February 18th, 2010

The Bunker Draws the Battle Lines

The Prime Mentalist is set to announce the themes and slogans of the Labour campaign this Saturday in  the West Midlands. Get ready to hear and see these entirely mundane and predictable, vague and hollow lines a lot until polling day:

Guido can’t help but think February is a little early to be unveiling this much with a May polling date in mind…


486 Comments

  1. 1
    Call Me Dave says:

    OK time for another U Turn. I will protect even more public sevices than Gordon.

    • 7
      AC1 says:

      It’s the private sector economy that needs protecting from public sector leeches.

      • 14
        Gordon Crunches Pills says:

        They look like pale imitations of hollow Stalinist slogans.

        • 27
          A passing hollow Stalinist says:

          Oi! I resemble that remark!

          • Man from UNCLE says:

          • ShoutsAtTheTV says:

            Stalin, eh?… You see! You CAN please all the people, all of the time!

            Oh no, wait a minute…

          • Jimmy says:

            Funny how he refers to himself in the third person too.

          • I am the Heir to Blair(hear my soundbites roar!) says:

            they should have went for substance like..

            we’re all in this together

            it can’t go on like this

            vote blue go green

            if you think Dave and Hilton aren’t cooking up some hilarious Blairite soundbites for the election then you haven’t been paying attention

            they are noise
            no-one believes these pathetic slogans from Piggy MP’s be it Labour Conservative or Lib Dem
            they are ALL going to get hammered at the election for their expenses thievery

          • Gordon Brown says:

            We’re all fucked. I’m fucked. You’re fucked. The whole country is fucked. It’s the biggest cock-up ever. We’re all completely fucked.

          • Alistair Darling says:

            We’re all fucked. I’m fucked. You’re fucked. The whole economy is fucked. It’s the biggest cock-up ever. We’re all completely fucked.
            Thanks Gordon.

        • 69
          Whiffler says:

          A tractor for every hard-working family !.

          An evasion for every question !.

          A peerage for every labour donor !.

          A bullet for every scum-sucking Tory pig !.

          • Sarah 'no you may not pot the..' Brown says:

            What about a proper ‘Full British Breakfast’ for me at least twice a week? I must nip down to Kent again soon.

            He spends all his evenings locked in with that rocking horse, a few select male ‘friends’ and his minature farm of china animals.

            Tweet bloody tweet.

          • “Standing up for the many!”

            What the fuck does that even mean in practice? It could mean ANYTHING! EVERY political party claims to stand up for the many. What utter bullshit!

            Guido, how about a blog on the new tensions over the Falklands?

            My take on it?

            OK seeing as you asked,

            I would issue a short message to Buenos Aires stating simply that unlike Iraq, or Afghanistan, the Falkland Islands are British territory. Therefore we will defend it with everything we have at our disposal. We retain the right to use massive and disproportionate force.

            Put simply, we have a nuclear deterrent. The option before Argentina is simple is. Touch one inch of the Falklands and we will level Buenos Aires!!!

            Your choice!

            What else is a deterrent for if not to deter territorial aggression?

          • Englishman says:

            This death tax Broon is planning, will he use some of it to pay bonuses to murderes and terrorist to encourage their activites thereby boostin revenue?

            I would put nothing past the bastard

          • Animal says:

            UK Resistance – there’s no need to worry about Argentina. It’s a load of smoke to distract the people from domestic worries. Besides, just let them know HMS Trenchant and Tireless is in the area. Argentina has a bit of a phobia about submarines.

          • ShoutsAtTheTV says:

            @UK Resistance

            To be honest, “Standing up for the many” sounds a little bit like a lynch mob (of many people) setting about a few people (of the remainder) – sounds like the worst kind of everything!

            Playground politics -> Storming the Bastille -> Communist Revolution

            Good god! I hope not!

          • NorthernGit says:

            agree about the argies and the falklands…doesn’t matter if its 25000 people or 25 million the principle is the same…they are brit subjects so f off argentina unless you want more belgrano up your duster boxes

      • 45
        Steve Expat says:

        Well said AC1

        Get rid of the ‘many’ public servants doing nothing productive, leaving only the few who are actually necessary!

        Get rid of the ‘many’ new regulations and red tape strangling small businesses, don’t ‘protect the future jobs’ of these leeching imbiciles sucking the taxpaying public dry.

        • 123
          G Brown esq says:

          Ensuring economic ruin for generations to come
          Protecting those who torture and condoning torture
          Standing up for those who will vote Labour
          Protecting future jobs for our client state.

          Oh..and being a saggy faced lying piece of wet dog shit who, along with his mates, has fucked up th UK.

        • 132
          Anonymous says:

          Managers especially and concentrate on the people who actually do the job too many managers around

        • 306
          ShoutsAtTheTV says:

          I don’t really want a “Year Zero” kind of backlash; truth is, if we carry on as we have been, that’s where we’re going to end up…

          Stupid lefties should wake up to this BEFORE the train hits the buffers

          • Dave's Marxist Puppeteer says:

            Long live Comrade Cameron!!

            Once dave becomes the beloved leader and ensures a tory government forever by changing the law so that ballot papers can only have one options and that is David Cameron’s Conservatives, he will legislate to make worker soviets mandatory. Who knows best about running a hospital? The trolley pusher, of course! Comrade Cameron will make sure that every trolley pusher can run a hospital. Who knows best how to run a school? A dinner lady, of course! Comrade Cameron will make sure that every dinner lady can run a school.

            Long live Comrade Cameron!!

          • AskaSillyQuestion says:

            Lord Trombone : re “Massive Cock”

            Are you looking for one, are you offering one, or are you just describing your contribution to this thread?

        • 313
          ShoutsAtTheTV says:

          Hmmm… For every 1 person doing some productive work, we have 100 pen-pushing clipboard holders, ticking every tickbox…

          • Rufus Stone says:

            Yes, that is correct. My 99 colleagues & I have just ticked the appropriate box to confirm your statement.

          • udderly 'orrible says:

            I’m All Right Jack
            (1959 comedy now the manual for the Liebouring parteh)

    • 8
      GEORGIE PEORGIE says:

      We are all protecting public services together (until the IMF tells us not to).

      • 30
        Arse Biscuits says:

        Just before another raft of stories appear about what a deranged fat bag of shit Brown is.

    • 9
      Agent 99 says:

      You missed one guido

      Dont let the party opposite put the recovery at risk

      (that recovery is of course the 0.1% growth the 3.9% inflation increasing and the extra 30,000 on the dole this month alone)

    • 10
      Mitch says:

      bit late for March now?

      • 22
        Oliver Drew says:

        I’d have thought so, but the longer an election campaign, the more likely Gordon will be overshadowed and outmanouvered by the Tories.

        Announce an election on Saturday and set the date for mid-March would mean that there is less time for him to, pardon the phrasing, but f***-up.

        • 124
          lol says:

          it’s about time this farce of PMs chosing the election date was thrown out. There should be 4 yearly fixed term elections and hopefully (hmmmmm) Cameron will immediately bring in the change on election victory

        • 139
          Sir Everard Digby says:

          I prefer – announce the election on Sunday,have it on Thursday (let’s face it they have probably already filled in the postal votes for most of the Labour seats anyway)

          After all, the Labour Campaign fund will be spent by Monday breakfast time -how far can 55p and two Argos vouchers go? Much better than listening to McDoom’s drivel for weeks.

        • 206
          Moley says:

          Labour has no money.

          A short sharp campaign will be cheaper, and the economic climate is worsening, not improving.

          Labour is keen to build on its recent successess and keep the momentum going in the same direction.

          Successes like the “absolutely brilliant” comments of David Wright and those fantastic statistics.

          Have Pravda been put on emergency footing and all the announcers been given their orders?

          • Shw him the EXIT door says:

            Talking of Pravda, could not ray Gosling put someone out of our misery?

          • kings Heath Lad says:

            Nu lab election campaign slogan should read “Buy now, pay later” or ” Just put it on my slate”

          • Rufus Stone says:

            “Labour is keen to build on its recent successes…” Pray Moley, what are these?

          • Gordoom cooks the books says:

            No bottle thats Milliband to you and me was on the Jezza Vine show today to talk about Mossad using Uk passports yawn he told us the do nothing Tories plan to cut inheritance tax for the 2000 richest people in Uk I never new this you`d think Liebour would have mentioned this before come Liebour up your game

    • 15
      Down with Brown! says:

      The hoons have screwed up up the economy of this country for many years to come and deserve to be punished by the tax payers as soon as possible. Roll on the Great Day of Reckoning!

      • 32
        Sid Bonkers says:

        It may be sooner than you think. Guido sent the following by Twitter on Monday:

        “CCHQ has emailed all candidates telling them it is important to keep their Blackberries on all weekend. Quote “ON DUTY” all the time mode. ”

        Ties in with a possible announcement. Although, knowing Gordo, he’ll fuck it up as usual and delay it ’til June.

      • 477
        udderly 'orrible says:

        In Greece the crooked politicos will face a trial and hopefully be banged up, for ruining the economy. That’s how democracy should work and as its a Greek word they should know.

    • 49
      Mary Hinge says:

      They forgot “Things can only get better”.
      Well, they could hardly get worse, could they? Oh, wait a minute…

    • 136
      Labour Rapid Rebuttal Unit says:

      You suck heterosexual Penis.

    • 250
      Anonymouse says:

      “Protect future jobs” Is he really going to claim that, who’s his scriptwriter? Protect his future job he means.

    • 255
      Up sh1t creek says:

      The BBC news presenter and Laura Kuenssberg nearly wet themselves revealing this “leak” (fed story).

    • 447
      Anonymous says:

      The fuckin’ fucker’s fuckin’ fucked.

    • 461
      DNTT says:

      Ensuring the economic recovery.
      Of MPs and quangocrats incomes.

      Protecting Frontline Public Services.
      By bribing those most likely to vote Labour with over-inflated payrises.

      Standing up for the many.
      That are dumb enough to keep working to pay taxes to keep us piggies in caviar and champagne.

      Protecting Future Jobs
      Of my greedy fucking colleagues and I.

  2. 2
    Samee says:

    You missed one Guido:

    Vote early, vote often!

  3. 3
    Agent 99 says:

    All we need is the Russians at the gate and job done

    • 176
      Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

      I thought that they had bought the gate already, several footy clubs, etc etc.

      Maybe they will buy Dover, then they will have there own plot to land the toops on.

  4. 4
    • 147
      On the Dole says:

      Hi Lembit.

      You have been keeping an awfully low profile lately.

      Who are knocking off at the minute?

      Have you got a safe seat, a dolly-bird to live off, will you be joining us on the Rock’N'Roll after the next GE or have you got a bit-part in a porn movie?

  5. 5
    Lady R says:

    I’m sure it’ll be a May election…but if he starts now they may have a chance of coming up* with something semi clever by the time it is election time…

    *In other words stealing the Tory line!!

    • 18
      Agent 99 says:

      March 25th. No budget day announcement yet because he knows he dare not have on. He would be torn to shreds. he’s got the weekend to think about it and then its game on.

      Except we are though talking about the Scottish fuckwit here so no doubt he will make a decision after dithering which will be the worse one possible and wait to the very last second before doing so.

      There will be nail scratch marks on the pavement outside no 10 after the hoon has been dragged away

    • 60

      Alex at Labourlist says this:

      “I’m told it won’t be the calling of an election. It was my first question, too.”

      http://www.labourlist.org/recovery-services-jobs-standing-up-for-the-many

      • 68
        Sunonmars says:

        LOl, like they would tell him, he’d blab it to anyone, if they were going for surprise, they’d hardly tell him would they.

      • 88
        Dan Brusca says:

        Constitutionally, the PM can’t announce an election date until he’s been granted a dissolution by the Queen, so technically Alex is correct, but it still doesn’t mean Brown won’t take that famous trip down the Mall next week.

