February 24th, 2010

The Last Days of Hell

Well it is certain to be a lively PMQs today. Gordon told GMTV this morning ”I would never engage in divisive or partisan politics.” The spinning is out of control. What would he describe his entire budgets designed to attack the opposition as? What would he describe his maneuvers over many years that finally saw Blair ousted? What would he call what McBride was up to?

Guido has long suspected Darling might be the one to emerge out of the mud and poison surrounding Brown’s government with any semblance of dignity and reputation intact. From his icy put down of McBride with the cutting “I’m still here“, to his description of the Brown/Balls/Wheelan/McBride combo as the “forces of hell”, the ill-treated Chancellor knew exactly what he was doing in keeping the story alive. The Brown’s a Bully story has taken a new turn and it’s not just Darling who has been on the receiving end of it. Most of Westminster’s finest correspondents know just how this mob have worked for the last decade. Brown can talk of working “in an open plan office; we are a big happy family at No 10,” but frankly it’s too late.

No one believes the lies anymore.


478 Comments

  1. 1
    dave says:

    radio 5L.mcbride:i didnt brief against darling!

    • 5
      Sunonmars says:

      says Brown’s only involvement was ‘reinforcing how we dealt with the interview’

      Hmmm so Brown sanctioned it then. Even McBride is gonna take the rap for this.

      Another non denial denial.

      • 33
        What Darling actually said says:

        “I remember the weekend after we came back and I’d done this interview and the forces of hell were unleashed,” the chancellor told Sky News last night.

        Asked by the interviewer, Jeff Randall, whether this was by No 10, Darling added: “Not just them, the Tories as well.”

        He did not unmask the aides involved, but when he was presented with the names of disgraced spinner, Damian McBride, and another former adviser, Charlie Whelan, he replied: “Of course, there were people saying things.” In a clear swipe at Mr McBride, who left his post at No.10 after he was exposed as having composed a series of invented smears about Tory MPs, he added: “Frankly, my best answer for them is, I’m still here, one of them is not.”

        However, while the Chancellor admitted to having “some bad days” with Mr Brown, he said that he had never been bullied. “Of course, Gordon and I have some very robust exchanges,” he said. “I can’t imagine any healthy relationship between a prime minister and a chancellor where they don’t have differences from time to time.”

        • 186
          No one believes the lies anymore. says:

          I’m fed up with the Punch and Judy politics of Westminster, the name calling, backbiting, point scoring, finger pointing.

          • Gordon Mr 10% Brown says:

            I would never engage in anything but divisive or partisan politics.

          • No one believes the lies anymore. says:

            I’m a fairly straight sort of an heir to blair
            And that’s a Cast Iron Guarantee!

          • TMA says:

            Watch a fish as it gasps for its last gulps of life and you also see the occupants of Westminster. It is a greater pity that more of them are not thrown into a skip forever

        • 223
          Mr Punch says:

          Well all I can say is that Mrs Punch and I have a very healthy relationship and some our our candid and frank exchanges have been robust enough to end in fisticuffs and occasionally we knock seven bells of shite out of each other.

          Sadly in our case the Police are often involved and that has meant that I am under a restraining order and the wife has an ASBO.

          Obviously the child was taken away a while ago after it was repeatedly bashed across the floor on its head but I still say we are a normal everyday family and it’s family that matters.

          “That’s the way to do it” as I often quote.

          Who are you fookin’ looking at anyway?

        • 255
          Damian McBride says:

          I’ll have that swine’s job.

          And then he will be not

          • smig says:

            Durrrrmian! I’ve told you before! No using the computers when you’re supposed to be working.

            Sweep the playground and change the lightbulb in the gloryhole room. Brown Major is visiting this afternoon and he wants to video your oral skills.

        • 381
          Dah Ling says:

          Is this from a newspaper cos it certainly reads as an article?

      • 88
        Steve Expat says:

        ‘reinforcing how we dealt with the interview’

        That is McBride-speak for Brown being behind it, given that he worked for No.10?

      • 114
        Axe The Telly Tax says:

        Badger baiting is frought with danger. Badgers are normally placid creatures, until attacked, then they have a propensity to bite back.

    • 11
      Dolly says:

      Even Kate Garraway AKA Mrs Draper kept quiet on the Sofa with Gordon this morning. Not only did she not believe a word he was saying she KNEW that he was lying.

      • 51
        Nick Drew says:

        Westminster’s finest correspondents know just how this mob have worked for the last decade

        Indeed, but the omerta is still in force (just about) – when do the really juicy stories start to flow ? Mary Ann Sieghart has had a crack (against Prescott, in the Times) but the avalanche has yet to rumble

        well this humble (non-lobby) blogger has posted his story … I’m Spartacus !

        • 187
          Steve Expat says:

          Westminster’s finest correspondents know just how this mob have worked for the last decade

          Which is why Gordon thinks that GMTV is the ideal way to be interviewed, with the annual Marr thrown in for good measure, if you will excuse the pun!

      • 136
        artboyusa says:

        What a Labour lovefest that “interview” was. Kate’s colleague was practically sitting on Gordon’s lap the whole time.

      • 195
        Hugh Jardon says:

        Would this be an opportune moment to remind many & introduce others of the time that I may have boned Katy D over the bonnet of my spitfire?
        She didn’t have her ring bleached then…mind you!

    • 12
      Maladroit Labour Chump says:

      This is a real dilemma: who is the biggest liar ??

      Bullyboy Brown ?
      Bullyboy Balls ?
      Bullyboy McBride ?

      and who is the biggest bully ??

      Liar Brown ?
      Liar Balls ?
      Liar McBride ?

      It’s so complicated. Could they ALL be liars and bullies in the Bunker ?

      Is smear, sleaze and bullying in Labour’s D-N-A ??

      Time for another Piss Organ tear-jerker.

      • 28
        jgm2 says:

        Surely (with thanks to Stan) ‘MaCannesquely Dead-babying their way through prime time with Piers’.

      • 36
        Anonymous says:

        As far as I know they have not driven a man to his death yet, unlike Campbell and Blair. I suppose it is only a matter of time though.

      • 38
        Sarah's Sacrifice says:

        The biggest liar is Sarah Brown.

        • 90
          Gideon's ravaged starfish says:

          not like my wife at all

        • 144
          Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

          It will be interesting to see how Sarah Brown’s reputation emerges from this mess. When the Prime Mentalist is gone and the stories come out, what will she do? She is plainly implicated with many of the big lies yet to be revealed to the public. She won’t be able to play the ‘standing by my man’ card, which implies a wife’s naive or dutiful loyalty to a flawed husband. She knows what he is all about and is a key player amongst the hounds of hell.

          • AndyN says:

            Sarah Brown increasingly reminds me of Marge Simpson.

            Her only purpose in her world is to act as an apologist for a big useless oaf who makes a mess of everything and pisses everybody off.

          • Gideon and Dave's Bullingdon Trysts says:

            I feel sorry for her
            I can’t imagine the stress of such a situation with the redtops waiting to make their move

          • jgm2 says:

            I don’t feel sorry for her. She’s an adult.

            She chose to step into the limelight to run interference for her incompetent, economy-wrecking jackass of a husband. She loves the fucking limelight ooooh tweet:me presenting an award to Cheryl Cole…oooooh tweet: me at a dinner hosted by some other arse…ohhhhhh tweet: me pictured with Geri Haliwell.

            She has the prefect excuse to stay out of the limelight looking after their disabled kids but noooo.

            She’s just a female version of Brown. He can’t get enough photos of himself with foreign dignitaries and she can’t get enough photos with celebs.

            Watching Brown is like when you’re in some tinpot African country and the days ‘news’ on the local TV is a half hour of (say) El Haj Omar Bongo or his Excellency Robert Mugabe or President for Life Hastings Banda receiving the new ambassador from Taiwan.

            The sole purpose of Brown destroying the economy was to manoeuvre himself into the post of PM so he could strut the stage as some kind of quasi-monarch. Running the country wasn’t in his Ladybird book of what PMs do. Just the pictures of glad-handing foreign dignatories.

          • Over me 'ead son says:

            WHOOOOOOSH!!!

          • Prince Rupert says:

            And how cynical and sad to see arsholes like Gord and his wife, use the death of their daughter for electioneering purposes. They really have no moral fibre in them, they will do and say anything to retain power, very Marxist. In more recent past history these two would have killed their opponents without remorse. Is Brown psychopathic?

          • cynical sad fuckwitted psychopathic arsehole says:

          • Susie says:

            She’s a PR professional… porcine relativism is her stock in trade, or water off a duck’s back to her.

        • 347

          Sarah Macaulay, surely?

          With no apologies at all to Thomas Barrington Macaulay….

          Of all the wicked Fabians the names are held accursed,
          And of all the wicked men McMental was the worst.
          He minced through bloody Whitehall like Mugabe in his pride:
          Twelve minsters waited on him, six marching on a side;
          The lobby shrank to right and left, and eyed askance with fear
          His lowering brow, his wobbling jaw which always seemed to sneer;
          That brow of hate, that mouth of scorn, marks all the kindred still;
          For never was there Fabian yet but wished the Commons ill;
          Nor lacks he fit attendance; for close behind his heels,
          With outstretched chin and crouching pace, the pervert Mandy steals,
          His loins girt up to run with spin, be the errand what it may,
          And the smirking condecnsion shows, for aught this lord may say.
          Such varlets pimp and jest for hire while practising their Greek:
          Such varlets still are paid to hoot when brave dissenters speak.
          Where’er ye shed the money, the oligarchs will crowd;
          Where’er ye kill the industry, the bedwetters cry loud;
          Where’er down Thames the garbage floats, the troughing pigs ye see;
          And wheresoe’er New Labour’s found, such evil still will be.

