January 6th, 2010

Did Dave Deliberately Pull His Punches at PMQs?

CCHQ is watching developments with a mixture of excitement and fear.  The last thing they want is to see Gordon ousted before the election…

Guido strongly believes that one of the strategic calculations made by the Tories that determined their decision to start the election campaign on Monday was to deliberately make it more difficult to dump Gordon. It would be argued internally in the Labour Party, Tory strategists hoped, that they couldn’t dump Gordon in the middle of an election campaign.  It was not as if Clarke’s crew hadn’t clearly signalled at Christmas their intention to make one last attempt to oust Brown…

Back in 2008 after a few bruising PMQs when Gordon was looking wobbly, Team Cameron deliberately pulled their punches for fear of destabilising Gordon too early before an election.  They know that their best hope of a landslide is if Gordon leads the Labour Party to a crushing defeat at the general election.  Gordon will cost Labour MPs their marginal seats which could be otherwise be saved with any other Labour leader…


616 Comments

  1. 1
    13eastie (120 days: Goodbye, ☭ordon) says:

    Brown is Tory election gold.

    • 9
      solopolis says:

      Great, just great. Replace Blue Labour with Red Tory.

      More middle ground, politically correct tosspots in charge.

      • 260
        TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

        Master B is probably watching from Communist Heaven and thinking WTF.

        • 272
          Beezley says:

          This is sideshow, shurely. Labour would be finished even if the Messiah turned up (with his lawyer, to deal with all those ignored prayers) and declared himself leader.

          Heh heh heh.

          • la says:

            6TH JAN 2010 LABOUR PARTY ANNOUNCES START OF ELECTION CAMPAIGN…

          • Off to anywhere but here if I could. says:

            Spotted that, the Government adverts are really prominent now. That’s one thing about working from home due to being snowed in.

          • Dave "rope-a-dope" Cameron says:

            I miss Bland Master B

          • Dave's cunning plan for a hung Parliament says:

            Hahahahahahahahaha !

            And I thought the Bilderbuger death camp 9/11 trooter lizardpeople were conspiracy mentalists

            And how did Cameron know about the emails that hadn’t been sent before the PMQ’s started that he was deliberately shit in ?

            Epic, epic fail Mr Fawkes

      • 592
        Election maniac says:

        Listen you lot, Ed Miliband clearly states that Gordon Brown was elected by the party to be the Prime Mentalist, Ed said it, so it must be true!

        • 594
          Bob says:

          As far as I can remember Brown’s accession to the leadership was uncontested, so no one voted for him.

          I just hope they don’t succeed in replacing him before the general election for the sake of the country.

    • 29
      Wet Dave says:

      “Did Dave Deliberately Pull His Punches at PMQs? “

      I bloody well hope so, because if that is the best he can do he’s going to lose the election.

      • 36
        Mitch says:

        ditto

        • 118
          la says:

          what he said

          • ALLAH FITZGERALD says:

            Cameron If Brains were made of Gun powder
            you haven’t got enough to blow your fucking hat off !

          • Get your tickets to throw shoes at Blair here

            http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/hearings/ballot-access.aspx

            Worth a fortune on Ebay

          • TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

            Perfect trip out for the indignant. Watch the Islamocommunists get battered in WB, and then head over to London and watch Foney get grilled. Hopefully if Brown is ejected soon, then he will get to be in front of the enquiry just before the GE. Being bitter and twisted he might just set up our Tone really nicely.
            I love the smell of porridge in the Afternoon. It smells of Victory.

          • Biffo says:

            The Inquiry’s being a bit fucking precious isn’t it – ‘successful applicants must comply with the process for gaining access to the QEII set out in their notification letter’?

      • 166
        Bullingdon Davy says:

        Dreadful peasants. Osborne told me I was wonderful and I always rely on his opinion – just ask Natalie Rowe.

        • 248
          Bingo says:

          BD is a student level troll. And, yes, he wanks quite a bit.

          • Bullingdon Davy says:

            Such kind words – but I assure you such activity is entirely unnecessary when you have access to Osborne’s address book.

          • TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

            Undergraduate at a plastic University, still waiting for his Student Loan. Thinking that life is so unfair, and only because his parents hate him for having contrary views. Still there is always the prospect of a grope with another nerd at the weekend.

          • TaT's creepy nutter stalker says:

            but enough about you TaT’s ‘special’ Gay Friend
            this isn’t your own personal blog diary you know
            we don’t actually care about your sad little loser life no matter how pathetic you make it sound

    • 34
      ST says:

      Pickles on the BBC saying a leadership challenge at this stage is pointless..

      • 44
        Gordon4Leader says:

        looks like the Torys are ralling behind Gordon. They will be starting a Gordon for Leader campaign next.

        • 292
          TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

          We are having a whip around at my S&M club.

          • Frodo Mandelson and the Ring of Power says:

            We could go on the lash! together duckie

          • Fatty Geraldine says:

            I do not know who she is, but on Sky News at 1pm, a po faced woman MP called Geraldine Smith was lamenting the fact that a secret ballot was mentioned in the letter. She was appalled at it being SECRET as, being secret, it was a cowardly way to ballot!

            Does anybody own up to this tripe-spewing toad as being their MP?

          • Anonymous says:

            she is the secret love grandmother of Margie Beckett and Neil Kinnock

          • Sir Trev Skint MP says:

            John Mann, the Labour tosser from Bassetlaw, in his BBC interview said “Hoon was only after a job on the European gravy train” . Is that the same “gravy train” he and his stinking socialist party supports like window-licking dicks??

          • Unsworth says:

            Oooh! Cut me in!

    • 35
      Psi says:

      The Marginal Labour Seats are already gone, it’s the averagly safe ones keeping Gordon will cost them.

    • 38

      Absolutely! But wouldn’t another “unelected” PM also be election gold?

      And Dave has got to do better than that.
      It was weak. The Lib Dem’s did a better job. Not by much though.

      • 97
        13eastie (120 days: Goodbye, ☭ordon) says:

        Not necessarily.

        Someone who brought in a very rapid change of scenery, seeking an immediate electoral mandate might be presentable as being radically different from Brown.

        The bigger problem for Labour would be that all the potential alternative leaders are complete сunts.

        • 376
          Mrs Slocombes Pussy says:

          And I am unanimous in agreeing with that.

        • 419
          Anonymous says:

          13eastie @ 97. If it comes to pass do you think the new leader (shoe in or otherwise) would ditch Lord Mandibum or would it be too risky to have him outside the tent p~ing in?

      • 180
        Anonymous says:

        If the Labour party could unite around a leader that they have elected, Dave would have a real fight on his hands.

        If they do not have a secret vote the Labour party are now in deep shit as they come across disunited around their leader that is why there are MPs lining up to go on the Telly and throw shit at Hoon and Hewitt.

        They won’t get rid of Gordon, they haven’t got the bollocks or the method. Quite why a democratic party has rules that a secret vote on their leader can not be held is rather mystifying.

        • 228
          Biffo says:

          ‘a democratic Party’? Neues Arbeit? DemocracyKillers-R-Us=Brown’s Labour Party.

        • 530
          Gooey Blob says:

          There is no unity behind any one candidate, each of the leading contenders has enemies who would be deeply opposed to them getting the job.

          The factions aren’t just limited to MPs either. I know Labour activists who would rather go out leafleting for the Lib Dems than for a Labour party led by Johnson.

    • 64
      Alistair "Give us a kiss" Darling says:

      Brown sold the UK Gold Reserves to the Tories

      • 249
        TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

        Wonder how much Brown will get £ per ounce on his families’ personal Gold on PostalGold4losers.com

    • 73
      Geoffrey Howe says:

      See that Geoff Hoon – That’s me that is!

    • 107
      Sarah Tweet says:

      actually had a productive day me-wise – am now sitting here after a haircut, a pilates class and a walk in the super-fresh air

      http://twitter.com/SarahBrown10/statuses/7411762260

      Wait till your husband gets home from work Sarah, he’s going to be in a foul mood and I bet he doesn’t notice your haircut.

    • 213
      Gordon Knew says:

      Gordon knew about the letter 1 hour before before PMQs, that is why he made every effort to put in his best performance yet.

      • 314
        Brown and out says:

        He was on the verge of a heart attack in PMQ’s – I think Cameron was sat there thinking;

        “Oh Christ! He’s going to die on me”

      • 321
        TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

        Bet he had a very knotted stomach. Hah!

    • 359
    • 365
      Postal Vote says:

      Brown should stay. He has unique skills. He can borrow 3.5 billion pounds every week of the year. And he can do it at least two years in a row.

      Labour’s core competence is spending someone else’s money. Brown’s core competence is to spend more money than there is going around.

      • 474
        Down with Brown! says:

        I’m just waiting for a spokesman from the Bunker to say “This plot started in America.”

        • 603
          Brown's a Tosser says:

          Started in America and is now over in America but still going on here. Manipulated figures and no doubt more wonky GDP figures. THe saying do not piss down my back and then tell me its raining springs to mind.

      • 487
        Max the Impaler says:

        Yes, but he’s fucking ace at Monopoly.

    • 476
      Prime Mentalists non-answers says:

      A PMQs where David Cameron actually laid into Gordon ‘I can’t answer that’ Brown.

    • 538
      DistantTraveller says:

      It’s important that the opposition does not become complacent.

      No one seriously expects Labour to tell the truth or stick to manifesto promises, but the Tories would do well to be honest with voters.

      In London, it is astonishing that Boris has not only broken his promise to remove the Western C Charge Zone, but tucked away in the Mayor’s Transport Strategy are provisions to allow MORE road charging in London.

      Anyone interested can find this on the Transport for London Website and download the document. The consultation ends Jan 12th, so not long to tell BoJo what you think!

      http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/11610.aspx

      Say NO to road charging!

    • 600

      True, but a Revolution is now needed in any case.

      (1) There must be far, far fewer MPs, and they must be paid much much less, if at all. Landed Retired Majors and old ladies must be given a fair chance. (Degree “courses” in “Political” subjects or “sociologies” will be closed down.) The taxation-take will be reduced to something that everyone feels he can afford to pay and might reasonably pay, such as, say, 10% for starters. The Minimum Wage will be abolished, as an iniquitous tax on businesses wanting to employ functionally-useless people for ultra-menial jobs. Immigration will be allowed without restriction, but there will be no State Benefits to be had in any case, so that reason for coming will be abolished right away.

      (2) Socialist Rotten and Pocket Boroughs will be “pro-actively” merged into “power-seats” of between one and five million electors each, as an “extension” of the “Franchise of Today’s Modern Forward-Looking-People in a Young Country”. Thus, for example, Liverpool plus Knowsley, Kirkby, Norris green, Huyton, Roby and Birkenhead will be able to elect Frank Field. And that’s who they’ll have. One MP. Geordieland will have one MP. Inner London, except Kensington and Chelsea, will have one MP. Most of the West Midlands willl have one MP. (Some “enhanced people’s boroughs” may even decide not to elect a socialist at all. Kensington and Chelsea is too large for a non-socialist seat, and will have to be divided into two or more Tory seats. Peter Jones dept Store’s account customers might elect one by themselves, as might Waitrose on the King’s Road.

      (3) Local “Councils” will find their buildings locked-down, and the staffs’ private belongings on the street in binliners. They will be allowed to run litterbins if they want, and the odd library, until we decide what to do with them..