        • 109
          We don't know what we don't know etc says:

          He could have course already got it from HMQ at his usual Tuesday audience this week.You’d expect only a few close associates Mandelson,Darling,Balls etc to be in the know until weekend announcement and certainly NOT Labour List.So this can be discounted

          • Dan Brusca says:

            I’m sure he’s informally discussed the election in general terms with the Queen, but he definitely won’t have sought the dissolution.

          • NorthernGit says:

            would be suprised if he has discussed any such thing with her maj…shes not interested in conjecture purely in the formal request he has to make.

        • 110

          Amusingly Gordon and his gang will be launching this in Coventry.

          Are the spin doctors forgetting the phrase “sent to Coventry” – meaning to be ignored and ostracised – hardly the ideal city for an election launch is it??!!

          • Luft Waffer says:

            Will it also mean that they will be bombed?

          • Sting's Beard says:

            No you cant buy any quality gear in coventry they will be forced to take drink instead

          • giant bee says:

            that, and the fact that it’s a craphole of monumental proportions

            actually wait a minute.. no, it’s the perfect place for ZNL to drop the kids off at the pool, I mean start their erection campaign, I mean announce their Slogans of Infinite Wisdom, I mean wallow around in their own crapulence

            wibble wibble

    • 335
      ShoutsAtTheTV says:

      Do you think Gordo’s trying to F*cK the result by holding the election when there’s snow on the ground?..

      Only people who’ll be able to get out and vote are Political Students and Benefit Claimants?… Hmmm, well, he is desperate

      • 440
        Gordoom cooks the books says:

        no worries there mate I would crawl through a mile of shit to vote these fuckers out

    • 436
      Dave's Marxist Puppeteer says:

      “In other words stealing the Tory line!!”

      Damn, we got ours from him! Can we timeshare?

  6. 6
    Down with Brown! says:

    Is the timing to do with the Rawnsley book or the massive January defict figures or being 11 points down in the public polls and probably more in the private ones?

    • 11
      Sid Bonkers says:

      More likely to be to avoid having to have a budget before the elction.

      • 34
        Anonymouse says:

        The announcement rather than the pre-announcement is on Saturday. My suspicion is that he will dissolve parliament as soon as it comes back from the holidays. 1st March onwards, election some time in April.
        0.1 growth is the best news he’s going to get.

        Unemployment up,
        Inflation up
        Deficit up
        Trade gap up
        What a fuck up.

        Sterling down.
        Brown down and out.

        • 183
          Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

          Sorry, but I am so glad that I do not live in Great Britney.

          From here I can larf!

        • 321
          Sting's Beard says:

          He might do what he did with the Lisbon treaty that is sign it in private so no one can see him sign it. I somehow half expect the smug git to emerge from 10 Downing street grinning from ear to ear and announce that he’s been lected Prime Mentalist. What you didn’t notice an election? A bit far fetched but remember this man is Scum!!

    • 254
      Ray Quisling says:

      Perhaps someone has located the Downing Street revolver and has given Brown the chance to use the one bullet remaining.

  7. 13
    Anonymous says:

    It’s the right thing to do!

  8. 16
    Down with Brown! says:

    Ensuring the Economic Recovery?

    What recovery we are still in recession!

    • 95
      Steve Expat says:

      Technically wrong.

      £200bn £200,000,000,000 – £3,200 each) of printed money went into ensuring growth of £350m (0.1%, subject to change) in Q4 ’09

      Typical of this government, not caring how much it spends on ensuring the soundbites.

      Otherwise you’re spot on, recession still very much in full swing, which is why the election will have to be before April 23rd, when the Q1 ’10 figures are released.

      Smart money surely now on the election being called at the weekend, for 25th March or 8th April??

    • 106
      Golden Days says:

      It’s a cunningly chosen word. If the next set of figures show no recovery, he can claim that his policies only will ENSURE there is one; if there is a slight recovery, only he can keep it safe, make it sure.
      A good test of the meaninglessness of a politician’s declarations is to imagine the opposite. Is there any point in saying MAKING RECOVERY UNCERTAIN or DESTROYING FRONTLINE JOBS or STANDING UP FOR THE FEW? No, it would clearly not be a policy. Hence the utter fatuity of these slogans.

    • 253
      Keith Briffa, Michael Mann, James Hansen and Phil Jones says:

      We forecast 21% growth this year, following last year’s record growth of 15%.

  9. 17
    I will not use me dead children as props I tell you!!!!...sob......blubber......quiver......emote says:

    The maladroIt, lying, bullying, hate filled, bullying, smearing, grudge bearing, foul mouthed, bullying, gurning, spendaholic Scotch loony forgot to mention:

    Allowing Israeli terrorists to shit on England.

    Allowing American terrorists to shit on England, and kill British soldiers.

    Standing up to the IMF, when they take over.

    Ensuring British jobs for Romanian gypsies.

    Enshrining the professional benefit scrounger as the modern hero of Socialism

    • 31
      Joey Joe Joe says:

      You also left out:

      Hiring sleazy fat c/unt Damien McBride to plan an utterly disgraceful smear campaign from the bowels of No10. That’s the true face of New Labour and Gormless Brown.

    • 129
      Ivor Longtodger says:

      Shhh, you mustn’t mention the chosen ones here or Guido won’t be permitted to operate and the parties won’t get stacks of bribes from the zionistas.
      Israelis can only ever be called “victims”. The poor blighters are forced to kill civilians and blow up innocents to combat evil terrorists of doom trying to take back land they don’t deserve.

      • 146
        Agent 461 says:

        Don’t holiday in Dubai….

        • 201
          Green shoots are just the tip of an iceberg says:

          Don’t buy anything from the God given land, anything at all, ever!

          • red sea pedestrian says:

            Errr, the software in your computer has code from where, exactly?

            Gaza?

            I love Israeli products – great innovation & value.

            You would be surprised – I think you really would.

            And should we stop buying British products because of illegal action in Kosovo & Iraq?

            Gibralter anyone?

          • I tried that Gazan software, but the tunneling protocol was a bit flaky and prone to interruption.

            The West Bank version was little better – it kept having its resources stolen by the settler virus that somehow got on the system.

            The Dubai variant, on the other hand, was vulnerable to stolen SSL certificates, and it was bloody murder to uninstall.

            As a result, I stick to Linux.

        • 427
          Matt Lowe says:

          I met that woman in a bar in Amsterdam not two weeks ago.

          I was v pissed. Now I’m worried I’m GAY !!

          Those people should be made wear a sign of some kind as a warning.
          Then we can make up our minds with all the available information.

          Then you don’t end up having the piss taken out of you for the rest of your fucking life, as I will.

          (Every national newspaper. Even here in Newcastle) One of the lads was bound to see it. What did I do to deserve this ????????

    • 376
      thick as pigshit says:

      hello again tat
      hows the blog?

  10. 19
    Anonymous says:

    Standing Up For The Many – But Old People and Pregnant Women Will Have Seats

  11. 20

    Let me see if I’ve got this right….

    Delaying recovery from a recession he helped to create, expanding an already bloated public sector, stifling enterprise and individual responsibility, inventing unsustainable jobs, hamstringing industry with an ever-growing tax and regulatory burden, watching us more closely than ever….

    How am I dong so far?

    • 36
      Sid Bonkers says:

      Spot on, Spartacus.

    • 37
      Quality Squegeeing says:

      Not bad! but these are the only positive bits from his policies….

    • 101
      Cavanah says:

      Absolutely right Spartacus – And still between 25 &30% of voters polled say they will vote for Gordon Gutless & his “team” – surely, even the public service payroll vote cannot be naive enough to believe that keeping this crew in government or allowing a hung parliament will save their jobs.

      • 117
        Golden Days says:

        There is a core support that will not be shifted:
        1) the ideologically left-wing
        2) those with no minds but who have always voted Labour
        3) those who rely on benefits as a way of life and feel more secure under Labour
        4) the large number of recently appointed public sector workers who feel grateful to their socialist employers
        5) most recent immigrants who feel Labour is a soft touch
        6) luvvies and meedja types who feel obliged to touchy-feely
        7) I suspect most young people who have no understanding of the world and precious little knowledge
        This is a pretty solid wodge of immoveables, to which Gordo must add average blokes who can be frightened by NASTY TORY threats, which he will move heaven and earth to do in the next few weeks.

        • 227
          lets all emigrate says:

          Speaking as one of those economically inactive at present, you are wrong to suggest that benefit claimants are overwhelmingly behind Brown and his bunch of third rate shysters. Speaking to people when I go to sign on, and the staff (speaking sotto voce as it were), they mostly loathe Brown and blame him for our current plight. Dont forget that many, like me, were replaced at work by cheaper east Europeans, who arrived as a direct result of the Blair-Brown adolescent desire to govern for the whole of suffering humanity and not just the British electorate. Also how are many unemployed Brits ,many older than me, men in their forties and fifties expected to get jobs in future with a seemingly endless supply of younger and younger, desperate Slavs.

          • Bumper sticker says:

            Totally reliant on benefits after MS diagnosis and messy divorce, regular contact with public sector workers, never met a Brown fan.

            If it’s Brown flush it down!

          • Golden Days says:

            I’m thinking more of those who are happy to live on benefits and who would shudder at the thought of work.
            Let’s face it, there are a lot of Labour voters to be out there- some 30%- and I’m trying to think who they might be.

          • Roger Daley says:

            My body is fucked courtesy of the NHS and I’m on IB –

            I wouldn’t vote Labour in a fit.

      • 179

        I’ve got a lot of faults but being wrong isn’t one of them.

      • 195
        Gordons Blown our wealth says:

        It is a mark of the failure of Nulabs education policies that, that number of people will still vote for Gorfoon

    • 361
      Granny smith says:

      Dont forget mass imigration.

  12. 21
    Joey Joe Joe says:

    Overheard at No10

    “Prime Minister, stop throwing the secretary out of her chair. She could sue us. I understand you’re upset that we can’t cancel this election like we did in 2007 but that would be illegal…Yes, I know we’re always doing illegal things like your private slush fund, but people would notice if we cancel the election…Prime Minister, please don’t throw the fax machine at the secretary…Yes, I know you hate women but even so, she could sue us…Prime Minister, please don’t throw the printer at me. I’m just trying to be of help.”

  13. 23
    Anonymous says:

    I look forward to the misappropriation of all of these slogans, by mylabourposter.

  14. 26
    Anonymous says:

    “Protecting future jobs”

    That’s an admission that ther are F-all current jobs to protect outside Westminister.

  15. 28
    Public Opinion says:

    Oh – and by the way – I feckingwell hate both Brown & NuLibore

  16. 29
    It's the right thing to do. says:

    An election? Well that will be a novel experience for Gordon.

    If only the good people of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath would do the r4ight thing and vote for anyone but Gordon.

    • 38
      Public Opinion says:

      Aaaaahhhh ! Plan B

      • 130
        Lord G says:

        Same tactic please for that blinky tosspot Balls and his unbelievably fugly ‘wife’…

        • 165
          Sexpot Hazel says:

          But not me. I’m your favourite chirpy little red-head, and I know how much you’ve all been missing my rictus smile on the tv over the last few months, but if there are enough numpties in Salford, then I” be back to chirrup at you.

          • Lord G says:

            Spot on – I love a woman who speaks her mind and doesn’t just submit to the party line / avoid the question / have no fucking clue what she’s talking about but is so damned deluded she thinks she is convincing…. You rock!

    • 301
      Anonymouse says:

      Anti Brown candidate in K&C?

  17. 35
    Sam says:

    “Doing the right thing for hard-working families, going forward”

    What vile Huhnes these Nu Liebore bastards are. The poor have been raped and pillaged into fucking wretchedness (to give to the rich), under the boot of the left-Nazi loon, Brown.

    Fucking Huhnes.

  18. 38
    Prodicus says:

    If the GE is as far off as May, why has the Sun started it pre-election poll-a-day *today*? It’s February FFS. What does Murdoch know that we don’t?

  19. 40

    They are missing some words aren’t they?

