg Pope is a plotter. He has just gone up a thousand fold in my estimation. If Guido will indulged me, Greg Pope is/was the constituent MP my late Uncle, the 80 year old Andy Miller who died under suspicious circumstances when confronted by the Court bailiff for none payment of a speeding fine. This in spite of the fact he had been in a heart attack induced coma for weeks immediately before and the court had been informed of the predicament.
    Only Greg Pope showed enough interest to push for an inquiry, which Straw granted with the same alacrity and restrictions that Labour has on all inquiries. In an interview with the widow, the Monster of Injustice, Jack Straw, promised legal advice and assistance to an innocent family. No such assistance has materialised even though Straw, a lawyer, knows full well that the terms for Judicial Review means that there is a time limit for appeal of up to 13 weeks.
    Thanks Greg, you have been the one decent voice in the fog of misrepresentation. If it is decided to hang your colleagues I am more than capable of slipping the sisal over your former comrades’ deceitful, lying, malicious and treasonable heads.

    • 261
      DelBoy says:

      Is this Jersey Jack Straw you allude to? The Minister for Justice? The same man who can’t/won’t respond to requests for an inquiry into child abuse?

  31. 101
    caesars wife says:

    I counted darling said PBR 9 times during Q&A , well done Joey Jones for spotting NI anomolly /made up story and even nick robinson got stuck in .

    CW was bemused by guardians reporter “forgive me if i seem a bit dim but isnt ” wry smile came over darling , CW still does not know how Darling intends to reduce the deficiet by half in 4 years , I mean what did he outline in the PBR and shouldnt this be conflicting with what he said today .

    phoney war from labour so far , ruin was crap on Andrew Marr and was very hollow , seeming unable to admitt the number not in employment was some how better than the conservatives could have done , errm wrong because the conservatives would not have run a huge deficet !!!

    Lets hope PLP decide he is no longer tenable in Labour party , i will laugh my socks off if they now have to chuck him out of the party , by forced trial , CW wants full electoral defeat , I want labour burning at the ballot box , hopefully never to re appear again , , they have wasted lives , savings, pensions and lively hoods and futures , and lied to us , so i see no reason for clemency

  32. 104
    Lola says:

    I can’t see that getting rid of Brown will help them a lot. Getting rid of him is an outright admission that he is NBG. As he is NBG it follows that all he’s done since 1997 is NBG. And from that it follows that all New Labour has been doing, especially on the economy, since 1997 is NBG. That’s a gift for the the Tories et al.

    If he stays it gets better for the Non new labour parties and if he goes it gets better for the non new labour parties.

    • 119
      Pole Star says:

      —– besides there just ain’t enough time left now !

    • 137
      Mr Ned says:

      This is standard new labour practice. They have been wracked by lame internal dissent for about 5 years now. From when they began to realise that the leadership had been lying to them about the need to go to war.

      However as many at the top of the party plotted the downfall of Blair, they still fully supported him in public up to the very end. Likewise, they are all publicly proclaiming Brown to be head and shoulders above everyone else in the party, yet they would expect us to swallow that all of a sudden, less than 6 months to the election that he suddenly is not the best anymore.

      It might placate a few on the hard left and the blairite right of the party to think of replacing Brown with “one of their own”, but in reality, to the rest of us, it would reek of desperation beyond the cusp of madness.

      • 259
        DelBoy says:

        The truth is that Brown is still head and shoulders (geddit!) above the rest of the party. Not too hard when the rest of the party are bloody Oompah Loompahs.

  33. 106
    notareargunner says:

    Observation. If Greg Pope was going to Westmnster from his Accrington constituency, why was he not arriving at Euston station? I know Browns constituency is in the NE, but is there another enclave for homosexual other than Brighton – Blackpool? Were they all on the same puffpuff?

  34. 129
    Dave"A barrel load of laughs" Cameron says:

    OK the gloves are off now

    What’s pink and hangs in front of a Hoon?

    Gordon Brown’s pink tie.

  35. 132
    A decade of rampant socialisim says:

    You do realise that in “Brownspeak” “Shared Prosperity” means wealth distribution and higher taxes, don’t you ?

