Gordon Brown as Dr Evil
Yesterday in his slightly bonkers and self serving speech in parliament Gordon Brown complained among other things that the Sun compared him to Dr Evil. Guido thinks it was completely legitimate to make that comparison. Gordon was trying to convince the British public that he had masterminded a plan to “save the world”, and in his deluded mind he possibly believed it. Never mind that Obama had his own plan, that the rest of the world’s large economies were going to do their own thing and that Sarkozy was claiming credit for his plan to save Europe. It was a bonkers obsession with Brown to fantasise about authorship of a global concerted recovery plan of his design. The rest of the world’s leaders just posed smiling for the G20 pictures and couldn’t wait to fly home. His messianic global plans are a big part of the reason why no one besides Bono wanted Gordon to head up the IMF.
The popular profitable press knows it has to entertain readers, Guido never forgets he is in the infotainment business. Is it really a big deal to be lampooned as like a movie baddie? Clearly Brown’s psychological flaws include taking himself far too seriously. Knowing he read this blog and it added to his torment gives Guido immense satisfaction…
A week or two after the G20 meeting Brown’s bunker friends Damian McBride and Charlie Whelan were exposed as being in on a plot to smear political opponents with what they knew to be lies. That was pretty evil…
Interesting to see Brown confirming the old story – a bully is always a coward.
Judging by Brown’s speech yesterday, he clearly needs to go back on the pills…
…perhaps that’s where he’s been all year when he should have been at Parliament – signed off by a psychiatrist. The guy is clearly mental – I’m only surprised he didn’t give his hate-filled rewrite of history wearing one of his “wife’s” dresses.
Just remember that the Uk’s debts, immigration, EU costs, Human Rights Act, unnecessary wars are down to Brown and Blair. Fullstop. They should be in prison!
Lets put it all into context…
The politicians have fucked up this country and created more carnage and trouble for the little people, than anything Murdoch could ever do.
Seeing the Politicians all baying for the Press Blood…. COMICAL & HYPOCRITICAL
Us little people can stand up for ourselves… you politicians can FUCK RIGHT OFF !
Hear hear. I’ve never heard so much sycophantic bollocks/back scratching/cock stroking in all my life. Never forget, the political class are loving this, whatever their affiliation. The chance to muzzle the press to stop their affairs, corruption, shit eating, nappy wearing, expenses fiddling and other nefarious activities ever reaching the proles is too hard for them to resist. These Hunts think THEY are the power in this country, it’s actually us!!! To think of the arrogance of them DEMANDING people appear before them, who the fuck do they think they are? Perhaps the people of this country should set up an expenses committee and summon all 646 of the Hunts to appear to explain themselves???
We were going to suggest the UK Government send their surplus gold to us. Our cats can help save the world…
Then we remembered, Gordy stuck it all in a Cash4Gold envelope.
I am the way and the truth and the life. The rest of you can fuck off.
Sadly, but not unsurprisingly, the BBC has covered Brown’s delusional rant in a sympathetic way, and accepting what he stated as unquestionable truth, only slightly referring (begrudgingly) at the end of the piece to the Times and the Sun denying his allegations in a ‘well they would, woudn’t they?’ sort of a way.
Not a damn thing about the fact that it is on record that Brown lied his arse off about these allegations.
The BBC are still treating Brown like an elder statesman, instead of the incoherent, ranting, delusional retarded fuckwit that he so obviously is.
These inquires into the media should be expanded to look at the complete lack of impartiality at the BBC.
The elephant in the media room now that Murdochs influence has diminished should be the overweening influence that the less than impartial BBC has.
‘the incoherent, ranting, delusional retarded fuckwit that he so obviously is.’
Love it!
Remember that with a narcissistic personality disorder in any incongruence between reality and selfesteem, reality is always denied often violently.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
You F@@king Twat gordon. It was all going so well until you came along.
I quite like Gordon.
However, he did pick the wrong moment to make this speech.
The reason Murdoch is going down is because of all party unity.
Possibly the only benefit of coalition.
Murdoch believes in divide and rule.
So does Gordon.
and me !
“However, he did pick the wrong moment to make this speech.”
Yes, the right time to do it would have been July 2007, when he became PM and had the power to actually do something about the hacking and blagging, instead of using the information gleaned from it in his tribe’s dirty tricks smear campaigns.
And this is the man who was described repeatedly and continuously by the entire current labour front bench as “head and shoulders above anyone else to lead labour and lead the country”
Thank fuck Brown’s labour got a million fewer votes in 2010, than John Major in 1997!
If he had only done as badly as John Major, he would probably STILL be prime minister. (which shows why the seat boundaries need radical re-adjustment)
The sight of Broon trying to rehabilitate himself is truly sickening. This hacking feeding frenzy will end in tears. The feigned shock horror of Miliband and his vile team is also truly sickening.
Hear hear. It will end in tears
Let’s not forget that Murdoch still has a huge amount of media at his disposal and quite probably a storage facility bigger than Area 51 that he stores the skeletons of many the many politicos he has collected over the years. Saving them “for a rainy day”. While the MPs may have their moment to strike back now, I would say the long game will go to Murdoch.
It’s raining Mr Murdoch and that axe in your hand needs grinding.
Oooooo – I so can’t wait to see what dodgy S##t he will throw in the fan at the expense of our oh so moral political class.
Let the games commence
Gordon, rocking horse?
My husband, my hero.
Should have read, “My husband?… my God!”
How could you………………..have sex with Gordon!!
I doubt if she ‘knows’ Gordy in the biblical sense. Every time I see that shot of them walking hand in hand with those boys leaving Downing Street I feel really queasy and uneasy. There is something very wrong with that scene. When you see families with children you can see a connection – even when perhaps the man is not the father of the children. But with the Brown ‘family’ it feels like they ‘borrowed’ those boys from a children’s home for the day. That is NOT a family unit. They just don’t look right.
My husband, my hetero.
Bong
Guido, of course Brown takes himself seriously, its just that no-one else does.
Today I just cant leave my cock alone.
Brown’s hipocracy never ceases to amaze me. Was it not Brown’s Brownshirts who used to use offer titbits to reporters to spin against predominately Labour MPs.