    Ensuring the economic recovery fails

    Protecting frontline services like urgent biscuit deliveries

    Standing up for the many Labour MP’s and bugger everyone else

    Protecing future jobs in Rwanda

    • 458
      Roger Daley says:

      Protecting frontline public services :

      Should read – Protecting frontline armed services. Try that for size Mr Brown

  20. 41
    Joey Joe Joe says:

    Anyone notice how awkward Sarah Beard looked when Brown talked about their “romance” and “proposal” on the Piers Morgan interview? That didn’t look like the face of a loving wife listening to her beloved reminisce about their genuine, windswept romance on a beach. And Herr Campbell really should have prepped Gordon better. “I said to her ‘I’d like to get married soon, I think we should get married soon, please’ and thankfully she said yes.” Dreadful. The emotionless expression on her face said it all.

    • 105
      We're all in the dark here says:

      You’d think she’d have had some better offers ?

      • 115
        Boys From County Hell says:

        Would You :?

        • 159
          We're all in the dark here says:

          I was being rhetorical

          • gildedtumbril says:

            Hey! There’s too many of them long words on this blog. They confuse me and other semi-literates.I do not trust Yankee spell-checkers or dictionaries.
            Oh, and in passing…One wonders how much of our money has been promised to the beard as settlement consequent upon ‘ irreconcilable differences’ rearing their ugly heads.
            My estimate is £10 million.
            I hate the cretin a thousand times more than I hated Hitler.

    • 218
      Piers Morgan says:

      I wish to be known as ‘Albert’ from now on, owing to being named in certain areas as ‘Pierced Organ’, pretty street and up with the kids eh?

    • 446
      Bill O'Bong says:

      She was thinking of her bit on the side to come shortly after the interview was recorded. He’s a junior treasury minister and he’s providing certain ‘services’ McDoom can’t, like a damn good shagging. Shagging away from home – it’s the right thing to do.

      • 451
        I Hate Tesco says:

        There was another rumour doing the rounds at Numero Dix recently – that the one-eyed Scottish idiot was once a bit of a toilet trader, like a junior version of the Lord of the Slime. Since Cyclops has all the charisma of a lump of melted plastic coated in dog shit, it has the ring of untruth about it. The Sarah bit on the side is much more compelling, however. It came from a staffer currently not a million miles from El Gordo himself…………I have yet to see a word about this in the gutter press. Come on, Murdoch, lad.

    • 460
      Roger Daley says:

      And SB twitters him as “Her DH” ( Darling husband) more like Dick Head

  21. 42
    Red Bacon says:

    O/T…..the holed climate change ship lists to one side…..”out of the way please, raty and scientists first….rats and scientists first….”

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7032083.ece

  22. 43
    obangobang says:

    Those Labour pledges unspun:

    Ensuring the Labour Party Recovery
    Protecting Frontline Public Servants
    Standing up for the Many MPs
    Protecting My Job

  23. 46
    Elephant never forgets says:

    the Jonah effect for the whole of the West Midlands after that then no doubt

    • 55
      B Rummie says:

      I wondered whoi it were sneowing ere in Ehdinton. I cor believe it!

      • 91
        Lanchester Daily News says:

        It’s snowin’ in Coventry n’all.

        It started just after this announcement of McBust’s visit to the area this weekend(spooky or what ?)

  24. 47
    Gordon says:

    Dear Ed,

    Have received your speech ideas. My responses below in brackets – Rgds, Gordon.

    “Never before has our country been as united as it is today. The victories of the bourgeois-democratic revolution and of the socialist revolution and our achievements in socialist construction have rapidly changed the face of the old China (UK surely ?). A still brighter future lies ahead for our motherland. The days of national disunity and chaos which the people detested are gone, never to return. Led by the working class and the Communist Party, (don’t you mean Labour party?), our 600 million people, (surely 70 million?), united as one, are engaged in the great task of building socialism. The unification of our country, the unity of our people and the unity of our various nationalities — these are the basic guarantees for the sure triumph of our cause. However, this does not mean that contradictions no longer exist in our society. We are confronted with two types of social contradictions — those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people. The two are totally different in nature.

    At the present stage, the period of building socialism, the classes, strata and social groups which favour, support and work for the cause of socialist construction all come within the category of the people (Quangocrats, Public Sector managers, Benefit fodder, Islington luvvies, Scots, BBC, Westminster workshy hangers-on), while the social forces and groups which resist the socialist revolution and are hostile to or sabotage socialist construction are all enemies of the people. (Everyone else but particularly running dog cameron).

    • 171
      Ed says:

      Sorry Gordon,
      Can’t read your writing.

      • 173
        Gordon says:

        That’s because I had to wipe the snot dripping from my nose across the paper rather than on my sleeve. Peter is still calling me SilverSleeves though.

  25. 50
    Sir William Waad says:

    You can perm these:

    “Protecting the Economic Recovery”
    “Standing up for Frontline Public Services”
    “Protecting the Many”
    “Ensuring Future Jobs”

    -OR-

    “Ensuring we take all the light bulbs with us when we leave No. 10″
    “Standing up for the Nathional Anthem (can I get out of this)?”
    “Protecting my pension”

  26. 52
    Joey Joe Joe says:

    This is what will happen when Brown tries to talk to Israeli Prime Minister/Terrorist Netanyahu:

    “Prime Minister, I’m very unhappy that your secret service Mossad may have used fake British passports in their operation to assassinate a Hamas leader.”

    “No, what you’re going to do is shut up and do as you’re told.”

    “Yes, Prime Minister. It was nice to meet you.”

    • 122
      I am Sick says:

      If you do not think there was outright collusion between British security forces and Mossad then you are a fool. The taking out of the Hamas scumbag was a joint operation. Only a complete imbecile would imagine otherwise.

      • 286
        Complete Imbecile says:

        Why would Mossad bother to involve UK? UK not held in the highest esteem

        • 435
          Tattooed_Arry says:

          The King David Hotel Bombing, (91 people killed and 46 injured) organised by Menachim Begin – later President Of Israel, shows the esteem in which the Israelis hold the British.
          I would not want to be a British or Irish passport-holder travelling in a Muslim country, do you really think the average street-arab will believe that the assassins weren’t legitimate passport-holders.
          As usual the Israelis do what they want and leave the West in the Sh#t.

      • 292
        Mine d'Boggles says:

        Then both sides must be as thick as pigshit to use passport photos wearing glasses. So obvious.

      • 319
        Anyone for tennis? says:

        I WAS going to join my local tennis club this year,but after I saw what such sportspeople do in Dubai,I my just stay at home and watch the “Gordon Brown Fraud Trials” on Sky this summer.

  27. 53
    Margaret "Sellout" Beckett says:

    Please vote Labour. Being an MP is all I have and I love getting my hanging baskets on expenses.

  28. 56
    Anonymous says:

    If you want to know when the dissolution will be find out when the rozzers shift patterns will change, they should be told tomorrow if it’s Wednesday morning.

    Down to the bookies to put a pony on the 25th March

  29. 57
    Tory Girl says:

    UFOs on BBC

    talking about sightings in Highbury Fields – North London

    “Flashing red and blue lights”

    Sounds like she’s just left the Hen & Chickens !!

  30. 59
    Tony B Liar says:

    What is important is.

    • 64
      Labour school-leaver says:

      We don’t need no edukayshun.

      • 82
        Tony B Liar says:

        It’s education education education. We’ll have to send all those who don’t vote Labour to our newly built NEW LABOUR RE-EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATION CAMP, where we’ll re-educate them till they learn to vote New Labour always and to have a framed poster of myself and Cherie in their homes. Our first student is the elderly Holocaust survivor who was thrown out of our conference for heckling. He’s been a tough nut to crack but we’ll get there. Herr Campbell is going to have some private sessions with him. He’s the best at forced re-education.

  31. 62
    Gordon's Put Us In The Brown says:

    All voters should watch this:

  32. 63
    Clarence says:

    Ensuring the economic recovery?

    Has Brown seen the January numbers?

  33. 65
    BORDON GROWN says:

    I SAVED THE WORLD

  34. 66
    Maladroit Labour Chump says:

    How about
    ‘No booms, no busts’,
    ‘Education, Eddyercayshun, edgeryercashun’,
    ‘Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime’
    ‘British jobs for British workers’ ??

    It’s fooled most people for all these years ???

  35. 70
    Ronnie McDonnie says:

    Day after the election:

    “Mr Brown, you have to leave Downing Street now. You’re no longer prime miniser…Mr Brown, please don’t beat up your former secretary…I can’t call your Prime Minister, Mr Brown, because you’re not Prime Minister anymore…Mr Brown, you have to leave Downing Street or the police will have to forcibly eject you…What do you mean you want a recount? The Tories have a huge majority. It wasn’t a close call…Mr Brown, if you don’t leave, I’ll have to call the police…Mr Brown, please put down that gun…Mr Brown, why are you putting the gun in your mouth?”

    • 73
      Great British Public says:

      OH, YES PLEASE !!

    • 144
      anonymous says:

      yes please

    • 245
      cant hunter says:

      Can you imagine what it’s like to have sex with Cyclops, to be in Sarah’s position occasionally ? Now I know she’s no raving beauty, but to have those bitten dirty fingernails poring all over one’s intimate parts, to see his permanently saturnine face leering all over you, to feel that seemingly never decently shaved chin rubbing against ones cheeks, to smell his no doubt bitter stinking breath.To feel his overweight and over hairy chest touching….oh God no ’tis to horrible, the weariest and most loathsome form of life is Sarah’s every Saturday night.

  36. 71
    Brown's Buggered Britain says:

    Why doesn’t he try that one about him creating ”The longest period of sustained growth since the Industrial Revolution”

    He’ll have them in stitches!

  37. 74
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    “25 years old to be the new School Leaving Age”

    “Cancer to be diagnosed and treated within 45 minutes”

    “Local Nuclear Power Stations offering free power to every ethnic community”

    “Government Jobs for all school leavers”

    “CCTV in every home”

    “All ranks in the three Armed Services to be merged with the Police Community Safety Officer class”

    • 93
      Gordon's Brown says:

      You left out:

      Free porno movies to anyone married to Jacqui Smith
      Free hanging baskets to anyone called Margaret Beckett
      An increased personal allowance to Sarah McCauley for having to be Gordon Brown’s professional beard

      • 169
        Anonymous says:

        All to be financed out of council tax.

      • 328
        Remote Controller says:

        But surely that’s the whole thing about Smith’s husband – he is so stupid that he pays to watch utter crap on Sky porn,when he just has to go on the internet and get it free (hamster etc etc).

        They can’t even get porn without “screwing” it up!

    • 217
      Stan Butler says:

      And no newspaper will ever make nasty comments about gay/bi/trans/lezzies/ethnics.

  38. 75
    Anonymous says:

    “Protecting future jobs” ?

    What the fuck is that supposed to mean? It implies that there’ll be no real jobs because the real economy is bankrupt, and the only way to have a job will be to be employed by the state who’ll guarantee your position (or benefits) no matter what.

    Looks like it’s a “core vote” strategy then.

    They’re ignoring real people and just trying to shore up their core vote so that they don’t dip below 20%. They’ll stop at nothing to keep their core vote; they’ll bankrupt the country and murder/disappear everyone who earns over 40k to keep that.

    • 119
      Clarence says:

      “Protecting Future Jobs.”

      Nope. Dunno what means either.

      Unless Labour are promising to ensure Steve Jobs’ children and grandchildren wear condoms? That’s hardly a vote-winner, though.

      • 339
        ShoutsAtTheTV says:

        I think it’s a euphemism for “creating work”, which is another euphemism for “inefficiency.”

        Funny, that.

        • 441
          Bob's Hope says:

          It is the same as:
          Setting a place at table for the Mardi…..

          Or ordering an extra fish each Firday……

          Or donning armour and standing on the white cliffs of Dover.

          ( It’s all about hope. Waiting for the second coming. ) Even Marxists, need faith in a second coming.
          Everything they have done so far is a fuck-up.
          They now only have faith. A miracle will happen.
          Karl will return.
          He will right every wrong.
          Explain every lie, every death.
          All will be put right.