      (4) “Government” will have to stop funding fake-charities (see http://www.fakecharities.org ), schools and hospitals. If people decide they want this stuff, they’ll buy it.

      I could go on. but the fabric, the very machinery, all of it, that the GramscoFabiaNazis have constructed to sheild themselves from our influence, and with which to repress us, will have all to be torn down, evey scrap, irrevocably.

      There will have to be an irreversible shift in the balance of power in favour of Working People.

  2. 2
    Bazza says:

    Saved with an unelected Harperson?

    Oh, I’ll look forward to that.

  3. 3
    298,257 says:

    What, and with Hatty Harperson they will do better ?

    • 7
      Wet Dreamer says:

      Mmm. I’d love to.

    • 285
      Bullingdon Davy says:

      As a fair minded man I look for the good in everyone. Having Hatty in charge would drastically reduce the teenage pregnancy rate. If you were a teenage boy wouldn’t you be put off girls for life. Its why we always looked for alternatives at the alma mater.

  4. 4
    Bingo says:

    Forget all this pulling punches stuff. I think such internal strife and destruction is far more fatal to Labour all on it’s own

    Whether or not Brown stays or goes.

    • 33
      sockpuppet #4 says:

      Perhaps Mandleson will ensure that the correct candidates stand, and that they behave themselves.

      • 250
        Sir Trev Skint MP says:

        15:16 Nick Robinson reads out a text message with words from Lord Mandelson: “This is a complete overreaction, these people are not members of the government, no-one is resigning from the government.” Sky News report that he also says that the Prime Minister continues to have the support of colleagues and “we should carry on as normal”.

        • 422
          They are Doomed DOOMED I tel Ye' says:

          I hope so because if they do it will be a Labour ‘China Syndrome’

  5. 5
    Ethan says:

    Another instance of party before country.
    UK Plc needs Brown and the clowns gone – over the hill and far away – as soon as possible.

    A pox on all their houses!

  6. 6
    Gordon Brown says:

    Onward. Send extra battlions to fight the Tories on the Western front. On to glorious victory.

    • 49
      A nervous minion says:

      But, Supreme Leader, we are encircled on the North, South and East fronts, not to mention in the air and underground. The bastards have got us covered every which way. The very walls of the Bunker rock and quake as I speak. What should we do, O Glorious Supremo?

  7. 8
    gone fuckin metal says:

    this is going to get messy

    • 17
      ST says:

      Yep. Barry Sheenan is goving as good as he gets on the BBC he bad temperdly said the BBC is biased in favour of the Government!! Strong stuff from a Labour MP.

      • 31
        Dack Blog says:

        He gave the BBC a pasting. Enjoyable.

      • 164

        I think you’ll find Barry died in 2003, ST.

        • 201
          Talwin says:

          Barry Shearman doing the business. And John Sopel trying to sound all Robin Day; failing miserably, ending up looking an aggressive, ignorant pillock in the face of Sheerman’s tolerance and patience.

          • Jumbo says:

            Nothing new there: aggressive and ignorant are his charatceristics. That and the fact that when abroad he chooses to do his reports from beaches featuring nude children.

  8. 10
    Anonymous says:

    I think H&H have misunderstood the old boiler scrappage scheme.

  9. 11
    McMong says "pass the Vaseline Mandy" says:

    Pulling his punches? McMong looked barking mad at PMQ’s

    • 26
      Archer Karcher says:

      They had obviously upped McMentals meds today, cannot imagine that CMD was pulling anything though, he is always shite.

  10. 12
    Gordon Out says:

    I don’t think Hoon and Hewitt like the PM as much as every Tory in the land does.

  11. 13
    polly bollocks says:

    The next government will have so much shit to sort out that it will be very unpopular.

    • 428
      udderly 'orrible says:

      Yep let the McRuin marxists stay right there and face the IMF the week after their election victory.
      No SANE opposition wants to inherit bankrupt Britain.

  12. 14
    rightwingatheistc*nt (prev cp) says:

    That’s a little bit ‘out there’ isn’t it.

  13. 15
    Down with Brown! says:

    Either way Brown is gold for the Conservatives. Either we vote to kick out Brown or we vote to kick out the party who forced PM Brown on us.

    • 167
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      I agree with that but this is going nowhere. The rebels can do what they like the fact is the rules of the labour party make this a non starter. Like it or not Brown will call the election when he wants and nothing will change that. However, Hoon and Hewitt have just exposed more divisions and wth the 24 hours news cycle more bad news for NuLabour. The result a few more smashed Nokia’s in 10 downing street. It has been said many times but the truth is “you really could not make this stuff up”.

  14. 16
    polly bollocks says:

    No wonder dave pulled his punches
    Gordon McTwat is the fall guy for all of labour’s hoons and there are plenty of them

    • 339
      Biffo says:

      CMD thanks his God every night for Gordon McSnot. Hope he stays on until the bitter end, with continuing calls for his resignation & an electoral defeat of gigantic proportions that will fuck his chances forever for a job with the EU or the IMF.
      My wish for Gordon Brown is that after losing the election disasterously, he gets sane enough to realise that instead of being known as the ‘International Statesman’ he fantasises he is, he’s actually known as a National & international Laughing Stock. Not very many phone calls/emails from your idol Obama Beach these days – eh Gordon? Wonder why that could be? Hahaha.

    • 380
      albacore says:

      Pulled his punches?
      Take a look at the face that launched a thousand billboards, after an instant filter touch-up.
      The crap talking head on Fawkes’ weekly treat has more convincing animation.

  15. 18
    • 54
      sinosimon says:

      it is perhaps more to the point that mr winkler has been recently performing as captain hook in panto in liverpool……..as a man experienced in fighting off a cabal of younger more energetic enemies whilst being pursued by a grinning reptile to the sound of a ticking clock perhaps mr brown is giving him some tips on the role….?

    • 55

      Cue Gordon jumping the shark….

  16. 20
    Ad Hoc Brown out committe says:

    We all know that if Labour has a new leader(Blairite) then th egap in the opinion polls will narrow and David Cameron will be trashed.

    BRING IT ON

  17. 21
    • 293
      Beezley says:

      If I may say so, Mr Prodicus, you have developed your argument most succinctly. A rare breath of fresh air in these loquacious times.

  18. 22
    pissed off pensioner says:

    Either way Broon is toast and Choudry has given a mighty boost to the B+P
    Things are about to get messy very soon

    • 88
      Animal says:

      The nasty little racist party will be rubbing their hands with glee after the work of the extreme Islamists, with a decent bump upwards as yet more labour voters turn their backs on Brown and go for Griffin instead. All that goody-goody scheming has bitten the Government back very hard, and deserverdly so.

      This Government has painted itself into a corner, trapped by their own third-rate efforts to legislate rights that worked perfectly well in case law and destabilise society while the legal profession – which is the chosen background of a lot of Labour MPs remember – make barrowloads of cash.

      In fact I had wondered for some time how a Government containing so many solicitors could consistently introduce such badly framed legislation until it occured to me that they’re also personally profiting from the courts. While we know about Cherie Blair making a mint at her practice it would be interesting to see how well other sitting Labour MPs have done. As if fraudulently claiming money from the taxpayer isn’t enough how many of them are senior partners in lucrative law firms too? And yet they whinge about their salaries!

      So there you go Fawkes. Have a look at MPs who are in the legal profession and discover how many of them have a cushy number in a practice. Double-decker troughing by the sanctimonious hypocrits.

      • 119
        TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

        Yep Animal, and why haven’t the well paid researchers at CCHQ done a job?

        Hmmmmmmmmmm.

      • 334
        Nick2 says:

        I agree that too much legislation is enacted, and much of it is very poorly drafted. However I’d prefer to vote for an MP who has at least passing experience of running a business rather than the alumni of public sector/union/non jobs, as much of the political class now serving had.

        • 364
          Animal says:

          You miss the point, which was about solicitors getting elected and then framing up crap law that they will then make sackfuls of cash debating, at length, for lots of money, in a court of law and giving them a nice earner irrespective of whether they remain elected in future elections or not. MPs having some sort of career background outside of politics is not what I’m referring to here.

          I’ll be the first to admit that it sounds all too mush of one of those ridiculous conspiracy theories, but the amount of rubbish law and subsequent legal fees from arguing about it all afterwards is much too convenient for my liking.

  19. 23
    ToryBanter says:

    Or is this CCHQ doing a dubble bluff???

  20. 24
    HMRC's Bleeding Stone says:

    Look at the 3 outcomes the plot today:

    1 No ballot, dissent continues, Dave uses it against Brown in every PMQ until May

    2 Brown wins ballot. Party has to back him. Dave wins landslide.

    3 Brown loses ballot. No time to pick a new leader. Dave wins landslide and what’s left of the labour party will sit in a dark corner of Clegg’s opposition benches.

    It doesn’t actually matter what happens now. Cameron should go for the jugular.

    • 37
      CMD says:

      So you think I should take off the sheep’s clothing now?

    • 41
      Steve Expat says:

      Pretty good analysis there.

      There are no good outcomes for the party from this, unless they have a safe leader that they can parachute into place.

      The only one that really springs to mind here is Darling, he can rightfully argue that the mess is the fault of his predecessor and that he has had his arm twisted when trying to be honest. He has the best chance of anyone, of leading the party to a graceful defeat at the election.

      • 59
        Sunonmars says:

        He’s too embroiled in the economic mess and could have stood up anytime but did not. He’ll be ripped to shreds.

      • 115
        Animal says:

        The “I was only following orders” tactic didn’t work at the Nuremburg trials and work now.

        Even if Darling did have an epiphany, who on earth would believe him after lying for so long? Hardly showing much spine, is he?

        It’s now dawning on Labour MPs that it was a hell of an iceberg they smacked a while back and they’re grabbing at a very limited number of lifejackets.

        I just hope Balls gets a repeat of the pain suffered by Chris Patten from his constituents.

    • 53
      Mitch says:

      surely Hewitt and Hoon want

      4. Brown loses ballot. New, stronger and more popular leader wins GE, or at least reduces defeat. Party survives.

    • 78
      13eastie (120 days: Goodbye, ☭ordon) says:

      You’re being too generous to Brown here.

      The only thing he fears more than a general election is a leadership vote.

      The only card he has is that he is the only person that can ask to dissolve parliament.

      He would rather call an election immediately, forcing the PLP to back him publicly, than face a secret ballot, even if it resulted in the destruction of the party.

      • 89
        Steve Expat says:

        Absolutely! He will never resign, would rather face the country than his own party.

        • 94
          Anonymous says:

          he could ignore the ballot and call a GE

          Christmas comes early this year……….

    • 95
      Mr. Growser says:

      How can a sheep go for the jugular

    • 184
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      I agree with your points and possible outcomes and it all just goes to show how stupid you have to be to become a Labour MP. Complete fuckwits the lot of them.

    • 556
      Ted Bundy says:

      “Look at the 3 outcomes the plot today:

      1 No ballot, dissent continues, Dave uses it against Brown in every PMQ until May

      2 Brown wins ballot. Party has to back him. Dave wins landslide.

      3 Brown loses ballot. No time to pick a new leader. Dave wins landslide and what’s left of the labour party will sit in a dark corner of Clegg’s opposition benches”.

      Another possible outcome

      4 Brown either remains or is replaced but Dave’s lack lustre performance with no public appeal results in a hung parliament forcing the Conservatives into a coalition Government with the Liberals who force him to adopt a far more left wing and EU agenda. This despite the fact that this Labour Government has been by far and away the most incompetent administration in modern times.