Look at the attacks on Alister Campbell just because he resisted Brown acting as both PM (joke) and Chancellor. Look at McBride’s attempt to set up a scam blog to tell lies about Conservative MPs and their families.
Yesterday we saw the rant of a madman.
My dad used to accuse chestnuts of being lazy.
You think Brown is mad? How about this guy? http://christopher-conservativeperspective.blogspot.com/2011/07/obama-storms-out.html
An obvious fake video, but funny nonetheless.
For the real nutness of that guy, you have to look at this page:
http://christopher-conservativeperspective.blogspot.com/p/american-essentials.html
“mmmm, yummy guns”
Understand the loudest cheers for McDoom in da house came from one
Msss Dihaaaaane Habbott. Quelle Surprise. Look forward to seeing her tonight (not) with her ‘spars’ on This Week. Odious woman.
A misanthropic, deluded idiot. How funny he only manages to turn up in Parliament to make this self-serving disingenous speech, having not been bothered to appear since being kicked out of office – but nevertheless banking his generous paypayer funded salary, and enriching himself on the side!
Brown’s got Full Moon Madness…Bet his minders have doubled his dose of narcotics this week. Bonkers people are more bonkers during the full moon cycle. No doubt tomorrow night in far away Jockland, Brown will be howling away.Shame we can’t get van Helsing to put a stake through his heart. This man deserves no forgiveness.He is an evil, wicked, deluded psychopath.He has ruined our country and we let him.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8635107/Spare-us-Gordon-Brown.-You-sacrificed-your-morals-to-Rupert-Murdoch-long-ago.html
If this is true: “Truly shocking, but then I think back to the jolt I felt when I heard that, four years earlier, the Browns had invited several tabloid editors to the funeral of their daughter, who tragically died at 10 days old.
What on earth can they have been thinking? One of the invited journalists told me how incredulous he was that Gordon Brown felt it was appropriate to ask high-profile movers and shakers to such an agonisingly personal event.”
This bit is also interesting:
‘Yesterday afternoon, in one of the most extraordinary moments I have ever seen in Parliament, the former prime minister accused the present one of being a liar. Mr Brown messianically declared: “I can say for the record that as I left office, I warned the Leader of the Opposition that he could expect a (Andy) Coulson problem. And I did so directly, not through an intermediary who might not tell him.”’
Threat or warning?
Does that show prior knowledge?
To be fair such a statement on Coulson could have been contained in his manic incoherrant ravings as he was being dragged away from number 10
This need to be part of Brown’s contribution to the judge-led inquiry – what was the precise content and basis of his “warning”? What did he know about Coulson; when did he know; how did he find out; why did he take no action while in office?
If is all turns out to be made up, maybe this dribbling fantasist’s remaining supporters will finally see sense and desert him.
Mad as a box of frogs.
Or as Edmund Blackadder would put it:
“He’s madder than Mad Jack McMad, winner of last year’s Mr Madman competition.”
Is Brown bonkers? Do bears shit in the woods?
When even Lord Mandelvort can tell you’re ‘psychologically flawed’, it’s time for the rubber cell.
That Lord is keeping as quiet & out of sight as Ed spheres.I wonder why.
Is Brown bonkers? Does Rose Kennedy have a black dress?
Also i see Gordon turned up for work yesterday (Well done Gordon , it wasnt that hard now was it?), But i was amazed that he started saying how he seemed to be outraged at the lose of civil liberties.
karmas a bitch Gordon
Your goverment wanted to snoop on us and our personol details, fine us for not putting out our rubbish at the right time or in the right bin (and not overflowing).
I hope Murdoch sues Gordon for the lies he gave in the interview from Scotland other day, He may not be able to sue for the rant in the house yesterday, but he should be able to sue about the lies Gordon spoke in Scotland.
I posted that on last thread.
Guido
whatever happened to the legal action against McBride, Didnt someone serve papes on him?
“whatever happened to the legal action against McBride, Didnt someone serve papes on him?”
Nadine Dorries. And he paid up.
Thanks
Must have missed it when it was reported.
Was Mad Nads also going after The Cabinet Office/Gus O Donnell too, on the basis that BcBride was performing his malevolent duties at work?
If anybody from the IMF was watching his weird performance in the HoC yesterday they were patting themselves on the back, heaving a sigh of relief and congratulating each other at their narrow escape!!
Narrow? Nobody ever supported him at the IMF.
Er I think the BBC were ‘supporting’ him courtesy of spinning at the taxpayers expense.
Says a lot for one particular American University.
No more doom and sussed
On his ?2nd appearance to speak in HOC .What was the cost me draining his bile- duct ?
“Is it really a big deal to be lampooned as like a movie baddie?”
Best part of the debate yesterday was seeing tory wankers livid with indignation ‘cos no-one except them believed the lies and smears guido made up for them.
The liblabcons are gonna get you for your net harassment Herr Guido.
Ha ha ha
“Is it really a big deal to be lampooned as like a movie baddie?”
I’ve got three nipples you know.
And I suspect that Guido is Hai-Fat.
^^ I see Gordon’s found his computer…
Don’t you have another house to buy?
You daughter appears to have eaten mansion number 6 and has started on the parquet flooring of mansion number 8.
Fat little bitch….much like her mother.
OMG call the internet police, some anonymous dipstick is threatening to get someone else to go after a well known blogger.
I am sure Guido is terrified.
By the way , I dont think he is german either…..
Interesting that gordon said yesterday that he was desperate to call a public inquiry into phone hacking but that gus o’donnell refused to let him do it.
I thought gordon was the one in charge?
And then again gus o’donnell is still in his old job looking after the current pm who has just called a public inquiry into phone hacking – so if gus has that sort of power why hasn’t he stopped cameron?
An unstable bully with a badly fitting suit.
Bercow hesitated as he nearly called Shrek the Prime Minister when telling the commons to pipe down. Hilarious.
Bercow was a disgrace in letting McDoom rage on for over half an hour and not having the common courtesy of taking interventions until the very end.