          I on the other hand still keep my father’s armour ready. I may not fit it. But one day one of us will. Then we will stand : With the once and future King.

    • 156
      Sir Everard Digby. says:

      It’s Labour speak -they are always at it. Talk about the future and you cannot be contradicted. and it avoid talking about now or the past which is usually an expensive disaster. Notice he did not say in which EU state this protection would be given -not here on previous form.

      Might as well add’we will have a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty’ to the list,it’s about as meaningful.

  39. 77
    Anonymous says:

    Just to remind everyone in case you wish to vote Labour again

    Do make sure you sing along

  40. 80
    Anonymous says:

    So. Gordon is going to protect future jobs, is he?

    Just how is he going to do that?

  41. 83
    Les Grognards says:

    Beware the Ides of March ? (c’mon – you didn’t expect Brown to get the date right did you ? Ten days out is well within his usual paremeters for accurancy)

  42. 84
    No to 6 quid! says:

    Let’s just have the election. What we need is a government with a mandate now.

  43. 90
    Fees Office Clerk says:

    “Free top of the range Sony Vaio Laptops for all Chavs, Chavettes and each of their offspring” ###

    ### Because of Human Rights legislation, no checks will be made to ascertain if the issued computer equipment has been later sold for drugs

    • 219
      Bob the Builder says:

      Chavs
      Chavettes
      Chavezes
      How about some WAGS as well ?
      They can’t read either…

      All the same unwashed sh*t

      I like it…

    • 347
      ShoutsAtTheTV says:

      Spending other people’s money really is the easiest job in the world – where do I apply?

      Fking ‘ell!

  44. 92
    Gordons Blown our wealth says:

    Maybe waiting for a little dust up in the South Atlantic for our over stretched underfunded boys and girls.
    If it goes well – then the election
    If not – State of emergency
    You watch this space.

  45. 94
    I hate New Labour says:

    Protecting future jobs?

    Like those at Rover and Cadburys? Oh, they’re jobs from the past aren’t they…

    The only jobs Labour want to protect are their own,

    • 104
      Lanchester Daily News says:

      West Midlands has some of the highest unemployment(incl youth unemployment)in the country and lots and lots of Labour marginals. So why would Brown wan’t to start the election campaign here I wonder ?

      Surely not a repeat of his and Bliar’s much hyped trip during the 2005 election to !Save Rover Job” ?

      P.s Don’t forget Peugot and the “Jag “at Coventry as well

      • 167
        The small print says says:

        it was dem tories dat lost you cadbury workers not me and peter

        -Gordon Brown

        • 228
          I hate New Labour says:

          Better still, blame Thatcher.

          That’s usually the last resort of a desperate socialist…

    • 284
      c.eng says:

      What you forget is, they weren’t good jobs ’cause they required people to work.

      Gord realised this and decided that Manufacturing must be irrelevant because it was difficult for him and his mates to understand.

      So he arranged for Soshalism to give us a better class of jobs in Media and Banking where working is optional but bonuses and expenses are guaranteed and little or no education is required to succeed.

      Much better for the many Soshalists, you see.

  46. 97
    Anonymous says:

    Protecting future jobs? So promising to protect something that has yet to exist?

    Standing up for the many – who are the few Labour won’t be standing up for? The taxpayers?

    Protecting frontline public services – how about ensuring adequate protection for frontline troops?

    Ensuring the economic recovery – as night follows day – boom follows bust.

  47. 103
    BBC says:

    Vote for Child Killing. Vote for Torture. Vote for Buggery. Vote Labour.

    • 142
      I am Sick says:

      Vote Labour for unending wars, pension theft, a lifetime of debt for your children and grandchildren, the ending of habeus corpus, the surveillence state, crypto fascism, uncontrolled immigration “to rub their faces in it” total subservience to the Brussels dictatorship, the persecution of white males for the crime of being white males and a slop bucket and bin inspector for every home, the end of individual freedom, death taxes and the post democratic Quango age.

      Vote Labour, for a glorious future comrades!

  48. 107
    Civil Servant says:

    The Conservatives pledges, by contrast are decisive and clear:

    Advancing Opportunity
    Nuturing Responsibility
    Protecting Security

    We also have a “The Low Carbon Economy,” a guarantee to maintain the NHS, EU and development budgets, and 17 new quangoes.

    At the risking of suborning my impartiality, I must say I approve of Cameron’s vision for Britain.

    • 157
      I am Sick says:

      ” The Low Carbon Economy” is utter bullshit and will destroy more jobs than it creates.

      But hey, Cameron does not give a fuck about that, it`s all about greasing his backers palms and the creation of “Green Banks” to rob the plebs of even more of their income. Camerons tories are Labour-Lite, the same bullshit, with just a little less social fascism.
      Cameron is part of the problem, the sooner tory hacks realise it, the better we all will be.

    • 211
      albacore says:

      Doesn’t this slippery, commie bullet-point gibberish make you want to retch dry feathers?
      You know for sure that any snake using it would send you blindfolded into a field of razor wire given half a chance to profit from it.
      (And, yes, it did click that you were taking the piss).

      • 445
        Nort Ko Reaa says:

        It works here.

        • 449
          COVLAD says:

          I told you he was uncle Ken’s catamite. Uncle Ken is a European. He knows what he is doing. They play the ‘Long Game’.

          Uncle Ken. The converv-ti’s-self parties answer to Mendeldome.

          The ‘Reich Lite’ marches on.

  49. 108
    DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

    What, nothing about hard working families?

    • 134
      Golden Days says:

      The phrase is vieux jeu, old chap.

      • 203
        DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

        Thank god for that. I swear that if I heard it one more time from any politician who was within thumping distance I’d probably have ended up doing time.

    • 302
      You can fool some of the people some of the time etc says:

      There aren’t enough “working” families left unless you’re in the public sector. Brown’s closed all the industries down in the West Midlands

  50. 111
    • 462
      Flat Earther says:

      Just imagine several years slog,£20,000 + in debt,meaningless degree in media studies,and the life and times of rocky balboa culminating in a fabulous job interview at Tescos. This isn’t just any career this is a new 21st century labour career.
      Look on the bright side we may well wind up with the most highly qualified supermarket shelf stackers in the world and its all thanks to Gordon and Tone.

  51. 114
    The small print says says:

    So Sarah Brown what first attracted you to the Millionaire Gordon Brown?

    • 141
      S Brown says:

      His utter lack of hetrosexual aura and horrible little habits. It’s meant I can become a grinning celeb and get what a woman needs from elesewhere!

    • 191
      Vote Vote Vote for Jacqui. says:

      We shared his bogies. They were delicious His snot was
      just like Ambrosia. He is a God to me.
      Can I shave my beard off yet Gordon?

    • 230
      I hate New Labour says:

      It really is a modern love story – a shameless PR exercise to conveniently remove long-held rumours about a major public figures’ sexuality.

      See also: A.Cole and S.Tweedy.

  52. 116
    west midlander says:

    I don’t want him round my house, he can fuck right off the cnut

    • 145
      Lanchester Daily News says:

      You’ll be OK .He’ll probably be doing a quick tour round Cathedral Lanes,Primark(for a belated Valentine’s Dayfashion accessory for Sarah) West Orchards then the Upper/Lower Precinct stopping off at IKEA to speak to the aspirational shoppers and young mums(a quck cry here for the ladies) .Photo-op in front of Godiva Statue(watch out for any unfortunate photos of the”Peeping Tom” clock as it strikes the hour )and then to Transport Museum/Bus Station to canvas views of travelling public Then a quick run to Tesco Extra at The Ricoh(Let’s hope to God he dont wish City best of luck in their away match to Palace on Saturday!)before motoring off to Warwick Campus. Yeh well you can believe that if you like which is what most of the voters in theWest Midlands think of Brown and his slogans

  53. 118
    Penfold says:

    What? no Crusade.
    No Magical Mystery Tour?
    No Prosperity for all now?
    No more Boom and Bust?
    No more Investment in Public Services?

    Oh dear, what’s he gonna sell at an all time low in the market?
    Of course property assets, state owned Banks.

    Perhaps he’ll get the Taliban in for a dose of their economic reality, you never know.

    Oh well at least bland anodyne words are an improvement on the usual from the Prime Mentalist, more tea Hoon?

  54. 120
    Mr Plum says:

    The Reality

    “Ensuring Economic Ruin”
    “Rationing Front line Public Services”
    “Protecting the Mob”
    “Ensuring Fewer Jobs”

  55. 121
    Engineer says:

    Ensuring the Economic Recovery – which started in America.

    Protecting Frontline Public Services – in Afghanistan.

    Standing Up for the Many – troughing opportunities.

    Protecting Future Jobs – for the offspring of Labour politicians.

  56. 126
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    Talk about a complete failure of imagination.

    You can tell instantly that the real political backroom talent left the New Labour ranks sometime ago – now they are stuck with the dregs of small time opportunists, vindictive weirdos & toadying sycophants.

    Everytime I think about the impending election night & the many, many Portillo moments we can all revel in, I get so excited that a little bit of wee comes out.

    • 163
      Sid Bonkers says:

      Please, God, let Jacqui Smith and Ed Balls commit suicide live on TV when they lose their seats.

    • 175
      Labour MP with a small majority says:

      Every time I think of the general election I get so frightened that a little bit of wee comes out!

      Note to self: fill car with petrol, fill up on heating oil, cancel all direct debits, cancel Labour Party membership and get all claims in as soon as possible.

    • 270
      Beowulff says:

      At last, something to look forward to. I might have to wear a nappy on the night.

  57. 131
    righty right wing (mrs) says:

    Come on then Cameron, shake that rust off.

    How about you counter with one policy:

    High taxes are the absolute enemy of social mobility.

    • 138
      Jimmy Saville - Cuts Now !! says:

      House about – passing a LAW that says (Structural) Public Expenditure must not exceed x% of planned ‘revenue’ over time and ask independent agency to audit / monitor etc

      • 160
        Do it now! ...................... says:

        Yes – it might have stopped Brown’s spending spree – for every Public Chief Executive on £50k say the Private sector has to earn £125k – otherwise !!???

      • 166
        I am Sick says:

        More unaccountable Quangos, nice… if you are a socialist.
        Total online transparency and the ability to recall and dismiss your MP, would be far more beneficial.
        As would ending consensus politics, the cancer that is destroying democracy and choice in the UK political system.

        The Quango state is your enemy and always will be.

    • 269
      UKipper Troll says:

      Yeah, that’s it. Just one policy announcement, a giant step for the Tories.

  58. 133
    Vazeline® says:

    Say one thing about NuLiebor, they live up to their name, they obviously employed the finest fiction writers on the planet for those slogans!!

  59. 140
    Tiger's Brown Eye says:

    Standing up for the many what?

    Scroungers
    Troughers
    Public sector wasters?

  60. 143
    Lion's Brown Eye says:

    Protecting Future Jobs?

    what the fuck is a future job?

    • 152
      Ex-Labour MP says:

      Something in Europe, climate-change green thingy with a big pension and no-questions-asked expense account, so Gordon has assured us all.

    • 178
      streamfisher says:

      Its one of those jobs that not a present recently deceased job like Tata, Corus and Cadbury to name but a few, maybe he’s getting confused with… a job in futures.

    • 247
      Anonymouse says:

      Back to the future with Gordo the ET

    • 423
      grobdj says:

      retired politician as non-exec directory at RBS

  61. 149
    Gordon Brown's time machine is broken says:

  62. 150
    Anonymous says:

    :: Ensuring the recovery;
    - It’s no time for a novice. The scum-sucking Tories will start cutting spending, immediately

    :: Protecting frontline service;
    - Unlike the scum-sucking Tories, who will stop all spending on all frontline services, immediately

    :: Standing up for the many;
    - members of the Labour party. Not like those scum-sucking Tories……..

    :: Protecting jobs and new industries.
    - not like the scum sucking Tories.

  63. 153

    Eviscerating the Economic Recovery
    Protecting Fluffed-up Public Salaries
    Standing Around for the Many
    Prospecting for a Future Job

  64. 155
    Anonymous says:

    It starts……..

