February 19th, 2010

Gordon’s Greek Gaffe

Gordon was mingling with other lefty failures today at the “Progressive Governance Conference” – A collection of lefty leaders working out how they can use the economic crisis to increase public spending even further. Not that the Greek economy could get much worse, but the last thing Prime Minister George Papandreou needed was a photo-op with Jonah. In a rather rude fashion it seems the Prime Mentalist snubbed the Greek PM by refusing to name-check him in his speech.

You would expect Gordon to be happy to draw attention to the only European leader to be in a worse situation than himself.


497 Comments

  1. 1
    Another Engineer says:

    Are Greece in a worse situation? At least they are being forced to do something about it. We haven’t even got past denial yet.

    • 11
      GB, PM, Chief Prat and Wibblebottom says:

      I utterly refute the suggestion that we haven’t got past denial yet

      • 81
      • 162
        Lettuce C says:

        Indeed, you’re still in the desert.

        • 175
          Hang The Bastards says:

          The Greeks are well & truely fucked now !

          Best avoid the place for this summer hols !

          • Cameron's pink poll says:

            “I know there are gay people who have conservative values – like wanting us to be supportive of business and enterprise, wanting to have strong defence, believing in the strong defence of liberty and these kind of things – but in the past have felt held back because the Conservative Party was sending them a signal that we didn’t support them or their lifestyle,” he says in one long gulp of prose. “That has changed. I think we can look gay people in the eye and say, ‘You can now back us… because we now support gay equality’.”

            Cameron starts to list a range of ways he says the Tories have shed their homophobia like dead skin. “I would particularly point to that speech [at the party conference] where as a Conservative leader I stood up and said I support commitment and marriage – whether it is between a man and a woman, or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman. Find me another Conservative leader, not just in Britain but somewhere in the Western world, who has done that – and been applauded for doing it.

          • albacore says:

            What creature is more adept at sloughing its skin than a snake?

          • Butch Mandy says:

            Gordon’s number one in this top ten…

            http://tinyurl.com/yj493hx

          • talamunji says:

            Several snakes.

    • 12
      Loser says:

      The Greeks lost their marbles.

      I hope we can lose the unelected Brown who lost HIS marbles a long long time ago.

    • 35
      Tennerpants says:

      Beware of Greeks boring Gordon.

    • 37
      Labour Rapid Rebuttal Unit says:

      Gordon is obviously busy holding the reins of power not blogging on a website, he is a serious man for the serious times we are in, Cameron would just rather NOT give Mr Populousolowasalous whatever 5 bills and let the Greeks die provoking a refugee crisis in the Mediteranean.

      You are all fools. Grand Marshall Marshall wouldn’t spit on your disgusting plans. Vote Labour for Victory!

    • 51
      Anonymous says:

      “Buddy can you spare a dime?” Only difficulty is I can’t work out who said it first!

    • 54
      anonymouse says:

      The IMF are waiting for us both inside.

      • 78

        Go to about 1.13 in.
        The fun starts there.
        Greece 13% of GDP – Hugh Hendry tells politicians that they are stuffed.

        • 278
          Raving Loon says:

          Funny how the guys on state payroll advocate more govt spending but the Hedge fund manager who has to make his own way in the world advocates fiscal restraint and living within your means.

          • Government spending on roads would be welcome. That would create real jobs of benefit. Spending is out of control, because there is no logic to the type of spending let alone the scale of spending.

            HTF are we going to benefit from Overseas aid directly? Index linked non-contributory pensions? Bonus payments for Desk Warriors? A 40% increase in Government spending promoting services that we don’t value, or doubt their efficiency in the delivery of? Or setting up multiple Inquiries with so narrow a remit, as to be useless? Etc. Ad Infinitum.

          • Angry as fuck says:

            Did you say “Hedge fund manager who has to make his own way in the world”?

    • 80
      DisgustedOfMitcham2 says:

      If The Independent is to be believed, the Greeks actually have a slightly smaller budget deficit than we do: theirs is 12.7%, and ours is 12.8%.

    • 304
      Martin Day says:

      Wow. Never thought of it like that. You just blew my mind. lol

      • 425
        homeless conservative says:

        Martin day
        If youi would ,just for a moment ,stop thinking like a prat you may just realise that yours is a lost cause

    • 465
      Gordon Brownbeard says:

      All my eonomists think we have done the right thing!

  2. 2
    Anonymous says:

    Does he like it GREEK style ?

    Ask Lord Mandy of Fondlebum !

    • 43
      Anonymous says:

      Are you referring to “Lord Fondelburms of petite Boise” , the well known Clapham Commoner by any chance?

      After his triumph securing the futures of the Cadbury workers I hope his new found buddies at Chorus won’t try to be over-reliant upon his support. Why don’t they get the Scottish Scunner to visit them too, that should cook their gooses well and truly.

      • 431
        homeless conservative says:

        Mxacndelson is a corrupt bastard quite prepered to use his dead mother as cover for the bribes he took to buy his london abode shared with his diusgustinly promiscuouos loverwho is quite prepared to hire himself out to the highest bidder in order to supplement the household income now that the expenses scam has become a little difficult to continue

    • 126

      Give me your stifado, big boy!

  3. 3
    Anonymous says:

    what a pair of muppets!

    • 19
      anonymouse says:

      Off to Coventry tomorrow, the city bombed flat by the Germans to lecture the British voters about how to run an economy bombed flat by George “Papandreou” Brown.

      • 53
        Lanchester Daily News says:

        Slag off Brown by all means but there’s nuthin’ wrong with Coventry it’s been re-built after it was flattened on the night of 14 November 1940(with thousands killed by the way so perhaps a jest too far ?)and the Cathedral and the Sutherland Tapestry is world class. Not to mention we have a unique tourist attraction -Lady Godiva who rides naked through the streets(there is actually a women who does this enactment periodically too)Not many towns can boast that latter item !!! The role of “Peeping Tom” is vacant if you’re interested ?

        • 58
          The Admiral says:

          body stocking sir…

          But we did make the better cars, that is for sure.

          And who can miss the spirit in the old Cathedral. oh la…

        • 66

          That fabulous ring road too.
          And the third rate shopping centres make it a joy to behold.

        • 96
          City of Vice says:

          Pity the Luftwaffe cannot come back to finish the job. Coventry is a shit hole.

        • 437
          homeless conservative says:

          IF any city in england had to be flattened by the nazis I would be unable to nominate somewhere other than Coventry as more capable of milking the tragedy unless it was liverpool.

  4. 4
    Praguetory says:

    I thought it was right wing governments that were the problem.

    • 59
      Up sh1t creek says:

      • 70
        Jolyon Wagg says:

        The crap in the background certainly made me sick… No comment re: foreground.

        • 86
          genghiz the kahn says:

          growth, weath creation, enterprise, profits:

          funny how those words are missimg from Brown’s word cloud.

          just goes to show he is a socialist Hunt.

        • 251
          Scopes says:

          If you can stand to watch this demented fucker, he’s just reading some words. He hasn’t the first notion what it is he’s saying. He could have been reading Harry Potter (or Willy the Wizard, they’re both the same) for all he knew.

          His attention is given to nothing but the tele-prompt screen on his left. His entire focus is on that sheet of glass. What has he been prescribed?

          Worse, does he really believe the bollocks he’s reading?

          The man is in a seriously bad way.

          “…well-financed right wing…” what the fuck is the point of that description of nobody in particular.

          It’s always some other c-unts fault never his, yada yada…

          In case this idiot has forgotten, the looming catastrophe we;re now living through was not spotted by the regulatory framework that he put in place until it was too late far less were these regulators able to do anything to save the situation.

          By then he’d found the family silver, sold it and spent the proceeds, Then he started on the credit cards. Once they were maxed out we were well and truly fucked. We still are, to the tune of trillions.

          He, nobody else, broke the sound supervisory and regulatory system set up after BCCI went tits-up in the 90s. His farting around with the system just fucked everything up and invited disaster.

          Either he’s a bumbling incompetent or a traitor to this country.

          Christ I fucking despise the man.

          • Call me Infidel says:

            I can’t stand to watch him either. He makes me nauseous. All that jaw wobbling as well. Wtf is that about?

          • The big D says:

            The latter definition seems more and more correct as each day passes.

            The results of the communist indoctrination in Brown’s youth are written in capital letters all over the UK economy, UK laws, UK historical freedoms and the surrender of UK governance to Brussels.

            Why else would the Brown Biased Communication (BBC) be setting the scene for repeal of treason laws? Just in case?