McDoom kept saying that he just wanted to get to the point where he was going to reveal new evidence – there was no new evidence just a bloated heap of self-pitying recriminations.
And he never addressed the interventions about McBride and Whelan or respond about his hideous wife’s slumber parties with Rebekah Wade. I mean – slumber parties? They’re for teenage girls aren’t they?
As to saying he had to carry on “because the Speaker will never call me again”, well, if you only turn up in the Commons twice in eighteen months, you’re not giving the Speaker much opportunity to call you, are you?
G O D (as I am informed Sir Gus is called) is anxious for Brown to permit the release of the official record of their discussion on the matter. I would guess that such a record does not agree with the ravings of this clearly unwell person.
Gordon Brown is a disgrace. He should never have held any office, never mind two of the great offices of State. He has no right – absolutely NO RIGHT – to complain or comment on Hackgate. This is the man who employed over a long period of time Damian McBride.
I was born during Churchill’s last administration, clearly I have no recollection of the great man as PM. I have lived through MacMillan, Douglas-Home, Wilson (twice), Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown – and obviously Cameron.
Of all those PM’s, Brown was clearly the worst. I was embarrassed watching him on TV – it was cringe-worthy. He did everything possible to save his political skin in May 2010. I feel sorry for the tragedies in his personal life – I think we all should – but professionally, and with the benefit of hindsight, how on earth did the Labour party ever think this man was fit to lead their party let alone run the country.
It says a lot about the tribalism in that party, which must never return to government until it has acknowledged its mistakes over the Blair/Brown era and apologised sincerely for giving the reins to a very sick, deluded man who may or may not have ruined this country with his disastrous economic policies.
His legacy is an impoverished nation, saddled with debt, whose population must pay off that debt for two generations. Yet he has the gall to turn up at the HoC and sanctimoniously lecture all there about News International and Murdoch. My blood boils.
Rick – an excellent post, but you left Anthony Eden out of your list of Prime Ministers in your life!
A fine up standing Prime Minister compared to the likes of Heath, Wilson, Blair and Brown (even Eisenhower later admitted that failing to support Eden over Suez was one of his greatest mistakes).
Whoops – sorry – my fault for trying to do it from memory!!
Monstrous, charmless, boorish, a grudge-bearing workplace bully, indulged by craven courtiers, feared, loathed and despised, but apparently all-powerful, then suddenly unmasked, toppled and dis-empowered, ridiculed and disgraced.
You’d think Gordon Brown would be showing poor old Rupert a bit of understanding, just now…
Personally I think you are being too kind.
Did McMental cry tears for the 2 million foreignors his partys ethical foreign policy killed in 13 years?
The man has no shame. Yesterdays “woe is me” grandstanding was sickening.
Ah! but they did let 3 million into this country to make up for it.
Brown was digusting. As I blogged last night, former Prime Ministers are meant to be dignified in retirement. Not all have succeeded in this regard but few have failed as spectacularly as Brown has. ‘I rise not to speak about myself’, he intoned at the start of a speech which contained no fewer than 85 personal pronouns!
He was NEVER dignified, even IN office. Stupid prick never learned how.
Here it is: http://rightwayfwd.blogspot.com/2011/07/browns-disgusting-speech.html
Slightly off topic…Why has McDoom turned on Sir Gus O’Donnell? I know that his ‘wife’ blamed GOD for Gordon not staying as PM but what is this latest problem?
His crazy speech yesterday shows he’s more bonkers than ever.
Bet you that his constituents vote him in in the next general election.
True. The explanation for that being that they are thick, scotch Hunts.
Where he comes from, they probably think he’s articulate and genial! In the land of the blind, the one-eyed twat is king.
That lot would vote for a turd if you stuck a red rosette on it…come to think of it……
Yeah, like any bully “courage” Brown waited till his enemy was down before giving him a biff. Obviously too weak and gutless to instgate anything when he was in power.
So he’ll now try and rewrite his time in office as not only “saving the world” but fighting for the poor defenceless people against the evil “Murdoch empire”. Truely pathetic!
Even the BBC’s Marr was asking if he was on powerful mind-altering medication and his own colleagues were joking at his expense.
His rant in parliament yesterday only confirmed his delusional wanderings, worse he made several factual errors which some might call lies. His tendency to fantasise and rewrite history worries me, I suspect he needs help.
The bloke was close to the Murdochs. He never once spoke up about bad practices when he held office because he himself used bullying and surveillance for his own power games.
That’s bollocks! I held a judicial review into phone hacking in 2007.
It was held in the stationary cupboard in the comms room at No10. There was me present..and ..erm…I think that was all.
Gus O’Donnel never carried out my wishes.
Glad to learn that the cupboard was stationary: just think if it had been moving…
Are you sure that the review wasn’t held in the kitchen cupboard? You know, the one in which you tried to trap your friend Obama Beach?
I did save the world.
You can sneer all you want but I stuck my hand inside my waistcoat, and beat the Russo-Austrian alliance at Austerlitz. The world should be very grateful. Josephine was ..fnarr..fnarr!
I do NOT have a Napoleon complex.
I AM NAPOLEON!
Vive La Euro!
signed {in crayon}
Emperor Gordon Bonaparte
Kirkcaldy Sanitarium for the terminally deluded.
Fife.
There’s an idea – exile Broon to the Isle of Man!
What did those poor Manx fu@kers ever do to you?
Isle of Man? Far too close.
I’m a Manx dog and if I ever got near to Gordon Brown I would tear his throat out.
With apologies to Mike McGear and the Scaffold:
That Gordon Geezer
Thought he was Julius Caesar
So they put him in a ho-ho-home
Where they gave him medicinal compound
Now he’s Emperor of Rome
It’s as well that interest in this storm in a tearoom is largely confined to the Westminster village.
If the country as a whole recognised how hysterical and hypocritical are the reactions of politicos who cosied up to Beaverbrook, Thompson, Maxwell, Dacre, Hastings, Murdoch et al they might well be asking themselves if these are fit and proper people to be running the country.
I cosy up to the Portsmouth News because all the other papers write nasty stories about me. I also have blogs that support me.
http://stevehynd.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/mike-hancock-the-home-office-appears-to-be-institutionally-homophobic/
Nice story Mike and your bouffant hair is looking good. Do you want us to print it?
