Miliband Unsubtly Distances Himself from Brown
Given the level of denial about Gordon’s little problems, mainly concerning anger and throwing things, it was good to see Ed Miliband finally acknowledge there was a problem after all. He put down an off-balance and angry Dave with “don’t let your anger cloud your judgement… You’re not the first PM I have said that to.” Ouch…
A well scripted line that bashes one with the other, but why did Ed turn a blind eye in the bunker? The clear ploy to whack his predecessor came at an interesting time. Why, when on the front foot already, did he choose that moment to drag up the past? Almost as if he was distancing himself from Gordon Brown…
UPDATE: For those wondering what Dave’s prop was in the chamber today it seems someone in Ed’s office had the not so brilliant idea of giving out notebooks to get members to contribute ideas called New Politics, Fresh Ideas. It was blank, and quietly dropped.
No to distance and rebrand the new genaration.
Same reason David Davis couldn’t call Dave a cun’t while he was a minister and Ken Clarke isn’t being attacked just now for his “Prison doesn’t work” stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_collective_responsibility
Balls won’t stand for this.
Probably his idea.
How long before it is turned upon him?
One step forward, two steps back:
1994 Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown
1995 Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown
1996 Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown
1997 Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown
1998 Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown
1999 Chief Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown’s Treasury
2000 Chief Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown’s Treasury
2001 Chief Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown’s Treasury
2002 Chief Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown’s Treasury
2003 Chief Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown’s Treasury
2004 Chief Economic Advisor to Gordon Brown’s Treasury
2005 Smith Institute Wonk
2006 Economic Secretary to Gordon Brown’s Treasury
2007 Member of Gordon Brown’s Cabinet
2008 Member of Gordon Brown’s Cabinet
2009 Member of Gordon Brown’s Cabinet
2010 Member of Gordon Brown’s Cabinet
2011 Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
You are not suggesting Ed was close to gordon are you ?
And every Tory minister was fiercely Loyal to Thatcher. Right up until the second they all stabbed her in the back.
what a load of Balls
Distancing oneself from JG Broon is a good move. The stink of corruption and incompetance must be overpowering
Do you realise that adds up to 36018 years in the presence of Brown – and if you take the first letter of each job (job ha ha) it spells ECSMS (Eddy Can Stab Me Soon) and the last letter spells BTKTCR (Balls Teaches Kabinet To Crush Rumours) and the most commonly occuring word is an alternative for Balloon.
today is Tractor Tractor abacus day
The Curse of Jonah is as powerful as ever
Nokia at crisis point, warns new boss Stephen Elop
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12403466
Because he’s not a strategic thinker?
It’s a bit bloody late now. Brown did well for the boy Miliband though so it’s a bit disingenuous to put the boot in now after Charlie Wheelan won the election for him.
Distance.
Between him and Brown
7mm …oops, silly me
He’ll be admitting there’s a deficit next
Don’t hold your breath.
You can and don’t stop as you’d be no great loss.
SUBS! Cuts OFF, not of.
“don’t let your anger cloud your judgement”
Sounds like good advice to everyone
Wonder if he said that to his brother before he shafted him?
If Dave ever does that to Lady Thatcher , the C-unts dead!
Hope you’re not using your works computer to post this Billy, it could be said to be theft.
Collective responsibility is not circumvented by appointing Ministers Outside of Cabinet, as has occurred in New Zealand where, as of 2005, Winston Peters and Peter Dunne are Ministers Outside of Cabinet, despite their parties not being considered part of a coalition.
Too many long words I’m afraid.
Hang Billy!
Should have been the poll question a Pmqs
Sell Billy to New Zealand.
Is Brown resigning? He wouldn’t have the balls to diss him to his face
It’s not like he is ever there to have heard it…
Oh, dear. Ed might think he has scored a minor point over Dave, but just wait ’til the Brownian loyalists start spinning against Ed!
It’ll be: “I always said the wrong brother won!” “When can we have a challenge for the leadership?” “Has anyone got anything on him? Where’s McBride?”
He’s also left an open goal for DC next week: “given your close and comfortable relationship with the previous Prime Minister, why didn’t you tell him to mend the roof when the sun was shining?”
Hmm. That’s a good point.
My loyalists never left my side after I was defeated.
Oh yes!
nevermind this,
a helicopter from Kircaldy districy council has been seen hovering over the main entrance at Westminster waiting for Ed to leave. It is rumoured it contains several thousand Nokias and is awaiting, what Gordon might call ‘droppage’
Not a Nimrod then ?