    • 186
      mondeoman says:

      Redistribution by stealth has been the order of the day for the past 12 years+, only thing is, when the stats are run, it has’nt worked, the poor are poorer, the rich are richer, but the silly sods doing all the work and paying the taxes in the middle are the real losers! It is pay back time.

    • 196
      Mr Ned says:

      No it means wealth elimination and higher taxation. They take it from the productive sector and give it in wages to the unproductive sector who then waste it buying foreign goods, then it is not redistributed, it is eliminated from this country.

    • 256
      AC1 says:

      Wealth is only created through comparative advantage.

      Socialism is thus wealth destruction.

  36. 136
    Brown is going nowhere says:

    I reckon Brown will come clean about his mental illness just prior to the election and claim rights under the Disability Discrimination Act “If your mental illness has a substantial, adverse and long-term effect on your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities then you are likely to be covered by the Disability Discrimination Act. The Act also covers people who have had a disability in the past.”

    • 163

      Does the inability to operate without a buttplug count as a disability these days?

    • 172
      GordonMcBoingBoing says:

      There’s nothing wrong with me

      Boing Boing Boing

    • 216
      Bullingdon Davy says:

      I must declare my unreserved support for this idea. As a party leader with numerous disabled minions (sorry, colleagues) I recognise the benefits to be obtained. Osborne can claim his loss of the sense of smell, Grayling has laboured under the handicap of invisibility and Milton has not really recovered from her animation by Dr Frankenstein. These unfortunates need our support.

    • 297
      Infanta of Castile says:

      The rights are to have “reasonable adjustments” put in place to support him to continue working. The only reasonable adjustment possible in Brown’s case would be for another person to replace him.

  37. 156
    Ed G-W says:

    Pope and Brown and Gordon and Nick? Who care who or what they are. Ship of fools!

  38. 159
    Anonymous says:

    When can we expect Lord Blair of Sedgefield?

  39. 169
    Agent 99 says:

    Ok havent read all the posts as I have to be quick at the mo.

    Say this is only a little bit correct and then it did happen then that would mean that Balls would have to go as well as he could never survive being as close as he is to McDoom. This really leaves Darling exposed as well and even if they did replace Brown it is not the total solution. Opposition parties can say rightly the government is fractured and split from top to bottom with no chance of reconcilliation.

    The tories can have a field day with this if it occurs stating the leader got it wrong hence he was removed which in turn means Balls has it wrong, Darling has it wrong and even Manglebum also had it wrong. The political impications less than 100 days before an election is called will be absolutely horrific for Labour. If they thought a major loss of seats was likely now they are truly looking into the abysss and facing ‘the China syndrome’ moment now.

    Hahahahaha GOOD!!!!!!!!!

    • 197
      Engineer says:

      An interesting little conundrum for The Dark Lord. As things stand currently, Brown is an electoral liability (that might change over the next six months, but then pigs might fly), but culling him, along with his closest accolytes is an admission of a decade of failure. No wonder Mangledbum has gone quiet – wonder if he’ll keep his head down until after the election, and then try to slither into a well-remunerated sinecure in the EUSSR, or weigh in with a last-ditch attempt to try to make Labour look vaguely acceptable to the electorate?

      • 207
        Bullingdon Davy says:

        I do so hope you are right. I hear that the Dark Lords real plan revolves around his manipulation of the Natalie Rowe diaries. I told Osborne we should pay her off when we had the chance. Perhaps we should offer her services to Nick Soames – if she can survive that she deserves to destroy us.

  40. 192
    Down with Brown! says:

    Time to get rid of the shameful Twitter Tsar:

    http://www.kerryout.net/

  41. 198
    Down with Brown! says:

    Self-appointed statesman Bono wants to monitor and censor the net.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8439200.stm

    • 202
      lol says:

      yes, Bono, he keeps his money in Holland or Belgium to avoid tax doesn’t he?

      oh, and he’s a christian isn’t he?

      one good plank to the skull should do it!

    • 275
      Bono is a fake says:

      Ah Yes Bono he’s another c unt who prattles on About Government aid for this and that yet making sure they do not receive funds from him to enable them to do it. Yeah Bono make poverty History with the little peoples taxes not yours you pumpus fraud !!!!!

      ps

      “The immutable laws of bandwith” !!!! What a fucking tit !