          • waste of macromolecules says:

            He’s just a spasticated fucking c.unt, deeply hated by millions. How the fuck can he live like that?

            Pardon my French.

      • 490
        Airey Belvoir says:

        The great history student confuses the Hapsburgs with with the Bourbons. What a Hunt.

  5. 5
    John Bull says:

    beware of greeks causing gaffs

  6. 6
    Nana Mouskouri says:

    It’s all Greek to me.

  7. 7
    Harry's Tottle says:

    We Greeks were please not to get a mention. Remember, it all started with Brown

  8. 9
    Anonymous says:

    This is a bit like the West Ham – Portsmouth spat…

    One needs the other to be much crappier without the possibility of rules being bent to give the weaker party a let off.

  9. 10
    The small print says says:

    The EU’s biggest twats

  10. 14
    gone fuckin mental says:

    what one the master and what ones the student?

  11. 15
    Brown's Buggered Britain says:

    I’m sure that with a bit of advice from Gordon the Greek economy could get VERY much worse.

  12. 20
    Stepney says:

    Nice photo. Although if I were in Nick the Greek’s shoes I wouldn’t have let the mad fucker within 10 feet of me.

    Can we now assume that within the next week The Elgin Marbles will be destroyed in a fire, the Acropolis will collapse in a freak earth tremor and all Greek Yoghurt products are to be withdrawn in a mass Salmonella scare?

  13. 21
    The small print says says:

    Why are there four naked men in a bath in the advert?

  14. 24
    Anonymous says:

    ID twitting general election to be called sunday–for march

  15. 25
    Sir William Waad says:

    Gosh – somebody worse dressed than Gordon! That coat looks as though it came from Matalan.

  16. 26
    terrace bar frequenter says:

    dumb and dumber

  17. 27
    Leftie Twat says:

    We’re all wankers together.

  18. 28
    Alastair Campbell is my rentboy says:

    Grease monkey meets Greece leader

  19. 33

    Oh, so now it all started in Greece?

    • 63
      Flat Earther says:

      Incontinent, fiscal moron and incontinent, fiscally stuffed, greek counterpart preen themselves out side No. 10 for the benefit of their gullible fan base preparatory to top level discussions as to who gets the award for going bust first.

  20. 34
    Albert Hall says:

    Oh dear, that picture is worth a thousand words. It tells me that the Greek economy and Papawotsisname are both well and truly in the s**t big time. What on earth possessed him to shake the hand of Jonah the Jinx? He cannot know what we know.

  21. 39
    Cato Street Conspirator says:

    ‘A collection of lefty leaders working out how they can use the economic crisis to increase public spending even further.’

    Yes, that’s what those lefty leaders Chamberlain and Hitler did in 1939 – started a war so they could use the economic crisis to increase public spending even further. Of course, that other lefty Churchill wanted them to start it even earlier – but would they listen?

  22. 40
    David Cameron says:

    Was at a footy game the other week.

    A player decided to pick up a dog turd and hurl it into the crowd.

    The shit hit the fan.

  23. 41
    John Cipher says:

    I don’t think they are in a worse position are they? We are closer to the Pit, the Abyss, crossing the River Acheron etc.

  24. 44
    Big surprise for BBC says:

    BBC website – 20 vs 60 debate – Edna said:

    “Interesting how this story has a much more prominent place on the BBC news website (and its own HYS!) than last week’s story of another group of economists saying the exact opposite and backing the Tory position.

    I know it can’t possibly be any form of bias because the BBC is totally impartial when it comes to politics, isn’t it? So would some Tristram care to explain why else the profile of the 2 stories on the BBC is so different?

    Edna”

    About 90% of big response suggest Labour can’t be trusted and CUTS should be NOW !!!

    Cop that BBC !!!

    • 68
      Civil Servant says:

      If only the BBC were as unbiased as their window-licking commenters.

    • 105
      City of Vice says:

      Meanwhile, the big story leading the BBC Six O Clock News is Tiger Woods confessing to having a few shags. Some time ago.

      You couldn’t make it up.

      Commie bastards.

      • 140
        Sting's Beard says:

        All economists talk Bollocks. Wasn’t it J K Galbraith or some other power Geek who said the only reason for the existence of economists is that they make astrologers look respectable. Economics is known as the dismal Science but its not even an Art is it.

      • 211
        The Bottle Fed Triplet says:

        Not a few shags CofV, he was reported as having “cheated on his wife”. What does that mean? It sounds like he coughed loudly just as she was taking a short putt on the ninth green.

        He wasn’t ‘cheating on her’ you BBC twerps, he was betraying her, he was humiliating her, he was being unfaithful, he was committing adultery!!

        Cheating on her! for Pete’s sake, how squeamish can you get. I guess the word Adultery is ‘too judgemental’.

    • 157
      A clever expert Economist says:

      If in trouble with debt, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more,

    • 231
      Biased But Convincing says:

      Quite right – we at the Beeb are always scrupulously balanced. 60 is more than 20 so – obviously therefore – more coverage.

  25. 47
    Gordon Brown says:

    I refute the allegation that we’re not in a “worse” situation than Greece.

    Due to my fantastic economic management over the last 13 years, we’re actually in a “worse” situation than Greece.

    We used to be “worse” than any country in the “developed” world when this recession ended for all the other countries, but we’re now “worse” than any country in the entire world, including Zimbabwe.

    My left-leaning teachers at university told me that the more money we owe, and the less likelihood that there is of us ever paying it back (ie the “worse” it is according to conventional economic “wisdom”), the better it is for everyone, because, as Pol Pot quite rightly said, everyone needs to be entirely dependent on a central government, private enterprise must be eliminated, and we must all become hunter-gatherers again who supply food for a central state which will then dish-out the food.

    All hail me, the economic genius of the millennium.

    • 67
      Westminster Village People says:

      Get fucked, you mincing, pigeon-toed slut.

      And take your clammy, stinking arsehole with you.

      • 95
        Gordon Brown says:

        You can say what you want, it doesn’t bother me.

        I have the last laugh no matter what you say/do; I’ve got a guaranteed huge pension paid for entirely by you and all your mates, despite the fact that I’ve ruined your future and plundered your pensions.

        Shit, even my fellow labour MPs who let me do all this stuff will get 60grand each in may simply for being kicked out for negligence.

        Voters: “You ruined the country and stole my pension and fucked up all hope, and I never want to see you darken the doors of politics ever again…..here’s 60grand of my money and a guaranteed pension that I paid for…”

        Heap whatever abuse you want on me; doesn’t matter; I’ve got all your money, and you’re all fucked.

        mwah-ha-ha-ha

        • 145
          Sting's Beard says:

          If you can keep your pension while all around are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you are indeed an MP my son!!

        • 161
          A Brilliant Chancellor says:

          Not forgetting that my pension is Index Linked.

          So you’re all fucked and I’m home free.

          Ha Ha.

        • 185
          A Pensioner says:

          You’ll only be collecting that pension as long as you are alive. Think about that, TWAT.

  26. 55
    statechaos says:

    Gordon says ‘You’re not the One That I Want’
    ‘I’ve got bills, they’re multiplying, and I’m losing control’
    Greece is the word…..

  27. 56

    I just asked my mate Demis at the kebab shop how long he thinks the Greeks will be suffering under this debt burden.

    He said, “Forever and ever, forever and ever, innit?”

    Actually, he sang it in a very high-pitched castrato.

  28. 62
    streamfisher says:

    Looks like the caption competition that got away, Prime mentalist shakes hands with the only other leader left in the EEC to share the same economic vision as himself = a vision total ruin!.

  29. 64
    Ron_Zeal says:

    The only un-weathered person in that photo is the Front Door

  30. 65
    christy says:

    So McBust is going to speak about crisis management and the strategy you should pursue when your country is well and truly Greeked.
    You just couldn’t make it up.

  31. 72
    Epicurean says:

    Greek prime minister Takis Thepiss finally meets someone more corrupt, deranged and incompetent than himself.

  32. 74
    anon, anon, anon...... says:

    Don’t wish to spoil it for EastEnder fans, BUT I have it on good authority it was MOSSAD wot dun it.

  33. 76
    My_Place says:

    Gordon: “I’d invite you in but I’ve lost the fucking keys!”