    He is getting involved with cranking up fears over the Falklands. You can almost hear his thought processes. “well it worked for Thatcher”, deploy the Task Force”

    Also, there are a slew of UFO stories today, Wait for the announcement.

    ” I am suspending elections because we are now fighting wars on three fronts and alien invasion is imminent. It is the right thing to do.”

    • 170
      Andy Shandy says:

      Lord Fondlebum – Master of Inter-galctica – Protector of the World & the World’s Biggest Tosser

    • 194
      Boys From County Hell says:

      Only problem is we no longer could assemble a task force, maybe we could turn the Millenium Dome upside down and get a P&O ferry to tow it?

      • 223
        Dreaming of the Summer in the Malvinas(again) says:

        It’s a totally different situation to 1982 when we only had 24 Royal Marines on the Falklands,no aircraft and only HMS Endeavour(hardly suited to repel invasion)

        In 2010 we have a permanent garrison of 500 infantry,engineers etc fully equipped,4 Typhoon Jets, Helicopters and VC10. We also have fully protected modern airport facilities at Mount Pleasant with the ability to re-inforce in 24 hours if needs be. In addition to permanent Royal Naval patrol vessel on permanent duty in the South Atlantic we now also have HMS York and other naval support ships incl submarines now on station

        In the unlikely event that the “Argies” kicked off again we would firstly be aware of any invasion force leaving the mainland and would have the capability to inflict heavy damage before they could actually land even before re-inforcement by air. Ignoring Afghanistan we still keep a “Spearhead” Battalion on permanent 24 Hours response for just this sort of thing. So personally I have no fears for the Falklands War Mk 2 providing the “political will” is there and the RoE are robust

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

        • 259
          Boys From County Hell says:

          Well I am not au fait with the disposition of the Argentine military but would doubt they are still equipped with WW2 US equipment, and possibly would not attempt a large scale seabourne invasion.

          I quick bit of research throws up that they have recently formed a rapid air assault division.

          Surely any new attack would be much quicker, by air, by elite units, and with the expectation the UN would get involved.

          Don’t want to give them any ideas though.

          • RN Spokesperson says:

            I don’t know what you are worried about! We’ve got two rowing boats full of our best seamen on their way already. it’s all in hand, we’ve been preparing for this since Gordon, erm sorry the PM gave us the nod a war was imminent.

    • 205
      caesars wife says:

      I hope falklands isnt another ruin cauldron brew , for political purposes , weve already lost more in afghainistan than in falklands conflict .

      • 207
        caesars wife says:

        forgot to add kelvin mackenzie on sky news last night , dug up some sun headlines from the time , which by todays standards seem shocking , but its hard to convey just how strong the feeling was then , “stick it up yer junta”

  65. 162
    ThousandsOfMilesAway says:

    Standing up for teh many – it’s an excellent start. Now, if he could just fuck off as well…

  66. 164
    Nigella says:

    Thursday April 1st.

    How apt?

    • 180
      April Firster says:

      Happy Birthday to me!!!!!

    • 187
      streamfisher says:

      2015.

    • 189
      Dan Brusca says:

      Apt, but unlikely. given it’s right before the Easter weekend.

      A 4-week campaign with the poll on 25th March seems more likely, but if Brown doesn’t announce that date next week then it’ll definitely be 6th May.

      • 197
        Rumour Mill says:

        I seem to remember someone posted on here early in New Year that their partner was involved in election counts and had been told to keep March 25th free(in addition to May 6th -obviously pre-ordained local election date)and that people trying to book “village halls” and “community centres” for functions on that day were told – not possible as required for polling staions(?) Could of course just be prudent thinking ahead by some returning officers/local councils or just a lucky guess ?

        • 226
          Dan Brusca says:

          I would say it’s prudent thinking. 25th March has always struck me as the only plausible date before 6th May.

          1st and 8th April are out because of Easter, later dates run too close to the local elections, 18th March would mean kicking-off a campaign during half-term holidays (i.e. this week) and any earlier was just, well, too early.

  67. 172
    your mum says:

    Perhaps they would do better with this least it has a element of truth to it for Nulabour

    “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.”
    “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past”.

    • 190
      Conspiracy theorist says:

      Download a free copy of 1984. Change:

      B.B. to G.B.
      Big Brother to Gordon Brown
      IngSoc to Labour Party,

      Truly frightening.

      • 232
        Winston Smythe says:

        Orwell had it sussed: socialism is evil, and if not stopped always ends in totalitarianism, though he had to pretend that he was not against the left when some of his leftie mates were offended.

  68. 180
    Engineer says:

    O/T, but I can’t resist. The PC brigade are getting uppity about place names.

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/christopherhowse/100006736/tickle-cock-bridge-i-dont-call-that-rude/

    Where does this leave the residents of Cockermouth?

  69. 184
    Jerry Attrick says:

    Bugger me. I live near Coventry and we were going shopping there this weekend. Not now we aint. I’m getting as far away as possible. The Jonah curse is very powerful.

  70. 188
    Boys From County Hell says:

    “Standing Up For The Many” seems a very odd slogan, nothwithstanding the fact it isn’t true as Labours social policies over the last 13 years have been those of favouring narrow interst groups, surely “Standing Up For The Many” also means by very definition, not standing up for the minority, screwing over the few? Very odd thing to trumpet.

    Perhaps Cameron would like to attempt an easy retort, “Standing Up For All”

  71. 192
    Barnabas Scudamore says:

    WOW, I am based in the West Midlands, AND I have this weekend free !

    If anyone fancies dropping me an e-mail with advice or ideas on how I can get the most out of this weekend (in terms of destroying Gordon and Labour party) then please go ahead.

    When I say destroying Gordon and the Labour party, I mean LEGAL activities and also NOT in the name of the Conservatives (although in reality it will be to their advantage, I hope).

    • 198
      Odds Bodkins says:

      Best join the Marjah-like exodus and do it from a safe distance.

      You don’t want his curse, if you’re gonna sup with the Devil, use a long spoon.

      • 204
        Barnabas Scudamore says:

        What about some kind of poster campaign ?

        I have a small aircraft.

        What about printing thousands upon thousands of leaflets and just dumping them out of the plane, over the town, prior to Gordo’s arrival ?

        I mean THOUSANDS of leaflets – nothing long winded, just a picture of Gordon and the word “tit” printed over the top – nice and simple. Even the 35% of the locals who don’t use English might understand it !

        • 213
          The Dirty Rat. says:

          Er. Can we change that to ‘Fucking useless tit’ please.

          • Leaflet drop says:

            Murderer,fraudster,liar,bully,maniac and on and on.

            A4,printed double sided.

          • Barnabas Scudamore says:

            These are all good ideas !

            However, as upto 50% of the population of the west midlands DO NOT CHOOSE to use English as their first language, I fear the message might be lost, and too much reading will also put people off !

            However, this does NOT put the possibilty of printing various leaflets/posters out of the arena so to speak !

        • 341
          Max says:

          Why not a straight photo of McDoom with this above it:

          مطلوب في جريمة قتل

          And this below it:

          مكافأة المتوفرة

          Should get a result?

        • 480
          Odds Bodkins says:

          Sounds a good idea to me. If NATO can drop leaflets over Taliban-controlled areas, then surely we can do the same over the Midlands.

          Keep the message short, simple and easily translatable, so that you can fit in the Urdu, Punjabi, Polish and Arabic equivalents. That ought to do it.

    • 274
      purpleline says:

      A good old fashioned sex scandal mate. Do you know any young Asian men yoofs, who will take one up the pooper for Britain. Then photo of Mandelbum, Brown, Balls, Cooper Balls,Johnston with the Ashun yoof in compromising positions and you could be like Piss poor Moirgan pictures on front page tabloid paper.

      Ashun yoof can get some dosh selling his story about Bleeding Bums, rape in Coventry and slave trade that he was brought to be a sex toy boy and voter for nu labour.

      Shd do the trick

      • 304
        Barnabas Scudamore says:

        Sex scandals are so “last season” though.

        No, it needs to be something SO anti left wing, something so against soviet principles………

        Although, I am liking the racist card !

        If someone could come up with a way of getting gordon to refer to an Asian by words which are “racially abusing” (what we used to call name calling, sticks and stones and all that) which is a worse crime than torturing children, killing them and then drinking their blood, before moving onto the next door neighbours children, yes a nice “racist” story would do well.
        Plus a nice racist story would destroy the “foreign” vote !

        Or even better, getting a story out there, where Gordon signed a document allowing the torture of suspects at guantanimo bay.

  72. 193
    Odds Bodkins says:

    No more boom and bust! Er, maybe not, well how about
    Getting On with the Job, or
    British Jobs for British Workers

  73. 200
    caesars wife says:

    i said last week that he would call the general election this sun or monday , now everyones going for may the sixth ,yet we have a launch of some kind on themes .

    thinking conservatives must be wanting may 6th , in fairness it may help the conservatives to work towards that date as in part the deal hasnt been sealed and they can go to more areas and work on votes .

    just a matter of time now i think , still it would be interesting to think if the conservatives hadnt had so much help strategy wise that they would still be in despair ! can be a very forgetfull lot sometimes of what it was like a few years back .

    • 239
      Beowulff says:

      Do you mean a few years back when we used to vote Conservative.

      Difficult to read your unpunctuated prose, but are you saying the Tories actually have some kind of policy or strategy.

      If so what is it, other than the puerile ‘Vote for Change’ mantra.

      • 265
        caesars wife says:

        In jan I think David cameron started his policy announcements , ruin just mocked him , so he had little choice but to work on party profile .
        Its a shame ruin didnt want a clean fight that was offered , but things have turned now in the conservatives favour .

        i see what you and other commenators are getting at though , its his choice , if hes right and makes the right decisions , conservatives should stave off hung parliament nightmare , if hes reading the wrong stats/opinions nothing we can do , so far they seem to have some things right despite the ruins best efforts , at one stage i thought he was going to blow all the socialist ecnomics out of the water . i dont buy into a lot of the Blair leftovers and i am more radical , but ruin has just about trashed any ecnomic theory going . i mean its worse than 1978 .

        if your saying that some traditional conservative themes are absent and they might not develope the message , we will just have to see how much worse it can get , weve just overspent again in january , so may isnt looking like shranglai really is it .

        • 291
          Bewoulff says:

          I have to admit Cameron and Co are probably right to hold their fire until they can see a clear date for the GE.

          It’s just so depressing watching Socialism drag us down into the pit without being able to fire back, so to speak.

  74. 208
    REEVO says:

    I heard Gordo was hoping for Prudence to make an appearance but seems she has bunked off with Lord Sleaze of Belize.

    Seems he needs her to help with his tax obligations…

  75. 214
    The End. says:

    When is the world going to wake up and realise that this man has taken the UK to the very precipice – to the very edge of a horrific existence and very very soon we shall tip over into the hell?

    This man Brown must be stopped at all costs.

    We are running out of time – all the economic indicators now point to financial meltdown by April with the IMF being called in.

    Forget an election,we are now entering the unknown where our country becomes a third world country.

    Christ, we are so finished.

    • 229
      Winston Smythe says:

      It’s what the marxists want..an end to capitalism, with us all living in damp, grey blocks of flats, in slavery to the state, looking at posters of Snotty frowning down on us from every street corner.

    • 236
      mondeoman says:

      Agreed, everyword, but nothing will happen, he is still there, he is still spending our money, he will be in number 10 tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, Monday….he will go to the 4th of June if he can, he will call a national emergency if he can, just to cling onto power. THIS IS WRONG.

      • 329
        Barnabas Scudamore says:

        Rest easy, MI 5 (and “others”) have a duty to “defend the realm”.

        There are those of us who will do so, at ANY cost and against ANY threat.

        I agree, he probably will not call a general election, he wants a “national emergency” to cling onto power.

        BUT parliament belongs to HER MAJESTY.