          • Maladroit Labour Chump says:

            That would look nice tattooed on McMental’s forehead.

            Well done, sir !

          • Susie says:

            Bloody excellent! Should be on the national curriculum.

          • jolly hockey sticks! says:

            student humour that even a student would be embarrassed by
            toecurling

          • Gordoom cooks the books says:

            jgm2 I prostrate myself before you as you are the light in the dark thankyou Mrs Brown is just a media grabbing “I AM A CELEBRITY REALLY I AM” trout

      • 100
        Steve Expat says:

        Do those three have the slightest bit of respectability betwwen them?

        Am I alone in thinking the election may be called this week for March 25th, to avoid having to provide the Budget that Darling clearly disagrees with the PM about?

        Can anyone also confirm whether under election press rules Rownsley would be silenced this Sunday if the PM went to the Palace before then?

        • 121
          jgm2 says:

          The election will be called on the last possible day. If at all. Brown is still waiting on some miracle. Perhaps Dave will self-implode or they’ll find Madeleine MaCann in his freezer.

          • Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

            I had a niggling suspicion they were about to call the elction last weekend, but bullygate blew their window. That could explain the shock shown by Mandy and the rest of the Labour drones when the story broke.

          • Busted nokia says:

            agree, the last possible moment as Brown is a bully and a coward

          • Kratos says:

            the point about having the luxury to choose when to call the election is that you keep the opposition on the back foot if they don’t have a clue when you are going to do it
            and nobody here seems to know for a start

          • jgm2 says:

            I know Kratos.

            It will be on the last possible day.

            Brown will fantasise in his mind that he could call it any time. But he won’t. He’ll dither and dither and triangulate and wait on better news or concoct fantastic scenarios in his mind to target some other date.

            And in the end he’ll decide that he was going to call it on the last possible day all along.

            If he calls one at all. We have an Enabling Act now. Just as arresting an opposition MP on the grounds of ‘national security’ over some leaked immigration stats was rather pushing the boundaries of what constitutes ‘National Security’ then suspending elections on some similarly spurious ‘National Security’ grounds shouldn’t present too much of a problem to a lunatic like Brown.

            And 350 Labour MPs would cheerfully traipse through the lobbies to support it.

            You know they would.

          • Madame Defarge says:

            I too think they were about to call the election. They could have just spun their way past Rawnsley’s book but when Mrs Pratt waded in they were royally f****d.

            I think the Pratt lady is an eejit who just lost her rag at listening to Mandleson’s crap that Sunday morning. She never realised the forces of hell would be unleashed on her.

            I really enjoyed Darling’s denouement. Revenge being a dish best served cold.

          • Gordoom cooks the books says:

            A rational man man would call it March 25 but Gordoom is completely CRAZY therfeore will wait to the last possible minute hoping something will happen meanwhile the ONS will be cooking them books like a good un, anyway it`s up to Mandybum not Gordo and he likes playing at statesman so will play as long as he can I hope I`m wrong but doubt it

        • 236
          Spank Sinatra says:

          Some information on election press rules -

          http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/uk_election_law/

          If accurate, you may have a point as regards silencing The Observer. Smart money, from what I am given to understand, remains on imminent election announcement. Bullying story will become of lesser importance.

          • Steve Expat says:

            Interesting, thanks.

            Still not clear if the Observer will be officially gagged from reporting Rownsley’s comments, if the election is called before Sunday.

    • 102
      Anonymous says:

      The lying is getting completely out of control. If this were the Tories there is no way the media would continually let them of the hook.

      • 469
        Gordoom cooks the books says:

        It does make you wonder how they are allowed to just keep on lying end off strange

    • 115
      Up sh1t creek says:

      If you want to hear about the allegations of Darling being briefed against listen to the first part of this clip.

      If you want to hear Darling evade questions on the Prime Mentalist and how “It was the right thing to do” racking up deficits in “the good times”, watch the rest of the clip.

      • 137
        anon says:

        “Frankly, it is too late.”
        Yes, it is. Unfortunately it is also too late for Dave.
        The Conservative posters here think that if Dave puts in a few good PMQs performances it will boost Tory popularity but that is of course as delusional as Gordon Brown and his thugs thinking they can trick the public into thinking Brown is a mild mannered team player.
        Both the main parties have made strategic and tactical errors that cannot be repaired in the run up to the General Election and both parties will suffer the consequences.
        The real question is: which minority parties will most benefit from the errors of the two main parties. That is the most interesting aspect of the forthcoming election.

        • 177
          Stepney says:

          As long as it’s first past the post the little parties won’t have an MP elected and apart from the BNP drawing a few votes away from Labour in Dagenham and Stoke, and Lucas gifting Brighton Pavilion to the Tories, they will have as much affect as a fart in a windstorm.

          Believe me – they really, really aren’t the most interesting aspect of the forthcoming election.

        • 251
          rick says:

          Depressingly, I don’t think the minority parties will gain much from all this; the propaganda against them has been too great. I predict the result will be a low voter turn-out. Maybe next time round?

        • 254
          Spank Sinatra says:

          Agreed – good analysis.

    • 119
      Up sh1t creek says:

      Alistair Darling’s eye blink rate increasing as he tells more porkies about the UK economy.

    • 377
      Up sh1t creek says:

      Alistair Darling unleashes hell against his back stabbers.

      • 393
        Odds Bodkins says:

        Unsurprisingly he seems to have developed one or two slight nervous tics.

        Good on him though, one of those instances of courage in politics these day that you could count on one hand. Surely Brown et al didn’t expect to do what they did with zero comeback?

      • 417
        Susie says:

        Loved this choice of words from Khan, “they will see that the policies Gordon and Alistair have unleashed on them the past few years…”

        Don’t sound like very nice policies do they? Gotta laugh or else you’d cry.

    • 456
      anonymouse says:

      I love this from the National Bullying Helpline

      IS YOUR BOSS MAD? – Jill Walker. ‘A Company is like a tree full of monkeys. The ones at the top look down and all they see is lots of happy faces smiling up at them. The monkeys down below look up into the branches above and all they can see are a…holes…” £12.99 + £2.30 postage and packaging only. “This book could save your life. It’s a surgical handbook for managing your boss better than they manage you.” Guy Browning. Guardian Columnist.

      Every Civil Servant in Downing Street needs a copy.

    • 460
      Down with Brown! says:

      Why are the BBC giving the proven lier, smearer, blackmailer and fantacist McBride air-time?

    • 476
      Anonymous says:

      Didn’t one Adolf Hitler have a well founded reputation for flying into raging fits, often ending up chewing on his office carpet?

  2. 2
    jgm2 says:

    Yeah. An open-plan office where he can keep an eye on the deceitful bastards.

  3. 3
    Gordon ( SoldGoldAtThe ) BottomBrown says:

    My Bullion days are over.

  4. 4
    genghiz the kahn says:

    if draper mcnride forgot to use Bcc, and Brown is on the mailing list, is the game over?

  5. 6

    My Gordon is honest to a fault.

    He never tells lies. He is the most experienced and smartest politician on the Planet.

    He has saved the World twice, and didn’t have to wear his underpants on the outside.

    • 20
      Sarah Twatter says:

      What you see is what you get…

      He’s my hero.

      CUT ! PRINT ! THAT’S A WRAP.

    • 55
      Thunderbox says:

      Even the children know:-

      A teacher asked her class how many of them were Gordon Brown fans.

      Not really knowing what a Gordon Brown fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.

      The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different…again.

      Little Johnny said, ‘Because I’m not a Gordon Brown fan.’

      The teacher asked, ‘Why aren’t you a Gordon Brown fan?’
      Johnny said, ‘Because I’m a Conservative.’

      The teacher asked him why he’s a Conservative.

      Little Johnny answered, ‘Well, my Mum’s a Conservative and my Dad’s a Conservative, so I’m a Conservative.’

      Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, ‘If your Mum was a moron and your Dad was an idiot, what would that make you?’
      .
      .
      .
      .

      Little Johnny replied, ‘A Gordon Brown fan.’ and a new qualified teacher………

    • 203
      G Noodlepants says:

      he is my hero ‘SUPERGORDON’

  6. 7
    Mitch says:

    Cameron presented with this open goal will probably ask some Co2 related bollox .
    Its shit or get off the potty time davey boy, kick the fucker where it hurts, push him till he blows his tiny mind out just don’t let this go by.

    • 9
      jgm2 says:

      The way to blow Brown’ mind is to just address Darling directly. Ignore Brown completely.

      • 25
        Pole Star says:

        I foooking love that jgm2 !!

        Call the man now

        • 65
          Jeenyus says:

          Brilliant!
          And 5 seconds later when the speaker stops him and has to tell him it’s Prime Minsters Questions making Dave look like he’s got Alzheimers ?

          • jgm2 says:

            And five seconds later when Dave bitch-slaps the speaker and asks him if it’s PMQ then why does he (the speaker) never insist on the PM answering the fucking Q then we can all have a good laugh.

          • riiiiight says:

            “And five seconds later when Dave bitch-slaps the speaker”
            is that when he gets on the unicorn and swoops about the commons shitting fairydust on the backbenches ?

          • I do like those Cosmic Twinky moments!

          • jgm2 says:

            I should have been clearer – metaphorically bitch-slaps the speaker. Remind him to do his fucking job (while he still has one).

      • 39
        Rat Boy says:

        DC needs to grow some nads today and call him a liar at PMQs. Don’t retract, get kicked out of the house for a week, and watch the ratings soar.

        Time to get nasty DC. This evil, lying piece of crap must be destroyed.

