Ed: Gordon Was Politically Crackers
Ed’s back to school interview in the New Statesman is a growing source of amusement this afternoon. The Labour leader used an interesting choice of words to attack the former Prime Mentalist’s government:
“There’s one way that says you just set lots of targets centrally and that’s the way you make public services work. That’s the Brown model, slightly caricatured. If we came along and said ‘look, we can just carry on like the last Labour government did’ – I mean it’s politically crackers to do that, because we wouldn’t win the election and we wouldn’t deserve to win the election.”
Meanwhile it seems the party’s new mantra for the coming months will be “predistribution not redistribution”. As Dave said at PMQs, they had all summer to come up with that…
my pants are stuck up my crack
That’s because your nappy has been put on back to front
And it feels full to me
All hail Gordon Brown! Economic saviour of planet Earth, purveyor of the money laundering fraud that is Quantitative Easing, saved the fraudster banks, but collapsed economies….. it was a price worth paying!
Q.E. Is writing a cheque to pay off your loans.
We are exchanging long term fixed interest debts for shorter term ones.
This means when interest rates start to rise (as they are) “we”* will face a massive bill.
*The bondholding classes will make out like bandits as usual.
Please explain this to a simple country boy.
I would have assumed that as/if interest rates rise, and cash deposits pay more, Gilts yielding 1.8% would not be in demand and the only buyers would demand a hefty discount on face value to earn the equivalent yield.
Wouldn’t gilt prices fall?
But all the Gilts yielding 1.8% will expire and new gilts to roll the borrowing will have to be auctioned, and that will happen at a higher price tag.
Like a stone. And that will create yet another financial crisis. Kicking the can down the road is no substitute to actually tackling a problem. In this case the problem is too much debt and far too much public spending.
But all the Gilts yielding 1.8% will expire ….
But they won’t all expire at the same time. Some may take 20 years to expire, and in the mean time all those that are not maturing within a year or two will crash in price. This will damage pensions and savings. As if those coming up to retirement have not already suffered enough.
So Brown was Bonkers!
No-one doubted that.
No it’s worse than that. They are ALL psychopaths.
Has anyone else listened to R4′s Today programme/series this week on the dramatic leaps being made in understanding brain function via advances in MRI brain imaging and genetic mapping coupled with general advances in the entire neuroscience field.
Psychology is “bunk” (most psychologists are women btw).
Slowly but surely the truth about how the deranged are selected and elevated to positions of power within the party political system will be uncovered one day (hopefully not too far off).
Yes, he was completely barking, but I can still see those idiotic brainless Liebour types at one of their ghastly conference sessions on TV praising Gordon McPonzi-Brown to the rooftops as the best chancellor in god-knows how many centuries.
In other words they were all – and still are – completely mad too. Such people should never be allowed anywhere near public office ever again.
The truth is….I was only really any good at being a Number Two
Don’t kid yourself, you were shite at that too. You mucky madman.
sounds like perfect sense to me – and he had Cameron at PMQs, again
I’m dying to see a picture of @ontablets.
Is it man,woman or beast ?
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I’m butch.
and I’m Sundace
‘Sundance’ you poof!!
As in Strictly Come Dacing?
Because Dave moved ‘em on. Bloody good riddance too.
Be nice if they pulled out of the coalition too so Dave could get on with sorting out the country.
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Fatimaman
So those two tossers knew loony Broon tunes was mad and they still let him become the PM, nice people!.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.
George Orwell 1946
Sod off know-it-all.
SC’s former teaher.
Sir, methinks you are a self made man and doth worship your creator
So, all is now clear!! SC had a teaher and not (like most of the rest of us) a teahim!
It seems it’s also a time of universal deceit.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
Robert Heinlein
Thróúghóút hístóry, póvérty ís thé nórmál cóndítíón óf mán. ádváncés whích pérmít thís nórm tó bé éxcéédéd — héré ánd théré, nów ánd thén — áré thé wórk óf án éxtrémély smáll mínóríty, fréqúéntly déspíséd, óftén cóndémnéd, ánd álmóst álwáys óppóséd by áll ríght-thínkíng péóplé. Whénévér thís tíny mínóríty ís képt fróm créátíng, ór (ás sómétímés háppéns) ís drívén óút óf á sócíéty, thé péóplé thén slíp báck íntó ábjéct póvérty.
Thís ís knówn ás “bád lúck.”
Róbért Héínléín
Bit of an acute slant on things AC1?
It is clear that only lefties get preferential treatment from M0db0t here.
The modbot has droven you mad.
If you type in an áccént the modbot cannot mod.
I can still give you a good botting.
This is the great dillema of our age, because Cameron and osbourne may well be useless.
But the alternative is literally worse than useless, far, far worse.
Saying that they will probably win the next election, fortuantly I am past caring.
W.W.
Sadly I fear you are right, Ed has only got to keep a low profile and he’ll walk it.
Ed Milliband -second best Milliband in politics. Well done.
The first best Miliband is a useless chump too. Perhaps they inherited something other than a fortune from their commie father?
A bit like saying the second best turd in the bowl, not exactly a great achievement to be the best.
W.W>
Why does Miliband still have the Brownite Loyalist Balls as his chancellor? Crackers.