  34. 76
    Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

    I get on extremely well with Bubbles…..Housing Bubbles, Credit Bubbles,

  35. 79
    Govt Website Advice says:

    DIRECT ADVICE FROM GOVT WEBSITE – DIRECT GOV

    1. Plan your way out of debt – Avoiding over-commitment
    Managing your money and using credit without getting too deeply into debt
    2. Budgeting – How to work out a budget to make sure that your income is more than the amount of money you spend
    3. Dealing with debt problems – How to deal with debt problems by establishing priorities, setting a personal budget, talking to creditors and getting impartial and independent advice
    4. Which debts to pay off first – Information on prioritising debts and what might happen if you ignore your debts
    5. Ways out of debt – How to get out of debt by increasing your income, reducing your spending and coming to arrangements with creditors
    6. Consolidating debts – Consolidation loans – what they are, when they’re useful and the pros and cons of getting one
    7. Setting up a debt management plan

    If you’re struggling to meet repayments on money you owe, you could consider setting up a debt management plan

    • 94
      Susie says:

      But this advice is just for the little people.

      Important people who’ve saved the world and distinguished professors of economics know you have to keep on spending and borrowing as much as possible.

      • 152
        Sting's Beard says:

        Yeah how did that guy with the Beard with the unspellable name come to get a Nobel prize. It certainly couldn’t have been for what he was talking about because he talked bollocks.

        • 188
          c.eng says:

          I thought that. He spouted absolute gold plated gob shite.

          No wonder they kept telling us he was a Nobel Prize Winner.

          Just goes to show ‘Bullshit still baffles brains’

      • 476
        Les Bos says:

        60 v 20, you know.

    • 109
      The Admiral says:

      Pointless guff when you have no interest in what little money you’ve saved.

      Just stupid…

    • 121
      Gordons Advice says:

      1. DIRECT ADVICE FROM GORDON TO ALISTAIR
      1. Spend your way out of debt – Avoiding over-caution
      Borrow money and worry later your children can pay it back.
      2. Budgeting – How to work out a budget to make sure that your income is less than the amount of money you spend
      3. Dealing with debt problems – How to deal with debt problems by establishing priorities, fiddle all figures as much as possible and hide debt,
      4. Which debts to pay off first – See item 1
      5. Ways out of debt – How to get out of debt by selling reserves, increasing tax, increasing inflation and de-valuing the pound
      6. Consolidating debts – Consolidation loans – Leave to IMF
      7. Setting up a debt management plan – Don’t be silly
      If you’re struggling to meet repayments on money you owe, wait until after the election.

      • 154
        Sting's Beard says:

        Don’t forget to sell off any spare peerages you may have and pocket the change!

      • 173
        Gordons economic Primer says:

        It is important that when one finds oneself in debt that you do not cut off the “stimulus” too soon. For example if youve maxed out your credit cards , you must continue to spend on all those projects such as a new flat screen TV ( Hi Def obviously) , maybe build yourself that extension or conservatory youve always wanted and dont forget to book that holiday of a lifetime your know you deserve. Keep spending like there is no tomorrow and dont listen to those evil Tories !

  36. 83
  37. 88
    Fausty says:

    Gordy: You don’t happen to know the address of that guy Mephistopheles do you?

  38. 92
    bishop brennan says:

    Shurely he was ‘mincing with lefty colleagues’?

  39. 99
    Phoney Bliar, emoting and wiv stupid grin says:

    Firstly, I am very, – VERY rich!

    Secondly, I owe it all to you what voted Noo_Lie_Bore – which, lets face it, – is most of you!

    Thirdly, if my boy ‘Dave’ is anywhere near as convincing as I was, he’s got it made!

    Coz, hey! Trust me! I’m a straight kinda guy!

    Mr ‘Dave’ Camerhoon says:

    Hey! Trust me! I’m a straight kinda guy too!

    Not like Mr Brown – saying one thing and doing another!

  40. 102
    Benders for Brhoon says:

    Bottoms UP!

  41. 103
    Time Lord says:

    What’s a Grecian urn?

  42. 107
    Tachybaptus says:

    A recent remark by the Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou: ‘We’re trying to change the course of the _Titanic_. It cannot be done in a day.’

  43. 110
    Sir William Waad says:

    There’s a good Greek word for our Government – a kakistocracy, rule by the very worst.

  44. 112
    The Admiral says:

    AGH!…

  45. 120
    I didn't call my aide a cunt says:

    ” Oh yes I did”

    • 128
      Glenn Beck says:

      Lets be VERY clear on this!!!!

      The aim of the “Progressives” is nothing other than Marx by way of Evolution rather than Revolution. – but its still – MARX.

      • 249
        Watch the Skies! says:

        Evolution does not operate towards a predefined endpoint. What they are describing is Marxism by stealth, using imperceptible increments.

        And while I’m on the subject, calling your ideology ‘Progressive’ does not prevent its effects being a dead march to penury.

  46. 132
    George Papandreou says:

    Mr Brown also believes in the motto of the Greek Army – never leave your buddies behind.

  47. 133
    purpleline says:

    Guido – why has nobody asked the obvious question to Brown & the 60 economists, why is it ok for Greece to be forced into draconian cuts now and yet they favour Brtain waiting until 2011.

    Surely the same rules apply or is comrade Brown saying the EU is wrong and their calls for draconian emergency action is wrong????????

    • 160
      Sting's Beard says:

      Economists make it up as they go along. A lot of them are politicans hiding behind gobbledygook. You’d get more sense out of a pissed French philospher than an economist!!

      • 167
        nell says:

        They’re not the only one’s who make it up as they go along – add to them the anthropogenic global warming crew.

        And you have to ask where is there any truth now in British politics? Mostly what they spout is lies!!

        • 190
          tom cruise says:

          nell, you can’t handle the truth.

        • 202
          Wavy Davy Bullingdon Gravy loves to eat his Greens says:

          Would you like to invest in my top hole Green Bank?
          I recommend you Watch Al Gore’s Movie as I thought it was jolly super!!!

      • 264

        Ne pas vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué

        • 348
          Watch the Skies! says:

          Proof that Philosophy is useless: a practical mind would take the opportunity to create a lucrative ‘Bearskin Futures’ market.

  48. 138
    The IMF is coming says:

    Tomorrow?
    Election or bluff?

    http://twitter.com/DouglasGE2010

    • 159
      Gordon Brown says:

      Go to your constituencies and prepare your CV’s!

    • 171
      The Admiral says:

      To save you the trouble,

      DouglasGE2010Thanks 4 all ur warm welcomes – just got back to office and impressed with the response. Big day for Labour 2moro, will keep u updated
      about 2 hours ago from web Happy to join the Labour community on Twitter. I’ll be keeping u updated on the campaign and want to hear about #labourdoorstep from you
      about 6 hours ago from web

    • 183
      alexander tweeting fcuking hell says:

      “The sky is battleship grey, the mob is putting the piano wire around my neck as I tweet, but hey, no lamp post………oh I see, they’re attaching the wire to the back of a Land Rover. Very ingenious…..will keep you guys posted, it’s a great day for Labour tomorrow.”

  49. 141
    BillyBob ... reduce crime, prison numbers and reform the benefits system!! Stop immigration !! says:

    They are all heading for the Wilderness Years………and good riddance to the lots of them !!

  50. 151
    nell says:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/7267283/Britains-debt-set-to-be-higher-than-that-of-Greece.html

    At least Greece is confronting it’s problems. gordon is still in denial.

    Our public finances are, according to leading economists, likely to be in a worse state than those of Greece by the end of the year and our public debt will be the highest in the EU.

    • 163
      The Admiral says:

      Evening Nell. Bit late to-day aren’t we? Where have you been…?

      • 180
        nell says:

        tobogganning with young nell – though getting rather wet as the snow was melting – bit like gordon’s hopes of winning the election!

        • 186
          last bite of your cherry says:

          For an Admiral you’re not very observant are you? nell always starts late like all bleedin’ vampires, when the sun goes down.

          • nell says:

            You should have been replying to 159 and not 176 – you really need to get a grip of the technology and site layout!

            vampires? you mean those tax sucking labour people I presume!! Or maybe you’re one of them. Hmm?!

            Though I’ll admit I’m impressed your apostrophe is in the right place. Not something most labour folks do!

          • last bite of your cherry says:

            Ooh you bitch.

          • Read my lips says:

            Ken Clarke says Tories cannot rule out putting up taxes

            A Conservative government would not rule out raising taxes in order to shrink the UK’s deficit, shadow business secretary Ken Clarke has said.

            The Sunday Telegraph reported him saying it would be “folly” to rule out increases, including on VAT, alongside cuts in public spending.