        • 53
          jgm2 says:

          That’s the way to do it.

          Make the news. Just flat out call him a liar. Get tossed out. The BBC won’t be able to ignore that.

          • This is the BBc and here is the news..

            In Parliament today Mr Cameron, the leader of the enemy, made some remark that the Prime Minister ignored.
            In other news the planet is warming faster than ever. Look at Madeira…

          • wil he be shit "on purpose" again ? says:

            Dave mentions bullying easy hit at Couslon and NoW
            Dave mentions Darling easy hit by bringing up the economy and the IMF backing Darling

            any other ideas ?

          • BBC - now a pilloried organ of Labour says:

            You wanna bet?

            Here is the BBC news;

            Strikes in Greece
            Staffordshire Hospital was cleared
            Teenage pregnancies have been eradicated
            The £ has leapt in value by 2000%

            Just wait and see.

            When they investigate the BBC in the future,Mandelson’s fingerprints will be everywhere.

        • 470
          Gordoom cooks the books says:

          No CMD SHOULD say I should really be addressing Peter as he runs the show,oh but I can`t as he aint elected mind you neither are you oh well

      • 71
        The stage is set for meltdown. says:

        Can Cameron do it?

        They need to really wind him up and then let him loose at PMQ’s – take Brown to the very edge of insanity,live on TV.

        Brown won’t have slept for more than a few hours in the past week as he is battered hour after hour by all of these accusations – he will be in a terrible state for PMQ’s – Cameron must punch him hard and punch him without mercy – go after him and don’t let go.

        AND get plenty of Tory MP’s up for some good questions on Brown’s character because Campbell will have arranged for loads of Labour MP’s to do the normal non-questions crap.

        If only Clegg stays on the same thread too it could really happen today.

        England expects Cameron to do his duty at midday -

    • 16
      Desert rat says:

      But I bet he uses less energy than his neighbours!

      NaNa-NaNaNa

    • 27
      NotaSheep says:

      David Cameron seems to have lost his mojo, is he scared of becoming the next hated Tory PM?

      • 41
        Maladroit Labour Chump says:

        He’s probably checked the Nation’s books closely, looked at Gordoom’s ScoTched Earth Policy and decided that he’ll pass the poisoned chalice back to Liebour and the LimpDum coalition.

        • 69
          Peter Grimes says:

          The problems in the nation’s books won’t be that easy to find. It will take 3-6 months to adequately audit what is committed and where before its impact on future spending plans can be assessed. And that is without any problems which may pop up from a Greek shadow debt operation.

          • Busted nokia says:

            it will be interesting if all this happens during a hung parliament. The markets will go crazy and the pound will fall like a stone

        • 92
          Grandma says:

          Could be a wise decision and the entertainment will go on.

    • 207
      G Noodlepants says:

      gteed

  7. 8
    Plato-Says says:

    I don’t think I’ve laughed so much in ages – what totally unbelieveable lies – Ashley Cole has more credibility.

    • 17
      Desert rat says:

      But he has not fucked anywhere near the same number of people!

      • 47
        Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

        Be fair to Cashley – he’s had a damn good attempt…

      • 93
        Legally Retarded says:

        and he doesn’t so much ‘throw’ mobile phones about, more ‘keeps hold’ of them… internally.

      • 130
        liverpool's foremost champagne socialist and quasi kleptomaniac says:

        i think you’ll find he has not made the beast with two backs with as many women…….

  8. 10
    Sunonmars says:

    At this rate, If I was Brown, i’d turn left when leaving downing st instead of right and head for the palace instead of PMQ’s

    • 19
      jgm2 says:

      Another case in point. Any time the Queen does something the Maximum Imbecile doesn’t like he makes a big announcement about changing the rules on primogeniture or allowing Catholics to be monarch.

      Every single fucking action he takes is about rubbing somebodies nose in it.

    • 26
      Desert rat says:

      And just who will save us then, this is not Gotham City, or Metropolis, he is the only suoper hero we have!

      • 45
        Cannon Fodder says:

        I think you mean left us in the soup, as for the word “hero”, there are far more in Stan doing their duty at the behest of this thug, than in Downing St.

      • 215
        G Noodlepants says:

        tis starting to resemble gotham though.

        • 315
          Axe The Telly Tax says:

          Brown as Two Face
          Blair as the Joker
          Mandleson as the Riddler
          Jack Straw as the Penguin
          Harmon as Cat Woman

          and Dave & George as Batman & Robin

  9. 13
    Henry Crun says:

    Not so much spinning out of control as spiralling out of control.

  10. 14

    We have now finally reached the point of implausible deniability.

    There is no going back on this, because everyone has seen Bullies get their comeuppance at some point.

    The appalling way that they have tried to control the 4th estate is going to spring back on them.

    Brown has set the culture. No more spin at No 10. Really Gordon?

  11. 18
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Dave should open PMQ’s, in an innocent tone, with “So hows the relaunch going, Gordon?” Then the country will get to see him leap across the dispatch box live, armed with a nokia in each hand, to demonstrate how calm and collected he really is.

  12. 21
    davidke says:

    Cameron should steer clear of all this stuff. It plays equally well for Labour. Darling is positioning himself for the IMF job after the election, and making sure Brown won’t get it.

    • 37
      nell says:

      Well if that’s right then I’m pleased for darling and I hope he succeeds – he’s the only half decent minister that labour have got. I’m just sorry he has such a crass foul mouthed wife.

      • 73
        The Dirty Rat says:

        Mind you the fact that he was and may still be a Trotskyist isn’t something that endears him to me.

      • 78
        Anonymous says:

        Nell, I wouldn’t regard Darling as any fraction of “decent”. You appear to have overlooked his house flipping, or do you forgive him for that?

        • 110
          jgm2 says:

          That’s not just ‘house-flipping’ – it’s insider dealing. He knew Brown was going to let the house price boom run and run just to stoke the ‘feel-good’ factor and encourage reckless borrowing and consumerism. Whereas any rational person would have assumed Brown would try and avoid a house-price boom and melt-down like we had in the late 1980s.

          You know. Be prudent like he proclaimed in the manifesto. ANd every fucking budget day until the wheels came off.

        • 142
          Anonymous says:

          Did Darling object in any way to Labour’s policy of deliberating flooding Britain (well let’s be honest, England was the real target) with immigrants?

          He can hang with all the rest of them.

      • 155
        Afghanistan Banana Stand says:

        Half- decent?

        Remind me how many times he ‘flipped’ his second home and how much of our money he stole by doing that?

      • 175
        Zanu Watch says:

        Half decent sums it up, but it does not mean they should be a candidate for any other job, they must be someone better than these knuts. It’s politics that screws them up and the pursuit of POWER until they realise that the true power in this country rests with the money men and big business…notice how Blair and Mandleson are fascinated by this.

  13. 23
    Henry Crun says:

    “in an open plan office; we are a big happy family at No 10,”

    More like an episode of Shameless than an episode of The Waltons

    • 44
      jgm2 says:

      Or ‘Family Guy’

      with Brown as the incompetent Peter Griffin,
      Chris as the maladroit jackass Balls,
      the half-man/half-goth Meg as Harman,
      the psychotic homosexual Stewie as Mandelson,
      the laconic, alcoholic dog Brian played by McBride.

      No character match at all for Lois at present unless they get Caroline Flint back.

      Any number of the fuckers could play Herbert, the nonce down the road though.

    • 48
      TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

      Hang on, isn’t it only 5 minutes ago Bruin said he had no idea what McBride had been up to with his emails? Was he sat on his blind side in this cuddly open plan office, where never a cross word was spoken?

      • 181
        Archer Karcher says:

        And nothing is ran past the senior management before implementation, yeah right, that sounds really plausible.

        They imagine that because the average Labour voter is as thick as two short ones, everyone else is too.

  14. 29
    Any Colour but Brown says:

    All I can say is “Gentlemen of the press, Mr Darling has spoken out and, by doing so, has given you implicit permission to do the same”

  15. 31
    The Dirty Rat says:

    Even David Brent didn’t share the open plan office. Who put Gordon’s stapler in a jelly? Come on own up or he will have a strop.

  16. 31
    Darlin' danger! says:

    Wow! Darling destroys Brown in style! Devastating! It’s always the quiet ones! ;)

    • 229
      udderly 'orrible says:

      Quiet one eh. The man’s as dangerous as Snoteater and comes from the same ilk:
      “In his early years Darling was a member of the International Marxist Group, then the British section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. Private Eye was almost alone in drawing attention to a March 10 column in the Daily Record by the former Labour MP and now leader of Respect Renewal, George Galloway. Galloway, who is sympathetic to the Stalinist Communist Party of Britain notes: “When I first met him 35 years ago … Darling was pressing Trotskyite tracts on bewildered railwaymen at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. He was a supporter of the International Marxist Group, whose publication was entitled the Black Dwarf. Later, in preparation for his current role he became the treasurer of what was always termed the rebel Lothian Regional Council.”

  17. 35
    Geordieboy says:

    Riley “Ace of Spies”
    Brown ” Ace of Lies “

  18. 40
    No10 Typing pool says:

    “Incoming!”

  19. 42
    Anonymous says:

    GUIDO – YOU ARE BANG ON THE MONEY HERE…

    Put some dosh on Alistair Darling as the next Labour leader, as he is the one who is going to have to be the ‘reconstruction team’ to rebuild the party after the electoral earthquake on May 6th [if not before..]

    Ed Milibland may be the future hope – But Darling is the heavy-weight they need with connections all around the party who can calm things down and prevent internecine warfare developing into full scale ‘looting and food riot’ destruction.