Oh by the way. Rest assured we won’t print this.
http://www.po12bg.com/id83.html
Come back to Bahrain soon Handy. Me and the girls are missing you a lot already.
XXXX
When you say blogs that support you do mean PO12BG? A brilliant site which has blown the lid off wrongdoings at Portsmouth City Council and also keeps us all drooling over all your latest adventures.
I am proud of Portsmouth City Council. Truly the most corrupt Council in the UK and most probably the world.
http://www.po12bg.com/id83.html
Try living in Stoke on Trentistan is you want to see corr”ption at the highest level.
Mr Mugabe. I can assure you that Portsmouth City Council, nor any other Local Council in The UK is corrupt. I know this for a fact as I am their Regulator and the proof is here:
http://www.ombudsmanwatch.org/index.html
and here:
http://www.psow.co.uk/
Portsmouth City Council cannot be corrupt as we are both paid well over £100K per annum, one of us more than the PM. We run the council entirely to the satisfaction of our Brother, Councillor Lord Handycock CBE MP, and we are all members of the same Lodge. Boaz.
http://www.po12bg.com/id81.html
Thank you Robert. We are being protected by the Local Government Ombudsman and all on taxpayers money, just like Lord Handycock’s troughing and shagging trips abroad
I am paid £350K a year and it comes out of your council tax, therefore what the Local Government Ombudsman above says is absolutely correct.
We argued that our senior officers pay should be comparable to private sector managers pay, managing similar sized budgets, and the incompetent politicians fell for it, even though private sector managers have to make a profit and we don’t. Now our pay is actually higher than our private sector equivalents. We cannot be blamed because our politicians are incompetent. Keep on troughing boys.
I would like to agree with the statements above made by my esteemed colleagues from the LGO, LGA and SOLACE. I would further like it to be known that my troubles only started when my personal Public Relations Officer, went on maternity leave from Portsmouth City Council. She was employed solely and entirely to keep my name out of the newspapers, under threat of legal action if necessary, and was very suucessful at doing it. It was entirely appropriate that her salary and pension were paid for by the taxpayer. Boaz.
Got yourselves at least one villain out of the Murdoch fiasco, then? Who’s next, Tom Watson?
Tom Watson IS a hypocritical wanker, always has been. Labour wouldn’t say boo to Murdoch when his papers were ripping into Hague and Duncan-Smith; as always with lefties, it’s never about what’s right, it’s about posturing.
Just as the Tories wouldn’t say boo to Murdoch when his papers were ripping into Brown; as always with righties, it’s never about what’s right, it’s about posturing.
(See how easy it is to ridicule the superficial?)
The Tories were in opposition when Murdoch’s papers turned on Brown and therefore had no legislative power in regard to press regulation.
Labour were in government and therefore had the power to intervene on intrusive and bullying newspaper tactics – but were not remotely interested in doing so when the likes of Hague and Duncan Smith were the targets.
That’s the difference.
(See how easy it is to ridicule those who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about?)
I wonder if Watson used any of News International’s “hacked” information during his and Mcbride’s smear dirty tricks campaigns?
I would be surprised if they were told of information obtained through any dubious, immoral or illegal means, which they could find politically useful, and then they refused to use it.
I do not believe that labour’s attack dogs would honestly care for one second where useful information came from if it could be used to attack their enemies.
After all, this is the party which had the morals of “September 11th was a good day to bury bad news!”
They didn’t NEED information for that, hacked or otherwise – they just made it up.
Don’t forget how Watson and his family milked the system http://order-order.com/2008/03/02/sunday-sleaze-special-tom-watson/ and http://order-order.com/2008/04/03/councillor-watson-claims-3723-per/
So, apart from GB and Tom Watson, who are you blaming for the Murdoch fiasco? Please name the guilty men. And woman.
“Divine Sarah”? Changed your moniker yet again Jonty?
No-one’s “blaming” Brown and Watson for Murdoch’s activities, you cloth-eared bint.
What the whole country finds nauseating is this wave of mock outrage and sanctimonious finger-wagging about newspaper tactics from individuals who – with their party in government and commanding a colossal majority for over a decade – were too cowardly, dimwitted or incompetent (usually all three when Labour are involved) to do anything about them.
Understand, cretin?
“Tom Watson is a…… wanker”
I am not very familiar with your English slang. Does “wanker” mean “someone who hacks a murdered child’s phone”?
“Understand, cretin?”
I’ve just told you, I don’t even understand English very well. And I’ve never even been to Crete.
And the good sheeple of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath re-elected him with an increased majority.
Thank fuck that the rest of this country had more sense and gave him an electoral kicking more severe than that of John Major, when Brown’s labour party fell roughly a million votes short of John Major’s terrible 1997 result.
Shame that the boundaries are so massively biased in labour’s favour that even then, he STILL nearly hung in as PM.
Confirming why the Scottish should be permantly cut-ff from the rest of the UK.
Labour actually increased their share if the vote, in Scotland, in the General Election from 39% in 2005 to 42% in 2010! Just because they ahd a couple of sweaties in charge!
That’s the Scotch for you.
Thats clever just like the clunking fist Brown you post your bigoted bile and immediately piss of the many Scots who post on here and who hate Labour with a passion. You are either spectacularly thick as well as bigoted or you are a troll.
Hi Gordon.
Yep you are thick AND bigoted.
The most significant development in the past 24 hours has been the suggestion in America (promulgated here first by a certain T. Watson, I think) that the sacred cellphones of the 911 heroes may have been compromised. If you think the shitstorm here is bad enough, wait till that one gets going.
It looks to me like Brown is behind the whole enterprise, using Watson to feed the Guradian with juicy morsels to keep them on the right track.
Meanwhile, in other news, the economy of Italy is about to implode, soon to be followed by that of the UK …
In-Out EUSSR referendum NOW!!!!!
Cruise missiles heading for Kirkcaldy as we speak.