            “Coming out of a recession when you have such a severe deficit, you can’t rule out putting up taxes,” he said.

            Last summer, shadow chancellor George Osborne declined to rule out increasing VAT.

            He said while the “bulk” of Britain’s deficit could be paid off by spending cuts, he was not going to give voters “cast iron” promises on individual taxes.

          • nell says:

            Well! So Ken Clarke is telling it how it really is. No gordon and his spend spend spend lies and spin!

            Thank God for someone who can tell the truth!!

          • fuckwit says:

            ‘Ken Clarke says Tories cannot rule out putting up taxes’

            ‘you mean those tax sucking labour people I presume!!’

          • nell says:

            Well let’s face it fw – the tories won’t be able to top gordon’s best and latest vote winning idea – to tax us £20,000 for dying!

            I just ‘love’ him – long may he live – he’s a great entertainment asset!!!!

            Hubby wants to know when gordon is going to come up with a plan for taxing the amount of air we breath – if he gets elected for another term , I suspect that’ll be his next tax strategy!!

          • fuckwit says:

            it would be “folly” to rule out increases, including on VAT

        • 192
          The Admiral says:

          Evening Nell.

          As for last…cherry, I fancy I reckon I’ve clocked Nell in the early morning before now. Is it possible Nell?…

          ps Our snow was minimal…

          • last bite of your cherry says:

            Yeah, that’s before the sun comes up.

          • nell says:

            Possible Admiral ? that I’m a vampire ? Nope – I’m too old now. I think I would have known by now if I was one of them!

            Is it possible that gordon will win the election? Nope – Not a hope in hell neither will there be a hung parliament (deep breath – fingers crossed!!)

            As for snow – more to come they tell us – so much for global warming!!

          • The Admiral says:

            Not vampire. Just felt I’d seen you here at breakfast time…?

          • nell says:

            Up at 6.30am most days – half term this week, promised myself some lazy mornings but I’m still waking up early!! – so I get up ,make a cup of tea and look at what’s happening with the news whilst the rest of the house still sleeps – bless!

    • 166
      Sting's Beard says:

      Plenty of estimates elsewhere that PSBR this year might actually hit 230Billion. First thing to do is sack every economist who didn’t see this coming!

    • 169
      60 Brilliant Economists says:

      If in trouble with debt, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, if you get in more trouble, you need to borrow more, ———

  51. 172
    Patrick says:

    You couldn’t make it up: the two biggest economy destroyers in Europe meeting up to smile and shake hands. It’s not about the PIGS, it’s about the GREUKS….wait a minute are we merging with Greece? Oh God, it fits…we’re doomed.

  52. 178
    The Politice of Denial says:

    Greek Prime Minister to PM ” I hear youve lost your ( Elgin) Marbles !

  53. 187
    nell says:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/regions/north_east_and_cumbria/8523887.stm

    Oh Dear gordon has pledged to save the Corus Plant on Teesside !

    That’s 1600 jobs down the drain then!!

  54. 189
    Anonymous says:

    A Big Day Tomorrow for Labour eh ! Maybe Gordon is goin to unveil his master plan for economic recovery…Ocean Finance !!!!

  55. 193
    Anonymous says:

    So there is speculation that Simon Cowell is to get married hmmm you know what I cant be arsed shaving think I might grow a beard.

  56. 200

    o/t but fun David Wright is a rubbish MP Group set up on Facebook

    But not for the reasons you might think. Apparently he has been a naughty boy, as far as his constituents are concerned!

  57. 220
    Caption Contest for the many and not the few. says:

    Caption contest:

    Shared thought bubble coming out both their heads with the words ” Thank Fuck Ive met someone who’s country is in a worse state than ours ! ”

    Never mind “Great Day” for Labour Promised Tomorrow.

  58. 223
    OldRockape says:

    Brown to save the Corus Plant!! Thats them Doomed then

    • 238
      nell says:

      And where is the lordly mandy, the business secretary who’s supposed to be saving the corus plant and the labour government at the same time?!

      Anybody else noticed what a low profile he’s keeping? Could that be because he knows he can’t save the corus jobs or gordon’s car crash government?

  59. 233
    Barnabas Scudamore says:

    Have just watched Mr Brown’s speech.

    “…now I am convinced, that the growth of the future, belongs to those countries which make and do things again….”

    Well, Corus has just shut and Cadbury has just been sold.

    This is like that scene out of Anchor Man when he reads anything on the autocue.

    I fail to understand, I truly do, how a person (regardless of who they are) can act like this ?

    Mr Brown has also sealed his fate with his strong communist ideas.

    Gordon has been watched and quietly observed for many years now(that new police officer, that replacement bodyguard,that different driver etc etc etc),with a generally increasing level of alarm and unease amongst those of us who will defend Her Majesty and the crown.

    This speech is justification for that unease.

    If the situation requires it, there are those of us who will defend Her Majesty and the Crown against such a threat by use of ANY means.

    “….relax Gordon, that’s the new gardner ! ”

    HA !

  60. 235
    anonymouse says:

    He thinks it’s a choir.

  61. 237
    Alex Smith says:

    This attack on our prime minister is disgraceful. He is an honourable man that saved us from the global financial crisis.

    • 239
      Engineer says:

      Are you Greek?

    • 240
      to hell with you says:

      At first I thought you were being ironic, but no, you really mean it don’t you, you poor, deluded fuck?

      Don’t worry, there’s special places for people like you, where the walls are nice and soft and your meals are prepared in a blender.

      What s fucking retard.

    • 242
      target says:

      What, like in no more boom and bust?

    • 243
      nell says:

      That’s why we’re the financially sick man of Europe then?

      And why gordon is despised in the Indian and Chineses Press for his half naked rant at respectable civil servants because he was rightly snubbed by Obama?

    • 248
      Beowulff says:

      Ye Gods. You actually meant it.

      Honourable ?? What happened to Our Gold, Our Pensions, Our Savings, Our Currency, Our Industry, Our Legislature, Our Education, Our Culture, Our Honour, not to mention Prudence and the End to Boom and Bust.

      We despise you and your Party. Long may you rot.

      Not long now !

    • 253
      Don't mention the degree says:

      Answer this for me then – if he’s so great and confirm whether the following is correct or total rubbish(which I hope it is because if it is true the implications are mega)

      A friend has just told me that they were listening to a person representing Jobcentreplus on radio5 Live to-day(?) talking about graduate employability and recommending that graduates do not put the fact that they have a degree or have been to university on their C/V or application form as this will put employers off employing them as they are to quote “too over-qualified” to be employable in the present recession?As most graduates are on first rung of employment ladder how the hell do they explain the three year gap from leaving school at 18 and applying for a job at 21 ? Do they say I’ve been in gaol;taking an extended gap year(s) – none of which would seem to me to increase their employability much either

      Here’s the government extolling the virtues of going to university/improving employability etc telling all young people to go to uni and the jobcentre telling them for godsake don’t tell a prospective employer cos’ it’ll make you unemployable !!!!!! If it’s true it’s a bloody disgrace. If it’s not true then I’m happy to be proved wrong because if jobcentreplus are telling people this it’s a betrayal of millions of young people who have done what they were advised to do by the government and they’ve got nothing for their troubles apart from debt

      • 260
        A Socialist says:

        Debt, it’s what we do best.

        We’re also pretty good at wasting your money uselessly,

        and the other thing we’re strong on, is misleading folk, especially the young.

      • 353
        Ted Bundy says:

        To explain the 3 year gap simply admit to a spell in a young offenders institute and being placed on the sex offenders register following a series of DNA linked sexually motivated crimes. This will look much better on a CV then many of the worthless modern degrees from phony universities that are just glorified pollys. At least it would show you were motivated.

    • 256
      Labour Listed until it sank says:

      How exactly has he saved us? 0.1% growth at a cost of £200bn.

      • 271
        Alex Smith says:

        He’s a Labour prime minister that has given his heart and soul to making the UK a better place. He has won awards internationally and 60 Economists say he’s right to your 20. Your are all sad Tories who know nothing.

        • 273
          The IMF is coming says:

          My Dad’s bigger than your Dad

        • 276
          Beowulff says:

          Just like Comrade Stalin worked to improve the lives of the captive Socialist States at the cost of more than 20 million dead.

          I voted Labour many years ago, now I loathe and despise you.

        • 281
          The small print says says:

          LOL 60 economists is all they can find? Gordon and Labour have been slapped down by more than 60 economists over the years, I remember the IMF heads also slapping him down on numerous occasions the very same people we will need to borrow money from.