        The government is : “HER MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT”

        Even Gordon is “HER MAJESTY’S PRIME MINISTER”

        Therefore, if an election is not called, or Gordon trys to whip the public up into some kind anarchy (therefore justifying an emergency and emergency control), HER MAJESTY can take control.

        THERE ARE THOSE OF US WHO WILL SUPPORT SUCH ACTION IF THE TIME COMES.

        Brown will then be guilty of treason (still punishable by death).

        So, Gordo not calling an election, might be a good idea, because WE will then arrest the turd and have him put to death !

      • 360
        ShoutsAtTheTV says:

        Well you’re the bloke who chuffing voted for him (and his mates)! Taken u 13 years 2 realize u woz rong? ;O)

    • 251
      Beowulff says:

      There’ll always be an England just as long as Mervyn keeps the money presses going.

      Look how we’ve all become richer, since he made another 2 Billion quid.

      English economics, it’s the best in the world.

      Rest easy Maynard, your work is in safe hands.

      • 262
        Ratsniffer says:

        You can guarantee that the money printing presses will keep right on a-rolling up to election day….

    • 256
      You have been warned... says:

      Gordon, oh Gordon you’ve taken us for fools.
      You lied about Prudence and your ‘Golden Rules’.
      You plundered our pensions and decimated our savings,
      We’re fed up of listening to your ‘global’ ravings.
      Blair claimed you’re a genius; he lied to us too.
      The ‘British’ economy is in deep doggy-doo.
      ‘No BOOMS, NO BUSTS !’ you used to shout out.
      That was all hubris, of that there’s no doubt.

      You bang on and on about your Presbyterian daddy,
      Born a son of the manse and raised in Kircaldy.
      Now how would he regard you, with disgust or with pride ?
      Having watched you for years as you stood there and lied ?
      You’ve ruined this country, we’ve become a basket case.
      Moody’s and the others plan to remove our triple A’s
      Yet you’re still in denial, saying we’re ‘uniquely placed’
      Have a long look in the mirror, your reflection is two-faced !

      I watched you last month on the Andrew Marr prog,
      The look on your face was unusually hang-dog
      You said you’d prepared a ‘Decade of Shared Prosperity’.
      I think you’re deluded-it would be more Marxist Austerity !
      You bored me to tears with your grandiloquent prolixity,
      A dull raft of statistics in a broadcast of mendacity.
      Then you told us that yours is the Party of aspiration!
      You’re clutching at straws, man; that’s total desperation !

      In the early days of 2010 a few chumps tried to shaft you
      I’ve got the strangest feeling that this wont be the last coup.
      Yet once again the Dark Lord came riding to your rescue.
      The public all think you should be end up like Ceacescu.
      You’re ‘getting on with the job’ of rebuilding the economy,
      Stop trotting out these phrases with predictable monotony.
      You’re sending us to sleep trying to explain your ideology.
      The only thing we’re interested in is the action of psephology!

    • 293
      The Core Vote says:

      Sorry we’re all too busy watching “Britain’s Got Talent” on the telly

      • 430
        Anonymous says:

        Unfortunately, that is the problem. Britain’s Got Talent attracts more interest than the state of the country’s finances.

  76. 220
    Irene says:

    “Ruin for the many, not just the few”

    “Redundancy for the many, not just the few”

    any others?

  77. 221
    Lord Mandelslime says:

    * BREAKING NEWS *

    CORUS STEEL FACTORY ‘MOTHBALLED’ – NOT CLOSED

    JOBS LOST 1,600 + 4,000 ASSOCIATED JOBS

    FONDELBUM ‘JOKE NOT FUNNY’

  78. 222
    tommy atkins says:

    so gordies pr people have thought up some witty slogans?

    shame that after 13 years all they have done is fuck the uk and its people…

    go back to bumming long island rent boys gordon……..i suppose you got that free on expenses as well?

  79. 224
    Peter Grimes says:

    Ensuring the economic recovery – never gets off the ground

    Protecting frontline sevices – so that the overpaid public servants vote for me

    Standing up for the many – who I keep in comfort though they are workshy

    Protecting future jobs – for yet more immigrants

    I’ll add another – Jam tomorrow

  80. 231
    BillyBob ... reduce crime, prison numbers and reform the benefits system!! Stop immigration !! says:

    All hail The Great Leader, the saviour of the world……… we are not worthy !!

  81. 235
    anon, anon, anon...... says:

    Watch how Gorgon pushes somebody out of the way, to get to a Masonic handshake.

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread503988/pg1

    Scroll down to video

  82. 237
    The_Crud_Agenda says:

    Here’s the alternative reading:

    “Ensuring Britain’s Economic Decline”

    “Protecting the Hides of Frontline Labour Bosses”

    “Standing Up for the Many in Club Calais”

    “Protecting the Future of Jobs Paid for by Public Finances”

    (and if that fails let’s invite Jerry Adams to talk about Jesus))

  83. 241
    ex-pat pete says:

    My heart bleeds for all you hard-working people and not intending to provoke controversy I live on the other side of the channel in south east germany having left the UK many moons ago and thank my lucky stars for that. I watch the house prices and sterling go down the swanee and think , yup there goes my inheritance, next thing the mentalist ( if he gets enough postal votes) will be doing is taxing us ex-pats for having british citizenship although not allowed to vote in the UK, that´s equality! Call the UN in to all polling stations.
    O/T any truth in the rumour that the EU envoy to the peace process in the near east was involved in the assassination in Dubai?

  84. 257

    These ‘hollow lines’ are not for your benefit. They are for ours.
    We constantly need to remind ourselves why you lot would want to vote us back in.

    • 268
      I hate New Labour says:

      And they’re all as rock solid as the last manifesto pledge to hold a referendum on joining Europe…

  85. 263
    geppetto says:

    labours idea of green shoots.just keep posting this vid.

  86. 264
    purpleline says:

    I know I am talking my book again having caled cable and Euro moves correct, but I would like to tell you guys and gals out there that over the last week, there has been a very large number of Cable one year 1.01 cable PUTS.

    Sterling is going south to par with the dollar, you can do things to make some dosh, just check out your financial adviser. The Purps is never wrong.

    Also one to watch is 10 year Gilt trading 4.17 at the moment, this will rise to 4.75 soon after the election is called, as sterling comes into focus and attention of the herds in the market who have not got the positions on.

    Good luck out there. By teh way 4.75% 10-year if breaks is shocking with rates at 0.5% and will see a big big move. The pound iin your pocket is like Brown fucking useless.

  87. 271
    Vazeline® says:

    A microcosm of NuLiebor, you can waste as much tax money as you like on some people.

    You can even throw lottery money at them and they will still come back for NuLieBor benefits, when it has all gone.

    http://uk.video.yahoo.com/watch/7002451/18206404

  88. 272
    Anonymous says:

    Meanwhile Jan Moir gets off the hook, and quite rightly so. THe timing of the article was poor. The tone shrill, but the substance was bang on.

    If a heterosexual(ish) couple in the Public Eye had behaved with another individual in such a manner, and the events had played out the same way, then it would have been a scandal.

    The ‘non drinking’ singer/actor was wrecked, had perhaps taken recreational drugs, was with his partner on the pull for a ‘Threesome’. The fact that such a friendly young man dies before his normal time is sad, but the outrage of the ‘Husband’ over the article is even more shocking, given that he was shagging an Eastern European GayBoy for all he was worth, whilst the ‘Wife’, collapsed and died.

    Consenting adults sure. But WTF do the Gays expect? Immunity from opinion for acts which were very illegal within my living memory. FFS, they have far too much to say, and the Institutional Homosexuality in the BBC and other media is discriminatory to the Majority. It is a Casting Couch ploy.

    • 459
      Lord Carrington's binoculars says:

      Punchy delivery, but you’re exactly right.

      Never occurred to me that Gately’s husband had been detained elsewhere while his other half was dying…

  89. 275
    Anonymous says:

    Here’s a nice, balanced political attitude. Don’t make the excuse that old swine is retiring simply because this is what prevails among the bastards. Note the sickening distinction between himself and people who travel in standard class:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8521510.stm

    Scroll down and listen.

  90. 277
    David Cameron says:

    I was speaking to a lad the over day and he was interestingly telling me about how he works at Wimbledon every summer. He said he was a ball boy. I said, ‘fair enough. I’m more of a breast man myself.’

  91. 278
    Sir William Waad says:

    I will always regret trying to poison Brown with colchicine and messing up the dose. We got the nerve and brain damage and wild mood swings but didn’t get rid of the man himself!

    • 343
      Chinese Herbal Remedies says:

      We no do refund for great steaming pile of dung with bagspipes, iriots, get polonium from Russians next time, put in tea pot!

  92. 280
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    Russ says:

    Macavity’s a Mystery man: he’s called the Clumping Claw–
    He is a useless PM dope, who can defy the Law.
    He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:
    For when they reach the scene of crime, Macavity’s not there!

    Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
    He’s broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
    His powers of incompetence would make a moron stare,
    And when you reach the scene of crime–Macavity’s not there!
    You may seek him in No 10, you may look in the air–
    But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!

    Macavity’s a scottish twat, he’s very fat and crass;
    You would know him if you saw him, one eye is made of glass.
    You may see him in a side street, you may see him in a square–
    But when a crime’s discovered, Macavity’s not there!

    He’s outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)
    His fingerprints cannot be found, in any file of the Yard’s.
    And when the Foreign Office, finds a Treaty’s gone astray,
    Or the Admiralty loses secrets, and drawings by the way,
    There may be a scrap of paper, in No 10 upon the stair–
    But it’s useless to investigate–Macavity’s not there!
    And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say:
    “It must have been Macavity!”–but he’s a mile away.
    You’ll be sure to find him resting, or a-picking of his nose,
    Or brushing off the dandruff, from his scruffy clothes.

    Macavity, Macavity, there’s no one like Macavity,
    There never was a PM of, such deceit and depravity.
    He always has an alibii, or one or two to spare:
    And whatever time the deed took place–MACAVITY WASN’T THERE!
    His ministers are nothing for the PM of all time
    He just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime

  94. 282
    angelnstar says:

    There are so many DH’s around today and not just in politics.

    http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/joke-for-the-day/

  95. 283
    Lanchester Daily News says:

    Latest Angus Reid Poll Con 40 Lab 26 LibDem 18

    http://www2.politicalbetting.com/

    • 340
      Steve Expat says:

      Let’s see how Broon can spin a 14% Tory lead as anything positive – even if their own share is a tick up since the past AR/PB poll?

  96. 285
    • 297
      alls well that ends well says:

      “No more boom and bust.”

      Wha…wha….what I meant was, we er, wouldn’t return to 15% interest rates.

      Oh that’s all right then, you fucking porky pier.

      • 338
        Steve Expat says:

        Nothing to do with today’s announcement of Public Net Debt a shade under 60% of GDP and increasing by 17 percentage points a year – so only 30 months away from it being 100%)

        Fucking liar again – Please Please PLEASE call the election this weekend, 25th March would be a good date…

  97. 287
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    Steve Expat says:

    O/T

    Yet another spoof “Never Voted Labour” poster site, featuring Kermit the muppet, Robin Hood, Nick Leeson and the Taliban, anong others…

    Rather amusing :-)

    http://www.mybillboard.net/

  99. 298
    Anonymous says:

    Ensuring the economic recovery – in Greece

    Protecting frontline sevices – from their customers

    Standing up for the many – on benefits

    Protecting future jobs – not the present ones

  100. 299
    • 308
      Maladroit Labour Chump says:

      WHAT A FUCKING LIAR !!!! OUR PANTS MUST BE ON FIRE !!!

    • 483
      giant bee says:

      un fucking believable

      this man is the biggest cnut ever and HIS chancellorship followed by HIS premiership have created the biggest and most disastrous economic crash in living memory – and the worst is yet to come

      he MUST be removed from power – anyone, anyone but Gordon

  101. 300
    Anonymous says:

    Nicholas Winterton should have the Whip taken away.

    By intimating that people who travel economy are in a lower social class, he has done the Conservative party more harm than good. What an oaf he is.