Clearly Red Ed has been reading his Stalinist history and learning that whitewash has more than one form……………
Traitor! Traitor! Traitor! Where’s my fucking Nokia?!
The curse of MacDoom:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12403466
I was watching Gordon on the telly when I said it.
You’re a braver man than I then.
Safer than being in front of a TV with brown around – he may not have a nokia at hand – you’re obviously wiser than you look and sound.
Dear Ed, please let us know more – exactly when did Brown’s anger cloud his judgement?
Anytime Tony blair was mentioned?
Was it something to do with a bigoty old woman?
1997-2010
my farts will get you Eddie
Brillo gave Jack Straw a nice thrashing. Shame he had to stop. How come the Libyan story is not making bigger waves.
Because the MSM is bought and paid for?
Same reason Cameron won’t release all the documents.
Obama and the U.S. administration don’t want this to get out of hand since they have plenty of Libyan skeletons in their closet as well as the fact they framed the wrong guy in the frist place.
He was the right guy. Otherwise why would Gaddafi have handed him over?
Don’t talk to conspiracy theorists sock. They reply in longhand.
However..and at great risk of bringing on the tinfoilers, the actual evidence against Ali-mag for the bomb is small. But like those peole wondering around Afghanistan who were hoovered up and put into Guantanamo, they couldn’t explain quite why they were there in the first place.
Nor can Ali-mag explain his various passports, money transfers, clandestine meetings etc.
he may not be technically guilty, but he is far from innocent.
See sock. Its always a mistake to reply. I knew it was.
Now I’m a gullible twat with a 15 minute video to watch.
(Reuters) – U.S. Republican Senator John McCain praised Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi for his peacemaking role in Africa and said Congress would support expanding ties, Libyan state news agency Jana said on Friday.
McCain, heading a four-member Congressional delegation, held talks with Gaddafi’s son Mouatassim, the powerful national security adviser, before meeting Gaddafi himself.
“Senator McCain and the delegation with him expressed their deep happiness to meet the leader and praised him for his wisdom and strategic vision to tackle issues of concern to the world and his efforts to sustain peace and stability in Africa,” Jana said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/08/14/us-libya-usa-idUSTRE57D3AC20090814
I’ll give you the gist of it since you have the attention span and brains of a gnat.
Jim Swire has been investigating this since 1988.
His daughter Flora was killed in Pan Am 103
He sat through the entire trail and followed every appeal.
He knows Megrahi didn’t do it just like anyone else who looks at the case for more than 5 minutes.
http://www.lockerbietruth.com/
Mr Quango,
I was working in my own question, one can always ignores the nutty stuff.
Its certainly interesting to compare with guantanamo: Its embarrasing for a democratic government to lock people without the right evidence.
Here’s the short version especially for the stupid like you.
He didn’t do it.
The trial was a farce.
http://www.lockerbietruth.com/
He was the wrong guy. The trial was a farce and Gadaffi is a dictator who couldn’t give a shit about using a fall guy to placate a superpower looking for someone to blame. (Even if it’s the wrong country. Just like Iraq)
Clearly he was the right guy.
To blame.
And the wrong guy for the U.S. to have investigated too closely now.
Why did the USA accuse a Libyan who had nothing to do with it of a terror crime? Why did Libya hand him over if he, and they, had nothing to do with it?
And now why is the USA, according exxonmobiltheCIA refusing to investigate the release of someone they know to be innocent?
Why, if they wanted to do an oil deal, did they accuse a Libyan, they knew to be innocent, in the first place. If its all the USA getting up to tricks for oil why didn’t they frame an Iraqi and use it a s a pretext for the war, leaving Libya free for normal oil drilling?
read up on the trial and the original suspects
it involves revenge against the U.S. for shooting down an Iranian airliner full of passengers
http://www.lockerbietruth.com/RobertBaer.html
who do you think paid the two witnesses millions of dollars for their confused and contradictory testimony ?
none of this is secret, it was all brought out in the trial and subsequent appeals
Read up on it and stop believing everything Blair, Brown, Cameron and Obama tell you.
http://www.lockerbietruth.com/
Didn’t let ‘Two Brains’ get a word in on owt though!
Mrs Olympia Mills on WatO such a condescending creep, why isn’t she in an Italian Gaol FFS!
When is her cooked husband who bought their home which she signed for, using the proceeds of crime going to be sent down?
She is the female equivalent of George Foulkes whom you will recall gets wheeled on as a labour spokesman whenever there is some shit to be cleaned up.
Jowel obviously owes favours big time !