Am I the only one who is stood open-mouthed in incredulity at the gall and hypocrisy of the faux sympathy for the victims of September 11th having their phones hacked, when he represents the party who believed that September 11th was a good day to bury bad news!
No you’re not. It’s just a case of sling as much mud as possible and some of it will stick. The 9/11 stuff is on a par with the alleged hacking of dead servicemen’s phones. Where’s the proof? It’s all about trying to stir up the public.
The Millie Dowler hacking was dreadful, no doubt about it, but this stuff is just playing to the gallery. Unless they actually have proof!!!
Ed Ball seems to have disappeared off of the radar all of a sudden. (No loss)
He’s been busy writing gifted gordons speach
He is the true heir of McCavity…
Doesn’t want to risk touching any shit. Hoping everyone will think he smells of roses.
Brown’s idiotic, self serving and factually challenged intervention could well prove to be the moment the News International scandal ‘jumped the shark.’ The spectacle of watching all the schoolchildren in Parliament who up until recently had been only too happy to tow Rupert’s line in exchange for his favours rushing forward now to condemn him (and attempt to score cheap political points against each other) had already become faintly nauseous. Brown managed to take it to a new level, to actually create sympathy for News International and to remind people of the importance of an intrusive press in calling a thoroughly mendacious government to account. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
‘Brown managed to take it to a new level, to actually create sympathy for News International …’
You are living in an effing dreamworld.
I actually feel better disposed towards Murdoch when Brown started ranting against him.
Murdoch is a scumbag, but all he cared about was selling his tat.
Brown has condemned me to a lifetime of higher taxes and poorer public services.
Brown is a greater evil than Murdoch, hands down.
I would like to know how paople have returned thier Sky boxes/cancelled thier subscription since the scandal has been known?
Fuck off Ive been watching this freakshow 24/7 on Sky News and continualy Sky Plussing the best bits of Mad Gordons ravings from Yesterday.
Exactly… Very good point.
I know I haven’t returned mine and have no intention of returning mine.
The trouble is that Miliband, Balls, and the rest of Brown’s ministers are still around. A snake is at it’s most dangerous when cornered and wounded.
I am such a wanker
Gordon, you promised you’f stop that mucky habit.
If what Guido says is true and you have been reading this blog Gordo and it has caused you more anguish – THEN FUCKING BRILLIANT!
(‘scuse my profanity, but then rants are de rigueur these days)
Everything Gordon Brown does or says can be explained by Narcissistic Personality Disorder:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
Hypocrisy and Mendacity. It’s in Liebour’s D-N-A.
So that what wrong with me? I am so perfect that cannot be true!
What a shame Brown didn’t get to hear of this endemic corruption and criminality when he was prime minister, and was better placed to rid Britain of the Murdoch Crime Family and its accomplices.
This is simply a turf war with Brown the Don of the Maxwell Crime Family.
“His messianic global plans are a big part of the reason why no one besides Bono wanted Gordon to head up the IMF.
And he tried to buy the top seat by setting in motion the massive increase in the UK subscription to the IMF.
But Tories and Lib Dem traitors voted the £9.2 billion increase through.
Labour MPs voted against.
No government can bind its successor.
Labour are wrapping themselves in the Union Jack.
Smart move
Labour voted against out of political self-interest. Had labour been in power, they would have whipped the vote in favour. They knew that they did not have the numbers to vote this down. Any labour posturing on this is simply opportunistic empty rhetoric.
Agreed re: Labour scum.
However there are 274 traitors and thieves among the Tory ranks, who could have just said no.
Instead they chose to wilfully throw billions we don’t have, after billions we had to borrow, at a pointless attempt to stave off an inevitable Greek default.
FFS, is anyone of the 274 capable of sound reasoning or understanding the consequences of their woeful action?
Or do they, like the idiotic socialist scum, think there is a magic money tree around the back of the BOE, or that taxpayers should just cough up some more cash instead of wasting it on luxuries like food?
I thought when the socialists were kicked out, this kind of economic incontenence would stop, clearly I was wrong.
Agreed re the 247 tories who voted for the increase to the IMF. They should not have done it.
I suspect that they will spin that at the next election as:
In 2011 we voted to Loan the IMF an extra 10 billion pounds.
If labour had won the election in 2010, it would have been the IMF loaning it to us.
Which MPs from all parties voted to push through only this week!
Bono?…he’s another useless fat fuck
I wonder if there will be a dip/bounce in the polls after the mental one spoke?
Polls are fiction anyway. Who Cares!
If News International had all the medical records for the Browns it was decent of them not to publish anything about Gordon’s mental health problems.
At least we now know what he meant by ‘fighting for fairness’.
It’s fighting for fairness for mad Scottish ex-PMs.
I think he meant “fighting for fairies …”
After a magnificent day at the office, quick check of the Gold price…..What ?? There’s a mis-print on this screen, it shows nearly 1600. It should be 160.
I didn’t see all of Brown’s speech except for a few short clips but I gather that Tory MPs were laughing at him and telling him to sit down and Bercock didn’t like this!
What I did see was the hilarious spectacle of Labour MPs roaring their approval and even a few clapping when he finished. To be fair, this was probably done less out of approval and more out of fear of being Nokia’d for not making him feel like king of the world.
I watched it live and it was truly “one of the great Parlimentary moments of recent times”(pause to laugh)…..truly Brown destroyed the bi-partisan atmosphere in a long-winded and rambling speech of self-justification. He seemed to think that once again he was at the Despatch Box and Prime Minister lecturing the House rather than a mere backbench MP….I’m sure at one point he said..”I will give my evidence to the House and then MPS may question me !”…………meanwhile The Speaker seemed to give unusual latitude to Mr Brown which he would not extend to Mr Cameron and at one point he broke out into a shouting match at Tory backbenchers who were shouting “Siddown !” or “Give Way!” and probably less complimentary asides too….. all of which Brown batted away until the last 5 minutes of his lecture………..a truly amazing performance which strated of well but then reflected badly on Brown for his partisan attacks at the outset which then attracted equal bi-partisan attacks back…..a masterclass in the Brown “philosophy” of “Nuthin’ to do with me, Guv!” that has nbeen missing since May 2010
Just as well Muslims don’t (supposedly) touch alcohol. That Vodka still seems to be more effective than exploding shoes and underpants.