      • 272

        He’s saved us for a rainy day because there aint gonna be much sunshine for us after the feck up he’s made of things!

    • 267
      Derek says:

      What an absolutely brilliant idea to post on Fawkes’ blog Alex….

    • 286
      Anonymous says:

      he’s a great big fuckin liar and a bully, and you my friend are a c u n t.
      now fuck off and get back to your stalinist propaganda.

  62. 241
    Anonymous says:

    Gordon: Are you the only nutter in your family?

    Παπανδρέου: τσακίσου από δώ!

  63. 245
    Axe The Telly Tax says:

    If McDoom gets any fatter he’ll be giving Demis Roussos a run for his money.

  64. 247
    Fat_Catz says:

    Brown: Are you the only nutter in your family?

    Papillon: Whatta you mean my family? ……. OUR family!!

  65. 254
    David Cameron says:

    Everyone laughed when I said I was going to be a clown, well they’re not laughing now!

  66. 257
    The Suicide watch officer at the BBC says:

    This is what will happen if Gordon doesn’t win the election, please we can’t afford the BBC ‘talent’ to do this sort of thing if the Tories lose. Norman Tebbit will cut us all a new arse.

    http://www.photoloco.com/images/CoyoteGun.jpg

  67. 262
    Wee Dougie says:

    Get the limo’s ready!

    • 265
      Beowulff says:

      Tumbrills might be more appropriate.

    • 311
      Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

      Isn’t it past your bedtime Dougie ???

      You can read the Alyingstre Campbell fairy story once more then it’s lights out.

  68. 266
    The small print says says:

    The IMF is having gold sales, I think they expect a call from us after the next election.

  69. 268
    caesars wife says:

    circle round trafalgar square for few days

  70. 282
    Gordons Blown our wealth says:

    It comes to something when the Greeks come to bail us out! I was expecting the IMF

    • 283
      Engineer says:

      Beggars can’t be choosers. And that’s pretty much what we’ll be reduced to if we don’t get a grip on public spending pretty sharpish.

    • 284
      nell says:

      I don’t think the IMF’s going to touch us – we are too deep in debt.

      Let’s face it we and the world see gordon as an irresponsible kid with a bottomless credit card!

      Frightening!

  71. 288
    British Militia says:

    All the economists on the list of 60 are employed by the state. Don’t expect a turkey to vote for christmas.

    Most individuals accept that you cannot spend more than you earn. We may not all have the sensibility to always adhere to this but it is accepted as wise council. If you spend more than you earn then you must borrow and live beneath your means as you repay debt. So much is obvious, except to governments of course. When you can borrow on the credit of millions under the pain of imprisonment if they refuse to comply, or print money out of thin air to monetise the national debt, then the rules that apply to each of us individually do not apply collectively, as far a politicians are concerned.

    Who economists support is irrelevent; it is not the government’s money to spend.

    • 418
      Susie says:

      Commie universities too. Warwick, Cambridge, LSE.

      • 455

        Cambridge wasn’t communist when I was there – apart from the sociologists and economists, that is…

        That twat Giddens (of the Blairite ‘third way’ nonsense) was teaching there when I was there, but I was an anarchist then, since softened to nihilistic libertarianism, so took no notice of the fool.

        Blanchflower’s background is even worse – Leicester ffs!

  72. 289
    Anonymous says:

    I don’t suppose that these 60 economists are the same ones who never saw all this happening in the first place?

    or are they the ones that gave help, advise and support in helping it happen originally?

  73. 290
    Down with Brown! says:

    Britain’s economy is in an even worse than Greece’s. At least the Greek PM admits there is a problem. Gordon is still in denial.

  74. 291
    Beowulff says:

    Just had a look at a Daily Mail blog, following McDoom’s lecture that the Tories resemble the Hapsburgs and therefore can not be trusted with the economy.

    The blog comments are almost unaminously pure vitriol toward McDoom and his party.

    Whatever the polls say I reckon the Socialistas are gonna get slaughtered at the GE and that there will lots of tactical voting to throw out Liebore candidates.

    Hopefully they will be reduced to no more than a small Celtic rump.

    • 296
      anon says:

      post a link please

      • 302
        Beowulff says:

        Beowulff’s not too hot on internet technology, but if you go to Mailonline > News and then click on ‘Brown likens Tories to Hapsburgs’ there are more than 470 comments shown below.

        PS If you could tell me how to post a link that would be most welcome.

        • 352
          Barnabas Scudamore says:

          I would also like to know how to post links / youtube clips.

        • 456

          1. Copy the link you wish to use (highlight it in the address bar and Ctrl-C)
          2. Type <a href=” then paste (Ctrl-V) the link you copied, then type “>
          3. Type some sort of description, then finish with </a>

          For example:

          <a href=”news.bbc.co.uk”>Pravda</a>

          Hope this helps.

    • 301
      He who dares and then chickens out seldom wins says:

      This “Will there/Won’t there be an election announced tomorrow fever is likely to rebound badly on Brown if he doesn’t now call the election tomorrow, Once again he and presumbably whoever is advising him(if anybody is)is allowing the speculation to build ever since the announcement of the Coventry Awayday. To-day and tonight pressure continues to build with bloggers releasing documents that seem to suggest that the announcemnet is imminent(Purnell certainly seems to think so) despite denials from “Senior unnamed Labour Sources”

      Brown may think that by allowing the speculation to build that he’s unnerving the Tories.Wrong ! He ‘s merely risking damaging what credability he has left for decisiveness if he “bottles” out again a la November 2007.

      I personally now can’t think of how he can pull back from the brink without collosal damage to that credability or his eventual electoral chances.If he doesn’t make the announcement tomorrow his four pretty tame pledges will fizzle out in the media as it is deluged by the “Brown Bottles it again” type headlines in the Sundays.

      Once again Brown seems to be just be an “unlucky politician” dogged by misfortune on every effort he makes and has the uncanny knack of shooting himself in the foot before he’s even said anything tomorrow

      If he does announce the election then he’s merely given the opposition warning 36 hours ahead of it and lost any political advantage. Is it any wonder under his stewardship the country is in the mess it is ? There must be total despair tonight in the Labour Party over his cackhanded management of what should be a big announcement whilst attacking the Tories comparing them to the “Hapsburgs” who I suspect 50% of electorate have never even heard(I susepect that they don’t figure much on the state education curriculum introduced by Labour)of and think is a family from Neighbours !!!

      • 305
        Beowulff says:

        This point is made several times on the Mail blog that he’s criticising the Tories for being elitist whilst drawing elitist analogies that his core vote will never understand.

        Apparently he’s also mistakenly quoting the Hapsburgs as forgetting nothing and learning nothing, when that was really applied to the Bourbons.

        Some think he’s in terminal meltdown.

        • 317
          He who dares and then chickens out seldom wins says:

          I think it was actually Talleyrand wasn’t it(?)that described as you quite rightly remind me, – the Bourbons as follows “they learned nothing and forgot nothing” which is probably more akin to Brown himself come to think of it.

          I think the Hapsburgs were more famous for inbreeding and the “Hapsburg Lip” rather than the qualities attributed to them by Brown

  75. 293
    Satire! says:

    Just had a look at a Daily Mail blog
    The blog comments are almost unaminously pure vitriol toward McDoom and his party

    • 309
      Beowulff says:

      It’s too satirical for me and I’m a pretty sarcastic old bastard.

      Out of 474 comments I came across 2 in support of McDoom.

    • 415
      over their heeds says:

      it’s the Mail
      are you really this fucking stupid?

      • 488
        Anonymous says:

        Strange the same hatred of Brown is also in evidence on The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sun in fact every fucking paper, him and his Government are hated through out the country . You just dont get it do you. You will though, just name the date and you’ll see.

  76. 299
  77. 300
    Anonymous says:

    How’s that “No more boom and bust workin’ out for ya?”

  78. 303
    Down with Brown! says:

    Tomorrow is McDoom’s birthday. I pray it will be his last as PM.

  79. 307
    Down with Brown! says:

    Labour’s election slogan = ‘A future fair for all’.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goose_Fair_Roundabout.jpg

  80. 313
    hang um high says:

    the masses are blind and stupid….Adolf Hitler.

    just whay Brown thinks .wake up the UK

  81. 318
    Greychatter says:

    I think Richard Branson has more idea about running the UK economy than either Gorgon Brown or Alistair Darling. Richard makes money and knows when to stop spending.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7252091/Sir-Richard-Branson-cut-spending-early-to-save-UK-economy.html

  82. 321
    Anonymous says:

    Gordon Brown is to promise that Labour will “stand up for the many” as he reveals the party’s themes and slogan for the general election.