Because she said she didn’t know what she was signing……and they believed her.
…because no one cares…
Christ, Guido, it’s running all down the back of your legs.
Someone fetch the nurse. Fuck’s sake.
Blair, in a rare moment of insight, apparently called Miliband E, “The Emissary from Planet Fuck”.
Exquisite.
While almost all of Britain called Blair a devious lying cun’t.
Is the fact that Blair is special Middle East peace envoy and much of the Middle East is in a state of uproar at all related?
How ironic was that? He started the Iraq war, and he is now a Middle East Peace Envoy. You couldn’t make it up.
Both true.
Great to see the 70+ old granny giving those armed robbers a bashing.
However.
In the event that one of them makes a complaint of assault she WILL be arrested, she WILL be kept in custody for hours, she WILL be fingerprinted and photographed, she WILL have her DNA taken and it WILL remain on file for ever. She WILL spend weeks agonizing over whether she will be charged or not. In the event that she does, she WILL spend months attending countless court appearance until some judge eventually makes the decision that all this is ridiculous.
Such is Labours’ legacy as regards law and order.
Ching ching !
The only change from the last goverment and Eds new generation is Gordon , I dont think we will forget , But voters ?
You don’t get to win two elections in one go Billy.
Maybe in New Zealand but not here.
You have to win each one based on the performance of the government.
The public thought Brown was a useless cun’t so off he went.
If the public think Dave is a useless cun’t he goes the same way.
That’s politics.
what? on the book writing/ signing circuit, oh no , not again…..??
Oh yes!!
“don’t let your anger cloud your judgement… You’re not the first right wing political blogger I have said that to.” Ouch…
Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good spin, Tom.
It was wonderful seeing Gordon Brown getting his marching orders from the electorate.
My local prayer group have just given thanks.
We meet every two hours and are rapidly expanding. New members both agnostic and aetheist are applying in droves.
I am very dissapointed in the Bilderberg Group, they have been vetting our Prime Ministers for over fifty years and the still let a looney in.
Yes, you are quite right. I won’t vote for them next time. Let that be a lesson.
Well done sir. I hope your alzheimer’s improves.
David Cameron today announced a £200 million boost for his Big Society agenda as part of the deal thrashed out between the Government and the banks.
He told MPs that the Big Society bank will take £200 million from financial institutions to invest in the voluntary sector.
During a raucous Prime Minister’s question time Mr Cameron said Labour “put money into the banks, we are fucking well taking money out of the shitty banks and putting it in to the arsehole known as the Big Society”.
But Labour leader Ed Miliband said the Prime Minister’s cuts were threatening his flagship policy.
He said Mr Cameron was “cutting too far and too fast and society is becoming smaller and weaker, not bigger and stronger
Strange how Nokia are in deep doo-doo financially now that The Great Gordo has left office
Any company that loses its best customer would be facing a real problem.
Still, they have high hopes for decent 2011 profits now Ed Balls is back.
Do you suppose that their profits could soar more than their products?
I’m afraid not.
Nokia is on a downer because Symbian is at a dead-end. Like any large overbloated organisation it has become unmanagable and incapable of converting innovation into commercial success quickly.
Nokia needs to radically strip back its product lines, not have fifty different models that can do the same thing and overhaul it’s “touch and feel”. It needs to get into Android quickly.
I hardly dare mention it but I have just snaffled a Desire.
So have I. But we are probably talking about different things.
Andoid isn’t the magic fix for phone manufacturers, but from a profit perspective, the latest Android OS phones are raking in substantial margins for the manufacturers and via increases in data usage, the telcos love it too.
The latest Nokia N8 just doesn’t have the wow factor surrounding the recent offerings from HTC. It is “just another Nokia”.
Enjoy your Desire. It’s a very capable device.
Oh Bill, have you got a new phone then?
Posted in wrong place due to over-excitement.
When is Ed i just see ……… Blankness
Who the fuck is Ed Miliband?
I am Gordon Brown’s son !!!
I am Gordon’s bastard.
Cripes!!
I think you mean Krupps
You met him at a party once, but didn’t recognise him.
He was not used to seeing him from the face side.
Oh!, You mean the ‘ballast weight’ in Gordoom’s carrier bag of empty cans?!
Miliband distances himself from Brown? That’ll take a bit of doing. Still, the ancient Chinese apparently said that a journey of a thousand miles starts with but a single step, so maybe this is Miliband Minor’s first shuffle.