I used to be migrant fruit picker… until I discovered Smirnoff
According to Jon Craig, The labour front bench was not amused at Gordons bitter rant…….
Wonder why?
I started reading it, then gave up.
Full of the usual self-serving nonsense and grand soundbites that bear no reflection on his true personality.
What a dreadful man. I wish he’d go away to do his ‘charity’ work – or was that another grand soundbite that had no actual intention of being followed?
And John Craig would know.
2006: Sun published its story
2008: Brown’s wife organises 40th birthday for Rebekah Brooks
2011: The Browns suddenly react with shocked indignation at what happened in 2006.
How fucking slow are they? Come 2013, will they retroactively cancel Rebecca Brooks’ 40th birthday party?
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/258698
British teams forced to wear EU flags.
In-Out EUSSR referendum NOW!!!!!
I think that the Sexpress has got it wrong – the EU has only offered sports organisations ‘the opportunity’ to wear their insignia on team kit. There may be moves to make venues fly the Euro flag, but I can’t see how they would force the owners of private grounds that haven’t taken the cursed Euro to comply.
IMO it would be FANTASTIC if the the Express story was true – at last there’d be an issue that might inflame the news indifferent but sports following man in the street.
Is that opportunity offered in the same way that the Nazi Youth had the ‘opportunity’ to wear a nice tidy Brown uniform?
wrong you deluded tosser
“His messianic global plans are a big part of the reason why no one besides Bono wanted Gordon to head up the IMF.”
Bollocks. You are a joke. By “no one” you mean the useless and incompetent Cameron, Osborne and Hague.
Obama praised Brown The President went on to praise Britain’s help, led by Gordon Brown, to “yank the economy out of a potential Great Depression”.
He said the UK “played a large role in making sure that the world financial system didn’t collapse”.
The former World Bank president Sir James Wolfensohn said “Gordon Brown has proved that he has the leadership skills, the vision and the determination to bring the world together. All candidates being considered have great talent but for me there is no greater candidate than Gordon.”
The paper also quoted the economic historian Lord [Robert] Skidelsky, a crossbench peer, as being amazed at the decision to favour Lagarde over Brown. “I think he certainly should have been one of the leading candidates,” said Skidelsky
“It is absolutely scandalous the British government is not putting him forward – in fact, it has done the reverse and made it clear that it would oppose him. He is incredibly well qualified. It seems to me very small-minded and petty.”
The Daily Mail’s city editor Alex Brummer also puts the decision to block Brown down to a “Tory grudge”. Brummer lauds Brown’s decade as “chairman of the IMF’s main policy-making panel, [when he] demonstrated a remarkable knack for global financial statesmanship. He was at the heart of the effort for debt forgiveness in Africa and pivotal in securing new funds for the IMF in the aftermath of the 2007-08 credit crunch.”
Stiglitz wrote last year he “believed that were it not for the strong Keynesian policies that Brown pushed around the world, the global downturn would have been much worse”. Brown helped the world avoid “a global depression”, the economist said. Krugman famously asked in the New York Times in 2008 if “Brown [had] saved the world financial system?”
Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/79309,news-comment,news-politics,gordon-brown-for-the-imf-backing-gains-strength#ixzz1S4Nt3f8V
Praised by Obama?
I wouldn’t call it a ringing endorsment if it’s from the “the most hated and most clueless man in America”.
Guido said “His messianic global plans are a big part of the reason why no one besides Bono wanted Gordon to head up the IMF.”
I simply proved that wrong. Whether you agree with Obama, Brummer, Wolfensohn, Stiglitz or not, they are not “no one.”
If he can hardly ever turn up for his first job why should he be considered for a 2nd job?
You should ask Osborne. He has two jobs, Chancellor and election coordinator and he’s screwed both of them up.
Where is the double dip recession and the million plus extra unemployed that labour and their PR wing in the BBC have been relentlessly warning us about?
I wonder if this towering master of international finance can arrange for debt forgiveness for the UK. After all, Brown knows the details of the UK debt problem intimately as he was in charge for 10 ‘golden’ years as Chancellor and 3 as PM. No wonder the IMF wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole.
Barry Obama just ran out of money, Stiglitz has been discredited.
Poof their goes your argument.
Which is Why Obama is now hurriedly and desperately copying Cameron in desperately trying to implement an austerity package of cuts to reduce their insane deficit.
Even then, he is failing and the Republicans are about to breach/amend the constitution to dump all the shit on Obama’s desk in granting him the power to raise the debt ceiling.
The Republicans want real, genuine, meaningful and useful cuts. Obama wants soundbites, Stiglitz wants to destroy the USA and have the world bank take ownership of the USA.
Nurse, who let him have a computer?
It wasn’t me, a big boy did it and ran away.
I was surprised not to hear how it all started in America.
But what really saddens me is the fact that Brown gave such a partisan speech on a day where the house was coming together as one to acknowledge that they ALL had failed in some way and that they as a whole should seek to what is right for the country as whole and to put aside party lines.
He could have simply put his record in government along the lines of, I was a guilty as all of us on both sides of this house of being to ready to believe NI in it’s claims of a few bad apples. One sentence as the start then briefly talk about his family and say they have a father who is an MP and can raise this, but I rise not for then I rise for those who can not rise our war dead the victims of 7/7.
That’s what we expect not some partisan attack.
Then, from Gordon Brown you expect too much. What we saw was what we expected. We should not feel sorry for him, or consider him unwell. The man is dangerous and should be hounded, yes hounded without remorse, from public life.
Correct. Brown is not fit, or proper to hold any sort of public office. He should be hounded from office and then given treatment in a secure unit in a mental hospital.
Hmmm, must be coincident, but yesterday the OBR published its first FSR (Fsical Sustainability Report) that makes grim reading for taxpayers and reflects badly on Brown:
In addtion to the natinoal debt:
-the net present value of future public sector pension payments arising from
past employment was £1,133 billion or 78.7 percent of GDP at the end of
March 2010.