    • 56
      Scots make up 5% of the population says:

      Another Jock. Who wants that?

      (Apologies to any Scots reading this.)

    • 61
      Ruth Kelly's plaything says:

      Ed Miliband hasn’t a hope. He looks just like whichever of Wallace and Gromit isn’t the dog.

      Try turning off the sound next time he’s on the box and see what I mean.

      He’s not the only plasticine figure of fun in the Cabinet.

    • 62
      Cannon Fodder says:

      Ed Milibland may be the future hope???????????????

      Oh dear, you must be very young, havn’t you learned anything from the mess that Labour always, always leave behind?

      Name me one, just one, good Labour PM who left the UK better off.

      • 70
        jgm2 says:

        Nothing becomes a Labour leader more than their going.

        • 250
          Margaret says:

          As I pointed out at the time it’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease — they’ve run out of other people’s money.

      • 77
        Iain says:

        THIS still remains on Miliband’s website…

        We, the undersigned, believe climate change is real and man-made, as demonstrated by the science, and we must take action as citizens of Doncaster to tackle climate change. Doing so is necessary for the environment and future generations, and can be good for our economy and society

        http://www.edmilibandmp.com/cc-petition

        Jesus wept

      • 425
        Susie says:

        And name me one Labour MP who didn’t leave office better off.

    • 81
      Pole Star says:

      I would bloodywell laugh my socks off !!

      Having said that I believe this is the right and sensible thing to do for the post GE Labour Party

      So it won’t happen !!

      Good innit?

    • 129
      bergen says:

      Darling may lose his seat so won’t be around.A future of Balls or the Millipedes really is too ghastly to contemplate.I reckon history is likely to be kind to Darling-and not to anyone else in the Cabinet now.

    • 135
      Caribbean Bigaboo says:

      I want Blinky Balls as Leader of the Labour Party

      And Eva as Deputy Leaderine Gruppenfuhrerin…

      We will then call it the National Socialist Party…

      Luvly…

  20. 43
    T Hee says:

    I don’t know about you lot, but I’m loving all this.
    Every day a new revelation, and how far away is the election?

    • 63
      Grandma says:

      It’s given me a new zest for life – pity I’m going to have to pay for it, together with the rest of the population who work and save – still the entertainment value’s great.

      • 67
        nell says:

        Surely someone will be making this into a film, probably using Rawnsley’s book as the script. Now wouldn’t that be fun!

        • 86
          mondeoman says:

          The bit of the keyboard going through a screen will be speck!

        • 127
          try reading it says:

          Rawnsleys book which never once claims Brown has hit anyone

          • nell says:

            You don’t have to hit someone in order to bully and intimidate them. He seems rather adept at unleashing the most crass foul-mouthed rants at people, kicking furniture and using attack dogs like mcbride and whelan to undermine people when he doesn’t want to be seen doing it himself, as has now been confirmed by darling.

            These aren’t really the sort of actions we expect from the man in charge of our country.

            This sort of behaviour doesn’t signify strength of character it signifies weakness and an extreme meanness of spirit.

          • Gordon Brown says:

            Bully for me.

          • nell the smell of mcbride and hypocrisy says:

            this from the scum who tried smearing Brown by attacking what she imagined he had said about his own disabled child

            what’s it like to roll around in the filth and then have the shocking hypocrisy to try and lecture other people on “strength of character”, “weakness and an extreme meanness of spirit”.

            truly stomach churning
            I wonder how the likes of you can look in a mirror or sleep at night

    • 103
      Anonymous says:

      Things can only get better. I look forward to reading the papers on Sunday.

      • 398
        Grandma says:

        Why Sunday? Do you know something that we don’t? If so, do please tell.

        • 405
          Grandma says:

          Just answering my own question – the second instalment of Rawnsley’s book. I thought you were an insider and knew something really juicy.

      • 465
        he's a football crazy says:

        The Ashely Cole story goes nuclear in a bidding war to get either of the idiots to speak exclusively to one of the sunday papers

  21. 46
    Garry Osborne says:

    We’re all briefing against one another together

  22. 49
    The Dirty Rat says:

    The cnut is comparing himself to Churchill now.
    He had the nerve to damage a cabinet in the War Office – it’s still there you know

  23. 52
    The pedantic brother of Mr Chips says:

    “Maneuvers “, Fawkes????

    See me afterwards, boy, and write out 100 times: ‘I must spell ‘manoeuvres’ properly as I am not American’.

  24. 54
    Frederico says:

    Do we now have the idenity of one of the callers to the National Bullying Hotline – a certain ‘Mr D’?? Now, wouldn’t that be just delicious….

  25. 59
    Hugh Janus says:

    McBlubber may or may not have sanctioned McBride’s attempt to unseat Darling, but his denial this morning sounds very hollow to me. It happened on his watch and involved one of his closest advisors. A case of “I see no ships” perhaps??

    • 84
      MI5 says:

      McBride had the title of “Chief of Strategy” at No 10 FFS

      A VERY CLOSE ADVISER

      Don”t tell me or anyone else that Brown was not FULLY AWARE of ALL OF THIS…

      Never has a British Prime Minister sunk so low…

    • 270
      JT Snappernapper says:

      McBride knows he was hung out to dry to enhance the populist appeal of McBullyruinandblubber. All socialists have a congenital sense of overweening resentment. But is McBride susceptible to Stockholm Syndrome – what does Guido think? Will he play Brutus to Darling’s Cassius?

  26. 68
    The IMF is coming says:

    Nice picture on Red rag

    http://www.redragonline.com/

    Play the Randall clip – Question 1 at PMQ

    • 95
      Gordon Brown says:

      Because it’s the right thing to do.

    • 146
      Brown and out says:

      Christ – and look at Darling’s face as Randall runs through the Labour legacy – I think Darling is going to take Brown down in the next few days.

      BROWN WILL NOT LEAD LABOUR AT AN ELECTION.

      • 212
        • 229
          Australian says:

          Indeed Frank.

          I keep receiving emailed invitations to some Westminster sponsored event called “Pandemic 2010″ which takes place in a couple of weeks’ time and which seems to be all about emergency preparations for a major disease outbreak.

          Could there be something in the offing?

          • udderly 'orrible says:

            Its called Liebour Flu and its deadly to democracy.

          • Johnny says says:

            It’ll probably be a get together between the Government, scaremongering media and flu vaccine makers to have a jolly good laugh that the taxpayers have been stung for tens of millions of doses of vaccine that we will have to pay for even though we won’t need them.

            With one supplier the Government negotiated a break clause allowing HMG to order millions but only pay for what was needed in the end. They didn’t with the other supplier.

            Mandy Burnham’s response in the Commons was to ignore the fact that one supplier accepted the break clause and the other didn’t and to suggest that H1N1 would soon replace bog standard flu as the normal winter flu.

  27. 72
    MI5 says:

    Gudio

    Two points

    1) Serious hat tip to you personally for having had the courage to denounce all of this filth for years before anyone else…including all those “finest correspondents” (who do not deserve such titles)

    2) The fact that Dirty Tricks Brown has been surrounded by a bunch of criminals (because they have been criminally libelling people for years) since he was at the Treasury is an utter condemnation not only of him, his thugs and New Labour but also of the whole political process. Only a radical policy of prosecution, denounciation, sacking can possible rid Britain of this vermin…
    because they have prostituted the Government, Commons, Lords, Judiciary, Prosecution Service and God knows wat else…

    It will be a mighty task to set things right…

  28. 75
    mondeoman says:

    If so many hacks know so many stories of brown in ‘action’ so to speak, why are they not telling to story. This could be all over by the weekend if someone else had the courage to stand up and be counted. Publish and be praised rather than show weakness and be damned.

    • 105
      blueboy2 says:

      Finkelstein did brilliantly on NewsMight when Rawnsley was on

      May wait ’til nearer the Election – you don’t want NuLiore getting another leaders with a ‘bounce’

  29. 75
    Colonel Nut says:

    We now have a new euphemism for bullying, courtesy of Alistair Darling;briefing.Thus in a remake of “Brief Encounter” a line such as “I love you Darling”could have sinister connotations.George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth is well reflected in New Labour.

  30. 80
    nell says:

    If I was one of those people in gordon’s office that he has bullied I would be contacting cameron to give him explicit examples of how bad it is to work in there and then I’d be asking him to use my case at PMQ’s to show that bullybrown is lying.

    • 132
      Colonel Nut says:

      Good idea but the countering spin that’s emerging is that what is claimed to be bullying is in fact dynamism,decisiveness,thrust,overflowing energy etc in some one in charge;and conversely,subordinates who complain and can’t cope with these essential qualities must be weak and unfit to work for or with a great leader.This spin bullying will serve its purpose in causing victims to keep their heads below the parapet for fear of being smeared as weak.

      • 163
        jgm2 says:

        Brown? Dynamic? Have you seen the staged photo of him shuffling about on his ‘daily’ three-mile run?

        • 277
          Australian says:

          Reminds me of a description of a previous fascist regime which finally got its just reward in Piazzale Loreto:

          “In order to underline the vital importance of physical fitness party leaders were required to take part in gymnastic displays and jog in public (an unedifying sight in many cases).”

          and this:

          “For [the Leader] personally, the adulation that surrounded him … encouraged a growing detachment from reality and a tendency, as many of his closest collaborators noticed, to believe in his own myth. He seemed possessed by a sense of infallibility, and became increasingly impervious to rational discussion…”

          Let’s just hope the current band around McScum end up the same way as their predecessors!

          PS: Quotes from Christopher Duggan’s “The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy since 1796″ – strangely prescient of British politics today.

          PPS: Where is the nearest petrol station to Downing Street?