    • 320
      Get real all fecking trolls : ......... says:

      He may be an oaf – but he talked about the kids’ noise etc – at no time did he implicate ‘class’ – just heard it on the ‘wireless’ – Macc solicitor agrees!

      • 408
        Anonymous says:

        You obviously weren’t listening, then. His comments just before he was questioned by the interviewer were quite ambiguous.

  102. 307
    Yvette Cooper .............. says:

    .

    “The continued growth in the number of long term unemployed shows that Labour is failing to support the people who need their help the most. Unless ministers wake up and stop treating these people like a statistic we risk losing a generation to a culture of worklessness.”

  103. 315
    prophylactic politics says:

    Its all a load of bollocks, and with no bollocks brown.
    The needle returns to the start of the song and we’re meant to all sing along like before.
    But nothing ever happens, I walked I talked and did nothing.

  104. 324
    • 442
      THE TRUTH says:

      Ar 08.39, in Blair says to Cameron

      “His record as Chancellor has delivered the lowest inflation, the lowest unemployment, the lowest interest rates,in this country’s history, that has managed the strongest growth of any major industrial economy, and that as a result of that, has deliverd record investment in the NHS, is a rather better recommendation than having spent sometime advising Norman Lamont on Black Wednesday”

      How things come Back to haunt you, LieBours 13 years of Black Wednesdays!

  105. 326
    Cassandra says:

    Election coming up.

    Expect more NuLabour filthy tactics

    Expect the Spanish Inquisition

    • 337
      Naked Gordon Brown says:

      I quite like thought of a red hot poker up the arse Spanish Inquisition style, would you oblige me please Cassandra?

  106. 331
    lol says:

    All this bluster from Brown and his corrupt friends is happening without any formal notice of an election. Does this mean that, once again, we the taxpayers are funding his electioneering? This is illegal under the UKs constituion – but hey, it doesn’t matter to these people does it?

  107. 332
    Shocked of Sheen says:

    OT but this is what P Morgan wrote on his blog:
    “SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6 It’s weird being me, sometimes. Yesterday, I judged a trampolining pig. Today, I interviewed the Prime Minister for my ITV Life Stories series.”
    Perhaps he got his days mixed up…

  108. 333
    Learning the lessons from the past says:

    I took one of my teenage sons up to St Paul’s Cathedral today and we saw in the Crypt the memorial to the dead of the Falklands War – Ian McKay VC/H Jones VC and on and on.

    Do we actually have more than just an inflatable dinghy and a couple of canoes left after Brown’s cuts?

    To read the names of those who died and to think that the future of those islands is in the hands of the utter scum Brown makes my blood boil.

    Brown must be prosecuted for everything he has done against our great country and eventually executed for treason.

    Utter utter c*unt.

    • 484
      giant bee says:

      not just him

      Blair and his wife

      Harman

      Balls

      Prescott

      MANDELSON

      Campbell

      he list could go on and on… fucking shoot the lot of them, they’ve destroyed the country

  109. 336
    Naked Gordon Brown says:

    OH NO NOT ME YOUR FACE TO FACE WITH THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD

  110. 351
    Anonymous says:

    “I will not allow house prices to get out of control and put at risk the sustainability of the recovery.”
    Gordon Brown’s 1997 Budget Statement

    “Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.”
    Pre-Budget Report, 9th November 1999

    “Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.”
    Budget Statement, 21 March 2000

    “So our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the…the old boom and bust.”
    Pre-Budget Report, 8 November 2000

    “Mr Deputy Speaker we will not return to boom and bust.”
    Budget Statement, 7 March 2001

    “As I have said before Mr Deputy Speaker: No return to boom and bust.”
    Budget Statement, 22 March 2006

    “And we will never return to the old boom and bust.”
    Budget Statement, 21 March 2007

    • 485
      giant bee says:

      nicely researched, and more proof that the scrote thinks if he repeats the same lies ad nauseum, people will eventually accept them as Truth

      “Hello, Piano wire R Us ?”

  111. 353
    Anonymous says:

    1) Tony Blair: 1997 Conference Speech

    I want this to be the New Labour Government that ended Tory boom and bust forever.

    2) Tony Blair: 2000 Conference Speech

    The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.

    3) Tony Blair: 2005 Conference Speech

    In the first two terms we corrected the weaknesses of the Tory years: boom-and-bust economics

    4) Tony Blair: November 2003

    If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent. of GDP.

    5) Tony Blair: November 1999

    We have the best chance of ending boom and bust in years.

    6) Tony Blair: November 1998

    …examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

    7) Tony Blair: 2006 Conference Speech

    In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics…..
    Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved.

    8) Tony Blair: February 1999

    Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust….Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place

    9) Yvette Cooper: May 2004

    We know that they want to turn the clock back, but it would be foolish to turn it back to a policy of boom and bust.

    10) Alistair Darling: January 2000

    On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

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    A Troll says:

    Tories Must learn to Fight Dirty – James Forsyth

    That is why they have brought me on board ma boiiiiiiiiiii!

    Better pay than Labour.

  114. 356
    Anonymous says:

    11) Alistair Darling: March 2005

    As I said, there are two approaches—first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

    12) Alistair Darling: June 2007

    …acknowledges the outstanding performance of the economy under this Government with the longest unbroken economic expansion on record, in contrast to the boom and bust of the previous Government

    13) Gordon Brown: March 2007

    We will not return to the old boom and bust

    14) Gordon Brown: December 2006

    Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history

    15) Gordon Brown: March 2006

    I have said before: no return to boom and bust.

    16) Gordon Brown: March 2001

    We will not return to boom and bust.

    17) Gordon Brown: November 2000

    Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the ’80s–rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.

    18) Gordon Brown: March 2000

    Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

    19) Gordon Brown: November 1999

    Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

    20) Gordon Brown: November 1998

    Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

  115. 358
    Anonymous says:

    21) Gordon Brown: June 1998

    rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30 years has undermined stability

    22) Gordon Brown: May 1998

    The Government have put in place policies to deliver that objective and are determined to avoid a return to boom and bust.

    23) Gordon Brown: April 1998

    We will not return to the stop-go, boom-bust years which we saw under the Conservatives.

    24) Gordon Brown: November 1997

    I am satisfied that the new monetary policy arrangements will deliver long-term price stability, and prevent a return to the cycle of boom and bust.

    25) Gordon Brown: July 1997

    Today, the Bank of England has agreed with me that, if we are to prevent the cycle of boom and bust, inflationary pressures in the economy, which the previous Government negligently failed to tackle, must be brought under control

    26) John Prescott: January 2005

    Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

    27) Alan Johnson: February 2000

    The Government’s first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.

    28) Douglas Alexander: June 2006

    there are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

    29) Ruth Kelly: November 1999

    The Government have rejected the boom and bust of the Conservative party

    30) Ruth Kelly: May 2002

    We must avoid a return to the days of boom and bust that manufacturers had to endure for a long time under the Conservatives.
    “In budget after budget I want us to do even more to encourage the risk takers” – Gordon Brown, Mansion House speech to the City (2004)

    Proof that New Labour deliberately set out to systematically destroy this country from the inside out. Then tried to cover it up.
    Further proof of mass gerrymandering and social engineering.

  116. 359
    Steve Expat says:

    O/T

    Pound down 1% against the dollar today, obviously nothing to do with the deficit announcement then!

  117. 363
    David Cameron says:

    Why did the chicken cross the road and go to the toilet?
    Because that is where the cocks hang out.

  118. 366
    genghiz the kahn says:

    Ensuring the ecommic recovery….. is hampered by a bloated public sector Protecting the front line public services….in Labour marginals.
    Standing up for the many…..ministers who couldn’t obey their own laws.

    Protecting future jobs….of ex ministers and spouses.

  119. 367
    BillyBob ... reduce crime, prison numbers and reform the benefits system!! Stop immigration !! says:

    http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2010/02/18/tyne-turbine-plan-brings-work-for-thousands-72703-25863133/

    this is the kiss of death for the North East…. Gordo and pals come up north !!

  120. 368
  121. 375
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Getting on with the Job
    Investment not cuts like the tories
    Dead babies
    NHS envy of the world(4th world)
    Dynamic green industry
    Leading the world in financial services
    A fucking speak your weight machine in a suit

    • 379
      McBride's twatty counterpart says:

      hello sp33do shorts
      still blowing off about dead babies you subhuman cun’t

    • 382
      Mr Plum says:

      Getting on with the job.

      What institution of value to the country is left for Gordon to wreck?

  122. 377
  123. 378
    I am the Heir to Blair(hear my soundbites roar!) says:

    Dave appeared on woman’s hour
    the electioneering started in january

  124. 380
    Atlas shrugged says:

    The truly depressing thing about our current situation is that those over the age of 40 have been here before. we have hoped in vain that we never would be again, but here again we most certainly are, but of course in an ever more sill and powerless position then back in the 70′s.

    What is just as depressing is that we know what will undoubtedly happen next.

    The Conservative Party will get elected.

    Labour will revert to type.

    The BBC will also do so, before Cameron has even got his feet under the table at No10.

    The Trades Unions will suddenly reappear on the stage, like virtually nothing has changed for over 31 years.

    Hell, we might even end up with another Falklands War, at this rate.

    All we need now is a disco, and Bee Gees revival, and we can start to get out our old flared trousers and tank tops in anticipation of the return of Glam Rock.

    Welcome back Gary Glitter most, but not all is forgiven.

    • 391
      I remember 1979. says:

      Oh without a doubt i am sure you will also remember the cries of ‘Never Again’ and look what they did in 1997.

      Brought the shit storm on us once again.

    • 463
      Barnabas Scudamore says:

      The very real problem this time however, is China.

      John Prescott has just been made a Professor of some university in china.

      Another way of looking at it, would be that he’s now on the Chinese pay roll.

      I wonder how many people china have “bought” in Downing street ?

  125. 383
    labour is a cancer on society says:

    Just in case some of you were hurting for more stories of Labour councillor sleaze how about this:

    http://www.scotsman.com/news/Shakeup-at-SPT-as-chief.6085155.jp

    • 401
      Hadrian's builder says:

      Scots- they just can’t help themselves.

      Useless at sports

      Useless at economics

      Useless at telling the truth

      That’s why the wall was built all those years ago.

  126. 384
    Lord Carrington's binoculars says:

    Here’s McMoron’s September 2005 speech to the IMF – a classic. Check out his denial that he’s in the middle of a massive house price boom…

    http://www.imf.org/External/AM/2005/imfc/stmt/eng/gbr.pdf

    “In each of the past three house price cycles – in the mid 1970s, in the early 1980s and again in the early to mid 1990s – a period of such rapid house price growth has been accompanied by a rapid rise in inflation and sharp increases in interest rates followed by sustained falls in real house prices, rising unemployment and recession.”

    “But it is because of the new framework for economic stability – with
    interest rates low and stable, inflation low and employment at record highs – that the economy is better placed to adjust to the moderation in the housing market. So that instead of the old British stop-go, house prices are adjusting free of recession.”

    And here he takes credit for five years of Tory prudence (seven, if you count sticking to Clarke’s spending plans)

    “As a result of our new economic model for stability – Bank independence, low debt, fiscal responsibility – Britain has enjoyed not only the lowest inflation and the lowest interest rates and the lowest unemployment for thirty years but Britain has had the longest sustained period of continuous growth – 52 consecutive quarters – in our history.”

    “This stability has only been possible because we rejected the old-style backward-looking approach to monetary and fiscal policies based on asymmetric
    inflation targets and nominal fiscal deficits that take no account of the economic cycle, debt and the important role of public investment.”

    • 394
      nell says:

      ‘our new economic model for stability’

      poor mad gordon – sorry but I really +laughed+ at that!!

    • 398
      The final curtain? says:

      Can someone,anyone,the Mossad(?) just pump a few bullets into this c*unts head and put us out of the misery of this impostor Brown.