      • 596
        Ted End says:

        That would be a fecking awful outcome. Imagine the rush to get out of this toilet of a country if that happened!
        Mind you, there’s a long queue right now…

  21. 25
    ! says:

    Harriet Harman is the real leader of the Labour rebels. If it comes to it she is prepared to resign to force a secret ballot on Brown’s position.

    • 52

      I thought panto season was over.
      Old mother Hubbard is going to pitch in is she?

      So far Beckett and Burnham have joined the Imperial Stormtroopers.
      Darling, Mandelson and Straw have yet to declare for the Emperor or the rebel Alliance.
      Strange they haven’t leapt to Brown’s side yet?

  22. 27
    Ghastly-Gormless says:

    I think Dave is being given more credit than riding a Rayleigh Bicycle through the snow deserves.

  23. 28
    Toffeeman says:

    Louise Ellman MP has been on local radio supporting the call for a ballot on the leadership.

  24. 30
    My Other Cars Not A Prius Either! says:

    Not only do the conservatives have to win the next election also labour must lose it,to a tory who better to have in the driving seat for the class warriors than mc depression.This should ensure committed leftists (idiots) shuffle over to vote for retired sex maniac nick clegg come the relevent day,the tories would be quite correct to pull their punches as brown could,on present form lose a one horse race!

    • 559
      Gooey Blob says:

      On the contrary, there are certainly better candidates as far as the Tories are concerned. Polling consistently shows all of the leading contenders for Labour leader would secure even fewer votes in a general election than Brown would. Several would see the party finish third.

      Harriet Harman would probably be the Conservatives’ ideal candidate, but Straw, Johnson and Miliband are not far off. All would be preferable to Brown from a Tory perspective.

  25. 32
    HL says:

    Harman is pulling Hoons and Hewitts strings. She could be PM within 6 weeks.

  26. 39
    john miller says:

    Call me a cynic, but is this a good day to bury bad news.

    WSJ:The U.K. government faces an 80% chance of a credit-rating downgrade if its deficit reduction plans remain as they are, according to Scott Mather, Pacific Investment Management Co.’s head of global portfolio management.

    Best placed to weather the recession anyone?

    • 62
      ST says:

      No way, its not a burying bad news day remember the best the media could come up with before this was the fucking snow!

      This is a badly timed challenge but a real one.

    • 196
      Cyco Billy says:

      Let’s not forget Iceland’s president taking an indecently short time to decline signing the Icelandic bailout of UK plc bill, and precipitating a national referendum on the key economic and financial policy for the next 20 years.

      Count the trigger words in that sentence. McMental must be throwing desks around in the bunker – referendum FFS, daring to stand up to bully boy Brown, the people giving the two finger salute to the mafiosi banksters – all things Brown hasn’t allowed the English the option of doing. And now the Icelanders are about to set a really bad example to the English (who are probably aren’t looking anyway). I rather hope the Icelanders vote to default. If the English don’t follow suit, they deserve all the peonage they will get for two generations.

    • 331
      Dearly beloved,we are gathered here today.... says:

      It’s a very good day to bury the unelected bastard called Gordon Brown – once and for all.

    • 483
      Anonymous says:

      I hate to be serious but I work for a sister co to PIMCO and we all run in the opposite direction when they venture an opinion.

  27. 40
    The IMF is coming says:

    Spoke to a PPC over the hols:

    Tories have been holding back for months.
    They do not want Labour stealing/countering policies before the election starts – plenty of time yet to really nail them.

    • 50
      Operation Market Garden says:

      Dream on – the reason the Tories are not announcing any policies is because they already have the same politices as Labour & the Liberals:

      High taxes for the economically active & wealth creators & more benefits for their core vote & Muslims.

      • 72
        The IMF is coming says:

        ???????????

        • 268
          Gordon uses student helpers says:

          Operation Market Garden is a trainee troll of little intelligence.

        • 316
          Right Bastard says:

          Agreed – Operation M.G. was, and is, a failure.

          • TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

            Like a Bridge too far almost?

          • TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

            That’s the problem with pansy Paras. No stickability, unlike……..

          • Operation Market Garden says:

            You Tory tribalists will realise soon enough that DC & Co are just more of the same third way dross that we have had under Labour.

            Go ahead Tory dreamers – call people names whilst waiting for your hollow victory – the delusional nature of modern Tories is a sight to behold & i look forward to coming back here to gloat when DC & Co proves to be as lightweight as he has been as opposition leader.

          • They are Doomed DOOMED I tel Ye' says:

            so you finally agree then Labour is toast and fucking useless. You are as bad as the Labour party itself

  28. 42
    Down with Brown! says:

    ITV news is reporting that Patricia Hewitt is acting for Harriet Harman

    • 71
    • 230
      Cyco Billy says:

      Wonderful news. Harman is hated by women, who give Brown the benefit of their sympathy doubt… such a difficult job, sigh, you know the drill. Bring her on. She’ll make a good epitaph for the B’Liar Witch Project.

      Bit of an issue for the Cameos tho, still trying to be PC, courting ethnic belly dancers for parliamentary candidates – as if any of it really mattered with only half the exploded credit bomb having gone off to date – and that the smaller half by far.

    • 335
      Anonymous says:

      Harriet Harman is an acting lezza.

  29. 43
    Operation Market Garden says:

    “Did Dave Deliberately Pull His Punches at PMQs? “

    No, Dave is a lightweight socialist democrat who could not fight his way out of a pillow fight in the shower block of his public school.

    Pull his punches – what fucking punches? he has never laid a glove on McMental.

    • 56
      Al says:

      Yes he has you bell end, or have you not been watching PMQs over most of Gordon’s bungling tenure.

      You’re a UKIP or Labour troll, you choose.

      • 77
        Down with Brown! says:

        Brown was all over the place in PMQs today. Cameron made him Brown look like the pathetic individual he is.

      • 99
        Operation Market Garden says:

        Fuck off Al,

        I subscribe to no regime or party – they, like you, are all fuckwits.

        • 195
          Sir Trev Skint MP says:

          Operation Market Garden, you are Mike Naylor and I claim my 5€…….i thenk yau!

          • Al says:

            Yup, Operation Markek Garden is a troll. Not a very clever one. But a troll nonetheless.

          • Operation Market Garden says:

            Al says:
            January 6, 2010 at 3:32 pm
            Yup, Operation Markek Garden is a troll. Not a very clever one. But a troll nonetheless.

            And you deduced this how?

            Sorry to disagree with your Tory lovefest – this site was better when it was libertarian focussed & not Tory troll infested.

            If you think the remarks regarding DC & Cos performance in opposition are upsetting for you freaks, wait until he is in power – or rather doing the bidding of Brussells.

            Again, I subscribe to no partry or regime – unlike the intellectually bereft such as yourself, “Al”.

            Now, you are dismissed.

          • Operation Market Garden says:

            Who is that person, someone you met in a toilet near Shepherds Bush?

            Sorry, its not me.

    • 69
      Brixjack says:

      I would love it if Dave was a socialist, we oculd do with a hell of a lot more in parlaiment instead of these greedy capitalist pigs we have at the moment

    • 418
      Nick2 says:

      I watched PMQs today & IMO Cameron concentrated on the budget deficit, whereas Brown concentrated on (the apparent lack of) proposed Tory fiscal policies. Cameron wasn’t that bad – the real problem is that the Squeaker allows Brown to turn PMQs into ‘Leader of the Opposition questions’.

      • 527
        Browned Off says:

        hear hear – Brown looked clumsy and every time he sat down, red faced, he looked appealingly for support from coleagues. ‘Did that well didn’t I’ he seemed to be pleading. No support was forthcoming. Its over……

    • 446
      They are Doomed DOOMED I tel Ye' says:

      Operation Market Garden

      I hope you realise that Market garden was actually a failure or as some would prefer to put it a ‘partial success’. Very apt name though considering Labour is spinning faster than an Electrolux spin drier on max.

      Go ask the poles

  30. 47
    13eastie (120 days: Goodbye, ☭ordon) says:

    Lord Mandelson of Rio is scheduled for a Paxman interview on Newsnight tonight, btw…

  31. 57
    oldfella says:

    hey Guido

    bloggers on the ball here or what??

    don’t care too much what happens but the short term fun of all of this is really uplifting. Stuck in by the snow so can’t get out so watching tv and listening to radio and blogging, what an afternoon…..with maybe more to come

    come on Brown, give us the election we so deserve, you shit faced bastard

  32. 61
    The Sleeper says:

    I think you’re right ,Guido…Cameron had him on the ropes until summer last year.Whatever he may be,Cameron is not that stupid to have gone for the jugular just before a GE.To me it is clear that Tory HQ think Brown is the nations most hated man..not necessarily the Labour Party in general.

    They need Brown in place but mortally wounded come the election.

  33. 63
    Anonymous says:

    If Labour get a new leader then they’re back in the game. Camo needs Brown to stay.

    • 70
      Sunonmars says:

      No they are not, seriously, why do people think this.

      • 185
        Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

        I seriously believe that this current shower think their unpopularity is down to Snotty alone – they really have no idea just how much they are hated by the electorate.

        The Laybeh Parteh would get a poll ‘bounce’ if they dump Snotty, but the bounce would not be a large one or long lasting enough to effect the overall outcome of a GE.

        With a new leader, CMD could then go for the jugular over the past 13yr clusterfuck that is the Labour government record.

        He’s got plenty of ammo…

    • 134
      Purpleline says:

      The country needs Brown to go Period.

      Brown showed at the weekend he is just a locesick child who would follow Obama and say anything to get inside his pants.

      Darling come on your counyry needs you.

    • 213
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      I think a new labour leader will help save some seats for labour and clearly the tories would like to fight the GE with Brown in place. Either way the labour party is damaged goods for a multitude of reasons the only question that really matters now is what the margin will be and will it produce a majority or not.

    • 466
      Maladroit Labour Chump says:

      Labour nor the Country have not had ‘leadership’ under Gormless.

      It’s been lies and Stalinist bullying since he ousted B£iar and installed himself.

  34. 65
    Sunonmars says:

    The public is the wild card, why should the public accept another labour person being parachuted into the job without their approval, they may just give an even bigger whalloping to labour for its contempt of the public.

  35. 66
    Sir William Waad says:

    If Brown were ousted, I would expect him and his allies to try to undermine the new leader. The Labour split would become an open wound.

  36. 67
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Call Me Dave ought to have stuck the boot in earlier, and made more effort to topple Brown before he could inflict even more damage to the UK’s economy.

    It is all very well trying to encourage ZaNuLab to keep Brown on, but came the cost is the financial and political incompetece of another six months of Dr James Gordon Brown and his sockpuppets.

    • 463
      They are Doomed DOOMED I tel Ye' says:

      illogical argument but understand the sentiments

      If Brown got fucked earlier and went then one of those sock puppets who are AS RESPONSIBLE BY THEIR SUPPORT OF HIM would be in place and you may just get another 5 years of this crap anyway.

  37. 68

    Patricia Hewit does not fart without Harriet’s say so – since way back at the NCCL.

    Oh Hattie for PM, please please please. Oh it would be wonderful. I think the vein in my forehead would actually explode. The wretched motherfuckingly awful ideological mani she would unleash at the election would eb a glory to behold. If there is ONE PERSON in the country less qualified to be PM than Gordon, it is Harriet.