He has to take his party a long way yet – acknowledgement that (even if the intention was honourable – improving the country and the lot of the poorer in it) the economic policies followed from 2002 till 2010 did not work as intended, indeed, they backfired spectacularly. He needs to apologise for that, on behalf of his party. He needs to identify the guilty, and quietly sideline or lose them. He needs to find some credible policies that recognise the nation’s economic realities (we can no longer run up huge debts, and have to live with the ones we already have).
He’s got a long way to go.
He can start with the shadow chancellor, wouldn’t hold my breath though.
Quite.
George Osborne to Ed Balls….
“He is a man with a past and we will not let him forget it.”
errrrrrr George has an awful past.
Firstly he doesn’t even use his real name “Gideon”, and secondly, Gideon completed his Political Internship working in the USA for the George W Bush presidency campaign team in 1999…….Nice !!!!!!
And of course George was the treasury advisor that completely fucked up the UK economy wasn’t he??
Clamity Clarke:
What a terrible crime he has committed:
His parents gave him an odd name and he chooses to use another.
Totally unworthy for office, not at all like James Gordon Brown.
Brown fucked the economy
that’s why he lost the election
If Cameron can’t fix the economy
he’ll lose it too
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time – wouldn’t bother if we had a transport system fit for purpose. That’s fucked too………
Wasn’t that my brief, sorry forgot all about it, too busy shagging my staff and committing misconduct in public office.
Poor from Dave today.
Started that shouty almost Harmanesque
high pitched tone. Nothing much to beat in Ed mind you.
With his dropped consonants and chimpy weird rubber face.
Dave beat himself today.
+1
“Dave beat himself today.”
You can’t expect Clegg to beat him off when he’s miserable.
I like Dave when he gets passionate and angry with the socialist fuckwits who bankrupted Britain. The British people are angry with Labour and see Cameron as their medium to get their utter disgust and anger out.
Keep it up Dave, it’s a winning formula. Very clever too, he only does it about every 5th PMQ so as not to be too lound.
He’s a definitely a lound.
Nevertheless, if he remained calmer he would be more effective at shooting the little fuckwits ignorant comments down. He needs less sound bites about how much money the government is spending and more highlighting the past stupidity
that he is trying to put right. In public speaking, he who talks calmly but with authority wins the debate. Cam was not his best today because he allowed his passion to show in anger and frustration.
Surely there aren’t any lefties out their who’d rather conveniently disown their predecessors instead of their own barking ideology, are there?
call me Dave did
I like chewing tinfoil.
I have no idea who you are but you do make me smile!
Yes, Mr. Miliband we all believe you when you say you stood up to Gordon Brown when he was losing his rag.
Are you one of the many staff members driven to complain to the National Bullying Helpline about his egregious behaviour ?
73 ?
69 is better.
Due to inflationary measures the 69 is now a 96.
I blame the cold weather.
Position 96 also known as oral sex because in that position all you can do is talk to each other
Miliband is not the only one.
Brown has now been cast adrift in an open boat with only some Breadfruit, a broken moral compass and a handful of loyal crew.
Sir Gud O’Donnel has done a Gillian Duffy and has “facilitated” some insight into the real Gordon Brown.
http://wrinkledweasel.blogspot.com/2011/02/gordon-brown-and-sir-gus-odonnell.html
Bligh’s grave is topped by a breadfruit.
inscribed
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM BLIGH ESQUIRE FRS
VICE ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE
THE CELEBRATED NAVIGATOR
WHO FIRST TRANSPLANTED THE BREAD FRUIT TREE
FROM OTAHETTE TO THE WEST INDIES
BRAVELY FOUGHT THE BATTLES OF HIS COUNTRY
AND DIED BELOVED RESPECTED AND LAMENTED
ON THE 7th DAY OF DECEMBER 1817
AGED 64
Gordon’s may not be so kindly worded
SCARED
JAMES GORDON BROWN
VILE ADMIRAL OF THE REDS
THE MORAL COMPASS NAVIGATOR
WHO FIRST CREATED UNSUSTAINABLE DEBT
FROM PENZANCE TO FORT WILLIAM
HID IN A CUPBOARD AT THE BATTLES OF HIS COUNTRY
AND DIES DISRESPECTED, UNLOVED AND UNLAMENTED
XXXX – XXXX
A concrete tomb with a pair of grasping fists motif.
The right hand squeezes a parchment labelled ‘pensions.’ The left hand crushes a Nokia.
The total accumulated labour debt is inscribed in Roman numerals and unfortunately over runs onto the neighbouring vault.
Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee Heeeee
Brillian Bill!
Hee Hee Hee Hee Hee
REDS! DEBT! and you replaced words that mean something good for something bad!!! Astounding! What scintilating wit Mr Swift.
It’s like Private Eye for the retarded and humourless.
Another one to copy for our amusement.
Ahhh.. if only you knew.
BLAIRED
‘CALL ME DAVE’ CAMERON
VILE ADMIRAL OF THE GREENY-YELLOWY-BLUES
THE CELEBRATED HEIR TO BLAIR
WHO FIRST TRANSPLANTED THE TORIES TO LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
FAWNED ON OBAMA AT THE WESTS INTERESTS
BRAVELY SURRENDERED AT THE BATTLES OF HIS COUNTRY AND THE EU
AND DIES RICH, BUT UNLOVED AND DEMENTED
XXXX – XXXX
A cast iron tomb with a pair of Big Society motif.
The right hand fondles a statue labelled ‘Blair.’ The left hand strokes Nick Clegg.
The total accumulated tory vote after his first and only term is inscribed in Roman numerals and unfortunately needs a microscope to read.
Ooh you are so clever with words – you hit every post. pity you missed the goal. But I luv U.
Where are our pizzas agent Fawkes?
Anyway enough of this , The important question is , who will win the Cricket world cup?
Well, you have got to win something …
Billy? Are you OK? (Probably watching a cricket warm up.)
Yeah am cool , Just doing some work
Crikey! Take care! I have not done any of that sort of stuff for decades.
Red Ed’s Big Green book of blank Pages
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/ed-miliband/8312338/Ed-Milibands-book-of-fresh-ideas-is-full-of-blank-pages.html
hip hop be bop
there’s a bat in my kitchen, what am I going to do?
Tell her to stop messing about and finish the washing up.
“Reality of MPs RT @eyespymp Dame Anne Begg almost knocked out of wheelchair by swinging Member’s Tea Room door as 3 MPs fail to hold it open”
If they had got their timing right there could have been a ‘ pin table ‘ moment.
Gordon Brown is a brilliant Economist, oh sorry Historian. It is not his fault the Bankers ruined the world economy. It was him that saved the world after the financial crisis, he says so in his book. He abolished Boom and Bust, managed immigration, and brought public spending under control after the profligate Tories. His expansion of the public sector was a humanitarian act, with rising unemployment, not deliberate political engineering to garner more votes. All in all Gordon is a jolly good egg.
Piss off you Pervy little Oik, I don’t need any valedictories from you, Sleazebag.
The New Oxford Dictionary of English :
‘ wrong ‘ – unjust, dishonest or immoral. misrepresent.
Fowler’s Modern English Usage :
‘ wrong ‘ – ‘did his sums wrong’ , ‘ guessed wrong ‘.
Collins Thesaurus:
‘ wrong ‘ – abuse, cheat, ill treat, impose upon, unethical,
Oh yes he did.
Oh the weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And since we’ve no place to go,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
It doesn’t show signs of stopping,
And I’ve bought some corn for popping,
The lights are turned way down low,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
When we finally kiss goodnight,
How I’ll hate going out in the storm!
But if you’ll really hold me tight,
All the way home I’ll be warm.
The fire is slowly dying,
And, my dear, we’re still good-bying,
But as long as you love me so,
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Commons whispers
* David Cameron had a close shave in Parliament’s 700-year-old Westminster Hall – a huge chunk of masonry toppled from the walls and “smashed to the floor just two yards away”, said an onlooker. Wood from the wings of the ornate angels on the roof are also coming loose. Huge scaffolding has quickly gone up to protect the public.
David Cameron’s condition was later said to be satisfactory and not life threatening
David Davis and Boris Johnson were luckily on the scene in seconds as they had been inspecting the roofs perilous condition and were on hand to check Mr Cameron was ok.
Told you he is a Damien. Omen III, posh public school boy who rises to power. Cursed Cambo is surrounded by death and misery
…..told you he was a “Damein” Omen III, the public boy school who rises to power…. and is very fond of the word “CUT”. LOL
Dave is surrounded by death. He is cursed !!!!!
Today i will be a box.
Have you ever tried curried eggs ?
Oh yes!
Trident ??
My bum hurts.
My Spads bum hurts.
I see the number of comments our thin on the ground today. You all must be out on Big Society programmes……LOL
Is that why you keep repeating yourself?
Believe me, your contributions aren’t worth reading the first time.
David cameron’s head looks like a chunk of luncheon meat.