          • Trouble is, we’ve got Ill Ducky rather than Il Duce, so we don’t even have the consolation of a punctual rail system.

            Inverted suspension from a lamp post still looks like the optimal outcome, though.

    • 133
      TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

      And for a job when he moves in in May.

  31. 81
    Postal Vote says:

    It’s all a side show. Combine the following points to one insight and it’s clear why labour may pull a hung parliament or even better out of the election:

    Last election 9.5 million voters gave labour the nod.

    There are 6 million public sectors workers of which 75% on generous final-pay inflation-proofed pensions, all financially induced to vote labour and they have relatives too.

    In addition, there are a few million people on means-tested benefits who are also financially induced to vote labour and indeed have relatives as well.

    Then there is the avalanche of postal votes in marginals while labour requires fewer votes per safe seat.

    And don’t forget that many voters have debts and may not be that enthusiastic to punish debt-adddicted Brown.

  32. 81
    Alien Mothership says:

    We’re fighting back for Britain!. We’re going to dump him. He’s unelectable.

    Then Mandy will step in at the last minute to lead us to another inspiring victory.

    Baron Mandelson: First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, President of the Board of Trade, Lord President of the Council, Lord High Treasurer – Prime Minister, Savior of New and Improved Labour – none of that old New Labour.

    He Brings A Future Fair for all.

  33. 87
    Brown is a c**t says:

    Please, PLEASE, Dave, go for the bastard today at PMQ’s, don’t waste your questions in irrelevant shit like you normally do.

    Now is the time to strike, if you bowl underarm like usual, Brown will spin his way to another 2 points up in the polls.

    Time to get mongrol, Mr. Cameron. Get the teeth in and fucking slay c**t.

  34. 91
    Gordon McBully says:

    The thing that amazes me is that Brown & his henchmen have got away with their bullying behaviour for so long. They are prepared to lie & lie again to protect their backsides. The smear tactics of this week…all on song, are sickening. Mandelson is corrupt, Prescott is a baffoon, even Jacqui Smith is having her penny worth & now that lightweight apology of an immigration minister Phil Woolas is on the case. How anyone with brain would consider voting for this corrupt & disgraced government is a mystery!

    • 262
      Bob Ainsworth says:

      I dont know how I got the job, I thought I was going for an interview for the vacancy of street cleaning depot stores supervisor, for Droitwich council.

      Well one thing led to another and I ended up here. Sometimes I think it is all a dream and I will wake up at any moment…..

  35. 96
    "The V2 Mcbride has failed mein Fuhrer!" says:

    “The last days of Hell” it would seem to be. Reminiscent of the Soviet army fighting its way down the Autobahn, through the suburbs of Berlin, heading for the Reich-chancellory…

  36. 97
    Shurely shome mishtake??? says:

    Guido has long suspected Darling might be the one to emerge out of the mud and poison surrounding Brown’s government with any semblance of dignity and reputation intact.

    Even the Chancellor Cheats the Taxpayer
    What hope is there when the Chancellor, who is responsible for the integrity of the public finances, is lining his pocket at the public’s expense? In times gone by this would have been a resigning matter. The Right “Honourable” Alistair Darling will no doubt tell us he has done nothing wrong.

  37. 99
    Stephen Pound says:

    Had a Lie in this morning, while Gordon and Ed worked the TV studios in person.

  38. 104
    Dungeekin says:

    The more I watch of this shambles, the more Brown’s Goonvernment takes on the shape of a Shakespearean tragedy.

    With that in mind, let’s have a little culture:

    Gordon Brown – Act III Scene I‘.

    D

  39. 106
    Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) says:

    Fingers crossed Dave asks Brown why he unleashed the ‘forces of hell’ on the British people.

    • 162
      David Cameron says:

      You will be keeping your fingers crossed for some time sonny.

      I will be asking Gordon Brown more relevant questions on the shotage of grit up and down this great country of ours

  40. 113
    nell says:

    All this and the 2nd installment of Rawnsley’s book is out on Sunday. The most entertainment we’ve had for a while – it almost matches that ‘Guido gets rid of mcbride’ moment!!

    I suppose it’s a bit premature, Guido, to put the crosshairs up on bullybrown?

  41. 116

    What do more do these clowns have to do for their poll numbers to plummet?

    And what do the Conservatives have to do?

    Being Conservative would be a start, I guess.

  42. 116
    a good man says:

    Gordon unleashed The Forces of Hell on Darling and Darling survived? Then Darling must be one good man to survive a full on curse from Gordon.

    • 124
      Regime Change (Bring it On) says:

      I’m beginning to think that Darling is one of the few decent men left in this appalling, spiteful and bullying regime…………

      • 168
        Sir William Waad says:

        Nice he may be, but he is a stinking awful Chancellor.

      • 184
        Anonymous says:

        No, he’s a leftist anti-British swine like the rest of his colleagues.

      • 225
        Herr Dinkelhoffer says:

        Do I detect a little bit of the old Stockholm Syndrome emerging here?

      • 242
        South of the M4 says:

        Take a cold shower. There are no ‘decent’ people amongst the Labour upper ranks. Forget the lying, bulling and deceit, they are simply incompetent. Have no mercy. The whole lot need to be removed from public life.

  43. 118
    Old Devil Eyes says:

    I told you he wasn’t a straight kinda guy……

  44. 123
    Sid Bonkers says:

    I don’t know which is more depressing – seeing this fucking mess of a government in action or their belief that we still believe all of the bullshit.

    • 158
      gordon's gp says:

      if you’re feeling depressed i have some very nice pills you can have…..if we’ve any left….been a bit of a run on them lately……

  45. 125
    Gordon Brown's Press Officer says:

    May I be allowed to put the record straight regarding Gordon Brown.

    In his own words

    I used to pick on a Chinese kid called Bull Ying. But now the governments got an anti Bull Ying campaign it’s a bit harsh.

  46. 126
    Nig L says:

    Interesting that No 10′s e mail system is down purportedly being looked at to ensure it is fit for purpose. Methinks darker reasons. Gordon fed up with being beasted via his in box.

    Guido should investigate further

  47. 131
    Damian McBride says:

    I beLIEve the lies!

    Give me a job.NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  48. 140
    George Osborne says:

    No stopping me now !!

    Bloke from Barnsley with a sore arsehole asks chemist “Nah then lad, does tha sell arse cream?”
    Chemist replies “Aye, magnum or cornetto?”

  49. 141
    backwoodsman says:

    Well, well. Spin that one, you beeboid fuckwits !

    • 191
      .243 Win says:

      I’m guessing that they won’t even attempt it.

      Unfortunately the Maximum Imbecile was thrown a bit of a lifeline by the wording of the IMF report yesterday.

      Expect to hear : “the IMF says it’s not the time to end the measures supporting the recovery which is not the policy of the party opposite” repeated ad nauseam regardless of the question asked (well, it’s bound to be the subject of just about every planted q from the gummint side…).

      Oh yes – it’s spin. What the IMF were alluding to was the fact that we’re not actually out of recession yet….

      • 273
        udderly 'orrible says:

        IMF reports are only published WITH the approval of the government they are reporting on so of course they don’t bowl googlies.

  50. 151
    George Osborne says:

    My boss,David Cameron gave me the sack today.

    It’s not as bad as you think, sometimes he gives me the shaft and the gooch as well.

  51. 153
    Lord of the Manse says:

    The tory front bench should turn up in Blue anti-bully ribbongs

  52. 161
    The big D says:

    Is the worm turning?

    On Today this morning, ( 2:28:12 in ) the appledaily.com.hk news feed was mentioned. Coupled with letting Frank Field rubbish Labour’s 13 years of education and immigration policies, the usual BBC policy on nothing nasty about Labour seem to be slipping.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00qsbwt

    • 199
      The end game approaches says:

      It’s Mandelson – he knows the game is up and now he is directing Operation Get Brown Out Before The Election.

      Brown to be gone by end of next week.

      Life savings (£1,735 and reducing faster than the UK debt is rising) on it.

    • 296
      BBC Dullard says:

      If we keep supporting Labour, then the Tories will kick us out. Shit! Quick! Start Operation Arsecover – let loose a mildly critical Labour story.

  53. 164
    Sir William Waad says:

    This is a man in command of several submarines equipped with nuclear weapons.

    • 194
      .243 Win says:

      He’s barely in command of his bodily functions.

      Anyone in a command position in theatre has a clear duty to disregard unlawful orders.

  54. 167

    I think I would enjoy the drama more, if I did not live in the UK. :(

    • 219
      South of the M4 says:

      I know I would enjoy it more if I could bloody well get out of the UK. I don’t consider myself to be an old fart, and mid 50′s is not old, but I seem to have values and standards that no longer exist. What the *uck has happened to the UK?

      • 243

        the welfare state – 1945 election. All went downhill from that point on. No escape.

        • 311
          Anonymous says:

          If the soliders coming back from the war in 1945 could have seen what the political classes would do to this country, they would have rightly turned their guns on Parliament.

        • 340
          Bankrupt Britain says:

          Agreed.

          The year education was slammed was 1964 though. Another incoming group of Socialist imbeciles, same result – utter catastrophe.

      • 259
        Eeyore says:

        13 years of Labour. Hadn’t you noticed?
        I’m 58 and I feel like you. Early retirement to somewhere hot…

      • 424
        Dougal says:

        215 South of the M4 -

        You’re not alone and I am an old fart – of many talents of course.

      • 468
        Uranus, The Magician says:

        I’ve got a nice apartment on the Costa del Sol for sale!