    • 331
      mondeoman says:

      bull s**t

    • 332
      Down with Brown! says:

      Many = the millions who survive on state benefits, public sector workers, luvvies, big businesses who give money to Labour, those who live in regions Labour give money to and the Unions.

      The few = high earners, small business owners, those in the south east, those with aspiration for themselves and their families.

    • 337
      grobdj says:

      Can’t you just see it? Civilization starting all over again! A second chance! Heh- we’ll even build a railway and tunnel to the coast, go there for our holidays! Nothing can stop men like us! I’ve made a start already. Come on down here and have a look.

      In the cellar there was a tunnel scarcely ten yards long. It had taken him a week to dig. I could have dug that much in a day, and I suddenly had my first inkling of the gulf between his dreams and his power.

    • 442
      universal hiss says:

      That’s because he’s sold all the fuckin chairs.

  83. 322
    Down with Brown! says:

    Gordon Brown confuses the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons. It was Talleyrand who said of Louis XVIII after Waterloo that he had learned nothing, forgotten nothing. So much for his much celebrated career as a history student.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7271978/Gordon-Brown-confuses-Hapsburgs-and-Bourbons.html

  84. 323
    The Bottler says:

    “A future free for all”

    It’s so easy when you print money!

  85. 325
    Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

    No,no. That’s incorrect.

    Our new slogan is ‘Your future, fit for fuck all’.

    • 369
      Nurse Gladys Emmanuel says:

      Sir, you are Daniel Finkelstein, a man of wit and approbrium and I claim my £5. (Excellent prose Sir)

  86. 326
    Anonymous says:

    A “champagne socialist” is a pejorative political term originating in the United Kingdom. The phrase is used to describe a Labour Party politician, or other Socialist self-proclaimed advocate of the poor or working classes, who claims to support a form of socialist ideology, but who might disregard socialist ideals in their daily life. Champagne Socialists may claim to be against the Capitalist system but will still happily function in it and prosper from it. The term is sometimes used as an attack by opposing politicians to portray and ridicule their opponents as hypocritical.[citation needed]

  87. 327
    Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

    LARF

  88. 328
  89. 329
    Down with Brown! says:

    Douglas Alexander as set up a General Election twitter site.

    It looks like Gordon is going to take the plunge tomorrow.

    http://twitter.com/douglasGE2010

  90. 330
    and 13 years on says:

    • 339
      Down with Brown! says:

      Labour’s “achievements” in those 13 years:

      -22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain
      - 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all
      - The longest national tax code in the world
      - 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds
      - Gun crime up by 57%
      - Violent crime up 70%
      - The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe
      - The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000
      - The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world
      - The only G7 country with no growth this year
      - One in six young people neither earning nor learning
      - 5 million people on out-of –work benefits
      - Missing the target of halving child poverty
      - Ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead
      - Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe
      - Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads
      - Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league
      - Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths
      - Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy
      - The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat
      - Fatal stabbings at an all-time high
      - Prisoners released without serving their sentences
      - Foreign prisoners released and never deported
      - 7 million people without an NHS dentist
      - Small business taxes going up
      - Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe
      - Tax rises for working people set for after the election
      - The 10p tax rate abolished
      - And the ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust
      - Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth
      - Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied
      - Profitable post offices closed against their will
      - One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe
      - The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned when it didn’t fit
      - Police inspectors in 10,Downing Street
      - Dossiers that were dodgy
      - Mandelson resigning the first time
      - Mandelson resigning the second time
      - Mandelson coming back for a third time
      - Bad news buried
      - Personal details lost
      - An election bottled
      - A referendum denied

      • 347
        T.B£iar - the People's Messiah says:

        I told you we would make a difference…..

        • 359
          Old Nick Heavenly(real dimwit) says:

          You are all fucked. Thats fair, it’s all of you. It’s your future!

          A future fair for all!

          LARF!

          Emigrate, anywhere!

          • Bail Out at 10,000 feet says:

            We’re all Europeans now mate. As they say in Greece,”Our problems are your problems as well”

      • 438
        Alex Smith says:

        Just right wing propaganda.

        We have the message and the moral high ground, you cant understand when you are being helped. This is the cross we bear as true loyal Labour supporters following Brown in the recovery.

        Join us and understand our mission.

  91. 338
    Nurse Gladys Emmanuel says:

    With Liebour, there is no future, fair or otherwise, in fact there will be f*** all!

  92. 340
    Down with Brown! says:

    There should be a comma – a future, fair for all. A future fair for all means dodgems and candy floss for everyone.

  93. 342
    Down with Brown! says:

    A 4th term of Labour = A fête worse than death. Gordon and Darling will be doing the House of Horrors and Mandleson will be scaring people on the ghost train.

  94. 344
    Down with Brown! says:

    Another financial roller-coaster & same old merry-go-round of bullshit policies.

  95. 346
    New Labour says:

    It’s not about the past. It’s about tomorrow. Do you trust the party with no experience and no credible policies or do you go with the man who stood firm in the face of adversity? Who else could have rescued the nation from the excesses of the capitalist banking traitors who would have sold Britain down the river for a quick profit?
    Vote Tory if you wish but i warn you,don’t get sick or fall on hard times because you’ll get no help from the Bullingdon Boy’s club.

    • 355
      Labour Listed until it sank says:

      The former thanks.

    • 358
      Down with Brown! says:

      Brown’s policies have left the country borrowing six million pounds an hour while the bankers enjoy record bonuses and we have 0.1% growth. He has not rescued the nation he has left it in serious danger of collapse.

      The Tories aren’t going to cut the NHS budget so stop smearing their health policy. As for Cameron and Osbourne being in the Bullingdon. So what if they had a good time at university? Brown should have spent more time at university studying the difference between the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons.

      • 366
        Sweaty Balls says:

        I can’t tell my Bullingdons from my Bully Boys

        • 380
          New Labour says:

          There are two sorts of people. There are tories like Sir Nicholas Winterton who expect to travel first class curtesy of the other “types” who can ride in the cattle trucks of the profit driven privatised fat controllers.

        • 395
          New Labour says:

          I can’t tell my Sir Nicholas Winterton’s from “other types”.

    • 362
      grobdj says:

      What’s that future smell? Smells like the past to me

    • 364
      and 13 years on says:

      we dont get any help from champagne socialists either, unless ofcourse you aren’t originally from here. oh and you stole all my pension money so I wasn’t gonna need your help until you stole my money.

    • 365
      Nurse Gladys Emmanuel says:

      You really have bought it hook line and sinker haven’t you? Liebour didn’t rescue the nation, they sodding sold it in the first place!!

      • 383
        New Labour says:

        No. That was Thatcher’s legacy. If it moves,sell it to a speculator who’s only concern is a quick profit.

        • 404
          and 13 years on says:

          funny how all you socialists think the world commenced in 1979. You borrowed from the IMF in the 60′s, the unions ruined the british industries, because they were always on strike, and britain was the sick man of europe.
          you need to take some history lessons, sorry forgot under liebour, you dont teach english history any more or anything with England in it.

          YOU ARE JUST CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISTS. WHY NOT JUST GIVE ALL THAT YOU EARN TO THE POOR? NOW THAT WOULD bE THE TRUE SOCIALSIT THING TO DO SURELY?

          • New Labour says:

            Who destroyed British Steel? Consett 1980. Corby. Ebbw Vale. Shotten. Ravenscraig. And the knock on effects.

          • New Labour says:

            That one should have appeared below.

          • Banker Wankers says:

            no just give everything you own to Banker Wankers
            a triumph of the free market loved by all the public

          • and 13 years on says:

            the unions and the chapagne socialists like you destroyed all British industry with your high taxation and mis management of the economy in the sixties, just like now. history repeating itself

          • New Labour says:

            Now, as to spending, Labour traditionally have to make good Conservative underfunding to public services. Remember the state of the hospitals they inherited in 1997? Waiting lists of years not months. Schools with leaking roofs. Public transport fit for “other types” only.
            Good services cost money. only Labour are prepared to invest in services for all, not for the few.

          • and 13 years on says:

            the champagne socialists have been in power for 13 years now but it is still all thatchers fault. no wonder they dont want to talk about their mis-management of the economy over those 13 years of wasted expenditure.

            what we have now is brown’s legacy of overspending that 2 generations of our kids will inherit, just spending money they dont have just to stay in power and letting future generations pay for it.