    • 405
      Anonymous says:

      If I hear him say “better placed” one more time despite being in a worse situation than greece, or any other country in the developed world, in the worst recession in history, having the biggest debt in history, a currency/reputation now worth fuck all, and real unemployment of about 8 million, i’m going to fucking explode.

      • 421
        Brown - not long now. says:

        Please explode within a few feet of this lump of crap Brown please.

        I will support your family in the future,rest assured.

      • 452
        Gordo says says:

        mmmmmmmmmr mr mr mr mr sssspppeeeakkkkeeeerr the Uk is “BETTER PLACED” shit what was that noise ?

    • 418
      Anonymous says:

      Proportionally, and in real terms, I’d guess that Brown’s done more economic damage to the UK than Hitler did.

      Brown shouldn’t just be ousted from power, he should be hanged for crimes against humanity. He deliberately fucked up everyone’s future purely because he was too arrogant to admit that he had absolutely no idea what he was doing.

      How is this man still in power? (come to think of it, how’s he still got his own knee caps?)

  127. 385
    Sir William Waad says:

    Just a thought: you would expect somebody as crazy as James Gordon Brown to be interesting. It’s like having a box of frogs, but it’s thumpingly dull. Cameron is dull, but he isn’t mad, so he has an excuse.

  128. 387
    Boys From County Hell says:

    Another thinly veiled article on the One show about ‘political posters’ of course this is what the entire nation is talking about, only seemed to attack Tory posters though, and Camerosn in particular, how odd. The Beeb must be shitting themselves.

    • 396
      JK says:

      First thing Cameron must do when he gets elected is cut the BBC down to size. Failure to do so will lead to constant undermining of his govt by the marxist/multi-culti/ Frankfurt Schoolers who control the state broadcaster.

      • 404
        nell says:

        Well would be best to sell it off and make it a completely private / commercial organisation that has to earn it’s living and balance its books.

        Oh and then free us up from having to pay a license fee for all their high salaries and fancy expenses!!

        • 425
          Brown - not long now. says:

          Agreed Nell.

          And no more Andrew Marr (who screwed another woman other than his wife and got a super injunction to prevent us knowing).

        • 454
          Christy says:

          Nell.
          There really are too many people on this blog who keep on running down our great leader Gordon.
          It really gets to me that if the poor man reads these blogs he really must despair,so I decided that the best thing I could do was to send the poor man a present.
          So I thought that something to eat would be appropriate along with a suggestion of how to cook it.
          I have sent him some mushrooms,amanita phalloides and amanita virosa,and a suggestion that they are quite nice fried in garlic butter and garnished with chives.

  129. 390
    IG says:

    Watch the latest youtube sensation: Epic Beard Man dishing out the punishment on a bus. Already, there’s over 300 videos of the event with more than 750,000 views:

  130. 399
    Anonymous says:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8522316.stm

    standing trial over a £1.75m armed robbery…The judge said jury “tampering” was a “very significant” danger……considered dangerous…..

    …He was on bail with a £260,000 bond….Mr Blake failed to return to the courtroom

    d’oh! no shit? really? he did a runner whilst home free on a £260k bail for a £1.75million robbery? how odd.

    • 412
      Anonymous says:

      Not really. He’s probably managed to board a plane and leave the UK for warmer climes – and we didn’t even notice.

    • 431
      Brown - not long now. says:

      But Gordon Brown will walk “SCOT” free after a £178bn robbery.

      • 434
        grobdj says:

        Not if retrospective justice catches on

        Appeal Court decision yesterday was it? HMRC won their case against a British tax exile non-dommed in the Seychelles since 1976

  131. 410
    British Militia says:

    Like all good propoganda, it’s supposed to be meaningless but on the face of it, impossible to argue against. Who wouldn’t want to ensure economic recovery and future jobs? Most decent human beings will at least accept different arguments on how those goals are to be achieved, but the purpose of the propoganda is to crush dissent and do away with different points of view. In other words, to criticise the government’s position is tantamount to putting the economy at risk.

    The evidence for this can be found when highlighting the UK’s economic problems is branded as “unpatriotic” or “talking britain down” when what the government really means is that concerns over the economy are an implicit criticism of the government. If you’re of a statist bent that is heresy.

    • 415
      FG says:

      That’s what you end up with, with a sociopath like Gordon Brown in power.

    • 432
      Sting's Beard says:

      Well argued British Militia. Lets not get confused over this double dip bollocks. Economists are a bunch of T***ers who use Gobbldeygook so that we dont realise that they are less credible than a Chinese Herbalist. The fact is our economy shrunk by 6% last year and in any laymans way of speaking it can not be said to have recovered until we get that 6% back. All talk of recovery because we had 0.01% growth in one quarter is Bollocks.

      We are so F***ed The true level of the PSBR will be about 250Billion. There simply is no more scope for squeezing much more tax out of us. At the top end the rich would flee the country. The rest of us simply have not much left to give H M treasury. My best guestimate is that the Government might screw another 2% GDP worth of tax out of us. No the overhelming bulk of deficit reduction will have to come through massive cuts in Public Spending. People simply haven’t begun to realise what is about to hit them. No country in the repesentative democratic age has ever been forced to make the cuts which I believe are now necessary. The next 10 years are going to be Hell and its all down to Blair and McDoom. I doubt if our political system is robust enough to cope with the crap that is about to be unleashed.

      • 439
        British Militia says:

        The government haven’t got the guts to raise 2% of GDP worth of taxes so they plan to print money out of thin air and inflate away the debt. Inflation (that is an increase in the money supply not the symptom of nominal price rises) has been used by tyrannical governments in the past who exploit their position of monopoly suppliers of a nation’s currency by debasing it to fund their extravangence. If the government were honest it would just raise taxes on the poor but destroying their savings instead gives the illusion of restraint on tax.

        Worst still is their typical contempt for hard money and commodities (ie gold) as hoarding precious metals as a hedge against inflation is seen as a criticism by the people of monetary policy. It’s why FDR banned private ownership of gold during the great depression and why Gordon Brown had a mass sell off of the nations gold. They weren’t stupid decisions, they were deliberate actions to minimise the financial independence of the people.

        Debasing the currency and defecit spending will not end with the Tories either. Most importantly, they won’t address the real problem of monetary policy. It never changes from one administration to the next. The artificial setting of interest rates and the availiblity of money is the fundamental cause of the business cycle. Until the government accepts that the central planning of the money supply is the road to ruin, we will continue to have this inane and pointless discussions about how to ensure economic recovery, which party is best placed to manged said economy and remain confused as to why asset price bubbles and malinvestment wreak havock with our lives.

  132. 417
    Martin Day says:

    A man pulls wife into bedroom and rips off her clothes. “Please darling, do a handstand against the full length mirror on the wall”.

    “Hmmm,” she thinks. “Kinky… I like it.”.

    She does the handstand and her hubby pulls her legs apart and puts his chin on her privates. “The boys down the pub are right,” he says, “I would suit a goatee!”

    • 424
      Glenn Beck says:

      Labours 2000 election Pledge

      Cut class sizes down to 30 or under for five, six and seven-year-olds.

      Clamp down on persistent young offenders.

      Slash NHS waiting lists by 100,000.

      Get 250,000 under-25s off the dole.

      Tighten Government spending and borrowing to ensure low inflation and boost the economy.

      What a load of BOLLOX – MARKS OUT OF 10 ANYONE?

      • 428
        Glenn Beck says:

        Labours 2005 Pledge card

        1. Your family better off
        2. Your family treated better and faster
        3. Your child achieving more
        4. Your country’s borders protected
        5. Your community safer
        6. Your children with the best start

        EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE bollox!

        • 429
          Glenn Beck says:

          This lot make my eyes bleed

          • Christy says:

            To Glenn.
            They dont make my eyes bleed,my reaction is to reach for the shotgun with alphamax bb’s up the barrel.
            Further to your comment on your child will achieve more,a story for you,my grandson aged 8 was telling me what they were doing at school,when I said to him what do they teach you about the times tables he said ah yes we are doing the six times tables.
            Out of devillment I said what about the thirteen times tables,he said do you know that grandad I said yes,do you want to know it,being that he is quite bright and like a sponge for info he said yes,to cut a story short and this is the gospel truth I taught him to recite the thirteen times table within a week.
            If I say to him now and he is 9 what is 13x whatever I get an instant answer.
            The downside is 12 months later he is now on the nine times table,what are these bloody teachers about.

  133. 420
    nell says:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8522025.stm

    I see gordon has especially invited climate change scientists and activists to his launch on Saturday, which is apparently taking place in the west midlands – no doubt in one of those constituencies they think will be at risk at the next election.

    Oh please tell me it’s twatson’s!!!

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251881/Ministers-lavished-9m-climate-change-stunts–public-opinion-left-cold-global-warming-propaganda.html

    I’m especially pleased gordon has invited the climate change lobby in light of this Taxpayers Alliance research that exposes gordon’s government for throwing £9million away on with the sinister goal of ‘Attitude Modification’ re Climate Change. The report goes on to say it was money wasted on sensationalist propaganda that had no scientific basis. And that in fact the propaganda was ‘utterly bonkers and misleading’.

    Says everything about gordon’s government!!!

  134. 444
    Gordoom cooks the books says:

    My bro loses his job Sat at Chorus Redcar he`s got a degree in engineering and has worked from Wales to Russia to South Africa to Dubai to Sweden always been headhunted you get the picture,sent his CV all over the UK as a bit to long in the tooth to go globe trotting guess what ZILCHO but never mind Gordo says he can retrain as a bus driver thank fuck for the Liebour party, chin up mate

    • 464
      Anonymous says:

      I know the feeling mate. BA, two MA’s and a PhD here. Ninety six job applications in the UK and fuck all. Actually had to sign on! Fuggin hilarious as hoon on desk tried to dock my money based on “royalties you recieve for your books.” Three applications to the US–and I got a job. Abandon the fuckin hell that is the UK.

  135. 448
    Sir Barrington Minge says:

    Picture the scene.

    A drafty room in a house in Kircaldy three weeks after the General Election.
    A large, grubby man in a crumpled suit sits before a fire comprised of a single lump of coal.
    He absently munches on the contents of his nose.
    Somewhere a door bangs….
    Sarah….Sarah?…..silence.

    He heaves a sigh and mutters “I wonder why nobody likes me?”

    The lights fade as he continues to explore his nasal cavities.

    Life is not easy for a hated ex-Prime Minister

  136. 450
    Gordoom cooks the books says:

    Falklands worked for Thatch in 82 Khaki election an all that are you thinkin what i`m thinkin gordo is very very desperate don`t ya know

  137. 456
    Christy says:

    Final thought before I bugger off to watch the rigged question time with Dumbleby.
    This bunch of Fabian/marxist/bilderberg crowd of NuLab tossers should eventually be prosecuted for crimes against this country.
    What this treasonous crowd of low life scum have done is beyond the normal politics of a democratic country.
    The name of Liebour should be forever associated with the destruction of all the values of what we held dear in this country.
    Finally to the people who will still vote liebour,YOU ARE TRAITORS TO THIS LAND.

  138. 469
    Anonymous says:

    Ensuring Economic Recovery (but only of China’s, from where most goods now come)
    Protecting Front Line public services( but not those directly dealing with the public)
    Standing up for the many (who haven’t contributed)
    Protecting Future Jobs (but not those of British workers)

  139. 470
    Anonymous says:

    I note the Prime Mentalist is quoted as aying the Falklands are fully protected, hope its better than jobs at Corus?

  140. 472
    harpic says:

    My legacy remains to be seen said Gordon Brown crapping behind the Cabinet Room curtains.

  141. 474
    harpic says:

    How do you pick your nose with no finger nails – Gordon should tell the Nation on TV his secret.

  142. 481
    Odds Bodkins says:

    When are we going to get the live TV debates from the BBC/Sky/ITV?

    I so want to see the big three lock horns. Gordon Brown has so far ducked any kind of logical debate, preferring to mindless repeat his same moronic mantras.

    It is a pity that prick Dimbleby has to cover the BBC one, I would have much preferred Paxman, or better still Andrew Neil.



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