  55. 170
    The Ghost of Kelly says:

    Announcing the temporary suspension, the charity said: “Competitor anti-bullying charities, individuals with an axe to grind and a few others have forced our hand

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8533924.stm

    • 178
      jgm2 says:

      Job done chaps. Ms Pratt hounded out of her job and her reputation trashed.

      A fine result for the forces of good over evil eh?

      • 196
        Anonymous says:

        Well, somebody had to go and if the cap fits……..

        • 268
          meanwhile, back in the real world... says:

          The four patrons, who included Tory MP Ann Widdecombe, said her decision to contact the media about calls made to the helpline amounted to a breach of confidence.
          Mrs Pratt has made it clear none of the callers accused Mr Brown personally of bullying and said he may not even have known about the claims.

      • 206
        Groucho says:

        The National Bullying Helpline bullied out of existence. Nothing surprises me about this government any more.

        Brown really is a horrible bastard, isn’t he?

        • 258
          Pratt by name Pratt by nature says:

          fucking Brown!!!
          bullying Anne Widdecombe into resigning as Patron and rightly criticising Pratt for putting her dislike of Mandelson ahead of her prime duty to protect the callers of her helpline’s confidentiality

          what a cun’t

          • Archer Karcher says:

            Please for clarity, who exactly has she named and what “breach of confidentiality” do you allude too?

          • jgm2 says:

            The ‘breach of confidentiality’ would be failing to continue the cover-up that number 10 is a nest of vicious, nasty, vindictive thugs who are far more concerned about concealing their catastrophic economic errors than fixing them.

          • Susie says:

            Anne Widdecombe does a lot of media these days, she doesn’t want to be another Carol Thatcher and watch her freelance journalism cheques dry up.

          • try again little trolls says:

            The National Bullying Helpline said it was considering its future after chief Christine Pratt was criticised for going public with claims about No 10.

            In a statement, it said Mrs Pratt was “prepared to resign if necessary”.

            Gordon Brown has denied any suggestion of bullying. The charity’s patrons resigned after Mrs Pratt’s comments.

            The four patrons, who included Tory MP Ann Widdecombe, said her decision to contact the media about calls made to the helpline amounted to a breach of confidence.

            Mrs Pratt has made it clear none of the callers accused Mr Brown personally of bullying and said he may not even have known about the claims.

          • what does in complete confidence mean? says:

            Pratt revealed not just the organisation but the location and even the actual office where her supposed callers worked

            you do not do that, period.

            I know some have been too stupid to see the REAL connection but how exactly do you think Campbell released Kelly’s name to journalists ?
            He was never named personally but journalists were told which building and which government department he worked in and from there you get found

            which is why you do NOT do that if there is anyone in a vulnerable position working in an office or department who calls you
            but that is exactly what Pratt did
            and thats exactly why the Patrons all resigned and why Pratt is now belatedly offering to resign

    • 208
      South of the M4 says:

      Those accused of bullying have bullied themselves out of a tricky situation whilst stating that they are not bullies. And few notice. Am I still on Earth, or have I died
      and gone to hell?

    • 238
      Pratt by name Pratt by nature says:

      it’s a complete mystery innit?

      The National Bullying Helpline said it was considering its future after chief Christine Pratt was criticised for going public with claims about No 10.

      In a statement, it said Mrs Pratt was “prepared to resign if necessary”.

      Gordon Brown has denied any suggestion of bullying. The charity’s patrons resigned after Mrs Pratt’s comments.

      The four patrons, who included Tory MP Ann Widdecombe, said her decision to contact the media about calls made to the helpline amounted to a breach of confidence.

      Mrs Pratt has made it clear none of the callers accused Mr Brown personally of bullying and said he may not even have known about the claims.

  56. 182
    anon says:

    David Cameron has had two years to nail Brown and he has failed to do so.
    That says it all really.
    And yet the Conservative trolls are whooping it up about how Dave should attack Brown this week and the Labour trolls are going into rebuttal overdrive.
    This two party politics game is a fucking farce.
    Roll on the General Election when the stranglehold two party politics has on our democracy will be removed.
    The patient might even survive.

    • 474
      Anonymous says:

      Or not, I heard on R4 this morning that Brown will not or may not resign even if the tories win but with a hung parliament. He can remain until someone? proves that they can form a full majority goverment. Bye bye Great Britain.

  57. 185
    all our yesterdays says:

    No one believes the lies anymore, but plenty are still willing to go along with this fucking charade of a Premiership for some reason.

    • 193
      Brown and out says:

      and why?

      Why do they allow this utter scum to continue – is there no braveheart within govt willing to take him down and flush Brown down the toilet?

      This question will be asked in the history books of the future.

      But of course Labour are so incapable of any decisive action,apart from bullying all of us and ruining the country.

      • 227
        Anonymous says:

        This is at the heart of all the Bully Boy Brown stories. We know the truth but still no-one is willing to stand up to him… because those that have tried it have been savaged by the dogs of hell andn chucked out. So there’s no moral courage left. But there is still selfish self-interest. What we need is for ordinary people to rise up & protest that Brown Must Go. I’ve got a shed-load of Anyone But Gordon Brown car stickers – have any of you got ideas on how I can get them distributed quickly??? rant@ABGB.co.uk

    • 218
      John Motson says:

      I reckon Man Utd will win it.

    • 222
      .243 Win says:

      Simple answer : Follow the money. These bastards will do anything to keep scraping the till draws out – they ‘aint going to move until they’re forced to.

      it’s the ZaNu credo : Self first, Party when necessary and Country ? Sod it…..

  58. 188
    The ghost of Winston Smith says:

    “A big happy family” eh? Who does he think he is, Vito Corleone?

  59. 192
    von braun says:

    wir sind alles glucklich in der wolfsschanze!

    every word brown ever says is a lie.
    +mandy+badger+fat jacqui+balls…..

    13 years and the country is wrecked.

    no wonder it took gordon 10 years to get his blue peter badge at uni!

  60. 202
    David Cameron says:

    I had a shit shower and shave this morning.
    It just wasn’t a very good shower.

    Please don’t expect miracles from me at PMQ’s

  61. 204
  62. 216
    IF THE LABOUR PARTY DON'T KILL BROWN THEY ARE ALL DEAD says:

    Brown’s gotta go, Brown’s gotta go, He’s gotta go, Brown’s gotta go
    He’s gotta go, Brown’s gotta go, he’s gotta go, Brown’s gotta go
    (Repeat to fade)

  63. 220
    George Osborne says:

    When I walk through town people give me funny looks.

    The other day a woman handed me a clown costume.

  64. 233
    David Cameron says:

    YESSSSSSS ! Cheryl Cole is finally single . . . . . . . Just got to get this restraining order lifted now

    • 245
      reeves says:

      She only likes cheating bastards like Brown, so you don’t stand a chance Dave.

      • 283
        Natalie Rowe's Election Book Tour says:

        Doesn’t he ?

        • 295
          jamie says:

          Who the fuck is Natalie Rowe, and who gives a fuck, you dopey twat? Isn’t it about time we heard from one of McDooms ex boyfriends?

          Good on yer Georgie, you shagged a whore whilst on coke. Respec mon.

  65. 235
    Damian McBride says:

    I t’s Charlie Whelan what should be looking for a job.
    I’ll take his then.

  66. 246
    Mitch says:

    Now that Guido,Rawnsley’s and Darling have spoken about Gordons Bullying it now should be safe for the cowards in the MSM to tell what they know. It is their job after all (bunch of spineless Hunts)
    We all know it happened so lets hear details and first hand accounts.

    Think of the sales with those headlines, the gruniad might even make a profit.

  67. 248
    He's bananas says:

    Dear DC

    Please ask GB who the forces of hell are? Were they the same people who tried to smear your Chancellor as well and then tell the entire Labour front bench as far as we are concerned they can all go to hell.

    thanks

  68. 256
    TheCourtOfPublicOpinion says:

    Darling is sending shitloads of coded messages. Clearly the “Last days of hell” means right now.

    • 265
      jgm2 says:

      Naaaah. These are the early days of hell. wait until all that borrowed money has to be paid back and we lose our AAA credit rating and interest rayes go up and repossessions start to snowball and Public Sector workers start taking their share of the firings and the unions are organising mass riots.

      Oh yeah.

      But in the evil, cynical, economy destroying minds of the Labour apologists and astro-turfers it will all be Maggie Thatcher’s fault. Or the Tories.

      • 276
        Don't like it? Dont fight the election says:

        You win it You own it
        end of

        • 291
          jgm2 says:

          That’s what is so thoroughly depressing.

          Hague has finally articulated it publicly. Brown has spent two additional years destroying the economy out of spite. Purely to leave the opposition with an absolute catastrophe to sort out while he and his economy-destroying cohorts heckle from the sidelines.

          I don’t want the Tories to ‘win’. I wanted Labour to act like a bunch of adults and run the economy instead of destroying it.

          The UK isn’t a football for Labour and Tories to kick about playing God while we have to live with their fucking imbecile decisions.

          Although for Labour it clearly is just a fucking game. Ha ha. we got rich on expenses and house-flipping, I’ve got a lecture tour of the US lined up – too bad we totally fucked the economy – oh, well, never mind. The more we fuck it up the more unpopular decisions the Tories will be forced to make and the sonner we’ll be back in power pulling more levers like a chimp in a bulldozer.

          C*NTS.

          • Don't like it? Dont fight the election says:

            You win it You own it
            pretty obviously cuts both ways

            you can pretend Labour want to lose all you like if you want to kick a partisan football about for those who don’t know better but in the real world Labour wants to win this election too
            they won’t
            but that’s because they are shit not because they gave up years ago

            most of the complaints on this blog are that Labour are fighting too hard and too dirty so it just won’t wash that this is some bizaare machiavelian strategy to lose at all costs

          • the great tatsby says:

            Hey jgm2, I wonder who this could be. Any guesses?