            WHY NOT GIVE ALL YOU HAVE TO THE POOR? NOW THAT IS WHAT A TRUE SOCIALIST WOULD DO, SUPPED ALL YOUR CHAMPAGNE YET?

          • New Labour says:

            Thatcher destroyed 200 years of British manufacturing industry instead of re equipping and modernising it. Her asset stripping backers made a fortune off the scrap heap she left behind.

          • Red Rob(b)o(t) says:

            Thatcher was a union leader at British Leyland?
            A printer in Fleet Street?

    • 370
      Madness says:

      Mr New Labour

      you really must stop drinking in the morning.

      You are making a fool of yourself.

      • 487
        Anonymous says:

        Mr New Labour do you have to get up early in the morning to light your Coal Fire which I trust you still use. That nasty Mrs Thatcher destroyed the mining industry, and how we miss it.

    • 376
      New Labour says:

      Gordon Brown’s whole life has been but a preparation for the challenge that faces the integrated global network. Don’t think this is just a local problem. The future needs men who can lead across continents not just the playing fields of Eton.
      When the time is right,the right man will emerge.

      • 387
        ERRATA says:

        I can only lead incontinence not across continents

        • 394
          New Labour says:

          Most Tory policy is made when the man on the spot is shitting himself under the media spotlight. How many wobbles has Gideon had in the past two months? Marriage Tax. Inheritence Tax. Cuts.
          Osbourne puts one foot in,one foot out,in out,in out,shake it all about. You do the OK Coke and U turn about. That’s what Conservatives are all about.

          • and 13 years on says:

            and you are all champagne socialists, stealing hard earned money for your disaster projects. You ruined pensions in this country, that was gordons first act.

      • 393
        and 13 years on says:

        you have been studying brezhnev and the polit burea havn’t you?

        • 397
          New Labour says:

          Unlike you who needs to study a dictionary.

          • and 13 years on says:

            they are too expensive now to buy, with inflation so high after 13 years of a champagne socialist liebour government.

        • 403
          New Labour says:

          Apologies. I shouldn’t have been so harsh. We are apt to get carried away after a rousing local Party rally at the Working Mens club. The election strategy has been outlined and the polls show that it’s still there to be won.
          Play up and play the game,as Dazy Dave would say.

          • and 13 years on says:

            HOW MUCH IS THE CHAMPAGNE DOWN THE WORKING MENS CLUB? IS IT CHEAPER THAN AT JEROBOAMS?

            I DOUBT THE GUYS AT CORUS OR CADBURY ARE CELEBRATING RIGHT NOW!

      • 402
        troglodyte says:

        When he does you really won’t like him at all. He may make Cromwell look like a social worker.

    • 396
      and 13 years on says:

      champagne socialists! pity the corus workers wont be able to sup it any more. never mind eh? just more for you champagne socialists!

    • 416
      and 13 years on says:

      After nearly 13 years in Government, Labour is telling its activists that they should not use the party’s achievements in power when seeking votes at the election.

      you champagne socialists are so great that even your own leader bans you from talking about your 13 years of mis-management. you can’t talk about your achievements because there arn’t any.

      • 423
        New Labour says:

        Apart from being in on the great European adventure that will redefine the 21st century.
        Look to the future. Labour is more in step with our EU allies where we can speak with a greater voice than conservative squeaks lost in the wind of change.

        • 428
          and 13 years on says:

          THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISTS LOVE THE EU. WHO WOULDN’T?

          FIRST CLASS RAIL AND AIR FARES

          OVER £400K PER ANNUM AS AN MEP PLUS EXPENSES

          ACCOUNTS NEVER SIGNED OFF NOW FOR OVER 10 YEARS,

          VERY MUCH IN KEEPING WITH THE CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISTS IN POWER HERE. JUST LET SOME ONE ELSE PAY WHILE WE CARRY ON SPENDING.

        • 430
          and 13 years on says:

          champagne socialists and Liebour’s “achievements” in 13 years:

          THESE ARE BROWN’S ACHIEVEMENTS AS PM AND CHANCELLOR, the legacy your families wil pay for generations to come.
          l
          -22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain
          - 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all
          - The longest national tax code in the world
          - 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds
          - Gun crime up by 57%
          - Violent crime up 70%
          - The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe
          - The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000
          - The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world
          - The only G7 country with no growth this year
          - One in six young people neither earning nor learning
          - 5 million people on out-of –work benefits
          - Missing the target of halving child poverty
          - Ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead
          - Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe
          - Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads
          - Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league
          - Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths
          - Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy
          - The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat
          - Fatal stabbings at an all-time high
          - Prisoners released without serving their sentences
          - Foreign prisoners released and never deported
          - 7 million people without an NHS dentist
          - Small business taxes going up
          - Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe
          - Tax rises for working people set for after the election
          - The 10p tax rate abolished
          - And the ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust
          - Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth
          - Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied
          - Profitable post offices closed against their will
          - One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe
          - The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned when it didn’t fit
          - Police inspectors in 10,Downing Street
          - Dossiers that were dodgy
          - Mandelson resigning the first time
          - Mandelson resigning the second time
          - Mandelson coming back for a third time
          - Bad news buried
          - Personal details lost
          - An election bottled
          - A referendum denied

        • 439
          New Labour in freefall says:

          How is parachuting without a parachute parachuting?

  96. 350
    Exiled in Wales says:

    BTW, whilst we’re on the subject of visitations. Did you agree to pay for 11 eleven schoolchildren from Islington to go see Michelle Obama at the Whitehouse?

    Apparently they won an essay on black history (I can’t work out how eleven won, but perhaps Mr Darling was doing the sums).

    From the photos I’ve seen there wasn’t a single white face among them. Now why’s that?

    (I can feel the moderation software twitching beneath my keys)

    • 357
      Leroy says:

      Mrs Obama doesn’t want no honkeys in the house nicking the silverware.

    • 360
      Barnabas Scudamore says:

      Why was there not a single white face amongst them ?

      WAKE UP MAN !

      Schools in this country are now 95% non-white (ie BLACK).

      • 368
        Exiled in Wales says:

        @BS

        OK. I don’t live in Islington (my pseudonym kinda gives that away) so there aren’t any white kids to enter the competition. I’ll buy that.

        And if there were, can’t white kids write about black history? Isn’t this an academic subject like any other?

    • 363
      Jethro says:

      And they call Nick a racist.

      http://www.racist-jokes.com/

  97. 371
    Rip Van Winkle says:

    Miles O/T

    Keep your eyes of UK long term Gilt rate. Every other major country’s long term rate fell today. But not in Gordon’s communist love isle. Last Monday week the 10 year rate – 3.8%. Today it touched 4.3% before falling back slightly towards the end of the day. That is one huge fall in the price over 10 days.

    As turdling collapses, the longer term Gilt rate will inexorably rise in tandem. It’s the sign – it’s beginning to fall apart.

  98. 372
    Nurse Gladys Emmanuel says:

    A future free-for-all?

  99. 373
  100. 375
    Atlas shrugged says:

    In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
    George Orwell, 1984

    Therefore as my mother was very keen to point out that lying is a sin, I have this to say.

    We are fucked, so incredibly, absolutely and terminally fucked that it is very difficult to find words in the English language with which to adequately describe quite how murderously screwed we indeed are.

    There you go, a one man revolution.

    Sort of makes you glad to be 50 in a few weeks time, at least I will not have to give a shit for a whole lot longer.

    BTW good luck suckers, my god you are all most surly going to need every bit of it. Being right won’t save my arse any better then it will save yours, but it most surly has helped make me loads of easy cash. Just a pity many of you can’t see evil staring you fall square in the face, when it has taken up residence in your own living room and the size of a proverbial heard of elephants. Otherwise you could have all turned out to be as stinking rich as myself.

    Still you collectively laughed safe in the knowledge that you belonged with the majority. Persisted in partisan bullshit, talking lizards, tin hats, and alike while your own ruling class turned your society and economy into nonsensical mush.

    Perhaps now at least some of the more intelligent among you can start to understand what it felt like to be living in 1930-40′s Germany, while the worlds elites ransacked your nation while turning the best part of its population into either dead hero’s or lamp shades.

  101. 379
    A Future Fair For All says:

    Labour: A future fair for all.
    “Taking Britain for a ride since 1997″

  102. 386
    and 13 years on says:

    After nearly 13 years in Government, Labour is telling its activists that they should not use the party’s achievements in power when seeking votes at the election.