  42. 203
    Sherlock Holmes says:

    Is it ever right to deride the power-mongers for the purposes of topical satire? For that matter, a form of political satire solely concerned with massaging one’s own ego while one is about it?

  43. 210
    Martin Bormann says:

    That wasn’t me on that train, geddit?

  44. 213
    TOO FAR says:

    All this good news, the Nulab infighting. the electorat will trash them at the GE, just look at history.
    Their combined incompetence and their inferiority complexes will tear Nulab apart. What will make it worse (for Nulb) is a total fuckwit of a leader, Broon Mcdoom.
    Mandy is no fool, he must be tearing his pubes out, not even his skills won’t save NL now. A bad poll prediction will seal their fate as the twats implode.
    Cameron must keep his powder dry. He is not surounded by total idiots, just the “odd” one or two.

    The worst is that the UK is being more fucked every hour this lot are in power.

    • 245
      Steve Expat says:

      or, to quote Cameron from this morning’s press conference:

      “By the time you finish reading this sentence, we’ll have racked up £33,000 more in debt”

      sums it up rather well…

  45. 214
    Jonah and the Islamites says:

    Oh Shit Jonah is now getting involved in the Islam4UK march at Wootton Bassett. I assume his curse also has a positive effect in that wishing something to fail then it will succeed.

    PM: Islamic Protest March ‘Inappropriate’

  46. 249

    [...] Wilt is also back at the desk. Guido is reporting on a plot to oust Brown (nothing new there) http://order-order.com/2010/01/04/audacity-of-pope/ and on his review of visitors to his website [...]

  47. 251
    13eastie (122 days: "Goodbye, Gordon") says:

    The plotters have always been there, and being the troughing hoons they are, care only about saving their own skins.

    This is forcing them to hang on until the critical mass of PLP members accept that Brown has run out of time and is brewing up an electoral anihilation.

    Even then, they cannot force him out without the wider membership and unions.

    A successful plot would always depend at some stage on persuading the psychotic fuckwit to go.

    How optimistic can anyone be of that?

  48. 255
    Steve Expat says:

    O/T but worthy of debate on the day Darling was going for the Tories’ tax policies – have a read of the DT Goldman Sachs story linked on the right

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6928590/Goldman-Sachs-teams-could-quit-the-City-over-taxes-and-regulations.html

    Goldman paid £1.1billion in corporation tax last year, and their 5,000 employees paid “several hundred million” in income tax. (not to mention VAT, NICs etc etc) They have ordered a review into the viability of their London operation as a result of changes in tax and regulation.

    THAT’S 2 BILLION A YEAR just from one company, shouldn’t the government be trying to help them make more profits, rather than some ideological ‘bash the bankers’ bonuses’ strategy, or is this yet more of the scorched earth in effect??

  49. 287
    Cynic says:

    Nick needs to realise that when rats are cornered they throw caution to the winds and become more dangerous. The PLP is now a cornered rat. It has little left to lose

  50. 301
    50 Calibre says:

    I know what to do…

  51. 304
    Dack Blog says:

    This co-con contacted a few bloggers I assume as I read this on a couple of blogs yesterday. What a tart!

  52. 305

    [...] The rest is here: Audacity of Pope – Guy Fawkes' blog [...]

  53. 318

    [...] bydd ymgais olaf i ddisodli Gordon Brown fel PW. Mae’r olwynion yn troi’n barod, gydag aelodau meinciau cefn yn anesmwyth a Charles Clarke yn sgwennu llythyr yn galw ar i bobl ei orfodi o’r swydd. Mae gwahaniaeth [...]

  54. 329
    Mr Nobody says:

    Like it or not the election campaign is underway.

    Every day the Tories will set out their vision for the next 5-10 years. Meanwhile Labour will fight and talk among themselves about where they go from here. For that they will be crucified by the media.

    Brown stays = Tory majority 30-40, maybe less
    Leadership challenge = Tory majority 100+

  55. 339

    [...] credu y bydd ymgais olaf i ddisodli Gordon Brown fel PW. Mae’r olwynion yn troi’n barod, gydag aelodau meinciau cefn yn anesmwyth a Charles Clarke yn sgwennu llythyr yn galw ar i bobl ei orfodi o’r swydd. Mae gwahaniaeth – [...]




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