Miliband junior was in the same gang and one of it’s charmless liars too.
Because he is a metaphorical prisoner
And bears defecate in the woods and I wonder what religious group the Pope is a member of!
Not sure about the Pope’s religious affiliation, but we can be sure of one thing, he was a Nazi.
Which reminds me, can you bring your high pressure nozzle round here please. My patio’s gone very green and I could do with a spray.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
George Orwell
As above SC, but the word should have been teacher.
Your message is as poor as your spelling.
Yes, unfortunatelywhen he was at school the Education Secretary was a man called Gove.
Indeed namecalling – many hypocrites on here.
‘Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke’
How do you tell the difference?
Or in the case of the BBC misdirection.
The BBC are masters of deception when it comes to misinformation.
All I did was forclose £6.75m on the bank of England.
You fuckers hose £Trillions down the sluice and fuck all is said, mental or not.
Isn’t it about time Slipper’s men handed back the ‘missing’ £4.25m?
New Statesman article at least explains that Ed does not have a blank sheet of paper any more.
Just one with every considered suggested proposal crossed out as being impossible to implement.
the house of parliment’s two worse orgasm faces.
Oh I’m not so sure about that. They both did it for me.
George Orwell was one of the first people to die at the hand of the NHS.
Suffering from tuberculosis, the nationalisation of the health service combined with the post-war rationing of everything meant that he could not obtain the antibiotics to fight the disease.
They omitted to mention that at the Olympics opening ceremony, I seem to remember.
Rather Ironic, as I think Orwell was still a bit of a lefty despite his experience. It seems it truly is a religion.
Indeed, AC1, your are quite correct. Even more ironically he wrote The trouble with competition is that somebody has to win. He lost his very battle for life due to state planning.
A Fairly ridiculous conclusion. considering the complexity of the situation at the time. Without the NHS would he have been able to walk up to a doctors and get the treatment? He certainly wouldn’t have in 1947.
George Orwell died on 21 January 1950.
I have simply presented facts which are all verifiable.
You have drawn the conclusion Mr BS.
The defence of the indefensible was where we came in. Thanks for bringing us full circle.
Nothing to do with the war, general lack of money, lack of actual availability from a pretty much brand new treatment from the USA, the comlexity of the actual treatment.
Its a fair bit of mental gymnastics to ignore all that stuff.
Ceteris Paribus! Eh dinger?
Also he was allergic to the new drugs. And he went private.
Otherwise spot on.
One million leftie excuses for why their system does not deliver.
It’s what they do best.
Ah poor darling, are those fact thingies being difficult with your rightwing lunacy?
It is well known that facts have a left wing bias. This blog exists merely to compensate for that.
Orwell was an anarchist.
1984 was all about putting people off central planning and totaltarianism just like Heyeks GM cartoon – The Road to Serfdom.
He was the original libertarian.
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism, as I understand it.
Every bit of serious work I have been doing since 2007 has been for lining my pockets.
I wonder how long it took to treat the vast numbers of people in britain with antibiotic which only became available in the very late 40′s.
But I was crackers!
Nuts + crackers – some people could achieve a worthwhile outcome with that combination, but not you, Gordon.
OFT to investigate retailers over price of fuel, I don’t think the retailers are the problem
same old crap…different day…ed and ed should just give up ..they just aren’t working
Bit like Dave over the summer – with his appearence at the olympics more frequent than the BBC, followed by hoidays, and now multiple Paraolympic appearences the recession must be over, clearly Dave feels no-one in government needs to work – Come on Boris!
WTF does predistribution mean? Labour’s idea of redistribution means sharing the proceeds of wealth earned by others without bothering to invest any of it for the future. That is socialism. Feck future generations who are left with the bill. Let’s spend it all now. Oh and we won’t give a toss about how much debt we get into. The dumb-suckers at the tit can worry about that.
So what is predistribution? Spreading the nation’s wealth around BEFORE it is earned by others?
Exactly !
We’ve had enough of the stuff we have to spout. Used to be fine in the old Radio 4 and Home Service days but now….
So we’re taking early retirement and our clear voices are going with us.
Waass tha’ mmmean?
They will be missed in our house.
This is the classic stance of this disingenuous little turd! If GB’s policies were crackers, then why was his head so far up GB’s arse that he couldn’t even hear the Division Bell.
Now he tells us, so what are we to make of him? Either monumentally stupid then or even more so now. Either way he’s not fit for listening to, let alone purpose!
Picture Flanders bent over in the middle with Balls and Miliband (complete with specs) sweating heavily at either end …..
Well Dave did ask the question at PMQ “what have Labour been doing all summer?” At least we know what he was doing: he was at the Olympics most days (bloody lucky with the ticket allocation), followed by holidays at the same time as his deputy, followed by most days at the Paraolympics. A few months ago some Tory young guns wrote about the poor work ethic of our workforce…… I guess I know who they were actually writing about……… Dave!
He’s right on one point though, centrally imposed performance targets with penalties for failure and inducements for success are the easiest ways to screw up the performance of any system.
Anyone who has lived in such a regime soon learns how to game the system, whether it be private or public sector.
South Staffs hospital, 1200 deaths in 4 years, and unlike the Taliban not an AK47 in sight.