    Oh what joy. Damn. I’m coming off the new year’s wagon for this. A good bottle with tonight’s persual of the blogs I think.

    • 74
      Mitch says:

      getting rid of Brown, and his subsequent breakdown, would be business

      HH as PM would be pleasure

    • 90
      Anonymous says:

      She would declare herself “the first female British Prime Minister” (she denies Thatcher’s very existence)

  38. 75
    Beowulff says:

    Does this mean ‘Nicey and Co’ would have to come up with policies to appeal to the electorate, instead of relying on the unappeal of the monster Grendel McDoom.

    Before we see the last of Grendel, things could get very interesting especially as our champion is not up to much

    • 81
      Sir William Waad says:

      Harman = Grendel’s Mother.

    • 231
      Sir William Waad says:

      Hewitt the mighty, Harman’s shieldmaiden
      With Hoon the dire horror, house-owning thane
      Dared once to challenge the Downing Street monster
      Gordon the Brown, fell bringer of ruin
      Friend of the bankers and bane of the poor.
      Oaths they abandonded, empty they deemed them
      Fealty forfeited. Forth went a letter
      Bandied about by the blogs of the world
      Nick, son of Robin, noticed it later.
      Fate was unkind. Forgotten, unheeded
      Hewitt and Hoon then hopelessly failed.

  39. 79
    ALLAH FITZGERALD says:

    LET THE GAMES BEGIN !
    OH Gordon!:
    Er yes Peter ?

    Drop the latch on your way out !

  40. 80
    Down with Brown! says:

    Barry Sheerman tells the BBC that Gordon Brown cannot call for loyalty from Labour MPs after failing to show loyalty to Tony Blair.

    “My loyalty is to my princples, my moral principles, my politcal priniples, to my country and then to my party and I don’t need anyone who undermined the previous Prime Minister and who was utterly disloyal telling me that I am disloyal,” he says. “I understand there is no barrier for us to have a secret ballot otherwise why have the Parliamentary Labour Party? It’s not only the place where the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers perform on a Monday night and the backbenchers have no voice at all. That is what caused frustration over this last period that the Parliamentary Labour Party has been manipulated by Gordon Brown and by the whips to stop us having an open discussion and having a vote.”

    • 87
      Anonymous says:

      Gordon Brown was supported by every Labour M.P. in his leadership election

      • 106
        Brixjack says:

        Well that’s just untrue isn’t it!

        • 139
          UKIP TROLL says:

          Why would he be there otherwise?

          Are you suggesting the Liebore Pary is bent.

          • Brixjack says:

            He didn’t get all MP’s supporting him. He got 313, John McDonnell got 29 and according to my calculations that leaves another 10 that didn’t nominate anyone (assuming that the ballot didn’t include members of the HoL). But don’t let me get in the way of a perfectly shit anonymous point!

          • Anonymous says:

            McDonnell didn’t get enough nominations and withdrew. Brown was elected un-opposed and supported by all Labour M.P.’s.

          • TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

            Yawn. ……………. and?

          • They are Doomed DOOMED I tel Ye' says:

            TSGF
            and… that makes them all equally responsible for the clusterfuck of this government

      • 135
        Anonymous says:

        It wasn’t really an election though, was it? More of a coronation.

        • 170
          Anonymous says:

          yes, but those same M.P.’s can’t go on about disloyalty now. The time to be brave was then.

          • Al says:

            Either way and from either camp all the Labour MPs look like horses’ bell ends, utterly discredited ball-less ditherers.

      • 307
        Pontius The Pilot says:

        was he fuck as like, you lying lying c’unt!!!

  41. 82
    13eastie (120 days: Goodbye, ☭ordon) says:

    Labour Party have released a statement saying that Gordon’s leadership is protected from the PLP by its constitution.

    The man is pathetic and has no shame.

    He will willingly hang on on a technicality and see no hypocrisy.

    • 98
      Down with Brown! says:

      Brown and co. are frightened of having a secret ballot of the PLP because if there was one, he might lose. They are even more frightened of having a general election of the British people because he will certainly lose.

      • 194
        ALLAH FITZGERALD says:

        He is terrified of a secret ballot!
        it means the thugs and bullies cant force people to keep the mental fucker in no10
        i wouldn’t be suprised if the ballot took place he would get slaughtered
        maybe even 75% to 25%

    • 332
      V for Vendetta says:

      So presumably,if they wanted Broon out and Clegg/Cameron went for a no confidence motion,they would vote with the Opposition ?

      Would they fuck – slimeballs everyone.

    • 385
      TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

      Has he a full mandate right now? Or has that been effectively revoked?

  42. 83
    The Prime Minister says:

    I always win at PMQs, as you would know if you watched the BBC. My Cabinet are utterly loyal to me. The parliamentary party adore me. There is no dissent. The letter is a forgery. The Hoon and Hewitt currently on TV are clever imposters, trained by MI5. Under my deft and courageous leadership, we will win a tenth election victory, vindicating the tough but prudent choices I have made, my economic policies that continue to give us a growing GDP, a huge budget surplus that is the envy of the world.

  43. 83
    Tom FD says:

    I don’t think it’s even true that Labour would have better election prospects with a different leader. I doubt anyone could save them from the disaster they’ve inflicted upon themselves. The Tories should stop worrying and go on full attack mode.

  44. 86
    rightwingatheistc*nt (prev cp) says:

    Mcguire chatting wank on sky.

  45. 92
    GF says:

    Sky News: Brown and Balls in crisis talks at No 10 at the moment.

    Is Brown on the verge of tendering his resignation knowing that the plotters are wide ranging and deadly serious this time?

    • 100
      Billericay Dave says:

      I would think its more like he would call an election just to stay leader even if it means defeat

    • 103
      The IMF is coming says:

      No
      Brown and Brown Clown? Will hang on to the last, when Brown goes he’ll want Balls to repalce him

      • 149
        mondeoman says:

        I would recommed watching ‘Downfall’, bunker politics at it’s best.

        • 477
          They are Doomed DOOMED I tel Ye' says:

          why?
          we can see it all in real time here and blood spattering reality

    • 104
      Anonymous says:

      Is Mandy not involved in these talks? He must be feeling very unloved.

    • 109
      Mitch says:

      Brown is arrogant enough carry on as PM even if he wasn’t party leader.

      the Conservatives would support him in any critical vote. Result – Brown gets a few more months as PM and the Conservatives keep him at the heart of the campaign

    • 140
      Chunky (the man with the pineapple bollocks) says:

      Brown balls in crisis.sounds like a job for Mandleson

    • 240
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      NO

  46. 101
    Michael says:

    It will be a great blow to Cameron if Gordon gets the push – unless of course, they replace him with Harpie Harperson.

    • 486
      They are Doomed DOOMED I tel Ye' says:

      Fraid not

      It will be win / win the ammunition that both scenarios now present Cameron with are immense. Labour know it as well.
      H&H just lifted the plastic cover and firmly pressed the big red button thats marked ‘SELF DESTRUCT IN 5 SECONDS’

      They are doomed

  47. 108
    Purpleline says:

    ‘Lucky’ Yamaguchi, who survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs,Dies the same day as Brown is killed in H bomb attack by Hoon & Hewitt. Poetic Justice.

  48. 112
    Headsonpoles says:

    This is beautiful, too beautiful for words.

  49. 113
    Gonk says:

    Dangerous game, being deliberately,strategically crap.
    Slightly relieved to know all the same.

  50. 114
    Gobshite says:

    If Harperson became PM, I think I would die laughing!

    Looks like the sisterhood is out for Brown.

    Time for Cameron to get a grip and tear the Brown Clown apart.

    Goatse style.

    30£

  51. 116

    Hmm.

    I reckon if this ballot looks like going ahead, Brown will call a general election. He doesn’t care about losing, or fucking his party – his personal arrogance and vanity is such that he’d rather pull the temple down on top of them, than be forced out by the pygmies of the PLP. Six weeks….

    A valentines massacre?

  52. 120
    Anonymous says:

    BBC ‘live coverage’ of events page hasn’t been updated for an hour.

    Is so little happening in Westminster? Or just nothing that supports Brown?

    • 208
      Mitch says:

      it’s ‘technical problems’ now

      the wheels are coming off Brown’s bus, more like

      • 255
        Brown's a Tosser says:

        It is strange I admit. It tends to make you think there is more to this than meets the eye (one eye). I still cannot see how this plays out given the leadership rules as they stand and the inevitable political repurcussions it will bring down on the labour party. Good telly though.

        • 288
          Mitch says:

          rules are irrelevant if Brown hasn’t got enough support

          the lack of heavyweight cabinet backers and these BBC games suggest this is exremely serious

          • Brown's a Tosser says:

            Sorry Mitch do not agree. Brown is safe and the rules are what the labour party follow above all else. This will die.

    • 491
      They are Doomed DOOMED I tel Ye' says:

      All I can see is posts supporting McMong

      16:34 Former minister Tony McNulty offers his take on both the weather and the challenge to Gordon Brown’s leadership, claiming the plot “will be as fleeting as the melting snow outside”.

      16:15 Andy Burnham reiterates his backing for Gordon Brown claiming Hoon & Hewitt have “misjudged the mood on this one”, and that the push for a leadership ballot will be “gone as quickly as it arrived”.

  53. 122
    Headsonpoles says:

    Kay Burley looking good on Sky

    • 148
      ALLAH FITZGERALD says:

      She would look better on my bed !

      • 302
        Granny smith says:

        Bloody policeman delivering mug of tea to her during outside broadcast with bastard balls, nice the police have their prioritys right.

  54. 127
    The Dirty Rat says:

    So, Hoon and Hewit having their strings pulled by Harpic but is Mandy pulling Harpic’s string? I hope he pulls the right one, could end up with a red mouse in his hand.

  55. 130
    ALLAH FITZGERALD says:

    Heap um big pow wow at no10 !
    Ministers all arriving No one saying fuck all
    Acording to sky if Jack (white feather) Strawor Alistair (panda ) Darling Give their support
    then brown is Toast
    McBust will be with his Pharmacist
    He needs to be really Pumped up for this one

    • 143
      Mitch says:

      I hope he’s still getting on with the job while all this takes place

      • 163
        ALLAH FITZGERALD says:

        He’ll be getting on with the “Jobbie” he will be shitting himself on the bog !
        O/T Cameron you were a fucking embarrassment to your party at PMQ’s
        you let the mental twat !Bitch Slap” You round the house !

  56. 132
    Billericay Dave says:

    Good to see Burley on Sky being impartial again nice to know who shes going to vote for.

  57. 136
    Dack Blog says:

    Where are Brown’s ‘heavyweight’ defenders? All in the bunker coming up with a party line?

  58. 141
    Gobshite says:

    Any comment from Harperson yet?

    Go on Brown, sack the bint!

  59. 151
    Bullingdon Davy says:

    What an excellent idea. I must ask our strategists why they didn’t think of it.

  60. 154
    Pass the prozac says:

    the cabinet are not exactly rushing out to support him are they?

    • 176
      Going down on Gordon Brown says:

      Mandelsons a bit busy today: hair appointment, then a spot of shopping, and meeting a few friends for lunch

  61. 155
    Geraldine Smith says:

    Kiss my norks and use ‘em for sandbags.