          • Don't like it? Dont fight the election says:

            it ain’t tat since he’s a liar who has an imaginary blog
            so perhaps getting something fucking right or saying anythin useful might be a good idea

          • the great tatsby says:

            How about fuck off you tedious little oik whoever you are? That’s what you get for taking over the role of blog jerkoff.

            Right on the button I’d say.

          • anon says:

            ranted the blog jerkoff.

          • Don't like it? Dont fight the election says:

            No I don’t think I’ll be fucking off from a spotty little toryboy weed who is so twatwitted he runs about excitedly calling the wrong people tat because he misses sucking the cock of his special little bumchum

            So hows about you take your ignorant snivelling weasel face and shove it up the arse of a dead decomposing badger so you can get your masochistic kicks that way instead of making a cun’t of yourself on this blog

            kay?
            kay

  69. 263
    Steve Expat says:

    Andrew Neill now mocking the bullying PM on the Daily Politics.

    Fireworks in 14 minutes!!

  70. 264
    Maladroit Labour Chump says:

    Listened to Darling’s interview, I thought he said Drowning Street unleashed the
    ‘Four Shits of Hell’

    Question: if three of the Gang of Four are- Whelan,McBride and Balls, who is Shit Four ??

    P.S. Mark Oaten is NOT the answer.

  71. 269
    Rog says:

    Ha!

    Daily Politics just now: Jo Coburn just made a crack about filling Brillo up with tranquillisers after he’d just done a Brown impersonation.

    Priceless!!

  72. 274
    Gonk says:

    What on earth happened in Brown’s
    formative childhood to create this pan smile
    faced loon of monstrous idiocy.
    Was he startled by a bull climbing over
    the graveyard wall early one morning.
    Or perhaps British politics created him
    and when he was a young man he was
    quite a nice chap. Perhaps it all changed
    suddenly when he started drinking
    House of Commons tap water.

  73. 280
    Steve Expat says:

    Robinson really laying into Brown about the PM’s reputation and Darling being briefed against when he nearly got fired at the last reshuffle.

    Is most of the Lobby now gunning for Brown?

  74. 282
    Crap watcher says:

    The scum Sadiq Khan on DP – what a piece of shit

  75. 288
    Zanu Watch says:

    Khan been ripped a new arse by Brillo on DP

  76. 293
    Rog says:

    HK Cartoon violence brown on the DP!

    Hahahahaahahahahahahahahaha!

  77. 298
    Brillo plays the cartoon says:

    who does the CGI guy look like ??? it’s on the tip of my tongue
    (doesn’t look like Brown, there’s an actor it’s the spit of)

  78. 299
    Carlos says:

    Live coverage, Guido?

  79. 301
    Anonymous says:

    Gus O’Donnel drops a bombshell as PMQs are about to start. He did speak to Gordon

    • 306
      BBC Dullard says:

      Seriously? We have to know – our licence fee depends on it! Someone get a reporter, not some Beeboid toady – a reporter who digs out stories!!

    • 439
      DUUURRR! says:

      he spoke to grodon quite a fucking bit as you’d expect considering his job
      the point was did he tell him to stop bullying staff
      nope
      he did tell him to praise them more
      not quite the killer punch you were looking for was it?
      not like Mrs Pratts devastating “we are not suggesting Gordon Brown is a bully”
      Ouch!

  80. 304
    lenko says:

    Go on Gordo — give him a big slobbery kiss!

  81. 307
    DAve is squeaking and turing bright red says:

    not a good sign

    poor Dave just can’t hack it

  82. 308
    Tapestry says:

    Guido always points out how Jonah Brown brings ill luck on these he wishes well. And yet his own luck with economic events has been extraordinary, with his government not experiencing any quarter of downturn for 10 years.

    But now
    as the second leg of the recession kicks in, yesterday was -
    The day that Gordon Brown’s Luck Ran Out.

  83. 309
    Anonymous says:

    “No one believes the lies anymore.”

    As someone else quite rightly said on one of your previous topics, the fact that:

    “No one believes the truth either”

    is far more dangerous.

    It doesn’t matter what they say; they lie about so much, so often, and so blatently, and have such evil tactics regarding smearing innocent people to hide their own lies, that nobody believes anything they say about anything.

    When virtually no voter believes anything that your party ever says, you know you’re completely fucked.

    Politicians have always been detested and distrusted by most people, but labour have taken that distrust to a whole new level by how they’ve been acting since they got in back in 97, and I hope they get annihilated at the polls for it because that historic level of distrust has pretty much destroyed the idea that we live in a democracy.

  84. 317
    Blue Rosette says:

    I eat my words Dave Cameron did ok PMQ’s.

    Brown was looking very cross

    • 318
      Redfaced Squeaker says:

      And you think OK is what Dave should be aiming for after all that’s happened this week ?

      Your choice

    • 337
      Steve Expat says:

      He was okay, did well to go on Stafford as this is what will be tonight’s headline news.

      GB avoided all the other questions, he doesn’t even make an attempt to answer DCs questions, the PM just reads out whatever is written in front of him!!

      DC 7, NC 6, GB 2, JB 5

      • 367
        South of the M4 says:

        Like many others I think Cameron misses own goals. But today he didn’t kick someone who was down (those on this blog might like that, but most voters will not) – and he showed Brown to be both incompetent (the Staffordshire stuff), and a liar (the refusal to say if he knew of the anti-Darling plot). I’ll give Cameron this one as tactical.

        • 388
          geoffrey howe says:

          When are you dullards gonna get wise to PMQ’s? There’s no such thing as a killer punch unless it’s from your own side.

          • Susie says:

            Indeed — Howe’s speech was the end for Thatcher (sadly). If the polls had been better for Labour last summer one of them might have landed the killer blow and Brown would have been a smear on the underpants of history by now… (urgghh)

          • Floozy says:

            vastly amusing that with a smear on the underpants in the middle of the worst recession in decades the public still thinks Dave Blair is almost as shit

  85. 321
    lenko says:

    I’m with Anonymous @ 303 — politicians as a class have devalued their own trustworthiness, the result being that hardly any of US believe a word said by any of THEM.

    They are all slippery, cheating, power-seeking, self-enriching bastards who cannot be trusted further than they can be thrown.

    And I’m in a good mood — feeling charitable.

    • 402
      Mark Twain says:

      Suppose that you are a Member of Congress.

      Now suppose that you are a charlatan.

      Ah, but I repeat myself…

  86. 322
    lenko says:

    Oh dear… Stephen Pound is hoping for a spot on “Mock the Week”.

    Next!

  87. 327
    G Noodlepants says:

    fuck brown fuck brown the Hunt

  88. 330
    Steve Expat says:

    Another rubbish PMQs, the only questions answered were the 9(?) plants.

    Good to see Bercow call for order and remind them of how they look to the rest of us, also the intervention to the worst plant was good.

    The format is now dead while the PM can say what he likes and always has the last word. DC called him on today’s GDP figure showing that it is lower than in 2005 at the last election – Broon replied that GDP per capita had risen since 1997, what the fuck?

    • 358
      Jart says:

      It was ever thus
      The format is there to be taken advantage of or overcome though.
      Hague was far better than Dave and Dave is still better than IDS was
      whereas Blair was far better than Brown.

      Some of us also remember the killer oppostion stuff from the likes of Cook and what a Government on the ropes in the commons looked like.

      It also has to do with relative numbers and importance.
      If you get a very close result and a Government with little or even no majority the commons changes from weekly PMQ bit of knockabout to a seething mas of plotting and cliffhanger votes every other day.

      • 372
        The IMF is coming says:

        It really is an irrelevance.
        Brown is ‘briefed’ up to his eyeballs with every concievable answer and tractor stat. A few jokes thrown in.

        He cannot think onhis feet and he looks really bad when a curveball is thrown – eg 50k bung.

        At least Dave can come up with a spur of the moment joke – any closer and they will kiss

  89. 331
    Thatcher-right says:

    I’ve always had the impression the AD attempts to avoid lying. Obviously he presents his perception of the truth to his best political advantage – that goes with the territory.
    I don’t agree with him but I don’t loathe him like the rest of the shambles.

  90. 333
    your mum says:

    And now, the end is near, And so I face the final curtain.

  91. 336
    G Noodlepants says:

    khan talking bollocks on dp ,how much is he paid?

    • 350
      .243 Win says:

      Khan’s getting himself shredded by Pravda of all people.

      Lots ad lots of very carefully worded language going around about how McDoom treats people.

      • 363
        I believe everything they say...not says:

        Khan looks deeply unhappy

        I get the distinct impression he doesn’t want to be in the studio defending this government

        Now what did that PPS say about the atmosphere in NO10?

  92. 338
  93. 339
    Martin Day says:

    Conservatism Is a Scam

    VOTE LABOUR

    • 342
      your mum says:

      Sure will after all labour aren’t finished wrecking the economy

    • 345
      Rog says:

      Anagram of “vote labour”: Lab Over Out.

      Seems about right.

    • 351
      Gordon Brezhnev says:

      Yeah, vote Labour or I’ll smash this phone over your head.

      • 364
        The BBC - Browns Bullying Cohorts says:

        We shall be doing everything in our power to ensure Gordon has a chance to finish the job.

        Tomorrow we shall be showing 24 hours of our beloved leaders party political broadcasts, then on to the highland games where the dear one will be Nokia Wanging and tossing Mandelsons caber.

        That is all!