    • 448
      universal hiss says:

      That’s because they have yet to find one.

      Carry on.

    • 452
      Angry as fuck says:

      I just can’t wait for the ‘activists’ to come a knocking!

    • 460
      Yesterdays_Witnesses says:

      They should say they’re from the Lottery, and once in the premises they need to pinch the postal vote letter, using cunning distraction.

  103. 388
    and 13 years on says:

    The Labour leaflet is prominently branded “Operation Fightback”. The party described Operation Fightback as the “organisational strategy” of its general election campaign.

    Party activists will be sent thousands of Operation Fightback packs, including stickers, posters, leaflets and magazines to deliver to voters.

    Hundreds of thousands of voters in marginal constituencies will receive Labour leaflets in the post this weekend, the party said.

    In a potential embarrassment for Labour, the slogan “Operation Fightback” has also been widely used by the British National Party for its campaigning.

    One BNP blog describes the party’s Operation Fightback as “your chance to teach the enemies of Britain a lesson” and urges “payback time” for critics of the BNP.

  104. 389
    and 13 years on says:

    The Labour leaflet is prominently branded “Operation Fightback”. The party described Operation Fightback as the “organisational strategy” of its general election campaign.

    Party activists will be sent thousands of Operation Fightback packs, including stickers, posters, leaflets and magazines to deliver to voters.

    Hundreds of thousands of voters in marginal constituencies will receive Labour leaflets in the post this weekend, the party said.

    In a potential embarrassment for Labour, the slogan “Operation Fightback” has also been widely used by the Blitish Notional Partee for its campaigning.

    One Beeeeeeeeeeee N ppppppP blog describes the party’s Operation Fightback as “your chance to teach the enemies of Britain a lesson” and urges “payback time” for critics of the Beeeeeeeeeeeee N Ppppppppppp.

  105. 392
    James says:

    The new Labour Party Slogan is:

    “Future Fair For All”

    Let me coin a phrase. It should really be:

    Future F****D for All

  106. 420
    caesars wife says:

    operation fightback ??

    A future fiscal freefall for all !

    The haspburghs , the borbons or the jammy dodgers , mmm still thinking biscuits .

    Sun split picture cover of tiger and ashley is class “regrets Ive had a few” is a moment classic .

    matthew parris “James Purnell has left , he may be some time ”

    Eric Pickles , throws down gauntlet .

    CW cant really add much , except the all too delicious thought of if he bottles mk2 , (23 relaunches , 3 coupes and 2 bottled and the biggest debt in history , a ficticous future for all )

    • 426
      greasers dull life says:

      yet more hilariously incoherent babbling cocktrumpetry
      very funny indeed
      please keep it up

    • 429
      Egg and Cheese says:

      Bottles in the recycling bin if you don’t mind missus.
      What do we look like in these pink overalls? I wish you hadn’t given ‘em ideas down at the Borough’s Diversity Workshop with those thoughts the other day. Winston only ever wears light blue and Heavy Breathing loses some of his sexual potency in a nancy’s outfit.

      • 443
        caesars wife says:

        yeah like your running against George Clooney !

        On the bright side an early election could save £3bn 2 months early every little helps, Ian Dale gets some info ,lab HQ circular ! no less , boroughs diveristy workshop is having houte couture moment ?

        may have important news ,see how speech goes .

    • 463
      streamfisher says:

      The Battenburgs, the Borgias and the New York Dodgers.

  107. 421
    Martin Day says:

    “A future fair for all”

  108. 433
    you really must vote for this man says:

    • 482
      City of Vice says:

      When I first saw this video I thought Brown was having a laugh, like something from one of those outtakes shows Denis Norden used to present.

      Then it dawned on me that this was no joke – Brown had actually created the video for real.

      What a fucking weirdo.

      If the British public are dumb enough to return this financially incontinent disciple of Satan to No 10 in May, then the Lord’s divine judgment will be harsh. Pestilence and floods and all manner of catastrophes will rightly befall us. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth across the land. The Haitian earthquake will be a walk in the park in comparison.

      It is written, and so shall it be.

  109. 449
    david says:

    Rainbow~
    Subject: Re: How to actors and actresses make themselves cry.
    From: jaspreet123-ga on 16 Mar 2006 02:16 PST
    How do actors in a film or play produce tears on the spot?

    It used to be that a drop of glycerine was placed in the eye just
    before filming. Having a similar consistency to real tears, it would
    then simply flow out of the eyes. Nowadays, they use a “blower”, which
    is a small device containing a substance that causes real tears to
    well up when air is blown through it and into the eyes of the actor.

    Greg Haye, Newtown

    Instinctive actors work on impulse and create emotions “naturally”, as
    demanded by the script. Otherwise, technical tools available to actors
    include: emotional memory, where an actor recalls a time when they
    were distressed (for instance, when someone close to them died); or
    sense memory, where an actor holds a precious object that brings back
    the emotions associated with it (for instance, a ring or a letter).

    Tricks for film actors include using onions or glycerine to simulate
    tears. Stage actors can hold their eyes open or concentrate on a
    bright light. Some actors bite their tongues – also good for stifling
    inappropriate laughter. Some actors, like many people, just find
    crying easy.

    Gerry Sont, Lindfield

    The actress Glenda Jackson once said: “When I want to laugh, I think
    about my sex life. When I want to cry, I think about my sex life.”

    http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/05/1070351773514.html?from=storyrhs
    Subject: Re: How to actors and actresses make themselves cry.
    From: probonopublico-ga on 16 Mar 2006 02:47 PST
    Some actors and actresses can apparently just turn it on.

    The late Gwen Verdon (in a tribute to Bob Fosse) claimed that Liza
    Minelli could cry an demand.

    ‘Cabaret’ (starring Liza) was arguably Fosse’s biggest directorial hit.
    Subject: Re: How to actors and actresses make themselves cry.
    From: kirat1234-ga on 16 Mar 2006 06:25 PST
    I once knew an acting teacher who suggested that one way to induce
    tears (if you’re not one of those actors who can just turn on the
    waterworks on cue) was to find a moment to turn away from the audience
    or the camera, and discreetly but forcefully pluck out a nosehair.

  110. 450
    Martin Gay says:

    I love the thought of a naked Gordon hurling abuse and Nokia’s at me.

  111. 454
    submerged optimist says:

    I’m H-A-P-P-Y, I’m H-A-P-P-Y, I’m sure I am, I know I am, I’m H-A-P-P-Y.

  112. 461
    50 Calibre says:

    O/T, but “a future fair for all”?

    What’s that all about? What a crappy slogan. If this is the best that zanulab can do, the game’s really up fro McTwat and his delusional followers.

  113. 464
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Well thats the Acropolis f*cked

  114. 467
    lol says:

    ***********BREAKING NEWS************

    new labour’s election slogan

    WANKERS-R-US

  115. 469
    The Beast of Clerkenwell says:

    Fuck me
    Papandreou and McPapandreou both tuck their trousers into their socks
    its a Masonic thing
    Both have lost their marbles

    • 477
      Just passing says:

      It looks like he has his spurs on so maybe he has come for a turn on the rocking horse.

  116. 470
    windowlickers says:

    a dumping ground for those too nutty dumb and far right for the Daily Mail

    • 489
      a two fingered kitkat says:

      Fuck off Draper, to all those leftie hordes who frequent the Labourwrist forum. Oh I forgot, they don’t have that many visitors do they?

  117. 471
    Gordon McPapandreou says:

    We are best placed to host the 2012 Olympics
    I predict lots of sunshine, huge revenues that will benefit the many not the few

  118. 479
    Cassandrina says:

    I liked the suggestion on another blog that the Conservatives should use the slogan
    “We are totally Browned Off – Are You?” or a similar theme – suggestions please.

  119. 492

    Projectile vomiting MP downed so much champagne during drinking contest on official trip friends feared he might die

    Two Labour MPs took part in a champagne drinking contest on an official Commons junket to Paris, which led to one of them being violently ill.

    Left-winger Bill Etherington drank so much that a doctor was called.

    It was feared the MP might die after he defeated fellow Labour MP Geraldine Smith in the expenses-fuelled boozing competition.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1252602/Europeans-horrified-Labour-MPs-champagne-drinking-contest-official-trip.html#ixzz0g9owZZ8q

    Don’t less the guys at the Corus plant who have just lost all their jobs see this.



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