  62. 157
    Anonymous says:

    Just looked up ‘hoon’ on wikipedia. There is only one reference to it being used as a derogatory term. A boy racer in Aus. Would be good if someone clued up on wiki could add a page on it’s UK usage as a derogatory term for an incompetent lab politician, referencing both the origina; hoon and the site where it came into common usage :-)

    • 211
      Tom Logan, Institute for Studies says:

      type c’unt into this blog, without the ‘ and see what you get! you will soon find out what Hoon means

    • 262
      Order-Order Heritage Study Group Principal Nerd says:

      The term ‘hoon’ is specific to this blog.

      It came into use following a prolonged barrage from someone who kept posting “Geoff Hoon is a c’unt”. Whilst few would argue with this statement, it’s constant repitition became tiresome, causing Guido to rebuild the moderation filter to automatically change the word “c’unt” (without the ‘ ) to “hoon”.

      The term is not specific to Labour politicians. For example, Osama bin Liner is clearly a prize hoon.

      • 300

        I didn’t think it was tiresome. I used to like coming here to find that. it was like coming home.

      • 389
        rightwingatheistc*nt (prev cp) says:

        The term is also used by certain species of ‘yoot’ in and around the Maidenhead area.

        Hoon = Nutter.

    • 564
      Cheese Sandwich says:

      Geoff Hoon is a vagina.

  63. 158
    Anonymous says:

    but why do you want to replace new labour with bluelabour?

    Are there any real tories out there who dont mind telling it as it is and even frightening the horses?

    Their policy on europe is the same as the socialists. blair2 reminds me of blair1, he marches his troops to the top of the hill, then just marches them back down again! I cant beleive he is such a weak conservative. Reminds me of Ted Heath, although he cant sail or play the piano, he is married ofcourse too!!

    UKIP for me. I hate the EUSSR.

    • 224
      Brixjack says:

      Ha your views are proper comedy. It’s like a parody of a blazer-wearing right wirng ranter. And you lot will enver get near power! Ha

      • 303
        Al says:

        More than one of these ‘UKIP’ characters are Labour trolls. It’s the best attack line they can come up with.

        • 312
          Brixjack says:

          I’m not a Labour Troll at all. I have voted for them ebfore, but also Green, CP etc….

        • 399
          Operation Market Garden says:

          Al,

          Who the fuck are you?

          All you do is snipe about “trolls”.

          Have you no formed opinions on anything other than who may be a troll?

          Fuckwit.

          • Anonymous says:

            his opinion is the same on the Eu as liebour, more integration, no referendum on lisbon. why wont they tackle the eu? because they are for it.

      • 478
        Archer Karcher says:

        “And you lot will enver get near power!”

        Education, educashun, edercashin.

        How does it feel to be so clearly uneducated?

  64. 159
    nobody expects the spanish inquisition says:

    gordon wont go anywhere…he has spent his whole life believing that he is special and the new messiah……59 years of self delusion doesnt evaporate overnight.

    right now he is probably dreaming up another conference to invite O’bama along to (again)

    • 481
      Archer Karcher says:

      Or a kitchen to stalk him in.

    • 528
      bandersnatch says:

      Despite the fact that several more or less articulate Broonites have been wheeled out on BBC News out to bolster the Gorgon up, nothing can take away my impression of him at the despatch box this morning… thinking he was winning the day… and fooling himself.

      Yes, it’s quite likely that Cameron was pulling his punches. Gordon is a godsend to the New Blues. The man karate chopped the despatch box HARD, over and over again, in a nutty rhythm. I’m sure it must have perturbed the rest of his front bench, but I doubt he realized he was doing it. After a bit he changed to stabbing it hard, and noisily, with his fingers, one or more of them, in his spread, rigid hand…

      As someone or other… or lots of people, have said…’This can’t go on.’

  65. 160
    Down with Brown! says:

    Alex Salmond has called on Brown to resign and fight a leadership

  66. 161
    pissedoff says:

    Your giving far to much credit to Cameron and the Tories.
    They are simply fucking useless.

    After 12 long torturing years from Labour the Tories should be out of sight in the polls, but they are too scared to mention immigration, too scared to mention benefits scroungers, too scared to speak up for the English.

    Brown is a useless twat but I’m afraid that Cameron is also a useless twat.

    • 175
      UKIP TROLL says:

      There in no other conclusion.

    • 182
      Mr Plum says:

      I think you will find they tried that strategy at the last two elections and got stuffed.
      Its a shame be you cannot win an election by saying what is right

      • 206
        UKIP TROLL says:

        They got stuffed because the proles were living in Brown’s bubble, now it’s burst some of them might be prepared to listen to the truth, and if they’re not, too bad, it’s still not a reason for having No Policies, No Position, No Honour.

        If Dave gets elected for being Mr. Nicey but then has to do nasty things, that is not going to down well, apart from being downright dishonest.

        We always understood where Mrs T stood. Where are our real leaders now we need them.

        • 281
          Mr Plum says:

          I think you just described Blair ( Mr Nicey ) but he still one three times.

          • Anonymous says:

            Blair may have won but the country lost. UKIP Troll is right, the dumbed down Great British Public are now a lot more receptive to a few home truths.

    • 235
      Anonymous says:

      You forgot to mention state payroll. Immigrants + benefit chasers + state employees
      (+BBC and quangos) = inbuilt Labour majority.

      • 257
        Brixjack says:

        Idiot. Enough people vote for Labour who ain’t in those categories!

        • 267
          • Anonymous says:

            Lee Patel, Mandela Estate, New Delhi

          • Brixjack says:

            Me! Private section. Charity sectors? Fucking miners aren’t in any of those categories? You really think some constituencies have 30,000 immigrants, benefit chasers and state employees?

        • 307
          Animal says:

          …except that these are highly disillusioned voters, leaving the labour party with some, sad to say, moving to Griffin’s thugs.

          Don’t deny it Brixjack – right wing as I am I take no pride in reminding you of how the Labour party has made so many of its supporters feel abandoned.

          • Brixjack says:

            I couldn’t agree more. I probably won’t be voting for them at the next election. But that’s more becasue Labour will never loss my constituency and i can’t quite face putting a tick next to Kate Hoey’s name. Labour needs to go back to it’s socialist roots!

        • 404
          Operation Market Garden says:

          Brixton Jack,

          Why dont you sod off to http://www.multicultilovelyrainbownationsocialists.com & do us all a favour.

          Many thanks.

          • Brixjack says:

            Think i’ll stick here and piss you off if it’s alright. Also i would like to point out that the majority of the voting public in this country are at least left-of-centre. Last election:

            Left of Centre: 58.4%

            Labour:35.3%
            Lib Dems: 22.1%
            Green: 1%

            Right of Centre: 34.5%

            Conservative: 32.3%
            UKIP: 2.2%

            Can’t be arsed to work out the rest (nats, loonies etc)

    • 254
      Bullingdon Davy says:

      I would be delighted to take the positions you suggest but they have been contaminated by Dick Sniffin and the Pink Panzers. And where would Osborne get his playmates without immigration?

    • 512
      Blindingly Obvious really says:

      Pissedoff

      After 12 long torturing years from Labour the Tories should be out of sight in the polls,

      I agree but of course a minimum of the electorate have been bought off by Labour and know that any other vote will end their giros and or stupid no entity jobs off the taxpayer. Its an immeadiate disadvantage and explains partly why they are not so far ahead. Add on the hoons at the BBC and other left wing tossers and DMC is doing well to hit even the 40′s. Then add on just to get a hung parliament the Tories have to be 7 to 8 % ahead of Labour and it all stacks up.

  67. 165
    Anonymous says:

    That Hoon is a Hoon!

    • 191
      Dr Feeley-Goode (the real one) says:

      Is Hewitt a Hoon? Having had the misfortune to hear her on The World at One, turned off the radio because I can’t stand the patronising bitch only for her to be still going strong five minutes later when I switched it back on, I reckon so.

      However, I’d welcome an expert opinion on the subject.

      • 298
        Gobshite says:

        Ich bin ein Hoon!

      • 338
        Order-Order Heritage Study Group Principal Nerd says:

        If Hewitt is a hoon with a hoon, is Geoff Hoon a Hoon with a hoon with a hoon?

      • 427
        Hugh Janus says:

        Not an expert I’m afraid, but I too dumped Patronising Pat when she started on the 1 o’clock. What a shame that the two authors of the letter are such prats.

        • 464
          Patty Hewitt says:

          Moi. patronising?
          I don’t quite see how you have come to that endearing conclusion.
          My middle name is Hope, and I’d hope that you could understand my condescension, you little person.
          Daddy, Sir Lenox Hewitt, taught me all I know.

  68. 169
    Professor Pedant says:

    Capitan Braun,’ I vill open the stopcocks. We vill all go down together. I was right all along. You vill all pay for your stupidity.’

    or should that be ‘I shall open the stopcocks…’

  69. 173
    Down with Brown! says:

    Is this the best his defence operation can do? Beckett, Geraldine Smith, Andy Burnham, John Mann, Tony Lloyd, Nick Robinson?

  70. 181
    Purpleline says:

    Rumour Brown off to see the Queen Rumour Rumour Car just left Downing Street

  71. 183
    Gordon Brown's Rapid Rebuttal Plug says:

    “The Age of Austerity, c’est moi!”

  72. 186
    Down with Brown! says:

    From the cabinet only Woodward and Burnham have come out to defend Brown.

  73. 193
    Hillbilly Chowdown says:

    Expect more sickening revelations of how Hoon has defrauded the taxpayer now that he has left the nest. He won’t be allowed to get away with this without someone kicking him back.

  74. 197
    Dave Cameron says:

    SECRET BALLOT SHOCK FOR DAVID CAMERON

    In a statement, Dave Cameron said the plan was “unconstitutional, not wanted and not needed”.

    “There is no provision for a secret ballot of MPs within theConservative Party constitution or rules, nor is there any provision whatsoever for a leadership election to be open only to MPs.

    “The Conservative Party, its members and affiliates are committed to making sure that we get through this recession fairly, that we secure the recovery and we as a party go on to present the choice at the next election between our plans for an age of aspiration or Labour’s plans for an age of austerity, a choice between securing growth or choking off the recovery.

    “Not only, therefore, is this idea unconstitutional, it is not wanted and not needed.”

  75. 198
    Billericay Dave says:

    Kaye Burley just claimed to be a journalist !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 220
      lol says:

      you’re kiddin’

      • 229
        Billericay Dave says:

        Nope she made a quip to some liebour dope “you know how us journalist are” could have fallen of the chair hearing that.

        • 336
          Get ready for BBC mega panic- it's snowing in London says:

          That was no “liebour dope ” that was Shaun Woodward – oops sorry you were right first time

        • 532
          Agent 99 says:

          I thought she was a wrestler after the way she had that other girl by the throat a few months ago.
          Bet she is a real scream in bed just at the point where she experiences some personal ‘climatic’ change

    • 233
      Bullingdon Davy says:

      I know – I had just the same feeling the first time Osborne claimed to be a financial expert.

    • 289
      TERRY FUCKWITT says:

      Leave her alone
      ! she could have my babies if she wants

    • 315
      At least Sky Journo's dress with style says:

      She looked very smart with her cap at a jaunty angle and long coat with imitation fur collar the snowflakes gently caressing her hair compared to BBC’s Carol Walker who looked like she’d just been dragged behind a City of Westminster gritting lorry before rushing to file her report “live”

  76. 202
    ALLAH FITZGERALD says:

    Kay Burley Sky
    All it would take is Darling or Straw To Take 60 seconds out of their day
    walk infront of a tv camera and say “I fully support the Prime minister”
    And it would be over
    Brown would stay ! But They Haven’t done that !