        • 401
          anon says:

          Brown must have done a secret deal with the BBC to bribe them so they would keep defending him.
          And that deal must have regarded the BBC’s tax on TV owners and it must also have had something to do with the BBC being allowed to hide their accounts from public scrutiny.
          So, the British Broadcasting Company has been bribed by the Labour leader to give favourable coverage to the Labour party.
          I thought the BBC were supposed to be politically impartial.
          If this got out the BBC would be finished.

          • The Labour Party Gas Chamber Supervisor says:

            Got out? What like the press pack didn’t know that McMong was a fucking nutter? most of the press pack IS THE BBC.

            Each of the following has their own reporter at a Mong love in

            Radio 1
            Radio 2
            Radio 5
            BBC News 24
            BBC 1
            BBC Newsnight
            BBC World Service
            BBC local radio
            BBC online services

            ITV have 1
            Channel 4 have 1
            Sky have 1

  94. 343
    Maladroit Labour Chump says:

    I would still like to know who the fourth shit is out of the Four Shits of Hell unleashed by Brown on his Chancellor.

    Balls, McBride, Whelan….who’s the fourth Shit ?

  95. 344
    lol says:

    Ali Dizaei, the disgraced police commander, has been knocked out and had excrement poured over his head after being attacked in prison.

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7039186.ece

  96. 353
    Nick2 says:

    Anyone else watching Daily Politics? Toenails is repeatedly, categorically saying to Sadiq Khan that Gus O Donnell DID talk to Brown about his behaviour to No 10 staff!

  97. 354
    Steve Expat says:

    Nick Robinson now quoting what Gus O’Donnell said to Brown:

    “You really get the best out of your staff, when you congratulate them for really good pieces of work

    “It’s really important that you show your support for the Civil Service”

    Not a dressing down as such, but a subtle hint that one would normally give to a junior as a first comment that something was not quite right…

    • 360
      jgm2 says:

      It’s quite obvious that Brown’s ‘management style’ is all stick and no carrot.

      It’s the same mentality that shines through in reports that when he assumed control of the treasury the mandarins pointed out that the economy was in the best shape for generations and his reported retort was of the order

      ‘What do they want? A fucking thank-you’.

      Osborne certainly won’t be thanking Brown/Campbell for the fucking catastrophic set of books he’ll be getting tipped into his lap in June – assuming an election is called at all.

      • 403
        Lord Manmybum says:

        It’s quite startling what Gordon can do with a carrot.

        • 431
          Gideon's ravaged starfish says:

          we Bullingdon boys prefer a cucumber
          carrots are for Oiks

          • Tonto says:

            anyone notice ginger minge rabbit blears sitting just behind the Pm …her ears were twitching as she caught a whiff of gordon’s builders bum…little treasure needs a good rogering and putting back in the cabinet.

    • 415
      Grandma says:

      Obviously as an underling, when you address Gordon Brown you have to be very, very tactful otherwise ……………..

  98. 355
    Andrew says:

    Nick Robinson has made Khan look a fool. Well done Nick.

    • 373
      Downing Street Anti-Bullying Co-ordinator says:

      “Er Sadiq mate there’s a request in from BBC to appear on the Daily Politics Show to discuss these bullying allegations…Gordon would be pleased if you could agree. P.S If you don’t I’m to say he’ll come round and break both your legs for ya ok ?

  99. 357
    • 426
      Who is that bruiser? says:

      Is the bloke on the left Brown’s jailer or does he just administer the injections a la Soviet style?

    • 451
      TheyDon'tLikeIt Up 'em says:

      fab picture of the yvette ..looks as though shes chewing an old condom

  100. 362
    drakes drum says:

    WHY would the Cabinet Secretary speak to Brown on attitude to staff ?

    Because some must have complained. PROOF POSITIVE that supports Rawnsley. I would suggest that the Cabinet Secretary has been ‘asked’ to tone down what was said in that conversation, Rawnsley has done a public service.

    I do hope the newspapers give Brown a hell of a beating over this. He has lied.

    • 387
      How to get results from your team by a kind word rather than bollocking them for YOUR failures says:

      Because Brown’s never heard of the “lagniappe technique” ???

  101. 369
    Centre Parting says:

    Staffs Hospital – Andy Burnham has written to some ‘chairs’ – how the hell are inanimate objects supposed to answer back?

  102. 371
    Steve Expat says:

    Andy Burnham got seriously punked this morning when he phoned up a Stafford campaigner not realising she was in front of a TV camera. She was somewhat less than polite in giving him a piece of her mind, but then her mother was one of the victims of this government incompetence.

    Reminds me of when as Sport Secretary he turned up at the Hillsborough memorial and got ambushed by 25,000 campaigners for a public enquiry into that tragedy

    • 375
      dont drink before football matches says:

      oh God, not whinging Liverpudlians again

    • 389
      John Terry is snide and treacherous says:

      And these Labour obscenities have the nerve to suggest the NHS wouldn’t be safe in Tory hands! Target chasing, bullying, more people dying than ever before and filthy hospitals – that is what we have with the jaw-wobbling mong’s party.

      • 410
        Nick2 says:

        The allegations that have surfaced make the hospital sound like a dressing station in the Crimean War.

        • 427
          History recalls says:

          My great great grandfather survived the trenches and battleground of Sevastopol to settle in Newcastle Upon Tyne – his grandson became Lord Mayor of that fine city and will be spinning in his grave at the sight of Gordon Brown wrecking this country.

          Get rid of the impostor.

  103. 379
    Lip Lock says:

    Did Gordon actually Kiss Darling on the lips at PMQs?

    Ben Brogan thinks he may have done

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100027290/kissing-friends-from-hell/

  104. 383
    Gordon Brown says:

    Cup of coffee Darling?

  105. 384
    mondeoman says:

    So no visit to see the Queen today prime minister, I am disappointed, but not for the first time do I feel let down by you and the bunch of losers called the government!

  106. 386
    Anonymous says:

    Imagine what a bundle of laughs it must be to work for Gordon Fucking Brown…

    It’s a cold, drab Monday morning, as usual you’ll had a bastard journey getting into work, fighting to get on a crapping tube train that is packed to the rafters. Only to look forward to spending the next 8 hours dealing with this spastic hollowing and shouting, screaming abuse, throwing things around, slamming doors, banging phones, getting barged out off the way, being blamed for his endless fuck-ups …… what a fucking job.

  107. 392
    anon says:

    Gordon Brown has the manners of a pig.
    The contrast between his wife saying how decent he is at home and his thuggish bully boy behaviour at work show it is the pressure of the job he holds that he cannot handle. Brown is not up to scratch, he cannot cope with the pressure.
    He is, as John Reid would say, not fit for purpose.

  108. 406
    Stan Butler says:

    Off topic I know but you really couldn’t make this up…

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8532868.stm

    It’s fucking tragic, it really is…

  109. 418
    The Labour Party Gas Chamber Supervisor says:

    Radio 5 are a joke. John Pinhead stated that sometimes PM’s fall out with Chancellors (he then listed only Tory ones) but that this was not the case with McMong and Darling.

    The fat Labour party loving shit never even mentioned that Darling was being spun as losing his job by Downing Street and replaced with Balls. funny the BBC seem to have lost that one in the mists of time. WANKERS!

  110. 433
  111. 445
    Anonymous says:

    Listen you guys, if you do nothing else today you must read Norman Matthew in today’s Indie. Truly superb.

  112. 447
    Anonymous says:

    Guido The Curse of Jonah strides again.

    Jonah’s done it again. Durham applied to be City of Culture for 2013. Jonah said he supported it when he visited the city last week. It’s been announced today that Durham haven’t made the shortlist.

  113. 458
    NorthernGit says:

    It is very obvious that many are frustrated by Cameron’s ‘apparent’ lack of killer thrust against Brown at PMQs but frankly I think he is playing it about right.

    Brown makes himself look such a fool every time he trots out the ‘no policy’ rebuttal and continually refuses to answer any question posed however directly it is made.

    If you want to catch a weasel…don’t rush around chasing it’s tail let it wear itself out and when the calorie count drops hit it with the spade. Once the date is set for the GE we can watch the chase to ground zero begin… the voters have the spades at the ready.

  114. 461
    boggartblog says:

    I think slamming Brown for his bullying is unfair. Everyone in the “olive oil” business knows it was nothing personal, just business.

    Gordfellas

  115. 463
    the mole says:

    The South Americans are ratchetting up their support for Argentina`s claims on the Falkland Islands.
    Brown must be praying for ” an imminent outbreak of hostilities over the issue of sovereignty and the rights to the mineral ( oil ) wealth “.
    State of emergency, put off the election, Brown as heroic war leader, another Thatcher moment…..

    Could it happen / be engineered ?

  116. 464
    anonymous says:

    Watch Gordon, i`m expecting him to pop up in the falklands in his Union Jack boxers.

  117. 471
    Anonymous says:

    If the 4th estate knew of this we need to get them cleaned out as well, as they have allowed a decades worth of damage to go unreported. snivelling marxist traitors.

  118. 472
    Anonymous says:

    Darling’s got nothing to lose – he’s only going to be Chancellor for a few more months, no matter who wins the election. Brown would replace him with Balls if Labour got back in.

  119. 473

    [...] Fawkes sums it up rather well in The Last Days of Hell Gordon told GMTV this morning ”I would never engage in divisive or partisan politics.” The [...]

  120. 475

    [...] Me thinks it is “payback” time for Gordon’s now long evidenced unbalanced mind to establish himself as the UK leader. Guido comments here: http://order-order.com/2010/02/24/the-last-days-of-hell/ [...]

  121. 477
    gert says:

    “No one believes the lies anymore.”

    That’s the problem. They do believe them.



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