-the total capital liabilities arising from PFI contracts were around £40 billion or 2.9 per cent of GDP in March 2010. (Only £5.1 billion of these were on the public sector balance sheet in the National Accounts and therefore included in PSND and PSNW);
there were a further £105 billion (7 per cent of GDP) in provisions for future
costs that are expected (but not certain) to arise, most significantly the hard
to predict costs of nuclear decommissioning;
Labour should be worried after that delusional rant by “McBride” Brown. All the Tories and Libs have to do now is to keep reminding the voters which party let this deranged loon be Chancellor and Prime Minister and crash this country onto the rocks. Open goal!
Brown really is a parasite. Do not forget that Ed Miliband, Ed Balls, Yvette Cooper , Douglas Alexander et al are all in his likeness.
Hypocrisy, denying wrong doing, spitefulness are all labour trademarks.
Won’t stop Labour winning a landslide at the next election if they wrap themselves in the Union Jack.
That is unless Rusty Dave gives us an In-Out referendum and campaigns to get us out
Tough choice.
Pro EU tory party v anti EU socailist party
FFS there’s more chance of me winning the Euro Millions jackpot than the Labour party campaigning on an anti EU ticket next election.
What were you guys thinking?
There is one guaranteed way of winning the Euro millions jackpot, become an MEP.
Actually more and more labour MPs are signing up to the People’s Pledge to promise to vote in the commons for a binding referendum on EU membership.
However, this is labour and as we saw with their false promise of a referendum on an EU treaty, this one on membership would be just as empty. Labour were in power and COULD have kept their promise to hold a referendum.
At least the tories DID vote in the commons and in the Lords for a referendum on the treaty as promised. Shame that they were still in opposition and hence powerless to do anything about it before it became law across the whole EU.
Listen, I am not mental! I was a great PM and my middle name is prudence. How would you like to be hacked??? Its not nice, so have some understanding. And I will save the EU. I should be President!!!!
Middle name Prudence?
So the rumours are true about the buffy from Kirkcaldy then?
Apologies to any vampire slayers that should read bufty
I deign to grace this place with my intellect, I say unto you all “have some respect”. I am reliably informed that my speech was a “barnstormer”. It showed the “real” me, Gordon the man, the man of the people. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
It was my son – not Austen Powers
Brown really is completely barking.
He seems to have completely forgotten his wife’s close relationship with Rebekah Brooks after the story regarding his son broke as well as the fawning he did over Murdoch.
The fact that the useless sack of shit finally found his way down to Westminster after 14 months to indulge in deluded self-justification shows exactly who he regards as important – not the country not his constituents, not even the Labour Party but himself. It’s just a continuation of his revolting behaviour when he was trying to unseat Blair.
I have little time for NI or Murdoch but watching this deluded waster making his speech yesterday was completely nauseating.
That is a private matter. My wife is entitled to privacy. Thank you.
Not if she places herself in the public arena she isn’t. She is then open to public scrutiny, that’s how it works.
I’ve just Twittered myself….in public!
Gordon did not believe that the public were entitled to privacy and did all he could to invade and inspect and pass judgement on all of us.
It is nice to live in a country where I am treat as a citizen, rather than as a suspect. Labour were beginning to treat everyone as a potential terrorist, instead as innocent, law abiding people, unless proven guilty in a court of law.
New Labour is now re branded as The New History Party .
Vote Labour, rewriting history since 2010
First Greece then Portugal and now Ireland hit junk bond status.
Who’s next.
Get the popcorn out
My name is Bond, Junk Bond.
If Berlusconi can get himself out of the whorehouse long enough he may realise the Italian economy is ‘non molto buon’…
Just wait for Spain to follow the Italians’ lead. Free money? – we’ll have some of that! Just overspend as if time itself was going out of fashion, bribing your electorate and then blame the big nebulous bully boys, the market. Sit back and watch other people’s money subsidise your unwarranted spending spree. Nobody has mentioned Frankfurt’s lack of monitoring throughout this whole sorry affair either.
So, Guido, why were the police so helpful to Murdoch in getting publication moved from Fleet Street to Wapping?
Is there something you want to hide? Any dinners with the police involved?
I dunno. Perhaps because it was the law, and everyone was pissed off by the unions by then.
Fleet Street used to be crammed with white Luton vans of an evening – I should think that the Police would have been delighted to see that traffic diverted away from the City area.
Oh yes, not to mention the practically incessant picket lines from one union or another hindering traffic…
Why do the MPs keep saying the whole nation is shocked?
The whole nation is not shocked, just as with MPs’ expenses the whole nation is not surprised that MPs are in bed with the press.
The only thing that would shock the whole nation would be an honest MP.
My my, the Labour trolls here are having a hell of a hissy fit today. It’s almost as if they’re rather worried about something.
Isn’t Gordon great? He really has the common touch, and gets on so well with everyone he meets. As was saying to Bono and Eddie Izzard the other day…blah, blah, blah-dee-f*cking-blah, ad infinitum……………..and EdMil following in Gordon’s footsteps as leader is a master stroke. As I was saying to Ed Balls and his lad Yvette the other day. I was born in poverty, you know, carnsel arse, just like Bob Crow’s…blah, blah, blah-dee-f*cking-blah, ad infinitum….
Thank you, Squire.
Hello Billy, good to find you here, its blogs like this that are the cause of my ‘episodes ‘. We must talk again soon, I have some new policies to run by you.
Yours, Gordy.
What is very telling in the last few days has been the absence of Ed Balls. He is normally first in the queue to stick the boot into the Conservatives yet in a week where Cameron et al have been on the back foot, he has disappeared from view.
I cannot be the only one that suspects that there are many in Labour circles who are secretly wishing that Milliband would shut up. I suspect that there are many, many skeletons in Labour closets from the past 14 years or so that will be found in this judicial public enquiry. Blair, Brown, Mandelson, Campbell et al will surely have plenty to answer for and to have the leader of their party publicly calling for them and many others to face a judge and committee in public to answer for their actions will no doubt bring many of them to a cold sweat.