    • 225
      Eeyore says:

      Unfortunately the snow has knocked Sky out but then I never watch Burley anyhow, ghastly journo’person. Surely she should be rooting for Harriet.

      Wouldn’t it be good if it did turn out to be Grupenfuhrer Harperson in charge. Lordy, lordy what fun.

      This gloomy corner of the woods has never looked more beautiful, what with the snow and everything !

      • 421
        TaT's 'special' Gay Friend says:

        Will Gordon go back through the woods, through the trees and back through the wardrobe? HarHar Person is the wicked Witch. And I just love posh Lezzas who are also Fag Hags.

  77. 203
    The queen must sack HIM says:

    National Emergency is due any time now – Election due any time now-probably postponed for a least 1 year.

    Any way we are not interested in who is prime minister according to many Labour MPs who have been on the media.

  78. 218
    lol says:

    any news on the furniture and office equipment at No10 yet

  79. 219
    Anonymous says:

    FFS you can’t seriously believe that

  80. 222
    Sunonmars says:

    Mandelson just sent a text to Toenails, saying something, it was hardly a firm message of support, theres trouble afoot.

    • 247
      Down with Brown! says:

      I’m sure it’s not the first time Toenails has received a text from Mandy telling him what to say.

  81. 227
    TERRY FUCKWITT says:

    They are all carring daggers but not one has the bottle to use it !

  82. 232
    Moley says:

    The answer is staring everybody in the face; it was on Nick Robinson’s blog.

    Jim Hacker for PM.

    The only possible candidate that Labour could unite around.

    Will Balls quietly allow someone else to become leader?

    Will the party unite behind Balls. (all holding knives).

  83. 238
    Gordon Blownit says:

    what did Mandy say – the country must do whats best from Him?

  84. 239
    Billericay Dave says:

    balls on Sky talking educated Balls

    • 263
      TERRY FUCKWITT says:

      Ed you’ve got browns cum dribbling out yer gob !

      • 409
        rightwingatheistc*nt (prev cp) says:

        That would be even worse than having brown cum dribbling out yer gob !

    • 264
      mondeoman says:

      Just let him electioneer wont you….no money in the bank, so let’s use the media to get our message across, election now!

  85. 242
    TERRY FUCKWITT says:

    Jack Straw Look dont rock the boat or i could loose my seat my postal ballots are already counted and boxed i’ve won with my biggest majority in years
    gordon ‘s idea of postal ballots was the best move the party ever made !

    every one of them that comes on the box
    I’m getting on with the job
    it’s the right thing to do

    gordon had his best PMQ’s EVER
    Cameron you were fucking useless !

    • 252
      mondeoman says:

      Not the same PMQs I watched, Brown is a joke, looked awful.

    • 328
      Benny says:

      Brown looked deranged today at PMQs. But not as deranged and gibbering as he looked when he got back to Number 10 I’d warrant!

  86. 253
    Billericay Dave says:

    Thats it Balls used the ‘global’ word so its buisiness as usual and trying to spin brown won PMQ’s total bollocks

    • 269
      Sally's Tits says:

      He remembers John terry missing a penalty in the ‘snow of moscow’

      It was at the end of May you twat.

    • 323
      Brown's a Tosser says:

      Brown is a total joke and his PMQ perfomances only serve to show how shallow he really is. He never ever answers a question and only when the leaders debates come around will DC really go for the Hoon in a big way when it will have maximum impact.

  87. 256
    Anonymous says:

    Balls keeps on harping back to Gordon’s “brilliant PMQ’s today”. He hasn’t got anything more positive to say about Gordon.

    This man says he’s behind GB, but his body language looks as though he’s going to stab him in the back.

    We shall see.

    • 266
      Down with Brown! says:

      Brown was terrible on PMQs today. Lots of lines we heard before repeated again and again, ignoring the questions. He got very angry, it was quiet scarry. In the end, he started asking Cameron the questions, as if Cameron was PM already.

    • 270
      mondeoman says:

      Not one of them has the guts!

    • 287
      Gordons Blownit says:

      Can we check the footage to see if Balls was tat PMQa – or was he asleep or something?

      • 306
        shelling-out says:

        He might have been there but come to think of it, I don’t remember seeing him on the front bench.

        • 341
          MP watch says:

          He usually lurks behind the Speaker’s Chair

        • 342
          Go fer says:

          I have Daily Pols on Sky box recorded – give me a minute or two and i shall tell you.

          • Go fer says:

            No – Ball’s was not on the front bench and boy wonder Cooper was perched at the end of the bench.

          • barefootcontessa says:

            Noticed in PMQs that Darling didn’t behave like a nodding doll, like all the rest of them. Is that meaningful?

    • 357
      TERRY FUCKWITT says:

      You can’t stab him in the back if your in front of him !

  88. 258
    Down with Brown! says:

    Sadiq Khan and Will Straw are defending Gordon and attacking Hoon and Hewitt. What powerful friends Gordon has!

  89. 271
    Anonymous says:

    Perhaps not- after pulling the “Gaffer” title earlier in the week he has troubles of his own.

  90. 276
    Billericay Dave says:

    Just fuck off balls

  91. 278
    Henry Crun says:

    Its a Labour ploy – oust Gordon, call snap election. No one can get to the polls because of the bad weather and hey presto all those loverly postal votes come rolling in.

  92. 279
    Let's hear it for the bullies. says:

    Seriously, they’ll never oust Gordon. Everyone is terrified of him and he knows it.

  93. 280
    Anonymous says:

    Will Straw?

    Wonder what line he’s toeing.

    • 349
      TERRY FUCKWITT says:

      what line he’s snorting ?

    • 534
      barefootcontessa says:

      He supports his father Jack the Straw, and Jack the Straw wants to coast nicely into the Lords without ruffling any feathers.

  94. 282
    shelling-out says:

    Has anyone noticed how Global Warming has now become Climate Change?

    • 311
      Mr Plum says:

      The only thing i’ve noticed is where I once had notes now I only have change

    • 318
      Climate Hoax Expert says:

      YES!

    • 372
      McMong says "pass the Vaseline Mandy" says:

      It’s been climate change for a while, since they realised that calling it global warming was total bollocks. So the leftist drug taking morons all got together and decided that climate change might work better.

  95. 286
    Pensioner PHain says:

    I am available to serve my Queen and country as the new Prime Minister.

  96. 294
    Billericay Dave says:

    They are all spinning gormless at PMQs after a meeting in Downing street do I get the feeling they have been given orders to ignor the rebels and just suck up to gordo

  97. 297
    Mrs Pensioner PHain says:

    I support Pensioner PHain, the lazy bastard.

  98. 301
    Derek Draper says:

    Orgasm time.

  99. 309
    Damian McBride says:

    Give me a job. Anywhere.

  100. 317
    Bob Enweave says:

    Dave hasn’t got any punches to pull.

  101. 327
    Jimmy says:

    Do you think that the party chose Cameron knowing that they might need someone four years later who would make the PM look good? Devious.

    • 329
      Al says:

      Desperate stuff from wee Jimmy, the sites resident spotty little Labour twat.

    • 367

      jimmy, you might have some sway with the activists. Gordon has been plotting himself or plotted against for 15 years now. Can’t you tell him to sort it out once and for all?

  102. 343
    TERRY FUCKWITT says:

    McBust to the cabinet :
    Come on you shower of C*nts there must be one of you who will go outside and tell the press you support me ?
    anyone? anyone please ?

  103. 344
    Down with Brown! says:

    Ed Balls “Peter Mandelson put it very well: the cabinet is united behind Gordon Brown. We can win the argument at the ballot box. This week has been a very good week for the Labour goverment.”

    Ed Balls = the new Comic Ali. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comical_Ali

  104. 350
    please let this be it says:

    There’s no one in there. The house is almost empty. Where is everybody?

    • 394
      shelling-out says:

      They’ve all left for their country houses before the weather gets too bad.

      Simples.

  105. 352
    Johnny says says:

    “Back in 2008 after a few bruising PMQs when Gordon was looking wobbly, Team Cameron deliberately pulled their punches for fear of destabilising Gordon too early before an election.”

    Then CCHQ do not deserve our vote. Choosing to give Brown enough rope to hang himself is not what HM Opposition is supposed to do – holding the Government to account. They have not performed the job of opposition, preferring to behave cautiously as if they were the Government and the same applies to Labour – they have behaved like an opposition thinking they have the luxury of not being in Government so they can rattle off badly thought out policies like a Maxim machine gun.

    In the Westminster bubble Labour are still ‘radlical’ and Conservatives want to appear more responsible. Except those are polar opposites of what they should have been for the last decade.

    • 440

      Not quite the story. the narrative was about poor Gordon, hopeless at PMQ’s getting bullied by the Toffs.
      Team Cameron decided not to bash the fat kid so much as he was gaining sympathy for being so far out of his depth.
      Remember the shaking fist, the stuttering, the gripping of the lecturn to stop his arms waving about, the odd jaw drop in the middle of a world, inability to respond to jokes or criticism.

      He hasn’t come very far, but after McBride the victim label came a bit unstuck.

      • 565
        Johnny says says:

        Apart from the usual suspects like Toilets Maguire there was no narrative in the media and blogs are like echo chambers – the left playing up the toff, the right playing up the claw.

        The public haven’t seen a Conservative party doing it’s job in Opposition.

        • 572
          Anonymous says:

          Piss off twat
          changing the tune away from your failed party won’t achieve bugger all. You are as responsible as the Labour party you support

          Mong

      • 571
        Anonymous says:

        Johnny

        I have noticed the Labour shrills have changed their tune along the lines you are doing but it won’t work I’m afraid.

        Your parties finished

  106. 358
    McMong says "pass the Vaseline Mandy" says:

    Anyone who thinks the one eyed mong did well at PMQ’s is a tit. He dodged Cameron’s questions and went into another I saved the world rant. He was clearly on medication.

    There is no point asking McMong about his ‘plan’ as he hasn’t got one other than to continue to trash the English economy.

    Why didn’t Cameron point out that McMong lied on the Marr show about telling the USA about the latest towel head bomber and that his own spokesman had to row back on what he said yesteday?

    Sometimes I wonder if the Tories actually want to win this election. They need to get Mong boy angry, although Mongy seems to be doped up these days to control his temper.

  107. 362
    Jack Straw says:

    I’ll be in the cupboard under the stairs with dad, let me know when all this is over!

    • 540
      barefootcontessa says:

      “Oh I did have a laugh at PMQs when the gorgon lost his rag! I fairly rocked with mirth.” Says, Jack the Straw.

  108. 366
    Gordon says:

    “I am just going outside and may be some time”.

  109. 369
    Steve Expat says:

    Number 10 now saying that Broon is “Getting on with the job” – have we heard that before anywhere.

    Andy Burnham on Sky now defending the PM, the Cabinet are coming out of the woodwork slowly – but no word yet from Darling or Harperson…

  110. 375

    [...] of which means, as Guido Fawkes says, this is likely to be a dream scenario for the Tories – Brown is likely to stay as leader but has [...]

  111. 377
    Billericay Dave says:

    here we go again burnham going on about PMQ’s must be a central office order to try and spin brown shit performane into success “tell a lie often enough and people will believe it”

  112. 381
    Harman for king says:

    Come on Harriet/Darling, back the coup, give us some good news in all this snow

  113. 386
    Brown and out says:

    Well,if this attempt gets no Cabinet backers, it really will show how utterly stupid Hoon really is – surely he must have one cabinet member to voice an opinion against Brown.

    Otherwise,I shall just remember today as the time when Nick Robinson denigrated bloggers at midday and ate massive humble pie 30 minutes later.

    Bit like their technology reporter Rory Teflon Jones – he can’t even switch his computer on,he is so thick!

  114. 387
    resurgemus says:

    Where’s Phil Woollas in this time of crisis ?

  115. 388
    shelling-out says:

    Andy Burnham didn’t exactly say he didn’t want to be PM, did he.

    Dear me. I hope Gordon saw that interview.

  116. 392
    G.Brown says:

    This crisis requires the considered dulcet tones of Tony McShouty

  117. 395
    Sir Trev Skint MP says:

    Still no senior cabinet support for Jonah yet!

    ԒԓԒ let it snow let it snow let it snowooooo ԒԓԒ

  118. 396
    Margaret says:

    Agent Brown must be allowed to complete the mission uninterrupted by the PLP.

  119. 405
    They are Doomed DOOMED I tel Ye' says:

    15:58 Chief Whip Nick Brown says Hoon and Hewitt have “no significant support” in push for leadership ballot.

    15:33 Ed Balls dismisses the call for a secret ballot as a “damp squib” and insists the cabinet is backing Gordon Brown.

    Deluded to the very end

  120. 410
    Right Bastard says:

    Brown could be pulling the strings behind the ballot proposal, thus creating the best possible exit strategy for himself himself and at the same time washing his hands of complete Zanulab annihalation at the General Election.

    • 450
      Unsworth says:

      Unlikely. Far easier to just throw a sickie and resign on the grounds of ill health. He’s get the same payoffs, the press would get off his back, and there could even be some public sympathy from a few delusionals. That’d be the better option.

  121. 411
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    McMental is going to be the surprise guest on this seasons big brother
    A bunker filled with sexual deviants , liars and deluded twats

    Finally Prime minister Wacko Jocko has found his true home

  122. 414
    Glug glug says:

    Hug a Hoody
    Play with polar bears.
    A Cast iron referendum.
    A new quango a day.
    I’ll save the NHS and cut the deficit.
    We need a legally binding agreement for Climate Change.
    My wisteria needs cutting, you can pay.

    This is a man with a plan?

    I don’t think so.

    Nice bloke.

    Not a clue.

    The Titanic Mess of Labour may be sinking but don’t count on a Tory lifeboat saving you.

    • 417
      Sir Trev Skint MP says:

      U..KIPPER!!

    • 470
      rick says:

      I live in hope that CMG is playing a very subtle game, GG – but with each new initiative (all women short lists, rooftop windmills etc), I fear a lot of people here are going to be very disappointed in young Dave.

      • 536
        Archer Karcher says:

        “I live in hope that CMG is playing a very subtle game, GG”

        I would love it if CMD allowed a chink of light to escape to reasure the doubters, but as time has rolled on, there has been nothing and I doubt that there is anything.

        He is a social democrat at best, a “third way” corporatist Bliarite at worst. He will change nothing, it will be business as usual, as far a Dave is concerned.

        Personally I hope there is a small party break through, one to five UKIP MP`s possibly.

        Now that really would be the beginning of the end of democratically poisonous, consensus politics, a return to political honesty and the rebirth of proper representative democracy, not the shamocracy we have at present.

  123. 416
    The IMF is coming says:

    Says a lot about Brown’s authority when the outcome of the plot will be decided by the whims of the unelected Comical Mandy.

  124. 424
    Gordon survives says:

    All over then, another coup bites the dust, back to showing snow ploughs on the TV News

  125. 425
    lol says:

    4pm news

    SkyNews – 20 minutes plus with lead story on the crisis in the labour party

    BBC – 20 minutes with lead story on the weather with loads of people standing in snowy fields

    precisely what is the BBC for other than serving this fucking government?

    • 433
      Down with Brown! says:

      BBC news department = the Gordon Brown fan club.

    • 434
      Anonymous says:

      One of the Labour backbenchers actually called them out on this earlier (about rallying around the Prime Minister whenever a story like this broke) and the newsreader got very flustered.

    • 444
      Anonymous says:

      Those of us in Surrey with a foot of snow know the main story.

  126. 430
    Poo Stripes says:

    I thought Geoff Hoon was a made up name

    • 448
      Bullingdon Davy says:

      As did I. So nice to see a proper name – how are you Poo Stripes, my old fag?

  127. 432
    Down with Brown! says:

    Harman issues a statement at last……….

    That has nothing to do with Brown’s leaderhip.

    http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2010/01/harriet-breaks-coversort-of.html

  128. 435
    Pc Policehorse says:

    Has T o yn bee managed to have a dump yet?

    • 567
      Mr Slater's Parrot says:

      SKWAAA…. HHHHNNNNNNNGGGHHH!!! …AAWWKK!!! (squirt)

      • 574
        Mr Slators parrots cage bell says:

        FFS!!! Mr Slaters Parrot put the fucking ‘ ping’ on the end as I have sit sit around for ages waiting for it. Can’t sleep and I am thinking of turning to the bottle as well.

  129. 436
  130. 437
    Ed Balls' tow ball says:

    I cannot see how labour can attacke architect of the great Bolier scrappage scheme, re they fools?

  131. 443
    Geoff Hoon says:

    At this very special time of year may I remind you all that I am a wart encrusted cock socket.
    Geoff

    • 455
      Bullingdon Davy says:

      Nice of you to remind me. You will go very well with Grayling – my wart encrusted sock puppet. Osborne – Fetch!

    • 461
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

      and……..another one bites the dust !!

  132. 445
    Maladroit Labour Chump says:

    Sounds like all of my fellow Labour trolls have joined me here for some desperately-needed solace from Guido and his mates.

    • 458
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

      Another one bites the dust ……..

  133. 447
    Desperate Dan says:

    Friends, Britons, Countrymen……….

    lend me your headsets!
    I come to bury Gordo, not to raise him.
    The evil that men do is nothing compared to Tony & Gordo’s,
    The good is oft buried with the bad news,
    So let it be with Gordo. The Hoon, ugly Brute…..
    He told you Gordo was ambitious:
    If it were so, it was from grievous fantasy,
    And grievously hath Gordo failed to answer the questions …
    Here, under leave of Hewitt & Hoon .
    Come I to speak of Gordo’s demise

  134. 453
    Firkin L says:

    Guido blog = Morons = Kerching!

    • 456
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

      hic, hic…………you been drinking?

    • 479
      Maladroit Labour Chump says:

      Check that equation please. The variable ‘Labour’ should always preface the word morons.

      How about, Labour+Kerching=Peerage ?

    • 552
      oldfella says:

      is that Nick Brown

      wrong again!

  135. 457
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Brown has backing of Baroness Royall, who has ever heard of her, is she one of his appointees in the Lords.

    BBC News 24 trying to talk down significance of rebellion, but perhaps ole Jug Ears might decide to speak out.

    Hoon may be a four letter word, but he sees two choices for Labour, annhilation with no way back at the GE if Brown continues, or a heavy defeat with the possibility of a recovery if Brown is dumped now.

    Brown is still deluded enough to let the BBC know he is getting on with the job.

  136. 459
    Mr Plum says:

    Pay back £2.3billion or we’ll derail EU bid, Gordon Brown warns Iceland

    Now thats what I call a win win situation

  137. 467
  138. 472
    Down with Brown! says:

    Tony McNulty is defending Gordon. The secret ballot idea is “as fleeting as the snow on the ground”. Lots of snow here and in many places it has been settled for some time.

    • 497
      genghiz the kahn says:

      And Al Beeb report that more snow will be dumped on England tongiht.

    • 506
      Peter who though ?? says:

      Wierdly he said also that Peter cried Wolf but the wolf never came I thought the point of the story was that eventually the wolf did come but that nobody believed Peter when it did because he’d been crying Wolf too many times before. I wish these Labourities would choose their illustrative stories with more care

    • 547
      barefootcontessa says:

      Tony McNulty hasn’t got a leg to stand on.

  139. 473
    a Tory says:

    If the Labour Party were a horse, you’d shoot it.

  140. 482
    Dave"A barrel load of laughs" Cameron says:

    Any good jokes?

  141. 489
    Down with Brown! says:

    Totally O/T, but congratulations to Russell Brand.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8444263.stm

  142. 494
    Desperate Dan says:

    If Dave was Prime Minister we’d have blue skies and sunshine and unseasonally warm temperatures today.

  143. 496
    Moley says:

    The plot will fail, not because nobody wants Brown to go, but because there is no way that they can agree on a replacement.

    There is no obvious choice and the battle would be even more bloody and destructive than leaving Brown in place.

    (Although after the election, hindsight will probably prove that premise wrong).

    Question for Labour.

    Have things stopped getting worse yet?

    Do you wish that you had had the courage take the plunge earlier, when you had a better chance of success.?

  144. 498
    Engineer says:

    If Gordoom Broon was a real leader, he’d step down from the PLP leadership with a “back me or sack me” challenge. The indecisive plotters would have their bluff called, the uncertainty would be resolved before the election, and we would have a month or so of unrivalled entertainment.

    Gordoom Broon – one of the few people who could make John Major look like a great leader.

    Major still lost the ’97 election, badly, but his party wasn’t totally destroyed. If Broon staggers on, helped by the Opposition during PMQ’s, Labour could be really badly mauled at the coming GE, and possibly bankr*pted subsequently.

    Hoon and Hewitt are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t.

  145. 499
    Agent 99 says:

    “One of the most startling differences between a cat and a Lie is the fact that a cat only has nine lives”

    Mark Twain 1835-1910

  146. 500
    Lordy Mandy Fondlebum of Boy says:

    We , in the cabinet, are all standing united behind Gordon. I have never the cabinet so united, not a chink between them – so tight its impossible to squeeze past and knife the one-eyed bastard. He is such a Jonah that he fucks up attempted coups without trying.

  147. 503
    Clarence says:

    It would spectacularly cruel of the Parliamentary Labour Party to oust Brown.

    I have been waiting two and a half years to exact revenge on that monstrosity in Downing Street. He has dogged my every step for 13 long years.

    Thusly, I am deeply saddened at the thought of him leaving Number Ten without receiving the electoral kicking he so richly deserves.

    There is no politician, living or dead, I despise more. Well, Ed Balls comes very close.

    I loathe the Labour Party and his media cheerleaders for passing this piece of shit off as a statesman and foisting him upon us. He has brought ruin to the UK and he is an embarrassment to the office of Prime Minister.

    I wish no harm upon him. I just want to see Brown’s political career destroyed and what remains of his reputation scattered to the four winds.

    Not that I have an axe to grind or anything.

    • 519
      caesars wife says:

      Too left wing for me

    • 543
      labour is a cancer on society says:

      Broon is a perversion of what public service should be – working for the interests of his wretched Labour Party and not for the country. What is worse creating artificial divisions in society, setting people against one other for party political purposes.

      He is and remains someone who has sponged off the state in one form or another ALL HIS MISERABLE life. How anyone could vote for that shit is beyond comprehension. Alas we will will have to wait a little longer to see the back of The Cursed One.