There are many of the Left who are rejoicing in the misery of Murdock; the BBC in particular seem to be revelling in his downfall. However, I would caution those who are rubbing their hands at the thought of seeing NI facing the judge. There will be plenty of politicans, ex politicans and plenty from the media, including the Leftist BBC and Guardian who will be exposed by the enquiry as corrupt and as liars. And as an awful lot of what has gone on happened under Labours watch and indeed, was promoted and encouraged by many in the Labour party, including Gordon Brown who this week comes over as a weak and gutless man, I expect that Labour in particular will come out of this enquiry very badly. Murdoch may be the pariah now, but this enquiry could be the end of Milliband and his party for years to come.
I wonder why Ed Balls is so quiet? Did he leave for his holidays early or is he keeping his head down?
I am reminded of the saying, “be careful what you wish for.”
I pointed this out yesterday. Agreed. Unusually quite. Is he sitting on McBride or is it the other way round?
Blair, Mandelson, Campbell are all similarly quiet. I don’t want to tempt fate but are they about to be held to account? Maybe there a god after all.
Be sure that News International will have noticed that Balls has gone to ground and that Gordon F Brown made a complete arse of himself yesterday. They still print newspapers, don’t they?
Word of advice to the Labour trolls dribbling their desperate damage limitation agenda. You might have a smidgen of credibility if Brown hadn’t invited 4 tabloid editors to the funeral of his wife’s son (a genuine father wouldn’t do that) and if he hadn’t got Sarah to hold slumber parties for Brooks and one of the Murdochs AND host Brooks’ 40th birthday party. Oh, and there was his failure to actually hold a public inquiry when he was prime minister. So, if you can find a way to get round all of that, then maybe you’ll have a teensy weensy shred of credibility. Cheery Bye!
Sorry, I meant his wife’s daughter.
Gordon may have overspent by the billions and racked up huge debts, but let’s remember that Call me Dave is spending and borrowing more that Brown did at the height of his lunacy.
Why might that be? Because despite borrowing to the hilt during an economic boom, Brown STILL managed to piss the money away unproductively?
I don’t like the NHS or foreign aid being ring-fenced, but Cameron’s been no-where as profligate as his predecessor,and at least pays lip-service to sustainable finances, even if there’s not much to show for it so far.
Because the deficit needs to be brought down. That cannot be done overnight. So long as there is a deficit, the overall debt will keep increasing and amount owed in the interest on that debt will increase.
That is why the government is spending more than labour did, but are still cutting. Because they have this enormous bubble of debt which is compounding and growing within the overall budget and eating massive resources.
If labour were in power it would be growing even faster, compounding more and leading us into ruinous bail-out territory and it would not be the Italians next on the bankers list, but US.
I will destroy you IMF.
Gordons performance in the HOC reminded me of the film Fatal Attraction, one minute he’s jumping into bed with everybody and the next he’s boiling the pet Rabbit alive and trying to kill them with a carving knife.
Brown was such a lousy PM he went around digging Tory boy bankers out of their own shit.
Still no reason to put his dieing child’s health problems on the front page of a Tory paper though.
It wasn’t a Tory paper when Gordon’s mates briefed them. It was his wife’s bestest ever friend’s paper.
Good piece in the FT by Conrad Black on Murdoch today.
Takes a Tory boy chancer to know one , I suppose.
Is the FT employing convicted criminals to fill their newspapers now? Next thing they’ll be asking George Soros what he thinks.
Not surprising to see Underpants Bryant trying to stick the boot in. Like a snivelling little playground bully.
I hope to God Murdoch unleashes hell on this lot. Operation Ore would be a start.
They all seem very brave at the moment, different from a few months ago.
Inspector Yates may regret he cocked up his last big investigatiopn too. Can we reopen that one.
As I listened to McMental’s speech this old Daily Mash article came to mind:
I hate every last one of you
Obviously laughable to hear Brown accusing others of mendacious behaviour when he surrounded himself with headbangers whose first thought was always to put the boot in. One of those creeps who surrounded him was the present leader of the Labour Party.
Reading Rawnsley’s excellent book about the Broon years, the utter chaos of the Broon years and the stuff that’s come out subsequently – like Ed Mill and his pals plotting against TB literally the day after 7/7 – I am simply staggered that this clunking, oafish, silly man has the nerve to appear in public, let alone orate from the green benches.
What a cnut, attempting to re-write history. Winston Smith will see him orff.
Brown is attempting to adopt a holier than thou attitude, its dog in the manger, as he was only too willing to sleep with the hounds, and run with the hounds and entertain the hounds and amuse the hounds provided they were loyal and total to him.
As soon as the pack found some independance and decided that they didn’t want Gordo as a mate, he turned on them, but waited a while until it was safe to do so.
In this media frenzy which is attempting to pick over the still beating heart of News Intl, MP’s are showing themselves for the swine and scum that they are. Turning on a media that has exposed them for the money grubbing thieves that they are, they now seek redemption with the ritual slaughter of Murdoch and employees. In doing so they expose their double standards, lack of moral fibre and appalling lack of ethics.
Murdoch is deserving of censure, but not from that pack of baying scum in the Commons.
And remember, if Murdoch crashes you will be left with a very left leaning media/press dominated by the BBC. Enjoy.
Indeed, is this a diversionary tactic re Al Ja Beeba, one wonders… wise words Penfold.
“Damian McBride and Charlie Whelan were exposed as being in on a plot to smear political opponents with what they knew to be lies”
Really? Why have you never mentioned this before?
Brown now appears to be anxiouly rowing back from having his cabinet papers delved into as part of the enquiry Ed was so anxious to achieve. Methinks Gordo was deliberately trying to torpedo Ed yesterday. Interesting.
They don’t like it up ‘em.
‘Rebekah, on my signal, unleash hell.’
And incidentally don’t they have care in the community in Kircaldy??
So media regime change is underway – will it end up like all the other regime changes, I wonder?
I wonder if the great Gordo felt the hand of history on his shoulder yesterday ?
What a completely bonkers bawheid he is. Damnation to the system that allowed him to get to a level of authority that enabled him to almost completely ruin the country. We need a checks and balances system to stop that ever happening again.
At least Murdoch’s lot got him out before it was too late.