      • 576
        Agent 99 says:

        What is worse creating artificial divisions in society, setting people against one other for party political purposes

        AGREED 100%

        Both him and Harman are guilty of this. Roll on the GE but for me a good electoral kicking is never enough really for all they have done to this country.

    • 544
      oldfella says:

      “I wish no harm upon him.”

      Oh, I do, lots………

    • 549
      A Pensioner says:

      Clarence, I was in agreement upto the “I wish no harm..” As for the axe bit. I have upgraded mine with a new heavy duty handle, and tungsten steel head.

  148. 507
    Sir George of Formby says:

    Turned out nice again!

  149. 508
    Steve Expat says:

    Looks like it’s all a damp squib now, Cabinet members lining up to support teh Dear Leader.

    If this is all over today, what the fuck did Hoon and Hewitt think they were doing, in plotting this with no real support behind them?

    CCHQ must be lauging their heads off!

    • 515
      Not a Tory says:

      Brown is still not quite in the clear as not ALL Cabinet Ministers declared for Gordon yet. Darling is the key being a big mate of Hoon.He has to declare his support tonight otherwise the speculation continues.Staying quiet isn’t enough

      The two danger times are 6pm and 10pm tonight. Get past them without another “Senior” figure breaking cover publicly to back secret ballot and Brown has ridden out the attempted putsch

      • 529
        Not a Tory(addendum) says:

        Darling just given his support following meeting at Downing Street with Brown over economy so it seems Brown has survived

    • 520
      Engineer says:

      CCHQ delighted. About 15 minutes so far – and still going – of “Labour internal squabbles” on the PM programme. You can’t buy news like that in the run up to a GE.

    • 550
      barefootcontessa says:

      Scaredies! They’re just frightened of getting a nokia lashing.

    • 555
      South of the M4 says:

      It has been a plot by Brown to show that he is still in command and his troops are behind him. Just PR keeping his ego up, and taking the headlines away from anyone else. Stage-managed. Why else would two has-beens, soon to retire with nothing personally to be gained from forcing Brown out break cover? Because this is their last, loyal act to their dear leader. As instructed by the bunker team. Just more spin from a bunch of cretins that should put as much energy into running the country.

      Nothing with this lot is ever as it appears.

  150. 509
    Stepney says:

    McNulty compares the longevity of the plot to fleeting nature of the melting snowflakes.

    It doesn’t take a fucking meteorologist to know that this snow aint going anywhere for at least 10 days.

    The incompetent pigging trougher should keep his foul mouth shut until he’s asked to plead at the Crown Court.

    • 580
      Hettie Harpics court of public opinion (not that we will take any notice of that opinion of course) says:

      Guilty!

  151. 514
    caesars wife says:

    I thought David Cameron had rather a good PMQs , he didnt quite land a final one on him , but Darling line was very creative. ruin had non answer , even deciding to ask David Questions to fend debt questions off .

    Plot looks good to me , he might as well call a general election , the losses are just gaining more potential .

    Andrew Neil had a go at met office for rubbish predictions was most amusing , have to do a montage to the Clash “should I stay or should go now , all you do is tease tease , oh when i get down on my kness, you paint it hot , you paint it black , oh do you want me off your back , oh come on and let me know should i say or should I go”

    Ed milliband , tories are crumbling at first sign of grape shot !! LOL increasing profile no doubt.

    being as large number of people were at home today timing may be better than we give credit for .

    Get ready to start with crying with laughter as we love the ruin campaign swings into action , and Donald who met him in 1990 thinks hes a great leader as he once opened a door for him or kncoked on his door during an election .

  152. 517
    Geoff Hoon says:

    I am here adoring fans

  153. 518
    Sir Trev Skint MP says:

    Looks like Manglesin has pulled out of Newsnight!!!

    • 535
      caesars wife says:

      Why was the ruin correct when he said “peter mandelson would be playing a far greater role in the comming weeks” or just more correct than he realised ??

      mandelson would not miss the chance to throw is hat in

    • 537
      Ed Balls says:

      Not the first time he’s pulled out….

  154. 522
    TERRY FUCKWITT says:

    ITS OVER That Was Fun Boys And Girls Wasn’t It ?
    Darling supports Brown end of
    Four hours of Hope Gone
    Ah well till the next time !

    Put the Champers back on ice !

    • 568
      Anonymous says:

      and what of that young Miliboy?

      • 598
        nell says:

        Well Ed militwit told the press that dave his brother agrees with him that gordon should stay.

        Apparently dave militwit hadn’t got the energy to speak for himself but then I think, at the time, he was in a meeting with mandy the kingmaker.

  155. 523
    The Iraqi Information Minister says:

    “We’re now trying to exhaust them, until our leadership decides the time and method to clean our territory of their desecration”

  156. 525

    February election.
    Obvious

  157. 541
    Gordon's Vapid Rebuttal Plug says:

    Where’s a heavy anal discharge from Polly Bumblebee when Labour want one!

  158. 545
    Lefties always thinking outside the box says:

    Look simpletons everyone will support Brown because he is the perfect fallguy, no one actually likes the twat but if we let him leave we cannot rewrite history and pin everyone on him like we did to Blair.

    This is about the survival of the party, not mere politicians.

    You cannot stop us, resistance is futile.

    The Labour Party Forever

  159. 546
    The Sleeper says:

    Did I hear Burley on Sky saying that Brown had dismissed the ‘coup’ with a flick of his wrist?

    Now..in my day,’one off the wrist’ meant something one did to pleasure oneself…

    So there we have it…Sky have confirmed that Brown’s a wanker.

    • 551
      Firkin L says:

      And you would know – twat.

      • 589
        BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

        hahahahahahaha…….. what a firkin toss pot, not quite the big boy u think you are !!!! ‘Another one bites the dust!!’

  160. 554
    barefootcontessa says:

    Older Milliband keeping his cards to his chest.

    • 587
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

      It is what they do not say that matters………

  161. 560
    Chief of the Weasels says:

    Jack Straw on ZanuLiebore’s PM says they are ‘Getting on with the job’ and no one wants to get rid of Gordon Brown.

    • 586
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

      No way…… Gordo is a God !! he saved the world!! He is The Great Leader !!!

  162. 562
    barefootcontessa says:

    Fraser and Maguire on radio 4, Maguire goes with the snow, and Fraser says it was sour grapes by Hoon and Hewitt, and where is the elder Milliband?

    • 585
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

      Maguire….. just an odious Mackem…… bunch of toss pots !!

  163. 570
    I Slam The Uk says:

    ALLLLLLLLLLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKBARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

    • 579
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

      alllllllllllllllllllllllllllah up yer arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrse hahahahahahahahahaha

  164. 577
    Thick As Thieves says:

    I suck cocks at clapham green

    • 582
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

      Not again…….. you know you keep getting arrested !!! what is the excuse this time tat??

    • 588
      Anonymous says:

      no! you suck green cocks with clap

  165. 578
    labour is a cancer on society says:

    This was posted on
    http://www.scotsman.com/politics/Geoff-Hoon-and-Patricia-Hewitt.5960271.jp
    by a blogger Sgian Achlais. I think it hilarious.

    “JOB VACANCY – LONDON LABOUR ARE SEEKING TO EMPLOY A
    ————
    Charismatic leader for the London Labour party. Must be skilful liar and megalomaniac who will put personal ambition before the needs of the country.

    Ideal candidates will have no real world experience in any form of tax generating business environment.

    A proven track record of over spending on budgets by several hundred billion while failing entirely to deliver manifesto and policy commitments will be an advantage.

    No candidates with the slightest affliction moral compass will be considered as the position requires ability to send under provisioned and under-funded troops into illegal war zones to fight unspecified battles with no strategy nor purpose expect grandstanding.

    Competitive salary, plus benefits & travel expenses, cleaning expenses, duck house expenses, renovate your home expenses, mistress homes expenses, sisters home expenses, husband p0rn expenses, basically any expenses plus capital gains tax exceptions and a guaranteed seat in the House of Lords plus a massive pension from both institutions and a book deal.

    Applications by letter to Lord Mandy Princess of Darkness enclosing CV and usual brown envelope.

    No Jocks or Socialists will be considered ever again.

    We are an equal opportunities employer looking for White Male Ex Public School boys.”

  166. 581

    Cameron was pathetic. You could see that he was giving his all, yet every question he got crushed. Methinks he ought to take some speed next time.

    • 584
      BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

      hmmmmmm you been snorting philosan again???

  167. 590
    BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

    Hmmmmm Good old Labour, odious New labour….. you are f*cked……….. hahahahahaha

  168. 591
    BillyBob ... reduce crime, national debt and carbon footprint, stop immigration? Every little helps! says:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6935011/Charities-struggle-to-cope-with-Gurkha-arrivals.html
    Joanna is not quite the clever slapper she thought she was……. 12,000 more homeless on their way……. simples !!!

  169. 595
    Blackadder2 says:

    If only they had acted earlier last December, it could have led to the closest thing to a re-run of Ceausescu’s fall (maybe not the execution on Christmas Day, but if they did, it would have meant that there was something compelling to watch on TV.)

    Gormless will have to be remembered as Adolf.

  170. 597
    nell says:

    Where’s mandy?

  171. 605

    [...] pointed out today, David Cameron tried to kick off the election early with his speech Monday: CCHQ strategists calculate that nobody will dare challenge Brown amid an election campaign. If there was any doubt that the Conservatives would want Brown to stay, Guido’s “Save [...]

  172. 606
    Not Now Cato says:

    Yes – I am sure that is the case – the Tories are biding their time and letting the nulabs fail to oust Gordon.

    It is frustrating, because we want blood now.

    But, sooner or later, the fight will begin and it will be a joy to behold.

    Let us hope the Tories do not mis-time it.

  173. 609
    Dave's cunning plan for a hung Parlaiment says:

    you’ve lost the plot mate

    only the most lickspittle and fawning Tory loyalist would be deranged enough to think Dave is being deliberately hopeless so he is only 9% ahead in the polls heading for a hung Parliament

    you’ve unmasked yourself as just another on message tame Tory blogger Fawkes

  174. 610

    [...] to fire questions on the budget deficit instead. There’s even some suggestion that Cameron deliberately went easy on Brown at PMQs to keep Brown leader of the Labour Party, because he thinks this will help a Conservative victory [...]

  175. 611
    Labour - a pimple on the arse of history says:

    If you think Dave is deliberately pulling his punches to ensure that Brown stays and the Labour meltdown is therefore even more complete, shouldn’t you be keeping quite about it?

  176. 614
    Michael says:

    Presumably Cameron can now feel free to tear Gordon to shreds next PMQ?

  177. 615
    John Cipher says:

    Dear Mr. Fawkes,

    Mr. Cameron will soon occupy a unique place in history. He’ll win an election with a tiny majority when competing against a Government who have as much chance of winning as Alan Johnson’s Botox Consultant. I’ll bet you a steak (Canadian) dinner it’s 25 seats. Why the continued lack of Vim from the Shadow Cabinet?

  178. 616
    James says:

    Some Labour MPs must be feeling a little fragile and vulnerable at the prospect of Brown staying until the election. Desperation must be setting in at the prospect of getting thrown off the gravy train and I am sure they believe it is still worth getting rid of him even at this late stage. Brown seems to have sold his soul to the devil in giving in to the demands of his ministers and is even less credible now as PM.




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